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Jo Tartt Jr. and Judith Tartt Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4303
Overview
Collection consists of a variety of materials related to the life of Jo Cowin Tartt Jr. and his wife, Judith Watkins Tartt. The materials are predominately focused on Mr. Tartt's childhood and various careers throughout his life. Of notable interest are his photographs of the Alabama Black Belt during the 1960s through the early 1980s, which depict life and living conditions in small-town Alabama after the Civil Rights movement. In addition to his photographs, other materials include journals,...
Dates:
1890 - 2019
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Two three-ring binders of material and two bound books (unpublished memory books, "Sylvester Jones: In Rememberance")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
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
Ku Klux Klan pamphlet
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3892
Overview
Pamphlet lists the names of residents who "signed the petition sent to Governor [George] Wallace," and the names of the employers of the signers.
Dates:
1963 May 29
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
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
Lillian Graves Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4316
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twelve letters written by governess Lillian Graves from October 1885 through February 1886 as Graves cared for the Woodward family children in post-Civil War Alabama. Graves describes daily and holiday activities in late nineteenth-century Alabama, visiting the Woodward Iron Company mine, and makes extensive and problematic remarks about African Americans living in the Woodward home and in the area.
Dates:
October 1885-February 1886
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
"Mammy stories"
Collection
Identifier: W-0026
Overview
Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Dates:
between 1900 and 1920
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
Marjorie L. Smith Cotton Slides
Collection
Identifier: 2007-004
Overview
This collection contains seventy-one color slides depicting various stages of cotton production, taken by Marjorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Slides also show images of an African American church in Hayneville.
Dates:
1960 - 1965
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
Mary Hairston Collection of Travel Ephemera from National Association of Colored Women (NACW) Convention
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4307
Overview
A collection of travel ephemera from a cross-country trip Mary Hairston took to attend the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in Los Angeles, California, in 1952.
Dates:
1952
Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4289
Overview
This collection contains a diary and scrapbook kept by Ernestine Jones in 1951 when she went on a national tour as winner of the "Spirit of Cotton" competition held by the Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee, an annual African American festival in Memphis, Tennessee. It also contains four program books from the festival for the years 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1955.
Dates:
1951-1955
National Alliance of Postal Employees. District Four, Birmingham Branch, Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1036
Abstract
Material related to the Birmingham chapter of this organization of African-American postal employees, 1951-53.
Dates:
1951 - 1953
Nearror Family Histories
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4189
Content Description
The Nearror family histories collection contains two items: The Nearror Family: the Life Story of Virginia C. S. Rankins and Nearror Family History. Lena Virginia (Ginger) Nearror Smith Rankins wrote her family history and life story in a spriral notebook, perhaps in the 1980s or 1990s. Her son, Oscar D. Tucker, edited and augmented her earlier writings in 2012, resulting in his published work, Nearror Family History. Both items document the history of the Nearror family, an African American...
Dates:
circa 1985 - 2012
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
E.D. Nixon article reprints
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2963
Overview
A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Dates:
1955-1982
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
Pettigrew Family Carte de Visite
Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract
Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy.
Acc # 015-008
Dates:
1866
Photographic Album of an African American Family
Collection
Identifier: 2016-002
Abstract
Small rectangular photo album containing photographs of prominent African American family probably from around Washington, District of Columbia area.
Dates:
1910 - 1955
Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC)
Collection
Identifier: 2021-007
Overview
Collection consists of photographs and ephemera from an African American member of the Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC), most likely collected by either Miriam Wheeler or Herlyne Leonard.
Dates:
1943
Photographs of African American Tobacco Farmers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-005
Overview
Eighteen photographs depicting African American tobacco farmers near Petersburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1920 - 1960
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
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
Ragland Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2016-001
Abstract
17 images of Ragland family.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940
Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract
The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
S. A. McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0968
Abstract
Notes by McPherson while a theological student at Payne University, a college for African Americans founded in 1889 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, and copies of three commencement addresses at Attalla, Etowah County, and Thomas, Jefferson County, Alabama Public Schools.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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
Schaudies and Banks Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4190
Overview
Papers of two prominent mixed-race families in north Alabama.
Dates:
unknown
Schaudies-Banks-Ragland Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-021
Scope and Contents
Thirty seven framed photographs of African Americans in military uniforms, Border War, WWI, and WWII including portraits of Duncan Fields and Rubin Fields; portraits of women and families; large plaque with two photos of military men (Willie L. E. Means and James E. Means, date of their enlistment in the army).
Dates:
1898 - 1959
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
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
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
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Mabel Smythe-Haith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3117
Overview
Papers, books, and photographs belonging to Mabel Smythe-Haith, former ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, concerning academics, diplomacy, and civil rights.
Dates:
1950-2004
Solomon and Lucinda Perteet Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1129
Abstract
Includes receipts and legal papers of this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, free black man and his wife.
Dates:
1829 - 1872
Southern Rural Women's Network Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3395
Overview
Records of the Southern Rural Women's Network (SRWN) containing materials about the operation and mission of the SRWN.
Dates:
1977 - 2002
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
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
Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract
Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.
Dates:
1938
Tuskegee Airmen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1446
Abstract
Photocopied articles, clippings, press releases, programs, membership rosters, and memoirs relating to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of men who participated in the first pilot training program for African-Americans during World War II.
Dates:
1983 - 1989
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
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
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
Victor Hugo Friedman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-020
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with ninety-nine photographs depicting Victor Hugo Friedman, a native of Tuscaloosa and local philanthropist, and his friends.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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
Wade Hall Collection of African American Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4274
Overview
Materials created by or about African Americans, collected by Wade Hall
Dates:
1800 - 1999
Wade Hall Collection of Korean War Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2011-003
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from urban, everyday life in South Korea through the eyes of American soldiers during or after the Korean War. Some photographs depict American soldiers.
Dates:
1951 - 1953
Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4250
Overview
The Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States contains receipts, correspondence, and other materials that document the presence of enslaved African Americans in the US South.
Dates:
1796-2005
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