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Brant Crawley Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-206
Abstract
Collection consists of twenty-nine photographs of Sardis Cemetery in Bullock County, Alabama.
Dates:
1993
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
Marion and Cahaba Railroad Company Receipt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0910
Abstract
A receipt dated 1 April 1862 for freight costs on one horse from J. S. Smith.
Dates:
1862-04-01
Marshall County, Alabama, Court Minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0916
Abstract
This collection contains records from the Circuit Court, including citations for court appearances, letters of administration, petitions for dismissal from estate administration, and Commissioners court records, including road and ferry overseers, contracts, support of paupers, and other details.
Dates:
1851 - 1859
James Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0737
Abstract
This collection contains accounts of a cotton plantation; records of a farm's cotton crop, including the number of hands employed and the amount picked; and recipes.
Dates:
1814 - 1884
R.E. Pettus Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1133
Abstract
Contains a variety of materials belonging to this Huntsville, Alabama, businessman, including maps; letters received from B.H. Meek, Carlos Surish, W.P. Hall; and an invitation to an event at the Alabama Central Female College.
Dates:
1875 - 1921
John H. Pettway Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1134
Abstract
Letter from Pettway in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Professor John L. Calhoun at the University of Alabama regarding the current status of his church membership.
Dates:
1897-02
Nelson Smith Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1293
Abstract
A carbon copy of transcript of a speech titled "History of American Architecture," given by Smith in September 1963, to volunteers at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Dates:
1963
M. Carolyn Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1292
Abstract
The collection contains material created and gathered as research for "A North Alabama Country Boy's Journey into the World of Nuclear Technology." Written for Professor Gary Mills at the University of Alabama, the paper is about Lester Elkin Burkhart, who worked in the United States atomic energy program.
Dates:
1982
James A. Seddon Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1240
Abstract
A letter dated 16 March 1864 to General Joel Briggs, Adjutant and Inspector General of Alabama, declining to detail George Breitenbach as shoemaker for the cadets of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1864-03-16
Spring Valley Foods, Inc. Stock Sales Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1329
Overview
Large volume with information about the sale of 300,000 shares of common stock of Spring Valley Foods, Inc. at $1 par value. Includes correspondence with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a prospectus, memorandums, power of attorney information, letters from key parties involved, and certificates in a clearly labeled 72 section volume with table of contents.
Dates:
1969 - 1970
St. John's Baptist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1331
Abstract
Ledger containing lists of members and some financial records of this Baptist church, possibly in Alabama.
Dates:
1949 - 1951
Talladega Cemetery Association Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1380
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of lists of dues owed and paid by individuals for the upkeep of Oak Hill cemetery in Talladega, Alabama.
Dates:
1920 - 1933
Thomas H. Herndon Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0667
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Alto Lee Whitehurst Class Notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1549
Abstract
Notes for history classes at the University of Alabama during the 1940s, among them U.S. History, World History, and the History of the Old South.
Dates:
1944
R.M. Brumby Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1825
Abstract
Includes letters written to R.M. Brumby, a University of Alabama graduate, from his mother and son from the late 19th-century through the early 20th-century. It also includes an appointment letter from the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1892 - 1920
Sarah E. King Trust Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0821
Abstract
Contains financial records kept by the Sarah E. King trust in Marion, Perry County, Alabama, and includes receipts for household purchases as well as payment to physicians for treatment of King and her slaves
Dates:
1852 - 1860
Mary Lee Coal and Railway Company Financial Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0922
Abstract
Net earnings of this Alabama company for 1893, from sales of coal and coke, investments in property, and railroad operations.
Dates:
1893
Fourth Alabama Regiment Newspaper Article Transcriptions
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1189
Overview
Typewritten transcriptions of articles about the 4th Alabama Regiment. Original articles were in unnamed Huntsville, Alabama, newspapers
Dates:
1861 - 1862
Phillips High School Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1141
Abstract
This collection consists of a miscellany of items pertaining to the Phillips High School (Birmingham, Alabama) class of 1930.
Dates:
1930 - 1980
Joshua Busby Oden Arithmetic Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1283
Abstract
Arithmetic textbook/workbook used by Joshua Busby Oden. A 1956 note inside the front cover says the book was presented to Dr. A.B. Moore, University of Alabama history professor and dean of the Graduate School
Dates:
1845
E. Sears Letters and Account
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1238
Abstract
Two letters, dated 25 January and 23 June 1859, to C. E. Hull, M.D., New York, the latter of which includes details of mileage, expenses, and accounts settled, 13-23 June 1859, while selling patent medicine in Alabama.
Dates:
1859
Jesse B. Hearin Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1265
Overview
Text of a speech or paper on William Tecumseh Sherman.
Dates:
unknown
C. N. Henkle Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0664
Abstract
A letter dated January 1878, to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing Henkle's involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.
Dates:
1878-01
J. G. Lewis Account Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0856
Abstract
Ledger containing accounts relating to the settlement of Lewis' estate, including accounts of customers at his Forkland, Alabama store. Previously misidentified as Thornhill Commissary ledger.
