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Elliott and Carl Mill time book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Abstract

A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.

Dates: 1886 - 1891

John K. and William M. Elliott daybooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0482
Abstract

Photocopies of the daybooks of John K. Elliott and his son, William M. Elliott, of the Payneville, Sumter County, Alabama area, spanning the years from 1870 through 1911.

Dates: 1870-1911

Joseph J. Elliott letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0481
Abstract

A copy book of letters, primarily to his fiance/wife, Maud Hoskinson of Weogufka, Coosa County, Alabama.

Dates: 1900-1902

Ensley Merchants Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0487
Abstract

Minutes, bank statements, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, area organization

Dates: 1929-1944

Edward Eppes notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0488
Abstract

Notebook containing handwritten notes, including billing and account information, property dimensions, worklogs, and sketches of tools, of this Georgia-based civil engineer.

Dates: 1894-1912

Essex Foundry records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0490
Abstract

Incorporation papers, by-laws, directors' minutes, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and related records.

Dates: 1916-1965

Ethel Armes letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0146
Abstract

Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.

Dates: 1921 - 1944

Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0495
Abstract

A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.

Dates: 1922-1924

Exchange Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1640
Abstract

Issues of the newsletter "The Unitor" (1922-2011), framed pictures, and brochures

Dates: 1922-2011

Ezell Store ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0498
Abstract

Record book for store located in either Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama, or Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1879-1910

F. H. Petrie letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1620
Abstract

Letters written from Colbert Shoals and Florence, Alabama, to a business partner about digging canals around shoals on the Tennessee River. Petrie discusses sickness, heavy rains, high water, and lack of funding.

Dates: 1831 - 1833

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Abstract

Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.

Dates: 1849-1861

Zachariah Fields deed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0512
Abstract

A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 3 March 1833, to Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitman.

Dates: 1833 March 2

Fitts and Alston Families Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4198
Abstract

Papers, correspondence, and photographs from three generations of two Tuscaloosa, Alabama, families.

Dates: 1900 - 1966

H. P. and Elisa K. Fleischman Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0521
Abstract

Letters of a commission merchant in the Caribbean and on the Mississippi River, and his family.

Dates: 1827-1850

The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4199
Abstract

Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.

Dates: 2016

Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0531
Abstract Primarily receipts and statements but the collection also includes Robert S. Foster’s will and a deed for 1,274 acres of land from the heirs of Robert S. Foster to Edmond L. Prince in 1859 for the sum of $19,110.00. Most of the statements are for the freight, wharfage, drayage, weighing and storage of cotton shipped by steamboats, and are listed for either Mrs. Ann Foster or the Estate of Robert S. Foster. Other receipts are for the purchase of clothing, books and magazine...
Dates: 1833-1859

Mary M. Foster fire insurance policy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0291
Abstract

A fire insurance policy dated 22 December 1881, taken out by Mary M. Foster of Clayton, Alabama, on her "frame dwelling house part one & half story & part one story, & dining room & kitchen attached, occupied by her. . . . "

Dates: 1881 December 22

Francis Bugbee papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Abstract

Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.

Dates: 1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820

Frank Everard Ardrey, Jr. Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-022
Abstract

This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the railroads, trolleys, and railroad stations throughout Alabama.

Dates: 1912 - 1974

Will Franke paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0540
Abstract

A paper titled "Jefferson County 1850," written by this Birmingham, Alabama, native at the request of the Birmingham Historical Society and includes a detailed listing of the county's merchants and political leaders circa 1850.

Dates: 1950

Franklin Collier Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-033
Abstract

This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.

Dates: 1940 - 1959

Gaines Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0550
Abstract

Correspondence, legal and business documents relating to the Gaines family, most of it from Mobile, Choctaw, and Jefferson Counties, Alabama.

Dates: 1824-1949

Garner Family scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0559
Abstract

A scrapbook of local news and events compiled by Mrs. J. T. Garner of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: after 1892

Geological Survey of Alabama papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-3511
Abstract

Geological Survey of Alabama and the State Oil and Gas Board materials

Dates: 1975-2000

George and Eleanor Bridges Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Abstract

Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.

