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William Albert Jones Quarterly Report Card

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0787
Abstract

Photostatic copy of an 1862 report card of this University of Alabama student from Marion, Alabama.

Dates: 1862-12-26

William and Crawford L. Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3759
Abstract

Documents relating to the Mississippi and Alabama plantations of the Brown family, including bills of sale for slaves; receipts for tool repair, clothing, dry goods; tax receipts listing the number of slaves; business letters; and various legal agreements and other court documents.

Dates: 1834-1861

William B. Shirdan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1266
Abstract

Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dates: 1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945

William B. "WIllie" Pape Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3689
Abstract

Two scrapbooks kept by Willie Pape during his years in England as well as a bound volume of his sheet music.

Dates: 1862-1875

William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend

 Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)

Dates: 1948 - 1964

William Burnham Woods Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1575
Scope and Contents

A letter dated 14 January 1877, to Charles W. Hanler, asking that a brochure be sent to him. At the time Woods was a judge on the United States fifth district court, of which Alabama was a part.

Dates: 1877-01-14

William Columbus Ward Speech Text

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1525
Abstract

The text of Ward's 1858 valedictory address, delivered at the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1858-07-15

William Cooper Diaries and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0357
Abstract

The collection consists of six diaries for 1864, 1867, 1876, 1882, 1884, and 1887, and a photograph of Cooper, an attorney from Tuscumbia, Alabama. The diaries contain daily entries made by Cooper and, in his absence from home, his wife, and give a great deal of information about the community, his activities, and his family.

Dates: 1864-1887

William Crawford Gorgas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Dates: 1869-1920

William Edward Kimbrough Thesis

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Identifier: MSS-0816
Abstract

Kimbrough's 1940 University of Alabama MFA thesis, titled "From Hell to Breakfast: A Novel."

Dates: 1940

William Fulbright 1944 Campaign Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4320
Scope and Contents

One political campaign broadside in support of J. William Fulbright during the 1945 United States Senate race against Homer Adkins in Arkansas. The broadside was created by Pulaski County Friends of Bill Fulbright for U.S. Senator and is titled, "This is a response to Adkins' Campaign of Hate." The broadside details Adkins' racial prejudice and Fulbright's opposition to it, as well as other key issues Fulbright supported.

Dates: 1944

William Gray Little Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0868
Abstract

A collection of family correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating to this Livingston, Alabama native who is credited with introducing football at the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1837 - 1938

William H. Darden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3172
Abstract

Books, papers, and photographs of William H. Darden, a Tuscaloosa physician.

Dates: 1901 - 1965

William H. Ely letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Abstract

Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.

Dates: 1820 - 1821

William H. Minot papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0994
Abstract

This collection contains pages from Minot's Civil War diary (January-March, 1865), discharge papers, an 1865 edition of Webster's Pocket Dictionary, and a letter regarding a reunion of the 22nd Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. The diary entries describe a few months Minot's service along the coast of the Carolinas.

Dates: 1865

William Henderson Wood Journal and Will

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1571
Abstract

A daily journal by and last will and testament of this Collinsville, DeKalb County, Alabama resident.

Dates: 1876 - 1885

William Insco Buchanan Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4725
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two historically significant journal/scrapbooks documenting the diplomatic career of William Insco Buchanan, particularly his involvement in Pan-American conferences and international arbitration. These scrapbooks contain a wealth of original documents, telegrams, printed materials, and newspaper clippings that provide insight into Buchanan’s role in shaping U.S. foreign policy in Latin America during the early twentieth century.The first scrapbook...
Dates: 1901 - 1908

William Jesse Robinett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1624
Abstract

This collection consists of a handwritten original paper and typescript copy containing the names of family members and stories about the family's experience during Rousseau's Raid, July 10-22, 1864, in which a Union Army force raided from Decatur, Alabama, to the southward.

Dates: 1957

William Joseph Mims Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0992
Abstract

Material on Mims' family history and materials relating to Weevilnip Company of Macon, Georgia. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture relating to false labeling, as well as company advertising. The collection also contains two small notepads, one with notes on teaching and one with notes on history, boll weevils, and other subjects.

