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Sydnia Keene Smyth Antebellum Architecture of Tuscaloosa Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-006
Overview
This collection consists of thirty-two photographs of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, antebellum architecture, taken by Sydnia Keene Smyth for her thesis in 1929.
Dates:
1929
University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3685
Overview
The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of stories about the University of Alabama or her alumni.
Dates:
1906-1917
President Richard C. Foster Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-008
Overview
This record group contains the presidential records of Dr. Richard C. Foster, University of Alabama president from 1937 to 1941.
Dates:
1923-1948
President Raymond R. Paty Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-011
Overview
This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Raymond R. Paty. The records document his years as president from 1942-1947.
Dates:
1942-1954
President John M. Gallalee Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-012
Overview
This record group contains the presidental records of John M. Gallalee, president of The University of Alabama from 1948 to 1953.
Dates:
1927-1975
President Landon C. Garland Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-027
Overview
This record group contains the correspondence of Landon C. Garland, University of Alabama president from 1855-1865.
Dates:
1852 - 1865; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865
Early University of Alabama Administrative Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-001
Overview
The record group contains many early extant records of The University of Alabama and includes materials documenting a wide range of functions, persons, and aspects of the University.
Dates:
1820 - 1920
William A. Stickney diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0057
Overview
Diary of Episcopal minister William A. Stickney contains entries dated from 1841-1847. The diary documents Stickney's life as a college student at LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama, the University of Alabama, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Entries provide information about Stickney's daily life, as well as descriptions of religious services he attended and led, and a description of his personal devotions.
Dates:
1841-1847
Hillel Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0672
Overview
Records, mostly correspondence of Rabbi Henry A. Fischel (1948-1956), relating to the activities of the Hillel Foundation and its role in student life at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1956
Daniel Thompson McCall, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0393
Overview
Three photographs of U. of A. students between 1884-1887 and an article by McCall about Alabamians who went to California during the 1849 "Gold Rush."
Dates:
1849-1887
Tuscaloosa News Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-012
Overview
This collection consists of nine photographs depicting the Alabama football game, basketball game, Jerry Rubin speaking at the Foster Auditorium, Governor's Day, and a concert on the Quad.
Dates:
1964 - 1979
Fletcher Moore Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-017
Overview
This collection depicts photographs of the University of Alabama and men in Ku Klux Klan clothes.
Dates:
1935
ZAP Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-008
Overview
This collection consists of photographs relating to the Alabama sororities.
Dates:
1970
Jefferson Jackson Coleman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-002
Overview
This collection consists of fifty-five photographs of the former Director of Alumni Affairs at the University of Alabama.
He was closely involved in athletics at the University of Alabama. The photographs show various aspects of his life from 1918 through 1989.
Dates:
1918 - 1989
Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-002
Overview
This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates:
1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
Agnes Ellen Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0635
Overview
Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.
Dates:
1919 - 1945
Kappa Alpha Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-062
Abstract
This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the Kappa Alpha Order members at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1951 - 1988
James Austin Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview
A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates:
1898-1941
Oscar D. Cully Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-008
Overview
This collection consists of sixty-seven photographs of the University of Alabama campus and buildings, a scene of the downtown Tuscaloosa parade, and Nitrate Plant No. 2 with Wilson Dam in the background.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
Farris Dale Beason Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-216
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-four photographs of two homecoming parades at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1963 - 1964
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-210
Abstract
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Dates:
1973-11-19
James W. Horner Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-212
Overview
This collection consists of one photograph of the University of Alabama Marching Band on the steps of the Amelia Gorgas Library.
Dates:
1943
Tom McVey Cabinet Cards
Collection
Identifier: 2009-211
Overview
This collection consists of two cabinet cards of Brett Rutledge Brown ATΩ class of 1898, University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Johns Rather, Jr. KA class of 1897, University of Alabama.
Dates:
1897 - 1898
University of Alabama Marching Band Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-215
Overview
This collection consists of three black and white photographs of the University of Alabama Marching Band, possibly taken at the University of Alabama in 1938.
Dates:
1938
Rives Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-209
Abstract
Two photographs from Rives Family Papers depicting Tutwiler and Little Hall in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1910 - 1919
David B. McElroy Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-203
Overview
This collection consists of ten color photographs of the Ramsey Award Party, held at the University of Alabama University Club, 1986.
Dates:
1986
Saul Gordon Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2010-013
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with one hundred and forty-three photographs of Saul Gordon, a University of Alabama student in the early 1930s. Album contains scenes of campus life, including coeds, buildings, football, the band, ROTC and dorm life. Several photographs are depicting devastation caused by the March 22, 1932 Northport tornado. These photographs are accompanied by clippings relating details of the disaster. Album also includes photographs with scenes from the 1932 New...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
Lamar McCarty Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-196
Overview
This collection consists of twelve photographs of homecoming festivities at the University of Alabama, probably taken by Lamar McCarty, University of Alabama Graduate (1938).
