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Collection on women in Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0005
Overview
A variety of materials related to several Alabama women, some of whom are well-known in Alabama and the nation, while others were simple women going about their daily lives. This is also the affirmative side of a debate speech presented by Benjamin F. Eborn at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, on the question "Is Woman Really Better Than Man?"
Dates:
1853-1957
J. Zelinski Camp O'Neal sketchbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0038
Overview
This sketchbook contains nineteen pen and ink drawings that depict training drills, camp life, and social events held at Camp O'Neal, a training base located in Frascati Park in Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1883 June
United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, No. 39, Birmingham, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: W-0048
Overview
Records of the United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, in Birmingham, Alabama, between 1906 and 1919.
Dates:
1906-1919
Collection of Alabama governors materials
Collection
Identifier: W-0054
Overview
Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.
Dates:
1820-1970
Confederate Military History of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0056
Overview
Manuscript of General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Military History of Alabama.
Dates:
1899
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
Battle family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Overview
Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1855-1871
Goodloe W. Malone account book
Collection
Identifier: W-0020
Overview
Ledger documenting the sale of materials such as molasses, coffee, and sugar, as well as the sale of slaves.
Dates:
1834-1839
"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
J. D. Barron research material on Native Americans
Collection
Identifier: W-0088
Overview
Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.
Dates:
1887-1906
"The Home of the Brownings"
Collection
Identifier: W-0092
Overview
Handwritten notes Octavia Walton Le Vert used during her lecture, "Home of the Brownings," which described her 1855 visit to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Dates:
circa 1870
Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0095
Overview
Contains copies of four speeches written by Talladega educator Joseph B. Graham and presented to various civic and social clubs; also contains one letter signed by Selma politician Edmund Pettus
Dates:
1884-1902
Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence
Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Overview
Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
Dates:
1821-1838
Emma Gelders Sterne papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0099
Overview
Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.
Dates:
1934-1953
Milner Coal and Railroad Company meeting minutes
Collection
Identifier: W-0101
Overview
Minutes of directors and stockholders' meetings between 1900 and 1910
Dates:
1900-1910
Montgomery and West Point Railroad minute books
Collection
Identifier: W-0102
Overview
Contains two minute books, with entries from directors' and stockholders' meetings of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad from March 1846 to June 1870.
Dates:
1846-1870
Midway, Alabama, city records
Collection
Identifier: W-0046
Overview
Handwritten copy of the town charter with all ordinances from 1882 to 1937, court records, and town council minutes for the town of Midway, Alabama.
Dates:
1882-1937
Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman
Collection
Identifier: W-0047
Overview
Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman of Athens, Alabama, from her husband and sisters between 1834 and 1843.
Dates:
1834-1843
Rice, Chilton, and Jones, attorneys, letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0049
Overview
Letterbook containing copies of correspondence written by Montgomery, Alabama, lawyers Samuel F. Rice, John M. Chilton, Thomas G. Jones, and Ariosto A. Wiley, between 1871-1873.
Dates:
1871-1873
Howard Weeden papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0008
Overview
Three composition books filled with collections of quotations and illustrations and one book of devotions.
Dates:
between 1735 and 1905
Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes
Collection
Identifier: W-0037
Overview
Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Dates:
1916
B. L. Holt correspondence on the 1908 Confederate Veterans Reunion
Collection
Identifier: W-0044
Overview
Holt's correspondence between May and June 1908, relating to his duties as quartermaster general in securing hotels accommodations and horses for Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and members of his staff who participated in the veteran's parade and other reunion events.
Dates:
1908
Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book
Collection
Identifier: W-0045
Overview
Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings
Dates:
1866-1889
Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material
Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace
Dates:
1947 - 1948
"Harwell G. Davis: Alabama Statesman and Baptist Leader": typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0004
Overview
Typescript of Susan Hunt Ingram Ray's master's thesis on Harwell G. Davis.
Dates:
1996
Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860, volume 2, manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: W-0007
Overview
Includes a carbon copy of the manuscript Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860, volume 2, written by William H. Brantley Jr. The bound manuscript is 371 pages long and covers the history of banking in the state from 1837 to 1849; it is part of a two-volume work that covers the years 1816-1860.
Dates:
1967
Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0058
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, typescripts, and galley proofs of sisters and Alabama authors Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Allison Johnson.
Dates:
1917-1959
Townsend Heaton letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Overview
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Dates:
1861-1864
John Mason Dill Archive: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-006
Overview
This collection consists of photographs, drawings and graphic materials depicting John Mason Dill and his coworkers at the end of his working career as one of the draftsman at the engineering office at the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company in Birmingham and Fairfield, Alabama.
Dates:
1911 - 1951
Brewster and Conley sales records
Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Overview
Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1838 - 1846
McAdory and Huey family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0069
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama
Dates:
1863 - 1929
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: W-0071
Overview
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
George H. Thompson plantation records
Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Overview
Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
Dates:
1855 - 1874
Adam H. Whetstone diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0080
Overview
Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833 - 1905
"The Federal raid into central Alabama"
Collection
Identifier: W-0040
Overview
Text of a speech presented by James A. Anderson on April 3, 1935, at a meeting of the Kiwanis club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Union raids in Selma, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1935 April 3
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
Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Overview
Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
approximately 1835-1894
Thomas K. Jackson journals
Collection
Identifier: W-0021
Overview
Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.
Dates:
1866-1873
Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0033
Overview
Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.
Dates:
1924
Woodward Iron Company records
Collection
Identifier: W-0061
Overview
Correspondence, financial and legal records, annual reports, and employee newsletters produced by the Woodward Iron Company and members of the Woodward Voting Trust, from 1945-1977.
Dates:
1945 - 1977
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II : typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0120
Overview
Unbound typescript of China Marine, written by Eugene Bondurant Sledge. The manuscript is 107 pages long and contains typed publisher's notations about formatting.
Dates:
2002
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
Ethel Armes letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0146
Overview
Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.
Dates:
1921 - 1944
Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book
Collection
Identifier: W-0015
Overview
Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.
Dates:
1861-1903
Robert H. Smith legal notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Overview
Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.
Dates:
circa 1870
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
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
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
Henry Tutwiler papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0081
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