Dates: 1886 - 1924

William K. Bachman ordnance return and muster roll

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0101
Abstract

Monthly return of ordnance and ordnance stores received and expended during the month of November 1864; muster roll of Bachman's company of the German Artillery Regiment of Hampton's Legion, August 31-October 31, 1864.

Dates: 1864

William MacMillan Petition and Report

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0966
Abstract

The report of the naturalist hired by the trustees of the University of Alabama to acquire specimens for the proposed Museum of Natural History. It includes a list of specimens acquired, proposals for further acquisitions and collection development, and a request for additional funding.

Dates: 1830 - 1831

William March Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0266
Abstract

Correspondence, literary papers, clippings, criticism, photos, and memorabilia of this author.

Dates: 1897 - 1980

William Molineaux Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4740
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a group of four letters related to the business transactions of Boston merchant and Revolutionary figure William Molineaux and Northport, Rhode Island merchant and slave trader Samuel Vernon, dating from 1742 to 1749. The letters document their commercial activities, including participation in the Triangle Trade.The collection includes three letters signed by Molineaux to Vernon, as well as a letter from Boston merchant Isaac Winslow to Vernon, which...
Dates: 1742 - 1749

William Nazareth Mitchell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1003
Abstract

Typescript and illustrations for the book, "Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell," edited by his grandson, William C. Etherton. The letters were written to Mitchell's wife, Rachel Caroline Mitchell, while he was serving in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and north Alabama. The original letters are at the University of Illinois, Carbondale.

Dates: 1862

William P. Abrams diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0005
Abstract

Diaries of travels from New Hampshire to Alabama; to Havana, Cuba; and to the midwestern United States. The majority of entries were written in Gainesville, Alabama, where this New Hampshire native settled.

Dates: 1839 - 1848

William Patton Estate Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1112
Abstract

This collection consists of an inventory and appraisal of the estate and a notice of appointment of Charles W. and John Patton as administrators of the estate

Dates: 1846

William Quayle correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1176
Abstract

Letters written from the First Frontier District of Texas, of which Quayle was commander, providing information on Confederate military dispositions, 1862-64. Quayle's correspondents included James Bourland, H. E. McCulloch, and James Webb Throckmorton.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

William R. Dougherty Civil War Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4379
Scope and Contents Forty manuscript letters exchanged between Kentucky Infantry Orphan Brigade Confederate soldier William R. Dougherty and his future wife Eliza Anderson. Eliza resided at her home in Mississippi during the Civil War until their marriage in late December 1866. In addition to the letters between the couple, the collection includes another roughly sixty pages of correspondence between them and their relatives, from the late 1860s to the early 1920s. All of the materials were stored in a metal...
Dates: 1862 - 1923

William R. Hughes letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0714
Abstract

Letters from Chattanooga, Tennessee; Meridian, Mississippi; and Richmond, Virginia, primarily to his wife in Northport, Alabama, and also to his mother and other family members during the Civil War. The letters include news of family and friends, accounts of camp life, and other matters.

Dates: 1862-1864

William Russell Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1298
Abstract

This collection consists of letters to his wife and others written while serving in the Alabama secession convention, and a holograph manuscript book of poetry.

Dates: 1834 - 1865

William S. Teeter Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-191
Abstract

This collection consists of 126 photographs depicting Lieutenant William S. Teeter during his service during the World War II.

Dates: 1943 - 1945

William Stanley Hoole Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0699
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings, research materials, manuscripts of published monographs, and other materials written or collected by this historian and dean of the University of Alabama Libraries.

Dates: 1920 - 1989

William Stanley Hoole Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-006
Abstract

Two photographs of C.S.S. Alabama model.

Dates: 1950 - 1959

William Stokes Wyman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1588
Abstract

This collection contains letters and notes about an 1848 trip to the Alabama coal fields; scrapbooks of newspaper articles about Indian languages, the early history of Tuscaloosa and Alabama; the University of Alabama's history, and copies of newspaper clippings from the Choctaw language paper "The Vindicator", published 1875 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

Dates: 1847 - 1915

William Strong Comstock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0348
Abstract

Business correspondence, account sheets, contracts, miscellaneous receipts, etc., of a Montgomery, Alabama, merchant, 1843-1867.

