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Henry Bascom Steagall Speeches
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1341
Abstract
A collection of twenty-seven speech texts, plus a small group of miscellaneous papers and a memorial address to this Alabama congressman.
Dates:
1933 - 1943
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
Richard Furman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Overview
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826-1865
John Collier Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0536
Overview
A sizeable collection of church correspondence, sermons, and other religious materials, and family correspondence and other personal items of this farmer and Southern Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1841 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1892
Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0539
Overview
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Julia Neely Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0515
Overview
Correspondence by and to Julia Neely Finch, as well as her poetry and short stories, written between 1890 and 1926, as well as a small handwritten and typescript collection of Julia’s poems and short stories and a Common Place Book, which served as a scrapbook of her published pieces.
Dates:
1890 - 1926
Douthitt scrapbook materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0399
Overview
Material, mostly photocopies, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama.
Dates:
1865 - 1877
Daphne Cunningham Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0385
Abstract
Diaries whose short entries provide information on the daily activities of this coed from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
William H. Ely letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Overview
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.
Dates:
1820 - 1821
Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Overview
Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.
Dates:
1964-1988
Early Alabama Land Grants and Applications for Purchase
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0465
Overview
Applications for grants and for the purchase of land, mainly in Marengo and Washington counties in Alabama. There are also a few other legal documents pertaining to disputed applications.
Dates:
1812 - 1846
O. B. Emerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0485
Overview
The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between O. B. Emerson and various individuals including authors, former students, and other faculty and staff from The University of Alabama. The collection also includes materials about different authors and subjects on which Dr. Emerson either taught or published, as well as a significant amount of materials related to professional organizations in which he was involved.
Dates:
1945 - 1990
John Henry Faber papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0499
Overview
Photocopies of reports and biographical sketches written by John Henry Faber after his retirement from the Eastman Kodak Company, as well as a section on early Alabama television.
Dates:
1933 - 1988
Jacob Faser letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0506
Overview
Letters written from Mobile, Alabama, where Faser was working as a sword maker, to his wife in Macon, Mississippi, dealing mainly with personal news and information on the prices of available goods.
Dates:
1861 - 1865
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
Perry County, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0139
Abstract
Letters and other documents donated by a source in Perry County, Alabama. The collection consists of eight letters to Elias Benson. There is also one summons order included in the Elias Benson series. Another series contains the will of Philip Smith of South Carolina. The Thomas and Mary Jones series contains three statements of debt made to John E. Cook, along with an indenture statement and draft. The final series includes miscellaneous documents including deed certification, court records,...
Dates:
1796 - 1898
Bethany Baptist Church, Buhl, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0149
Abstract
Contains original and photocopies of the church records books of Bethany Baptist Church of Buhl (now at Coker), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, dating from 1832 to 1981, including the Articles of Faith, Rules of Decorum, members names, pastor’s salary, and the constitution of the Bethany Baptist Church.
Dates:
1832 - 1981
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
Alabama Alumni Association, Cornerstone Committee
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0018
Overview
This collection includes a committee report; a list of donors to the Crimson Pride membership drive, 1986-1987; histories of the national alumni association and local chapters; information on the rededication of Denny Chimes in 1987; newspaper clippings about coaches Ray Perkins and Paul "Bear" Bryant; and other information on the history and alumni of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1888 - 1987
Alabama Art League bulletins and exhibition announcements
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0019
Abstract
Contains 18 bulletins and exhibition announcements of this state-wide artists' organization
Dates:
1940 - 1943
Alabama Association for Young Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0020
Abstract
A collection containing meeting minutes, correspondence, the organization's constitution and by-laws, photographs, and other materials.
Dates:
1959 - 1987
Alabama Legislature petition
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0039
Overview
An 1849 petition by several Alabama legislators to Governor Reuben Chapman urging him to veto the act chartering the Central Plank Road, and a typed transcript listing the names of signers and counties that they represented.
Dates:
1849
Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0038
Overview
Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.
Dates:
1890 - 1900
Alabama Marble Quarries prospectus/stock subscription form
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0042
Overview
A prospectus describing the marble quarried by the firm in Talladega County, Alabama, and the demand for it. At the bottom of the second page is a stock subscription form.
Dates:
1910
Alabama Manufacturing Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0041
Overview
Includes membership information, correspondence to members, newsletters, data on industrial growth, and civic booster brochures from various Alabama cities.
Dates:
1953 - 1979
Alabama Air National Guard letter of authorization
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0014
Abstract
A photocopy of a memorandum to the commander to the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing of the Alabama National Guard, authorizing transport of non-military personnel, including Governor George C. Wallace, from Montgomery to Tuscaloosa and back on April 30, 1963. Includes signatures of passengers on a waiver form.
Dates:
1963-04-30
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract
Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.
Dates:
1860-02-16
Marie Ball Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3472
Overview
Newspaper clipping from 1954, a letter from 1894, and an unpublished manuscript about the early history of Tuscaloosa from 1874-1897
Dates:
1950
Alabama Cultivation Promotional Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-025
Scope and Contents
One photographic album created in July 1911 of 18 black and white photographs promoting land cultivation in Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama. Photographs are of different types of fruit that can grow in Alabama and examples of orchards in bloom. The photographs measure 3 3/8" x 5 1/2" and are adhesive mounted to 16 paper leaves.
