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A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-003
Scope and Contents This collection is a personal photo album created by A. Mercer Daniel, a law librarian and the first African American member of the American Association of Law Libraries, documenting the 1910s–1960s with an emphasis on the 1930s. There are 216 photographs on 114 pages, mostly black and white and some sepia; most inserted into corner mounts, the rest adhesive mounted. Most photographs measure 2 ¼” x 3” to 5 ½” x 3 ½”, all are captioned. 22 photographs lacking from album and 2 with surface...
Dates: 1910 - 1960

Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0055
Abstract

A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.

Dates: 1815-1835

Alabama Circuit Court, 23rd District, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0056
Abstract

Primarily records of suits for debt, arranged chronologically, by circuit court and county court, including judge's dockets.

Dates: 1809-1926

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

Douglas Arant Alabama Academy of Honor materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0081
Abstract

Materials relating to Arant's 1978 induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor, including a scrapbook with pictures from the induction, biographical information on members, and past programs from induction ceremonies.

Dates: 1974-1986

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

Barton and Stewart law firm records

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Identifier: MSS-0121
Abstract

Daybook and docket, 1827-32, of this Tuscaloosa law firm.

Dates: 1827-1832; Majority of material found within 1827 - 1829

Belser and Harris legal firm financial records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1796
Abstract

A ledger recording the financial transactions of the central Alabama law firm of James Belser and Nathan Harris

Dates: 1846-1850

Richard Trapier Brumby letter

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Identifier: MSS-0224
Abstract

Letter from Brumby, dated 2 April 1834, from Tuscaloosa, to the firm of Wragg and Stewart in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning a debt owed to the firm

Dates: 1834 April 2

Captain Slick collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0274
Abstract Numerous legal papers pertaining to the slander case of John Berry versus James Latham, in Jackson and Madison Counties, Alabama, 1830-34, and that of Alanson Huff versus Cowart et al., Madison County, 1831-1833. These appear to have been collected by James W. Bragg for a paper delivered to the Alabama Historical Association in 1957. A photocopy of Bragg's paper, "Captain Slick, Arbiter of Early Alabama Morals," and another by Jack K. Williams, "Crime and Punishment in Alabama, 1819-1940"...
Dates: 1830-1834

Maria E. Chandler and H. R. Garner Cotton Claims Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4128
Abstract

Handwritten and typescript documents - correspondence, affidavits, etc. - relating to two southern clients of the New York lawyer Quinton Corwine, dealing with compensation due them for cotton seized by federal agents during the Reconstruction period

Dates: 1864-1898

Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book

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Identifier: MSS-0373
Abstract

A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.

Dates: circa 1835-1886

David Crawford letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0368
Abstract

Letter dated 30 November 1829, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to his wife, Caroline, in Mobile, telling her of his election as Solicitor of the First Judicial Circuit.

Dates: 1829 November 30

Dexter and Abbot letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0434
Abstract

A letter dated 6 May 1848 to Mssrs. Mason and Lawrence, Boston, regarding cotton sales.

Dates: 1848 May 6

Edwin H. Abbott papers

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Identifier: MSS-0001
Abstract

Files relating to the "Alabama Claims" handled by this Boston attorney concerning damage inflicted by the Confederate commerce raider C.S.S. Shenandoah during the final months of the Civil War.

Dates: circa 1873-1883

Rachel Duke Hamilton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0455
Abstract

A photocopy of a typed draft of the manuscript of a biography of Judge Peter J. Hamilton written by his youngest daughter, Rachel Duke Hamilton Cannon (sometimes noted as Rachel-Duke).

Dates: circa 1950

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

Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., papers

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Identifier: MSS-0314
Abstract

The majority of this collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence. It also contains speeches, newspaper clippings, legal documents, personal letters, and a scrapbook related to Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr's death.

Dates: 1887-1952

Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers

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Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract

The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.

Dates: 1840-1925

Hestor L. Stevens Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4237
Abstract

The collection consists of twelve letters written by Hestor L. Stevens (1803-1864), a representative from Michigan, detailing his law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War.

Dates: 1860 - 1861

Samuel Earle Hobbs papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0681
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of an Alabama lawyer Samuel Earle Hobbs.

Dates: unknown

Samuel Francis Hobbs papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0682
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets, government publications and other materials concerning Samuel Francis Hobbs's career as the U.S. Congressman (1934-1951) from the 4th district of Alabama.

Dates: 1921-1952; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1950

Isaiah Garrett Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4231
Abstract

A business ledger belonging to Isaiah Garrett (1812-1874)--a lawyer, politician, and plantation owner in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. The ledger contains entries on 326 pages, in which both Mr. Garrett’s legal practice and his plantation are covered.

Dates: 1838 - 1861

J. P. McQueen Letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0969
Abstract

A letterbook containing copies of the correspondence of attorney J. P. McQueen to legal clients and others.

Dates: 1887 - 1888

Jere Clemens Dennis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0428
Abstract

Personal, family, and business papers of a Tallapoosa County attorney, including legal case files as well as Sons of Confederate Veterans, Alabama National Guard, and Masonic materials.

Dates: 1841-1935

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4342
Scope and Contents Two scrapbooks containing seven black and white photographs, about 218 original or photocopied newspaper and magazine clippings, thirty-five teletype reports, and some ephemera documenting Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach’s career and civil rights in the United States from 1962 to 1965. Katzenbach was appointed as United States Deputy Attorney General by John F. Kennedy in April 1962 and later as United States Attorney General appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in September 1964. He actively...
Dates: 1962 - 1965

Rice, Chilton, and Jones, attorneys, letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0049
Abstract

Letterbook containing copies of correspondence written by Montgomery, Alabama, lawyers Samuel F. Rice, John M. Chilton, Thomas G. Jones, and Ariosto A. Wiley, between 1871-1873.

Dates: 1871-1873

O.M. Roberts reminiscences while a student of the University of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1199
Abstract

Contains a bound, typewritten recollection of this Texas governor's life as a student of the University of Alabama, 1833-1836. He presented this to the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama in 1892. The work includes a photograph of a painting of him in approximately 1835.

Dates: 1892

Septimus D. Cabaniss papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract

Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.

Dates: 1820-1937

Edward Devereaux Smith manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1285
Abstract

A manuscript titled "A Telephone Rate Case," (subsequently published by Public Utilities Reports, Inc., Washington DC, in 1941), intended to provide material to help lawyers understand the background, existing state of, and rules involved in deciding public utilities rare cases.

Dates: 1941

Jonas Spiro Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1326
Abstract

Spiro's University of Alabama diploma and his Bar certificate

Dates: unknown

Val Taylor Commonplace Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4120
Abstract

A small commonplace book filled with newspaper clippings and handwritten poems

Dates: 1892-1906

Taylor versus Robinson bill of complaint

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1384
Abstract

Bill of complaint with appended exhibits in the case of Taylor vs. Robinson, involving the alleged misuse or misappropriation of monies and property by the administrator of the estate of Byrd Brandon.

Dates: Undated; post 1865

William Y. Gholson Legal Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4130
Abstract

Two pocket ledgers listing the cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans, of this Pontotoc, Mississippi, lawyer, from 1839-1842

Dates: 1839-1842

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