Collections | Special Collections & Archives

Marie Brink memory book, Sidney Lanier High School, 1922

Collection

Identifier: W-0017

Overview Memory book of high school senior Marie Brink, documenting her experiences at Sidney Lanier High school in 1922

Dates: 1922

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Pickett Springs, Alabama, city records

Collection

Identifier: W-0027

Overview Ballots, voting lists, city council minutes, oaths of office, and correspondence related to elections in the town of Pickett Springs, Alabama, and a map of the area.

Dates: 1888 - 1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger

Collection

Identifier: W-0031

Overview Ledger documenting expenses, admittances, and discharges at a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital from 1 April to 4 November 1861.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Francois Ludger Diard poetry notebook and Mobile scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0025

Overview Notebook of this Mobile, Alabama, native's poetry and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters relating to his work.

Dates: 1917-1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Tall Shadows: Origins and Operations of McGriff, Seibels, and Williams, Inc., Insurance Brokers"

Collection

Identifier: W-0028

Overview Unpublished corporate history of McGriff, Seibels and Williams Inc., one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Daniel Geary scrapbook on the history of the Mobile Volunteer Fire Companies

Collection

Identifier: W-0024

Overview Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, illustrations, and handwritten notes related to the history of volunteer firefighter companies in Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Daniel Geary.

Dates: 1830-1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Platt Waller papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0085

Overview Contains photographs, correspondence, and typescript speeches written by diplomat George Platt Waller. Also contains a small journal and receipts related to his father's medical practice.

Dates: 1894 - 1895; 1952 - 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Overview Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties

Collection

Identifier: W-0082

Overview One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.

Dates: 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Collection

Identifier: W-0083

Overview Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.

Dates: 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph Murrell letterbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0084

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

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Temple Graves II papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0109

Overview Manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings written by and related to Birmingham newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II.

Dates: 1910 - 1967

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Walter Burgwyn Jones papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0110

Overview Speeches, pamphlets, correspondence, and other materials related to the life and career of Alabama circuit court judge Walter Burgwyn Jones.

Dates: 1877 - 1981

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

T. B. Rush general store daybook

Collection

Identifier: W-0107

Overview Contains almost daily entries written between April 1835 and July 1836, recording daily sales at a general store in Mount Willing, Alabama.

Dates: 1835 - 1836

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

USS Winnebago medical log

Collection

Identifier: W-0108

Overview The medical log of the USS Winnebago, a Union river monitor stationed in Mobile Bay from 1864 to 1865.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

T. J. Scott and Sons letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0130

Overview Two letters written by farmers in Hayneville, Alabama, to Montgomery merchants T. J. Scott and Sons. The 1904 letters describe the sale of mules and ask for refunds from the company, which provided defective livestock.

Dates: 1904

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Tyler Morgan letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0131

Overview An undated letter from Senator John Tyler Morgan to Alabama governor Joseph F. Johnston regarding the transfer of Major Barnard Goldsmith West from the Birmingham state troops to the staff of General Wheeler.

Dates: 1896 - 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles Edgeworth Jones congressional autograph journal

Collection

Identifier: W-0128

Overview Autograph book containing signatures of representatives who served as members of the 28th United States Congress during the 1844-1845 legislative session.

Dates: 1844 - 1845

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Tentative register of Robert E. Lee books in Lexington, Virginia : typescript

Collection

Identifier: W-0126

Overview Seventy-one page typescript identifies books in Lexington, Virginia, that were once part of Robert E. Lee's personal library

Dates: 1978

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Curtis R. Burke journal

Collection

Identifier: W-0063

Overview Typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal which includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include descriptions of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863, and accounts of conditions in prison camps in Indiana and Illinois.

Dates: 1971

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

State of Louisiana troop expenses ledger

Collection

Identifier: W-0067

Overview Expenses ledger for Louisiana state troops from 1862 to 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. A. Montgomery business records

Collection

Identifier: W-0068

Overview Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.

Dates: 1889 - 1898

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0066

Overview Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.

Dates: 1886 - 1898

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Valley Creek Canal, West Jefferson County, Alabama, reports

Collection

Identifier: W-0065

Overview Two reports on a proposed canal project on the Valley and Warrior Rivers in Jefferson County, Alabama.

Dates: 1917 - 1943

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Parmenter papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0153

Overview Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript

Collection

Identifier: W-0151

Overview Typescript copy of B. L. Roberson's unpublished "Valor on the Eastern Shore."