Dates:
1937 - 1938
Jerry A. Davis, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-200
Overview
This collection consists of eighty-five photographs of Jerry A. Davis, Jr. (UA, MA, 1991), his friends and family, school pictures of Tuscaloosa Academy students, University of Alabama Sigma Chi fraternity parties, and vacation scenes.
Dates:
1979 - 1989
Dr. James Anderson Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-002
Overview
This collection consists of seven photographs of the University of Alabama Centennial Pageant at the Denny Stadium.
Dates:
1931-05-11
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates:
1840-1925
Woods Hall Student Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-033
Abstract
Black and white photographs of students housed in Woods Hall in early 1900s.
Dates:
1900
Ira Stark Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-023
Abstract
Sixteen black and white photographs of University of Alabama scenes, including students, football parade, ROTC functions and Governor Bibb Graves. Photographs were probably taken by Ira Stark, a University of Alabama student and graduate of 1940.
Dates:
1930 - 1947
12 Days in May Betamax Tapes
Collection
Identifier: 2013-027
Overview
Collection contains the Beta Tapes during the student unrest May 1970 at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1970-05
University of Alabama Souvenir Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: 2012-028
Abstract
Contains two souvenir photograph albums from University of Alabama showing the campus and buildings, including Garland-Clark-Manly, Morgan, Comer, Smith (interior and exterior), Woods, President's Mansion, and fraternity houses.
Twenty-six photographs (five color, twenty-one black and white) of students and campus buildings throughout the 1910s, 1930s, and 1968, including: Bibb Graves Hall, Morgan Hall, Tutwiler Dorm, Gorgas House, President’s Mansion, Bryce entrance, Union building, Quad and...
Dates:
1910 - 1968
Birmingham News Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-007
Overview
This collection consists of photographs depicting the Alabama football, basketball, and civil rights movement in the 1950s.
Dates:
1835 - 1974
University of Alabama Architecture Drawings
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2012-042
Scope and Contents
Drawings of the buildings at University of Alabama. Some are drawn in black ink, while others are painted.
Dates:
1827 - 1869
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
Samuel Frances Hobbs Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-005
Abstract
One photographic album, labeled on the cover “Poison a Farce” theater production. Scenes show individuals in costume for theatrical production, probably at the University of Alabama, where Hobbs was a law student in 1907.
Dates:
1907
University of Alabama Souvenir Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: 2014-007
Abstract
Two souvenir photograph albums from University of Alabama, showing campus and buildings, including Garland-Clark-Manly, Morgan, Comer, Smith (interior and exterior), Woods, President's Mansion, and fraternity houses. Also Bibb Graves Hall, Morgan Hall, Tutwiler Dorm, Gorgas House, President’s Mansion, Bryce entrance, Union building, Quad and Chimes, and Fraternity row from 1930s.
Dates:
1900 - 1920
Work Progress Administration Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-016
Overview
This collection consists of four photographs depicting the exterior and interior of Tutwiler Hall at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1935
Douthitt scrapbook materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0399
Overview
Material, mostly photocopies, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama.
Dates:
1865 - 1877
Daphne Cunningham Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0385
Abstract
Diaries whose short entries provide information on the daily activities of this coed from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Overview
Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.
Dates:
1964-1988
O. B. Emerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0485
Overview
The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between O. B. Emerson and various individuals including authors, former students, and other faculty and staff from The University of Alabama. The collection also includes materials about different authors and subjects on which Dr. Emerson either taught or published, as well as a significant amount of materials related to professional organizations in which he was involved.
Dates:
1945 - 1990
Alabama Alumni Association, Cornerstone Committee
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0018
Overview
This collection includes a committee report; a list of donors to the Crimson Pride membership drive, 1986-1987; histories of the national alumni association and local chapters; information on the rededication of Denny Chimes in 1987; newspaper clippings about coaches Ray Perkins and Paul "Bear" Bryant; and other information on the history and alumni of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1888 - 1987
Alabama Air National Guard letter of authorization
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0014
Abstract
A photocopy of a memorandum to the commander to the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing of the Alabama National Guard, authorizing transport of non-military personnel, including Governor George C. Wallace, from Montgomery to Tuscaloosa and back on April 30, 1963. Includes signatures of passengers on a waiver form.
Dates:
1963-04-30
Manly Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0900
Abstract
Includes the papers of Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, 1837-1855, and a founder of Furman University, which reflect the history of the period as well as his life as theologian and educator. It also contains materials created and gathered by other Manly family members, including his sons Basil and Charles, president of Furman University, 1881-1897.
Dates:
1818 - 1930
Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
Overview
Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in...
Dates:
1956
Jesse C. Hearne, Jr. Scrapbook of Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. on the University of Alabama Campus, 1936
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2567
Overview
Contains scrapbook kept by Jesse C. Hearne Jr., highlighting events of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. groups on the University of Alabama campus in 1936. It is primarily newspaper clippings, but there are 13 photographs.
Dates:
1936