Dates: 1932-1965

George H. Thompson plantation records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Abstract

Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.

Dates: 1855 - 1874

George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Abstract

Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.

Dates: 1886 - 1898

Louis Gerstman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0567
Abstract

Papers of this Selma, Dallas County, Alabama insurance agent and manager of the Edwards Opera House and the Academy of Music, 1879-1896.

Dates: 1879-1896

Eddy Lanier King Gilmore papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0572
Abstract

Compositions, scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Eddy Lanier King Gilmore, of Selma, Alabama, and his Russian-born wife, Tamara Kolb-Chernashovaya, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The bulk of material is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Dates: circa 1940 - 1967

Samuel S. Goodman hotel ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0578
Abstract

Guest register from 11 July 1889 through 31 January 1890 of this Scottsville, Virginia, hotel.

Dates: 1889-1890

Green and Hopper deed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0588
Abstract

A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 30 August 1832, by Moses Green and Joseph D. Hopper to George Whitman.

Dates: 1832 August 30

David D. Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0593
Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence that discusses labor union issues.

Dates: 1919-1936

Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0602
Abstract

Documents dealing with various financial considerations concerning mortgages, bonds, consolidations, etc., between 1912 And 1914

Dates: 1912-1936

Alex Gunn ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0603
Abstract

Account and invoice ledgers of Alex Gunn's Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama store from 1909 to 1914.

Dates: 1909-1914

Edward Hall letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0609
Abstract

Business letters to Addin Lewis in New Haven, Connecticut, from Hall in Mobile, Alabama, 10 March and 15 April 1837 and 17 August 1840.

Dates: 1837, 1840

A. B. Hanson records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0623
Abstract

Letterbook from 12 March to 15 May 1888, other correspondence and cases, a ledger labeled "pleadings" between 18 July 1888 to 26 February 1891 containing general correspondence and cases, and other miscellaneous material from 1888.

Dates: 1888-1891

Harco Drugs records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0626
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials including newsletters, an employee handbook, memoranda, sales, publicity and marketing information, and other items.

Dates: 1974-1997

John G. Hardin crop lien

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0628
Abstract

Copy of a crop lien for $50 against the crop John G. Hardin will harvest on a plantation in Elmore County, Alabama, owned by B.S. Walkley.

Dates: 1875 July 19

Daniel J. Haughton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0649
Abstract

Mainly personal correspondence and newspaper clippings about the passing of Daniel Haughton

Dates: 1980s

Hearst, Dennis and Company Letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0656
Abstract

The 1871-1872 letterbook of a firm in Richmond, Dallas County, Alabama.

Dates: 1871 - 1872

Henry DeBardeleben business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Abstract

Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.

Dates: 1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905

James Hogan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0687
Abstract

This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.

Dates: Unknown

James Holt carpentry notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0693
Abstract

This collection consists of an account book created by this Montgomery, Alabama, carpenter, with notes and entries relating primarily to the purchase of construction items such as nails, plaster, boards, etc.

Dates: 1848

William Hoskins letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0647
Abstract

Letter dated 31 March 1796, from Hoskins in Bordeaux, France, to James Swan in America, addressing potential business prospects.

Dates: 1796 March 31

Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama, paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0432
Abstract

A paper containing a list of trades and professions in Huntsville, Alabama, and describing the geography of Huntsville and Madison County. Includes original, typewritten copy, and photocopy.

Dates: circa 1809

J. A. Montgomery business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Abstract

Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.

Dates: 1889 - 1898

J. O. Campbell diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0139
Abstract

Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama

Dates: 1895-01 - 1895-05

J. R. Odom store ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Abstract

Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.

Dates: 1920-1937

J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties

 Collection
Identifier: W-0082
Abstract

One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.

Dates: 1899

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Bluff Park United Methodist Church (Birmingham, Ala.) 1
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Bonney & Bush (Wilmington, Del.) 1
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Brookside-Pratt Mining Company 1
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1
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