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Allen Family papers
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.
Bell Factory letterbook and cloth samples
Corporate letterbook, 1882-1906, and cloth samples of "Bell checks" and "Bell stripes" manufactured by the Bell Factory, Huntsville, Alabama, after the Civil War.
Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection
Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.
C. L. Clawson Letter
Letter with family news and talk of growing cotton in Alabama versus in South Carolina, as well as some genealogical information.
Nelson Clayton papers
Papers reflecting the activities of a cotton planter in Lee County, Alabama, 1808-1868.
Dexter and Abbot letter
A letter dated 6 May 1848 to Mssrs. Mason and Lawrence, Boston, regarding cotton sales.
John K. and William M. Elliott daybooks
Photocopies of the daybooks of John K. Elliott and his son, William M. Elliott, of the Payneville, Sumter County, Alabama area, spanning the years from 1870 through 1911.
Farm Security Administration Photographs
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama. Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook
Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934
Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.
Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers
Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards
Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Henry Major Papers
Collection mostly consists of incoming business correspondence written to Henry Major from various business associates in the United Kingdom and America. Henry Major was a New York merchant around the years 1802-1836. The correspondence allows a look into the mercantile world of overseas trading of cotton and other goods, prices, and other related issues.
James Hogan papers
This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.
James Boykin papers
Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
John Cocke Papers
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Joseph H. Bradford Accounts
Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.
Joseph Murrell letterbook
Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.
Joshua Hill Foster Papers
Papers of a University of Alabama graduate, Baptist minister, planter, teacher (University of Alabama, 1873-1892) and president of Alabama Central Female College, 1869-1873.
Marjorie L. Smith Cotton Slides
This collection contains seventy-one color slides depicting various stages of cotton production, taken by Marjorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Slides also show images of an African American church in Hayneville.
Emmett N. McCall papers
Financial records and ledgers of McCall's Dixonville Racket Store, a general store in the Brewton, Escambia County, Alabama, area. Also includes correspondence, Mormon church records, mortgage deeds, and cotton acreage allotments.
Melton's Bluff Receipts
Six receipts concerning Andrew Jackson's farm, Melton's Bluff, on the Tennessee River in Alabama.
Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection
This collection contains a diary and scrapbook kept by Ernestine Jones in 1951 when she went on a national tour as winner of the "Spirit of Cotton" competition held by the Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee, an annual African American festival in Memphis, Tennessee. It also contains four program books from the festival for the years 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1955.
Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence
Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
George and James Skinner papers
Material concerning the business and plantation activities of George (1812-1879) and James Skinner (1801-1883) of Marengo County.
G. A. Tompkins letter
A letter from Tompkins to his brother, Charles Tompkins, Jr. in King William County, Virginia, discussing family news, personal health, and cotton farming.
Toulmin, Hazard, and Company Correspondence
Correspondence from the Toulmin, Hazard and Company commission firm of Mobile, Alabama.
Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs
Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
This collection consists of eighty-one black and white photographs depicting scenes from Seneca, Westminster, and Charleston, South Carolina. This collection also depicts members of an unidentified family, possibly from South Carolina.
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
J. W. Young Letter
Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina