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Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference papers
Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference records
Allan F. Archer papers
Documents pertaining to the career of Dr. Allan F. Archer from 1932 to 1951 when he worked at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey of Alabama. The material primarily focuses on Dr. Archer’s study of spiders, but includes crabs, mollusks, crustacean and matters of ecological and biological importance as well.
Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs
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
R. H. Cook Diary and Poems
Diary for the year 1869 written by a young man in Rose Hill, Mississippi.
Sam Dale envelope fragment
Fragment of an envelope sent to David Holmes, then governor of the Mississippi Territory (which included the state of Alabama), on 15 May 1817, by Sam Dale at Fort Claiborne, Alabama
Jefferson Davis Papers
This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.
R. Aaron Dean Account Ledger
Account ledger of R. Aaron Dean showing debits and credits charged to various individuals
Early Alabama documents
Documents from the mid nineteenth century, including store and tax receipts, court orders, letters, property appraisals, etc., from Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, mainly pertaining to West Alabama
Edward Lee Hotel Broadside
One handmade sign from the Edward Lee Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi, from approximately 1963 supporting freedom and equality. The sign measures approximately 30" x 20" and is marked with the initials "EL" in two corners. The Edward Lee Hotel was one of two African American-owned hotels in Jackson, Mississippi.
George Strother Gaines paper
Typescript copy of Gaines's "Reminiscences of Early Times in the Mississippi Territory," which discusses the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and treaties (1810-1840).
George Woodard and Gene Smith letters
Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.
Eliza Williams Chotard Gould memoirs
Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company documents
Documents dealing with various financial considerations concerning mortgages, bonds, consolidations, etc., between 1912 And 1914
Townsend Heaton letters
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Herman Packard journal
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Humphries Family Ancestor Book and Story Collection (PDF file on CD-ROM)
Family history of the Humphries of Mississippi and Alabama.
Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute
One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.
Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book
Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
E. O. McElroy papers
Ten U.S. postal service railroad mail service directories for several southeastern states: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; letters, postal rating exams, etc.
Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile records
Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists
Mississippi Territory seal
Picture of the Mississippi Territory seal
Thomas McAdory Owen correspondence on A Bibliography of Mississippi
Contains correspondence between Thomas McAdory Owen and Mississippi authors and scholars regarding Owen's A Bibliography of Mississippi.
Prentiss Ingraham and Joseph H. Ingraham Scrapbook
Material relating to "dime novelist" Prentiss Ingraham and his father, Joseph Holt Ingraham, kept by Prentiss's daughter, Rosa. Included are clippings, letters, poetry, photographs and other items, and a a list of books by Ingraham held by the W. S. Hoole Library.
The Daily Citizen newspaper
The last issue of this Vicksburg, Mississippi, newspaper printed on July 2, 1863.
C. L. Townsend letters
Letters to his wife and family sent from Kentucky and Corinth, Mississippi in 1862. The letters give instructions for handling his business affairs and express discontent with the war.
Belle M. Turner Papers
Two documents in the case of an altercation between A.L. West and Thomas M. Pearce in Noxubee, Mississippi.
W. A. Mair Photographs
This collection consists of two photographic albums with 230 photographs showcasing highlights of W. A. Mair travels with his friends and family through Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Mexico, and Tennessee.
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
This collection consists of eighty-one photographs depicting unidentified people and scenes from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Washington, New York, Wyoming, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon and England.
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Six photographs of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting city of Alton, Illinois and scenes along a river: a bridge, a steamboat, and the shoreline.
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