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A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Abstract

Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.

Dates: 1861-1869

Adams Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0006
Abstract

This collection consists principally of correspondence among members of the Adams Family, the majority of which concerns the Confederate service of a son, who wrote many letters detailing army life and conditions. It also contains papers related to Homer and John Adams, prisoners of war who died before returning home, and an Adams Family history by Irving Adams, dated December 18, 1948.

Dates: 1849 - 1926; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1865

Album of quotations

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0058
Abstract

Album containing handwritten quotations from the Bible, classical authors, and sources, as well as two handwritten copies of notices from the "Times" and "Tuscaloosa Gazette" (1881).

Dates: [187?]-1881

W. T. Alexander genealogical papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0061
Abstract

Biographies of William Simeral Alexander of North Carolina (1817-1898) and his descendants, with reference to his ancestors to 1716, compiled in 1930 by W. T. Alexander.

Dates: 1817-1930

Alice A. Lide Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0127
Abstract

This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Alice A. Lide, recounting his life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.

Dates: undated

Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Abstract

Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.

Dates: 1850-1873

Alison family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0062
Abstract

Genealogical information, including typewritten booklets on various families. Individual folders are labeled with family names. The collection includes correspondence, photocopies, and photographs.

Dates: after 1800

M. E. Allan letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0063
Abstract

Letter dated 30 September 1855, to "Dear Cousin," from Bald Hill, Georgia, discussing family news, crops, children, and illnesses and deaths among family and slaves.

Dates: 1855 September 30

Allen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Abstract

The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.

Dates: 1848-1906

Jonathon A. B. Allison letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0068
Abstract

A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war.

Dates: 1862 March 6

Alma Bishop Williams Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-032
Abstract

Collection consists of Bishop and Harry’s family, a family friend’s photographs, and some unidentified photographs.

Dates: 1862 - 1974

Alston Fitts Letters and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0520
Abstract

Letters from this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, physician to his wife and children before and after he was shipped to France during World War I, as well as a photograph of Fitts.

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Ambrose Doss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0446
Abstract Collection contains letters written by Ambrose Doss of Jefferson County, Alabama, to his wife, Sarah Brake Doss while he was in Co. C of the 19th Alabama Regiment from the time of his enlistment in 1861 until his death on 1864 July 5 near Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia. There is also a letter from Lt. J. W. Rouse, dated 1864 July 6, to Sarah telling her of Ambrose’s death and burial. There are several miscellaneous documents including a short biographical sketch of Doss and a booklet titled...
Dates: 1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Andrew Coleman Hargrove papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0630
Abstract

Personal and business correspondence, class notes, and financial records of attorney and politician, Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1835-1911

Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2356
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, diary, books, stationery set, newspaper clippings, and dog tags of Andrew William Johnson Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1940s, before and after he was in the Army.

Dates: 1940-1949

Andrews Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church South minute books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0079
Abstract

This collection consists of a photocopy of a church record book, which contains a register of pastors (1913-1987), marriages (1889-1936), infant baptisms (1924-1988), and members.

Dates: 1913-1990

Ann Ayer Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0096
Abstract

A manuscript of Ayers's guide for "Locating and Using Selected Genealogical Sources," written in 1972 and copyrighted in 1978.

Dates: 1972

Annie Perkins commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3875
Abstract

The collection consists of one commonplace book containing handwritten and published recipes as well as published poems collected by Perkins of Eutaw, Alabama.

Dates: Approximately 1867

Letters from Archie to Sarah and Brother

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2214
Abstract

Collection consists of family correspondence between Archie and siblings. Discusses education, farming, and family matters.

Dates: 1860 - 1874

Ethel Marie Armes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0087
Abstract

Personal letters written by Ethel Armes, a Birmingham journalist and author, primarily to Alice Wiggin of Franklin, Massachusetts.

Dates: between 1890 and 2002

Askew family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0091
Abstract

Biographical sketch, ledger, diaries, church histories, newspaper clippings, copies of poetry and pieces written about Confederate history in Alabama, address and appointment books from this Dayton, Alabama, family.

Dates: 1844-1993

Austin family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0095
Abstract

A collection of genealogical information on the Austin, Hutto, Lambert and Knox families. It also contains family correspondence, photographs, and legal documents.

Dates: 1887-1980

Aylette Family Tree

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0099
Abstract

A typed copy of the Aylette family pedigree.

Dates: undated

B. V. Horne Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0704
Abstract

Letter to Elizabeth (possibly his wife) explaining his financial situation.