Dates:
1911-07-22 - 1911-07-24
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1918-1919 Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-015
Scope and Contents
The collection is of one photographic album of 145 photographs documenting the construction of United States Nitrate Plant Number 2 and the people of Muscle Shoals, Alabama during 1918 and 1919. In addition to the construction photographs there are many of the daily life and tent cities erected for workers in the area. The photographs are mounted, measuring 3½”x 3¾” to 3½” x 6”, and most are captioned beneath or on the verso.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Thomas H. Dodd, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4315
Scope and Contents
The collection is mostly comprised of correspondence between American botanists Roland McMillan Harper and John Kunkel Small between 1897-1935 and copies of articles, journal interviews, and various other publications written by both botanists during their careers. The correspondence was compiled by Thomas H. Dodd, Jr. of Semmes, Alabama, a prominent horticulturalist, nursery owner, and colleague of Harper. There is a small collection of correspondence between Thomas H. Dodd, Jr. and Marie...
Dates:
1897 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1937
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
Young-White Mercantile Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1600
Abstract
Records of this Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama, general store which operated 1905 to 1933.
Dates:
1905 - 1933
Andrew Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1626
Abstract
Contains correspondence and other material relating to this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native's service in Europe during World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
F. H. Petrie letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1620
Abstract
Letters written from Colbert Shoals and Florence, Alabama, to a business partner about digging canals around shoals on the Tennessee River. Petrie discusses sickness, heavy rains, high water, and lack of funding.
Dates:
1831 - 1833
William Jesse Robinett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1624
Abstract
This collection consists of a handwritten original paper and typescript copy containing the names of family members and stories about the family's experience during Rousseau's Raid, July 10-22, 1864, in which a Union Army force raided from Decatur, Alabama, to the southward.
Dates:
1957
Manly Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0900
Abstract
Includes the papers of Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, 1837-1855, and a founder of Furman University, which reflect the history of the period as well as his life as theologian and educator. It also contains materials created and gathered by other Manly family members, including his sons Basil and Charles, president of Furman University, 1881-1897.
Dates:
1818 - 1930
John L. Blackburn papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2605
Overview
Contains personal papers, documents, records, and accomplishments of John L. Blackburn.
Dates:
1945-2000
Mathew Winston Alabama Shakespeare Festival papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2499
Overview
Papers, grant proposals, program guides, brochures, postcards, photographs and other materials from 1984 to 1986, concerning the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, originally based in Anniston, Alabama, and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1985.
Dates:
1984-1986
Sallie Bruchac Collection of Dr. Harald Rohlig Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2500
Overview
The collection consists of recital programs and worship bulletins, sheet music, photographs, audiocassettes, reel-to-reel audio tapes, and one LP record featuring the music and performance of Dr. Harald Rohlig.
Dates:
1962 - 1992
Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
Overview
Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in...
Dates:
1956
Bullock County Historical Society papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2589
Overview
Papers, correspondence and research relating to the establishment of the Bullock County Historical Society, as well as some transcriptions of oral histories, cemetery records, and "genealogical" correspondence about the town of Midway and Bullock County.
Dates:
1977-1987
John M. Counts Letters from Dr. George Denny
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4110
Overview
Seven letters from Dr. George Denny attempting to coax Counts back to the University of Alabama
Dates:
1924
Charles M. Dragoo Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4115
Overview
Letters from Dragoo to his wife Lois and daughter Sandra Sue in Muncie, Indiana, telling of his arrival and attempts to find housing for the three of them at Fort McClellan Infantry Replacement Training Center in Alabama.
Dates:
1944 March 12-26
Ethel Gardiner Wiggins V-mail and Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4123
Overview
V-mail and letters to a World War II soldier from his wife back home in Florence, Alabama.
Dates:
1941-1944
Winifred Ruth O'Rear Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4133
Overview
Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman
Dates:
1936-1937
Robert Court Fletcher World War I Correspondence and Dog Tags
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4151
Overview
Sixteen letters and postcards from this World War I soldier to his sister in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1918-1919
Old small Madison-area cemeteries: typescript, prepared by John P. Rankin and Percy B. Keel
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3756
Overview
Typescript copy of information found on tombstones and grave markers in small Madison County (Ala.) cemeteries, prepared by John P. Rankin and Percy B. Keel.
Dates:
2001 June
Jesse C. Hearne, Jr. Scrapbook of Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. on the University of Alabama Campus, 1936
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2567
Overview
Contains scrapbook kept by Jesse C. Hearne Jr., highlighting events of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. groups on the University of Alabama campus in 1936. It is primarily newspaper clippings, but there are 13 photographs.
Dates:
1936
Hugh Mallory Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2649
Overview
Letter written by Hugh Mallory of Selma, Alabama, on August 15, 1932 to an unidentified person asking for names of others in the recipient's community whom Mallory could contact regarding the use of the highways by busses and trucks being operated for personal profit. Also included is a letter to the State Legistlature requesting that body to regulate such usage.
Dates:
1932
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