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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

Bell Factory letterbook and cloth samples

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0131
Abstract

Corporate letterbook, 1882-1906, and cloth samples of "Bell checks" and "Bell stripes" manufactured by the Bell Factory, Huntsville, Alabama, after the Civil War.

Dates: 1882-1906

Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0186
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1836-1843

C. L. Clawson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4135
Abstract

Letter with family news and talk of growing cotton in Alabama versus in South Carolina, as well as some genealogical information.

Dates: 1850 August 5

Nelson Clayton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0315
Abstract

Papers reflecting the activities of a cotton planter in Lee County, Alabama, 1808-1868.

Dates: 1808-1868; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1860

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

John K. and William M. Elliott daybooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0482
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1870-1911

Farm Security Administration Photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-093
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1930 - 1942

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1849-1861

The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4199
Abstract

Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.

Dates: 2016

Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0531
Abstract Primarily receipts and statements but the collection also includes Robert S. Foster’s will and a deed for 1,274 acres of land from the heirs of Robert S. Foster to Edmond L. Prince in 1859 for the sum of $19,110.00. Most of the statements are for the freight, wharfage, drayage, weighing and storage of cotton shipped by steamboats, and are listed for either Mrs. Ann Foster or the Estate of Robert S. Foster. Other receipts are for the purchase of clothing, books and magazine...
Dates: 1833-1859

Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract

Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.

Dates: 1874 - 1950

Henry Major Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4217
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1816-1841

James Hogan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0687
Abstract

This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.

Dates: Unknown

James Boykin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870

John Cocke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Abstract

Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.

Dates: 1810-1899

Joseph H. Bradford Accounts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0199
Abstract

Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.

Dates: 1836-1841

Joseph Murrell letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Abstract

Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

Dates: 1861

Joshua Hill Foster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0535
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1839 - 1904

Marjorie L. Smith Cotton Slides

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-004
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1960 - 1965

Emmett N. McCall papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0943
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1874-1944

Melton's Bluff Receipts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4150
Abstract

Six receipts concerning Andrew Jackson's farm, Melton's Bluff, on the Tennessee River in Alabama.

Dates: 1817-1818

Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4289
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1951-1955

Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1821-1838

George and James Skinner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1280
Abstract

Material concerning the business and plantation activities of George (1812-1879) and James Skinner (1801-1883) of Marengo County.

Dates: 1829-1950

G. A. Tompkins letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1414
Abstract

A letter from Tompkins to his brother, Charles Tompkins, Jr. in King William County, Virginia, discussing family news, personal health, and cotton farming.

Dates: 1842 November 20

Toulmin, Hazard, and Company Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1416
Abstract

Correspondence from the Toulmin, Hazard and Company commission firm of Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1834 - 1837

Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract

Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.

Dates: 1938

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.001
Identifier: 2009-002
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract

This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.

Dates: 1941

J. W. Young Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4134
Abstract

Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina

Dates: 1835 May 18

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Williams, A. S., III 3
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M. Benjamin Katz, Fine Books & Manuscripts 2
Alabama Central Female College (Tuscaloosa, Ala) 1
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