Dates: 1853-12-27

A. Babbitt letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0100
Abstract

Letter from Babbitt to his cousin William H. Babbitt of Princeton, New Jersey, describing an ocean voyage from New York to Mobile, and Babbitt's subsequent doings in Alabama.

Dates: circa 1843 December

William Pitt Ballinger diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0104
Abstract

Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.

Dates: 1864-1868

Baltzell and Bullock families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0105
Abstract

The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.

Dates: 1839-1921

Barker Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0112
Abstract

Letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, genealogical records and other materials relating to Henry A. Barker (1879-1962), a Methodist Minister in Boaz, Alabama, and his family.

Dates: undated

Mamie L. Barnett letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0115
Abstract

A letter dated 7 June 1928 from Barnett to her brother Frank.

Dates: 1928 June 7

Barrie Lucien Holt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0692
Abstract

Contains the papers of Barrie Lucien Holt, covering his life as a capitalist, planter, financier, and quartermaster general of the Alabama National Guard. Holt was an organizer and majority shareholder in the Prattville Cotton Mills and Banking Company, as well as a partner in D. M. Snow and Company.

Dates: 1841-1950

James M. Barry notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0120
Abstract

Notebooks containing addresses and miscellaneous of papers and notes.

Dates: circa 1940

Battle family papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Abstract

Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.

Dates: 1855-1871

Bedford H. Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3683
Abstract

Legal documents, financial records, correspondence, and other personal papers of this Tuscaloosa County probate judge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1830-1945

Harvey Beeson letters and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0129
Abstract

Letter and photographs relating to Harvey Beeson’s ancestors in Michigan, August 1939.

Dates: 1939

William Robert Bell letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0134
Abstract

A letter dated 29 May 1864 from a Confederate soldier to his mother and sister while stationed in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

Dates: 1864 May 29

Henry R. Benagh letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0136
Abstract

A letter containing genealogical information about the Benagh family.

Dates: 1951

Benjamin T. Barret Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0117
Abstract

A collection containing family correspondence, bills, receipts, clippings, and other items.

Dates: 1836 - 1921; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1900

Sam Bennett letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0138
Abstract

An 1848 letter written from Chickasaw, Alabama, to his cousin in Tuscumbia, Alabama, discussing the weather of the "sunny South," temperance, sailing to New Orleans, and various family matters.

Dates: 1848 May 7

Berman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2329
Abstract

Contains material created and kept by the Berman family of St. Louis, Missouri. Letters written by Dr. William (Bill) Berman and his wife Marian make up the bulk of the collection. These are primarily letters written, often in Hebrew, by Bill and Marian from Ft. Riley, Kansas, where Bill served as an Army doctor during World War Two.

Dates: 1927-1957

Winafred Bird letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0158
Abstract

A letter from Bird dated 5 May 1822, from Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina to her son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1822 May 5

Birmingham Examiner financial records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract

Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper

Dates: 1963-1964

Charlie J. Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Abstract

Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.

Dates: 1985-1987

John Blackwell deed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0168
Abstract

A deed recording a transfer of land in Montgomery County, Alabama, dated 25 September 1828, from John Blackwell to Thomas Mastin.

Dates: 1828 September 25

A. M. Blair letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0169
Abstract

A letter dated 30 November 1843, to Blair's brother Edwin in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing a sea voyage from New York, to Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1843 November 30

Blocton, Alabama Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-004
Abstract

This collection consists of nine photographs of Italian - Americans living in Blocton, Alabama. Photographs were used in the fall 1986 Alabama Heritage article.

Dates: 1900 - 1938

Susie L. Meyers Bobb letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3658
Abstract

Correspondence between family and friends of the Bobb, Raymond, and Meyers families of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa. The letters date from 1873-1922, and most of them are written to Susie L. Meyers Bobb, who was likely also Susie L. Raymond.

Dates: 1873-1922

Erline Bodine papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0179
Abstract

An amalgam of genealogical research done by Bodine into the Bodine and Pate families, and a copy of a letter to Alabama Governor Guy Hunt, dated 21 March 1987, claiming damages of “about 160 A[cres] and one billion dollars” owing to a “stragedy” [sic] concocted by “Big Jim” [Fulsom?] and Franklin Roosevelt “to help the nation with my family’s resources.”

Dates: undated

Bogy and Smith Families genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract

A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.

Dates: undated

Boling Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Abstract

Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.

Dates: 1833-1870

Booth Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3170
Abstract

Letters to and from members of the Booth family. Family and friends write about their experiences farming and raising livestock in Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa from 1857 to 1886.

Dates: 1857 - 1886

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