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Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.014
Identifier: 2009-055
Abstract
Seventy-nine images of mainly African Americans from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Dates:
1870 - 1950
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.016
Identifier: 2009-065
Abstract
Three images of African American children.
Dates:
1970
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract
This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.
Dates:
1909 - 1910
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.020
Identifier: 2009-096
Abstract
This collection of 155 photographs of unidentified people, and various scenes of New Zealand and United States, navy ship and sailors, people fishing, and other activities.
Dates:
1890 - 1959
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.035
Identifier: 2009-176
Overview
This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.
Dates:
1896
University of Alabama Reel to Reel Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012-038
Abstract
Reel to Reels of events on the University of Alabama campus, such as: Alumni recordings; Board of Trustees; Bear Bryant Show; Senator Jim Allen; Congressman Hale Boggs; Governor John Love; Leftenant Governor Jere Beasley; Leftenant Governor Albert Brewer; Winton Blount; Hilaritas 1971 - 1974; 1960s Honors Days; Interview with Vivian Malone, Robert Kennedy's visit to University of Alabama; Jane Fonda's visit to University of Alabama; interview with Yitzak Rabin; Maintenance strike; Capstone...
Dates:
1960 - 1979
Trip through the Deep South Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2020-001
Overview
The collection includes one photographic album documenting a trip through the Deep South. The album includes eighty black-and-white silver gelatin photographs from a trip through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas in 1935 and 1936. Of particular interest are approximately twenty images depicting African Americans in the rural South.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
Calhoun School Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0260
Overview
Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Dates:
1891-1923
William Todd and John H. Bilks slave rental invoice
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2213
Abstract
A contract between William Todd and John H. Bilks employing hands of William Todd's estate for the commencement of a cotton gin.
Dates:
1841 - 1842
Dan Price letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3713
Overview
Letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1868.
Dates:
1868 December 21
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute traveling program advertisement
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2110
Abstract
An advertisement for the traveling program, "Negro Education in Black Belt of the South," featuring the Tuskegee Quintette.
Dates:
circa 1900
Chauncey Leonard Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4148
Overview
Letter from an African American U. S. Army chaplain during the Civil War to the father of one of the soldiers at the hospital in Alexandria, Virginia
Dates:
1865 March 24
Five Certificates Attesting to the Service of African American Sailors during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4149
Overview
The affidavits in this collection confirm the service of African American sailors during the Civil War
Dates:
1866-1869
Septimus D. Cabaniss papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract
Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.
Dates:
1820-1937
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
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract
This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates:
1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945
Jesse Beene letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0128
Abstract
Two letters written from Cahawba, Alabama, to Rowland G. Hazard in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The first, dated 14 July 1839, orders shoes for Beene's sixty-eight slaves and includes a list of slaves and a measurement of their feet in inches. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices.
Dates:
1839-1841
Alabama Nurses Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Dates:
1913-1977
Jennie B. Scott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4108
Overview
Papers of a freeborn African American family who lived in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, in the latter half of the nineteenth century and through the mid-1960s
Dates:
1910-1965
Henry Gant Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4172
Overview
Scrapbook, which covers over fifty years, focuses on the Gant family of Hiller and Brownsville, Pennsylvania, particularly on Henry Gant and his sons, Gene and Tim.
Dates:
1932-1988
President Frank A. Rose Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-006
Overview
This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Frank A. Rose. The records document his years as president, from 1958-1969, and include information on the integration of The University of Alabama in 1963.
Dates:
1958-1969
Aniece Ragland Kerr and Patricia Treelawner Banks Wade Tuskegee Institute Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4180
Overview
Tuskegee Institute memorabilia collected by two alumnae.
Dates:
1970 - 1991
Frances Virginia McLin Wright Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4191
Overview
Papers of a Sheffield, Alabama, elementary school teacher, her family, and allied families.
