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A. L. Anderson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1621
Abstract

A letter dated 19 November 1859, to his sister in the north while he was building the new Alabama Insane Hospital (Bryce Hospital) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In it Anderson expresses regrets at his inability to provide her with financial assistance and his hopes that he can stay in the South, where his prospects have improved.

Dates: 1859-11-19

Alabama Music Teachers Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1439
Abstract

Convention programs, correspondence, newsletters, membership lists, scrapbooks, and a photo album of this Alabama organization.

Dates: 1954-1988

Alabama postcards

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3715
Abstract

Postcards showing a variety of places in Alabama, including Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery.

Dates: 1918-1970s

Alan V. Weinberg Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-031
Abstract

Two color photographs of a medal presented to Captain [Quarrier] by the Citizens of Tuscaloosa for, "an act that ennobles the man," ca. 1847. Possibly to commemorate a heroic action following a steamboat disaster. See engraved scene on medal. Medal is in Weinberg's private collection.

Dates: 1994

Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Abstract

Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.

Dates: 1850-1873

Allen and Jemison Hardware Company catalogs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0066
Abstract

Two catalogs, 1913 and 1928, of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hardware store.

Dates: 1913, 1928

Alpha Epsilon Delta records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Abstract

The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.

Dates: 1926-1951

American Association of University Women, Tuscaloosa Branch records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0073
Abstract

Includes the Tuscaloosa branch secretary’s notebooks, which contain the association's official correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, and other records that vary by year. Also includes the executive board files and scrapbooks

Dates: 1928-2002

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

Marion Banks letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0110
Abstract

Letter to Dr. E. H. Moren recommending W. C. Richardson for the professorship of English literature at Alabama A and M College.

Dates: 1878 May 24

Barton and Stewart law firm records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0121
Abstract

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

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

Winafred Bird letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0158
Abstract

A letter from Bird dated 5 May 1822, from Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina to her son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1822 May 5

Birmingham News Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-007
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting the Alabama football, basketball, and civil rights movement in the 1950s.

Dates: 1835 - 1974

Janette Goldstein Blum Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3913
Abstract

Scrapbooks, print materials, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Blum and her time at the University of Alabama

Dates: circa 1930s

Buford Boone papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968

Brandon Memorial United Methodist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0202
Abstract

Lists of members, pastors, marriages, baptisms, and deceased members, as well as church directories of this Methodist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1911-1991

Bryce Hospital Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0225
Abstract

Various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital.

Dates: 1849-1991

Business and Professional Women's Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0241
Abstract

Scrapbooks and papers of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Club. Papers include treasurer's reports, public relations reports, and other club information. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, programs, club yearbooks, and invitations.

Dates: 1935-1967

C. N. Henkle Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0664
Abstract

A letter dated January 1878, to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing Henkle's involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.

Dates: 1878-01

Canterbury Chapel Christ Episcopal Church scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0272
Abstract

Scrapbooks and newspaper articles highlighting church members who worked for the University and college students who attended Canterbury Chapel.

Dates: 1927-1937

Caroline Virginia Samuel Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1227
Abstract

Letters from Tuscaloosa to Samuel's cousin Edmond W. Samuel, with news, social and otherwise, of Tuscaloosa, the aftermath of the Civil War, and much else.

Dates: 1865 - 1871

Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr., letter and biographical sketch

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0309
Abstract

Letter written from Tuscaloosa in 1834, to his aunt, Mrs. Robert W. Withers of Erie, Greene County, Alabama, and a biographical sketch, author and date unknown, which includes information on Clay's political career, wedding, and friends.

Dates: circa 1834

Clements family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0316
Abstract

Papers of a Tuscaloosa family whose members included Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Clements, Frank Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, and others. The bulk of the papers relate to Frank Bugbee Clements.

Dates: 1846-1948

Thomas P. Clinton letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0319
Abstract

Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.

Dates: Unknown

Daughters of the American Revolution. Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0397
Abstract

One photocopied and bound ledger, two ledgers and five loose leaf notebooks containing the minutes of the membership and board of the Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1901 to 1988.

Dates: 1901-1988

David B. McElroy Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-203
Abstract

This collection consists of ten color photographs of the Ramsey Award Party, held at the University of Alabama University Club, 1986.

Dates: 1986

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

Jerry A. Davis, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0405
Abstract

Letters, newspaper clippings, event programs, photographs, and other items reflecting the personal interests of their compiler during his high school and undergraduate years.

Dates: 1973-1988; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1988

Delta Kappa Gamma, Beta Chapter, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0424
Abstact

Documentation of the annual activities of the Tuscaloosa chapter of this international education society. The records include minutes, annual reports, financial reports and records, histories, yearbooks, correspondence, directories, and other materials.

Dates: 1939-1999

Denny Chimes Renovation papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0429
Abstract

Materials relating to the 1986 renovation of the University of Alabama bell tower and the fund drive to purchase a new 25-bell carillon, kept by Sandee Gibson. The collection includes a fund drive notebook, photographs of the restoration and rededication, and an information pack for fundraisers.