Dates: 1842-1867

William W. Potter to Constituent Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4785
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a two-page stampless folded letter written on January 10, 1838, by Pennsylvania Congressman William W. Potter to his constituent James McManus in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Writing from Washington, D.C., Potter reaffirms his support for states’ rights and opposition to abolition, while explaining his vote against the Gag Rule resolutions then being debated in Congress.Potter outlines his reasoning for voting against Virginia Representative John M....
Dates: 1838 January 10

William Wingate Boggan Writ of Guardianship

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4778
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single manuscript writ of guardianship dated August 8, 1847, issued in Wilcox County, Alabama. The document appoints Joshua Betts as the legal guardian of his grandson, William Wingate Boggan, following the deaths of William's father, Robert Lowey Boggan, and paternal grandfather, Solomon Boggan. It further specifies that William Wingate Boggan is to inherit an unnamed enslaved African male, referred to in the text as a "negro boy," from Solomon Boggan’s estate....
Dates: 1847-08-08

William Winter Payne Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2057
Abstract

A letter written by William Winter Payne, dated February 10, 1847, to John G. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, recommending Alexander J. Simms to a lieutenancy in the United States Marine Corps.

Dates: 1847-02-10

William Wright Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2058
Abstract

A letter dated December 20, 1849, written by William Wright to Vincent Gravett. In the letter he discusses legislative matters and describes the burning of the capitol building earlier in the month.

Dates: 1849-12-20

William Y. Gholson Legal Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4130
Abstract

Two pocket ledgers listing the cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans, of this Pontotoc, Mississippi, lawyer, from 1839-1842

Dates: 1839-1842

A. S. Williams III Collection of Photographic Albums

 Collection
Identifier: WP-003
Abstract

Collection contains sixty-one photographic albums of various subjects collected by A. S. Williams III

Dates: 1840 - 2010

Espy Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1558
Abstract

Contains the original copy of Espy Williams, "The Last Quest of Merlin" play. Given at the Round Table Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1908. Also includes the signatures of the actors and a photograph of Espy Williams.

Dates: 1908

Williams Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4278
Abstract

Papers related to the Williams family of Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are two notebooks belonging to Barabara Adeline Williams, one of which she kept while in nursing school and the other while she was attaining her high school diploma.

Dates: 1891 - 1999

Willie T. White papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract

Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1860-1970

Cunningham Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3810
Abstract

Wilson's writings during his medical practice in the late 1890's

Dates: after 1865

J. E. Windham ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1565
Abstract

Ledgers of J. E. Windham of Gainesville, Alabama, and photocopies of two volumes of the Gainesville Presbyterian Church records.

Dates: between 1820 and 1900

Mathew Winston Alabama Shakespeare Festival papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2499
Abstract

Papers, grant proposals, program guides, brochures, postcards, photographs and other materials from 1984 to 1986, concerning the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, originally based in Anniston, Alabama, and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1985.

Dates: 1984-1986

Winston Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1630
Abstract

The collection contains manuscripts, research notes and photographs collected by Winston Smith of Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, relating to the early history of Demopolis and Marengo County, early photographers and his own family heritage. There is also a record book of Henry Tutwiler’s Green Springs Academy from 1852 – 1864.

Dates: 1850-1998

Winter & Pond Postcards

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-020
Abstract

Three postcard depicting scenes from Alaska.

Dates: 1930 - 1939

WLW radio station records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2254
Abstract

Records from WLW, the Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1940

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United Daughters of the Confederacy 5
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Geological Survey of Alabama 3
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Jackson, Mildred L. 3
Johnston, Joseph Forney 3
Jones, Thomas Goode 3
Kappa Alpha Order 3
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Nicholas, James L., Jr. 3
Nicholson, Libba 3
Pickens, Israel 3
Rose, Frank Anthony 3
Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877 3
Shelby Iron Company 3
Shorter, John Gill 3
Tuskaloosa Female College 3
United Confederate Veterans 3
United Methodist Church (U.S.) 3
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United States. General Land Office 3
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University of Alabama. School of Law 3
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