Dates: 1965

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"To Arms in the Valley" program and script

Collection

Identifier: W-0152

Overview Program, cast list, and script of To Arms in the Valley, an historical play about the Civil War set in northern Alabama and presented by the Tennessee Valley Historical Society and the Colbert-Lauderdale Civil War Centennial Commemoration Committee in 1961.

Dates: 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Coleman and Truss family letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0103

Overview Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama

Dates: 1860 - 1868

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles W. Edwards research notes on Coffee County, Alabama

Collection

Identifier: W-0106

Overview This collection contains research notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials compiled by Charles W. Edwards and related to his study of Coffee County. The collection also includes two drafts of his completed report, County Government and County Affairs in Coffee County Alabama.

Dates: 1925 - 1928

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Edward R. Norville diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0105

Overview Diary of Edward R. Norville, a Mobile, Alabama, river pilot.

Dates: 1873 - 1891

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ephraim Madison Henry papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0114

Overview Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate

Dates: 1930 - 1947

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Morris diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0115

Overview Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Woodard and Gene Smith letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0112

Overview Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Harriet Anna Kennedy papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0117

Overview Notebook of poems written by Harriet Anna Kennedy between 1863-1864. A letter and a small collection of later poems written by Kennedy and members of her extended family are also included.

Dates: 1863 - 1903

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers

Collection

Identifier: W-0111

Overview Notebook containing a roster and brief history of Company I of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a regiment formed by students enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University).

Dates: 1860

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jack D. L. Holmes papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0001

Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.

Dates: 1963-1988

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0002

Overview Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1897

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

Collection

Identifier: WP-2013001

Overview This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.

Dates: 1909 - 1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Postcard Collection

Collection

Identifier: WP-002

Overview The collection consists of both black-and-white and color twentieth century postcards collected by Mr. A.S. Williams III. The postcards represent many subjects, including states, foreign countries, civil war battle sites, Confederate monuments, and other Americana.

Dates: 1900 - 1960

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Collection of Photographic Albums

Collection

Identifier: WP-003

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

Dates: 1840 - 2010

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

AS Williams III Alabama Coal and Iron records

Collection

Identifier: W-0062

Overview Correspondence, annual reports and audits, maps, and other material related to coal and iron production in Alabama.

Dates: 1874 - 1943

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Peter Brannon papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0009

Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

Dates: 1900-1966

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama hotels and resorts of the past collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0041

Overview Letters, receipts, and transcribed copies of newspaper articles pertaining to notable Alabama hotels, including the Exchange Hotel (Montgomery), the Morris Hotel (Birmingham), the Battle House (Mobile), the DeKalb Hotel (Fort Payne), Fruithurst Inn (Fruithurst), the Alabama Inn (Livingston), Mansion House (Mobile), the Green Bottom Inn (Huntsville), and the Point Clear Hotel (Point Clear).

Dates: 1830-1836

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama railroads of the past collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0042

Overview Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.

Dates: 1855-1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Anthropological Society records

Collection

Identifier: W-0059

Overview Records of this early Alabama society, including correspondence, reports, newsletters, and photographs.

Dates: 1920-1922, 1958; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1922

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's Alabama authors collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0064

Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, signed book pages, publication announcements, catalogs, and newspaper clippings related to the careers of several Alabama authors as well as the Alabama Writers Conclave and the Birmingham Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Dates: 1868-1989

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Witherspoon DuBose papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0086

Overview Contains newspaper serialization of John Witherspoon DuBose's Chronicles of the Canebreak, as well as photographs, correspondence, biographical sketches and newspaper clippings related to this Alabama historian.

Dates: 1893 - 1918

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: WP-016

Overview This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.

Dates: 1920 - 1985

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Collection Aquisition Paperwork

Collection

Identifier: W-0116

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, cost estimates, brochures, plans, notes, and various other documents regarding the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection and the University of Alabama Libraries' acquisition of the collection from Mr. A.S. Williams III. Correspondence is primarily between the University of Alabama's Dean of Libraries, Louis A. Pitschmann, and various university offices and personnel, Mr. Williams, and Stephen Rowe (curator and archivist of the Eufaula Athenaeum). Also included are...

Dates: 2008 - 2010

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company records

Collection

Identifier: W-0104

Overview Two letterbooks, containing copies of letters written by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Assistant General Manager G. B. McCormack from 1893 to 1898. Also includes a ledger documenting the company's tax returns from 1894 to 1895, and photographs depicting TCI industrial complexes.

Dates: 1893-1901

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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