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Wade Hall Collection of World War II Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4253
Abstract

Letters and documents to and from World War II soldiers and their families

Dates: 1940 - 1950

Wade Hall Collection on American Life

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4257
Abstract

Letters and documents to and from friends, family, and business associates around the United States and the world, discussing ordinary life.

Dates: 1803 - 1946

Ann Waldron Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3098
Abstract Ann Waldron was born on December 14, 1924, in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended the University of Alabama, serving as editor of the Crimson White and earning a degree in journalism in 1945. She went on to work forThe Atlanta Constitution, where she met her husband Martin Waldron. The collection predominantly consists of correspondence between Ann Waldron and various individuals, as well as materials related to her work as...
Dates: 1945 - 2010

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Abstract

Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace

Dates: 1947 - 1948

Washington Daniel Miller Letter and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0991
Abstract

A letter dated 12 July 1883, to his sister, Caroline Miller, about examinations of students at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, the examination of the senior class at the University of Alabama, and his recent activities in Tuscaloosa. The collection also contains photograph of Miller copied from the original at the University of Texas Institute of Texas Culture

Dates: 1833-07-12

Carrie Watkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1531
Abstract

Letters, recipes, and love poems, as well as her diary, written between 1857 and 1864 in Huntsville, Alabama, with her daily thoughts, favorite excerpts from literature and history, math problems, drawings of architecture, and problem solving.

Dates: 1857-1864

James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1547
Abstract

A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.

Dates: 1862-1863

Whitley and Handley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2286
Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and church programs

Dates: 1930-1980

Ethel Gardiner Wiggins V-mail and Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4123
Abstract

V-mail and letters to a World War II soldier from his wife back home in Florence, Alabama.

Dates: 1941-1944

Peyton Norvell Wiggins papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3706
Abstract

Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.

Dates: 1942-1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1956

William A. Lyle Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4164
Abstract

Letters written by William A. Lyle from 1943 to 1946, primarily to his mother in New York City, while he was serving in the United States Naval Reserves at the U.S. Naval bases in Maryland, California, and Hawaii, during World War II.

Dates: 1943 - 1945

William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend

 Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)

Dates: 1948 - 1964

William Burnham Woods Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1575
Scope and Contents

A letter dated 14 January 1877, to Charles W. Hanler, asking that a brochure be sent to him. At the time Woods was a judge on the United States fifth district court, of which Alabama was a part.

Dates: 1877-01-14

William Crawford Gorgas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Dates: 1869-1920

William Gray Little Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0868
Abstract

A collection of family correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating to this Livingston, Alabama native who is credited with introducing football at the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1837 - 1938

William H. Ely letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Abstract

Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.

Dates: 1820 - 1821

William Joseph Mims Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0992
Abstract

Material on Mims' family history and materials relating to Weevilnip Company of Macon, Georgia. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture relating to false labeling, as well as company advertising. The collection also contains two small notepads, one with notes on teaching and one with notes on history, boll weevils, and other subjects.

Dates: 1886 - 1924

William March Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0266
Abstract

Correspondence, literary papers, clippings, criticism, photos, and memorabilia of this author.

Dates: 1897 - 1980

William Nazareth Mitchell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1003
Abstract

Typescript and illustrations for the book, "Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell," edited by his grandson, William C. Etherton. The letters were written to Mitchell's wife, Rachel Caroline Mitchell, while he was serving in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and north Alabama. The original letters are at the University of Illinois, Carbondale.

Dates: 1862

William Quayle correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1176
Abstract

Letters written from the First Frontier District of Texas, of which Quayle was commander, providing information on Confederate military dispositions, 1862-64. Quayle's correspondents included James Bourland, H. E. McCulloch, and James Webb Throckmorton.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

William Russell Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1298
Abstract

This collection consists of letters to his wife and others written while serving in the Alabama secession convention, and a holograph manuscript book of poetry.

Dates: 1834 - 1865

William Stanley Hoole Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0699
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings, research materials, manuscripts of published monographs, and other materials written or collected by this historian and dean of the University of Alabama Libraries.

Dates: 1920 - 1989

William Stokes Wyman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1588
Abstract

This collection contains letters and notes about an 1848 trip to the Alabama coal fields; scrapbooks of newspaper articles about Indian languages, the early history of Tuscaloosa and Alabama; the University of Alabama's history, and copies of newspaper clippings from the Choctaw language paper "The Vindicator", published 1875 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

Dates: 1847 - 1915

William Strong Comstock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0348
Abstract

Business correspondence, account sheets, contracts, miscellaneous receipts, etc., of a Montgomery, Alabama, merchant, 1843-1867.

Dates: 1842-1867

William Winter Payne Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2057
Abstract

A letter written by William Winter Payne, dated February 10, 1847, to John G. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, recommending Alexander J. Simms to a lieutenancy in the United States Marine Corps.

Dates: 1847-02-10

William Wright Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2058
Abstract

A letter dated December 20, 1849, written by William Wright to Vincent Gravett. In the letter he discusses legislative matters and describes the burning of the capitol building earlier in the month.

Dates: 1849-12-20

Willie T. White papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract

Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1860-1970

WLW radio station records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2254
Abstract

Records from WLW, the Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1940

Woodward Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Abstract

An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.

Dates: 1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950

World War II letters collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Abstract

Collection of letters to and from service men and women during World War II.

Dates: 1940-1945

Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract

This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.

Dates: 1798 - 1990

Frances Virginia McLin Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4191
Abstract

Papers of a Sheffield, Alabama, elementary school teacher, her family, and allied families.

Dates: 1879-1974

William S. Wright letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2210
Abstract

A letter from William S. Wright of Pittsford, Vermont, to Emerson R. Wright in Greenville, Alabama. The letter discusses education, family matters, and the evils of slavery.

Dates: 1840 February 24

Wynne Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3918
Abstract

Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.

Dates: 1804-2009

The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0305
Abstract

Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others

Dates: 1861

Yeatman and Kent Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1595
Abstract

A letter dated 11 July 1826, from this law firm in Huntsville, Alabama to John Gill, Jr., a Philadelphia merchant, transmitting payment on a note.

Dates: 1826-07-11

J. W. Young Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4134
Abstract

Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina

Dates: 1835 May 18

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Alabama (Screw sloop) 2
Alabama Central Female College (Tuscaloosa, Ala) 2
Alabama Historical Association 2
Armes, Edmund 2
Armes, Ethel 2
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Bryce Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 2
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Martin, Thomas W. (Thomas Wesley) 2
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Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry) 2
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University of Alabama. Board of Trustees 2
Wilson, Woodrow 2
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Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. 1
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Adams family 1
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Adkins, W. S. 1
Alabama A & M University 1
Alabama Academy of Honor 1
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Alabama Fuel and Iron Company 1
Alabama Historical Commission 1
Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society 1
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