Dates:
1879-1974
Sylvester Jones scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3635
Overview
Two three-ring binders of material and two bound books (unpublished memory books, "Sylvester Jones: In Rememberance")
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract
Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
Dates:
1873
Glenda Brewer research paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Overview
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Dates:
1975
Brien Chapel A.M.E. Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0211
Overview
Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.
Dates:
1924-1973; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1956
Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0217
Overview
Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Dates:
1916-1924
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Overview
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Dates:
1865 June 16
Joe W. Burleson deposition
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0232
Overview
Tuscaloosa, Alabama Circuit Court deposition, dated 3 February 1977, of the plaintiff in civil action no. 7984, Joe W. Burleson vs. National Broadcasting Co., et al.
Dates:
1977 February 3
Carriere and Borduzat conveyance
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0282
Overview
Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.
Dates:
1836 April 22
Creole Social Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Overview
Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.
Dates:
1878-1902
Bird Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0596
Overview
Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.
Dates:
1805-1885
William Gary receipt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0563
Overview
Receipt dated 28 January 1836 for a 19 year old slave, Bradley, bought by William Gary from Linoir Lassiter.
Dates:
1836 January 28
Jere Haralson letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0625
Overview
Letter written in 1876 by African American member of Congress from Alabama to the United States Centennial Commission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, requesting an additional invitation for his wife to attend the opening of the Centennial International Exhibition of Industry.
Dates:
1876 April 27
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
Martha Young papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1597
Abstract
The collection contains many of the works, both published and unpublished, many in the dialect of Southern African Americans, written by Martha Young of Greensboro, Alabama, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as correspondence, photographs and pictures, genealogical information on the Tutwiler and Young families, and other miscellaneous items. Martha Young was the granddaughter of Henry Tutwiler and niece of Julia Tutwiler.
Dates:
1867-1977
James M. Salem research materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2494
Overview
This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, research notes, and documents, all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.
Dates:
1929-2003
Hugh Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1611
Abstract
Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.
Dates:
1820 - 1898
Searcy Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-035
Abstract
Photos of this Tuscaloosa family are in two photograph albums that contain images from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, the Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, and Warrior River (bridge and flooding), and family activities.
Dates:
1870 - 1987
Williams Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4278
Overview
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
Oscar W. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract
Correspondence of this Birmingham, Alabama, minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, principally concerning the struggle to remain solvent during the Great Depression. Also includes budget sheets, receipts, reports, and legal documents for this and other A.M.E churches throughout the South.
Dates:
1909 - 1952
Virginia J. Hanson papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Overview
Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."
Dates:
1912-1937
Charles Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0161
Overview
Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute
Collection
Identifier: 2020-007
Overview
One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.
Dates:
1921 - 1924
Margaret Moore Photographic Album of Atlanta University Student Life
Collection
Identifier: 2020-006
Overview
One photographic album compiled by Margaret Moore containing eighty-four black-and-white photographs depicting life at Atlanta University between 1917 and 1920.
Dates:
1917 - 1920
James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0145
Overview
Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."
Dates:
1872-04 - 1872-05
Booker T. Washington letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0136
Overview
Letter from Booker T. Washington asking for financial support for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The letter is dated November 12, 1915, two days before Washington's death.
Dates:
1915-11-01
African American Mounted Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-014
Overview
A collection of thirteen black-and-white mounted portraits depicting African Americans.
Dates:
1920 - 1939
A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-003
Scope and Contents
This collection is a personal photo album created by A. Mercer Daniel, a law librarian and the first African American member of the American Association of Law Libraries, documenting the 1910s–1960s with an emphasis on the 1930s. There are 216 photographs on 114 pages, mostly black and white and some sepia; most inserted into corner mounts, the rest adhesive mounted. Most photographs measure 2 ¼” x 3” to 5 ½” x 3 ½”, all are captioned. 22 photographs lacking from album and 2 with surface loss...
Dates:
1910 - 1960
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