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A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album
Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records
A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.
Alabama Circuit Court, 23rd District, records
Primarily records of suits for debt, arranged chronologically, by circuit court and county court, including judge's dockets.
Andrew Coleman Hargrove papers
Personal and business correspondence, class notes, and financial records of attorney and politician, Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Douglas Arant Alabama Academy of Honor materials
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.
William Pitt Ballinger diary
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.
Barton and Stewart law firm records
Daybook and docket, 1827-32, of this Tuscaloosa law firm.
Belser and Harris legal firm financial records
A ledger recording the financial transactions of the central Alabama law firm of James Belser and Nathan Harris
Richard Trapier Brumby letter
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
Captain Slick collection
Maria E. Chandler and H. R. Garner Cotton Claims Documents
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
Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book
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.
David Crawford letter
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.
Dexter and Abbot letter
A letter dated 6 May 1848 to Mssrs. Mason and Lawrence, Boston, regarding cotton sales.
Edwin H. Abbott papers
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.
Rachel Duke Hamilton papers
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).
A. B. Hanson records
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.
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., papers
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.
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Hestor L. Stevens Letters
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.
Samuel Earle Hobbs papers
This collection contains the papers of an Alabama lawyer Samuel Earle Hobbs.
Samuel Francis Hobbs papers
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.
Isaiah Garrett Business Records
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.
J. P. McQueen Letterbook
A letterbook containing copies of the correspondence of attorney J. P. McQueen to legal clients and others.
Jere Clemens Dennis Papers
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.
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach Scrapbooks
Rice, Chilton, and Jones, attorneys, letterbook
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.
O.M. Roberts reminiscences while a student of the University of Alabama
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.
Septimus D. Cabaniss papers
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.
Edward Devereaux Smith manuscript
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.
Jonas Spiro Jr. papers
Spiro's University of Alabama diploma and his Bar certificate
Val Taylor Commonplace Book
A small commonplace book filled with newspaper clippings and handwritten poems
Taylor versus Robinson bill of complaint
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.
William Y. Gholson Legal Account Books
Two pocket ledgers listing the cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans, of this Pontotoc, Mississippi, lawyer, from 1839-1842