Dates:
1891 - 1898
Dan T. Carter Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-092
Overview
This collection consists of forty-five photographs depicting former Alabama Governor George Wallace, Jr. used by Dan T. Carter in his book "The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of The New Conservatism and The Transformation of American Politics" 1995. Images of the various stages of Wallace's life, his family, and his wife, Lurleen. Many are official photographs released from the Governor's office.
Dates:
1918 - 1974
Raymond Hunt Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-008
Abstract
Seventeen photographs taken by Raymond Hunt of the C.S.S. Alabama model constructed by him. Images are showing the finished model, various stages of construction, and close-up showing details on the model.
Dates:
1993
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
James Elisha Folsom, Sr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-012
Abstract
Collection consists of sixteen portraits of Governor James Elisha Folsom, Sr.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
Simpson Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-019
Abstract
Primarily cabinet cards, mounted albumen prints and carbon prints; individuals are identified as members of the Peebles, Colvin, Ball, Simpson, Davis, Greene, Heard, Norris, Spencer, Taylor and [Perrow] families; some photographs taken by F.M. Turner, Tuscaloosa photographer, as well as photographers in Anniston, Eutaw, and Birmingham.
Dates:
1850 - 1910
Harold M. McLemore Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2012-012
Abstract
Scrapbook compiled by Harold McLemore (UA, BA 1980) of nineteenth-century Alabama courthouses in Lee, St. Clair, Talladega, Perry, Coosa, Wilcox, Bullock, Greene, Lowndes, Chambers, Colbert and Pickens counties. Photographs are accompanied by stories and newspaper clippings regarding various courthouses.
Dates:
1890
Hendrix Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-019
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-four photographs showing railroad workers using heavy equipment built by American Hoist & Derrick Company and groups of people from various counties in Alabama.
Dates:
1905 - 1909
Atkinson Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-193
Overview
This collection consists of fourteen photographs, possibly portraits of the Atkinson family and their friends, taken by photographers in Anniston, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Rochester, Staten Island, and Brooklyn, New York; and Chicago, Illinois.
Dates:
1880 - 1894
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
Daniel T. McCall, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-197
Overview
This collection consists of four cabinet cards of University of Alabama students from the 1880s, three taken by W. E. Magee, a Tuscaloosa photographer, and one taken by Clary, a Birmingham photographer.
Dates:
1886 - 1887
Confederate States Army, Second Alabama Light Artillery Battalion, Lumsden's Battery, Muster Roll
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0885
Abstract
Muster roll of Lumsden's Battery near the time of its formation in November 1861.
Dates:
1861
Alonzo B. Palmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1606
Abstract
This collection contains Palmer's diary, April-July 1865, when his Regiment, the First Ohio Light Artillery, was stationed in Tennessee and Alabama. The diary's frequent entries describe daily life in the camp, including meals, weather, and military activities. The collection also contains a photograph, ca. 1870, of several men, including Palmer, outside a store.
Dates:
1865 - 1956
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Methodist Church Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1618
Overview
This collection contains three drafts of what was evidently a book chapter composed by Frances Spencer titled “Evolution of the Tuscaloosa Methodist Church–1824–1844.”
Dates:
1824 - 1844
A. L. Anderson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1621
Abstract
A letter dated 19 November 1859, to his sister in the north while he was building the new Alabama Insane Hospital (Bryce Hospital) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In it Anderson expresses regrets at his inability to provide her with financial assistance and his hopes that he can stay in the South, where his prospects have improved.
Dates:
1859-11-19
Women’s Missionary Society, Uniontown Methodist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1619
Abstract
This collection consists of a ledger and two papers, one a history of the society and the other about missions. The ledger contains meeting minutes from 1878 through 1885.
Dates:
1879 - 1885
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1639
Abstract
Includes records of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church located in the coal mining community of Brookwood, Alabama.
Dates:
1873 - 2004
Thomas Bayley Lawson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1622
Abstract
Written from Mobile, Alabama, by Thomas Bayley Lawson, a portrait and miniature painter active primarily in Massachusetts, to Rufus Spaulding, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Speaks in great detail about business conditions and the high cost of living in Mobile. Makes observations on the treatment of slaves in the city.
Dates:
1838-01-19
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
Green Underwood Record Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1459
Overview
Record book of Green Underwood in Dallas County, Alabama, lists information about cotton purchases and money due and owed to him. He lists how the money he has should be divided upon his death. He adds entries until his death in 1852; someone else made notes and entries until 1895.
Dates:
1843 - 1894
Robert E. Tidwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1407
Abstract
This collection includes papers, some written by Tidwell, correspondence, invitations, and bulletins.
Dates:
1941 - 1974
Lou Walls Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1519
Abstract
A collection of materials, including many photographs, on the University of Alabama dancers, 1964-86.
Dates:
1964 - 1986
Rex Milford Wallace Jr. Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1515
Overview
A copy of a paper, "The University of Alabama: From the Beginning to the End. A Comparison of the Experiences of Members of the War Classes of the University of Alabama, 1861-1865 in the Confederate Army with that of Other Southerners," written for History 415: The New South at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1980
William Columbus Ward Speech Text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1525
Abstract
The text of Ward's 1858 valedictory address, delivered at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1858-07-15
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