Dates: undated

Dominique Doux Fiquet Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-028
Abstract

Photograph album containing images of students and faculty at The University of Alabama in 1859 and includes the oldest known photograph of the campus.

Dates: 1859

Donn Sanford photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-021
Abstract

Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.

Dates: 1956 February

Dr. James Anderson Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-002
Abstract

This collection consists of seven photographs of the University of Alabama Centennial Pageant at the Denny Stadium.

Dates: 1931-05-11

Dunn's Creek Baptist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0458
Abstract

Records of members, deeds to church land, enrollments and dismissals, deaths, and expenses of this Baptist church in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Dates: 1834-1979

Educational Media Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-003
Abstract

This collection consists of 435 photographs of different activities at the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1963 - 1966

Edward Bressie Vaughan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2283
Abstract

Papers of both Edward Bressie Vaughan, Sr. and Jr. The majority of the papers are requisitions, receipts, Quartermaster stores, etc. from August through Novemeber 1862 during the Kentucky Campaign signed by or sent to Lieutenant Edward Bressie Vaughan, Jr.. Other papers include both Vaughan, Sr.'s and Jr.'s personal and business correspondence from 1832 through 1869. The collection also contains E.B. Vaughan, Sr.'s Oath of Allegiance (dated 30 June 1865) to the United Stated.

Dates: 1832 - 1867; Majority of material found in 1862 - 1862

Eliza Thomas Nolley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1052
Abstract This collection consists of entries taken from Nolley's “Album of Friendship,” copies of outgoings letter to her brother, Edward Dromgoole Nolly and sister Martha Ann Otey, extracts from her theme book, and a letter from a friend, Annie Glascock (?). Except for last, all are from the period when Nolley was a student at Tuscaloosa Female College. The items are annotated with information about her family and Nolley herself. The items by Nolley contain news about the school and school...
Dates: 1862 - 1866

Elizabeth Cherry Weir Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1538
Abstract

This collection contains the will and estate papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry Weir (d. 1821) of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; letters to Pauline Jones Gandrud regarding the Cherry family genealogy; and and estate paper for John Warner of Tuscaloosa, 1824.

Dates: 1821 - 1960

Eugene Allen Smith Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-024
Abstract

This collection consist of two hundred and sixty nine photographs depicting buildings around The University of Alabama campus; Tombigbee and other river's in Alabama; trains; Eugene Allen Smith house on campus and his family; Alabama State Capitol; steamboats; University of Alabama baseball team; scene's from University of Mississippi; and scene's from Wetumka Penitentiary.

Dates: 1813 - 1927

Exchange Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1640
Abstract

Issues of the newsletter "The Unitor" (1922-2011), framed pictures, and brochures

Dates: 1922-2011

Farris Dale Beason Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-216
Abstract

This collection consists of twenty-four photographs of two homecoming parades at the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1963 - 1964

Feronia Garden Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4025
Abstract

Three scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, garden club, covering the years, 1958-1967.

Dates: 1958-1967

Woolsey Finnell Response to the Reminiscences of John Little

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4059
Abstract

Responses to some of John Little's memoirs.

Dates: after 1947

First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0517
Abstract

List of pastors, rules of decorum, the church covenant, and baptism lists, 1838-1904. It also includes an article, "Chronicles of the First Baptist Church," by Tom Garner, clerk.

Dates: 1818-1927

First Presbyterian Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0518
Abstract

Contains record books, 1820-1948; list of baptisms, 1845-1894; Board of Trustees record books, 1838-1911; Board of Deacons minute book, 1886-1888; and miscellaneous other documents for this Tuscaloosa, Alabama church.

Dates: 1820-1948

Fitts and Alston Families Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-008
Abstract

Collection consist of two photo albums and eighty-six loose photographs of Fitts and Alston families adventures on their boat, "Mary Francis" through Alabama and Florida, and family portraits.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1830 - 1920

Fletcher Moore Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-017
Abstract

This collection depicts photographs of the University of Alabama and men in Ku Klux Klan clothes.

Dates: 1935

Forrest Hood "Fob" James Speech Text

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0741
Abstract

Handwritten original draft of a speech written enroute to Tuscaloosa and delivered by James on the occasion of the University of Alabama's 150th anniversary celebration.

Dates: 1981-04-12

Edwin Hardy Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0532
Abstract Letters written by and to Foster between 1907 and 1938, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence written by Foster’s family members and members of the United States House of Representatives concerning his application to the Consular Services. There is also a small collection of letters written in German; Foster’s report cards from Male High School (1875-1881) and his first semester grades from The University of Alabama in 1882; reports cards for his brothers, Sumner B., Thomas J., Henry...
Dates: 1872-1938

Francis Scott Key Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0812
Abstract

A letter dated 4 February 1834, to Alabama Governor John Gayle, thanking him for a nice visit to Tuscaloosa, probably during Key's mission to resolve a dispute between the U.S. government and Alabama over the dispostion of lands taken from the Creek Indians. Key's letter also discusses congressional debates on the Bank of the United States.

Dates: 1834-02-04

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