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Alabama postcards
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3715
Overview
Postcards showing a variety of places in Alabama, including Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery.
Dates:
1918-1970s
Alabama Power Company Coal Mines
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0046
Overview
Variety of reports from Alabama Power Company's Gorgas, Marvel, Blocton, and Cahaba coal mines in the mid-20th century.
Dates:
1941-1968
Alabama Prison System papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0048
Overview
This collection contains items that pertain to the Alabama Board of Corrections.
Dates:
circa 1974-1982
Alabama railroads of the past collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0042
Overview
Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.
Dates:
1855-1945
Alabama Republican Party Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3894
Overview
Memoranda and correspondence relating to the 1908 United States presidential election from Calhoun and Elmore Counties in Alabama
Dates:
1907-1908
Alabama Review editorial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0051
Overview
Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Dates:
1976-1987
Alabama School Libraries: a history
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0052
Overview
This collection contains papers that are associated with Alabama School Libraries. This includes newspaper clippings, association newsletters, correspondence, and reports with the bulk of the materials from the 1940s.
Dates:
1930-1970
Alabama sesquicentennial flag
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2491
Overview
Flag commemorating Alabama's Sesquicentennial in 1969
Dates:
1969
Alabama Speech Records
Collection
Identifier: 2015-001
Overview
Recordings made by two University of Alabama professors as part of a UA Research Grant, studying the different speech patterns and intonations of each county in the state
Dates:
1940 - 1941
Alabama State map
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3574
Overview
Map of Alabama showing counties with dates of creation, renaming, etc.
Dates:
after 1869
Alabama State Seal and Coat of Arms
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3576
Overview
Alabama State Seal and Coat of Arms
Dates:
after 1939
Alabama Temperance records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2323
Overview
Correspondence about the temperance movement in Alabama
Dates:
1880
Alabama Warriors speech text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0053
Overview
Text of a speech describing the contribution of Emma Sansom, Joseph Wheeler, Raphael Semmes, and John Pelham to Alabama history, read at the February 2, 1933, meeting of the Canebreak Rifle Guard Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1933
Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4111
Overview
Programs, as well as other memorabilia, for the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Dates:
2015 June 8
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
Album of quotations
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0058
Overview
Album containing handwritten quotations from the Bible, classical authors, and sources, as well as two handwritten copies of notices from the "Times" and "Tuscaloosa Gazette" (1881).
Dates:
[187?]-1881
Lamar Aldridge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0059
Overview
Letters home written while Aldridge was in training in Georgia and then serving in France during World War I.
Dates:
1917-1919
Lawrence S. Alexander archaeological surveys
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0060
Overview
Surveys made by Alexander when he was an employee of the Office of Archaeological Research at the University of Alabama, on lands in Jefferson, Jackson, and Geneva Counties
Dates:
1979
Alice A. Lide Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0127
Abstract
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Alice A. Lide, recounting his life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.
Dates:
undated
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
Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Overview
Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.
Dates:
1850-1873
Allan F. Archer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0082
Overview
Documents pertaining to the career of Dr. Allan F. Archer from 1932 to 1951 when he worked at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey of Alabama. The material primarily focuses on Dr. Archer’s study of spiders, but includes crabs, mollusks, crustacean and matters of ecological and biological importance as well.
Dates:
1932-1951
Allen and Jemison Hardware Company catalogs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0066
Abstract
Two catalogs, 1913 and 1928, of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hardware store.
Dates:
1913, 1928
Allen Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Overview
The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.
Dates:
1848-1906
J. D. Allison Co. daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3800
Overview
Daybook pertaining to this Carlowville, Alabama, company
Dates:
1859-1862
Alma Bishop Williams Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-032
Abstract
Collection consists of Bishop and Harry’s family, a family friend’s photographs, and some unidentified photographs.
Dates:
1862 - 1974
Alfred Francis Alois Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4094
Overview
Memorabilia of a 1944 graduate of the University of Alabama, highlighting his athletic activities, A Club, Army ROTC, and Phi Sigma Kappa, as well as family photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1943-2013
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
Alpha Beta Alpha Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-217
Overview
One color and five black and white photographs of Alpha Beta Alpha Convention at Illinois State University, showing Miss Jean Nelson (Instructor Illinois State University), Miss Welch (Librarian Illinois State University), Maureen Bray (Illinois State), Hilda Weeks (MSCW), Linda Pinder (West University of Alabama), Mary Kate Meredith (University of Alabama), Suellen Reed (University of Alabama), Dona Wrench, and two photos of Illinois State University.
Dates:
1968-04
Alpha Epsilon Delta records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Overview
The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Dates:
1926-1951
Alston Fitts Letters and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0520
Overview
Letters from this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, physician to his wife and children before and after he was shipped to France during World War I, as well as a photograph of Fitts.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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
Ambrose Doss Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0446
Overview
Collection contains letters written by Ambrose Doss of Jefferson County, Alabama, to his wife, Sarah Brake Doss while he was in Co. C of the 19th Alabama Regiment from the time of his enlistment in 1861 until his death on 1864 July 5 near Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia. There is also a letter from Lt. J. W. Rouse, dated 1864 July 6, to Sarah telling her of Ambrose’s death and burial. There are several miscellaneous documents including a short biographical sketch of Doss and a booklet titled...
Dates:
1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
American Association of University Professors, University of Alabama Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0072
Overview
A collection of meeting minutes, committee reports, correspondence, membership information, constitutions, and other material.
Dates:
1949-1975; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960
American Association of University Women, Tuscaloosa Branch records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0073
Overview
Includes the Tuscaloosa branch secretary’s notebooks, which contain the association's official correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, and other records that vary by year. Also includes the executive board files and scrapbooks
Dates:
1928-2002
American railroad station plans
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3747
Overview
Over 140 original plans of train stations from the late nineteen and early twentieth centuries, primarily on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Most are in ink on waxed architect's paper and are variously sized.
Dates:
1881-1942
American Society manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0154
Abstract
Contains manuscript of American Society textbook written by Lee Bidgood in 1918.
Dates:
1918
Andrew B. Moore Letter and Clipping
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2055
Abstract
A newspaper clipping noting the gift of $15,000 to Alabama Governor A.B. Moore in January 1861 for the defense of the state and a letter written to Joel E. Mathews of Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, thanking him for the gift. The letter was written and signed by P. Lockett, private secretary to the Governor.
Dates:
1861 January 28
Andrew Coleman Hargrove papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0630
Overview
Personal and business correspondence, class notes, and financial records of attorney and politician, Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1835-1911
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
Al Andrews Amateur Journalism Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0016
Abstract
A very large collection of individually-produced fan magazines (fanzines or ‘zines), circular letters, and related materials, principally of science fiction fantasy subjects, named in honor of Birmingham native and science fiction artist, Al Andrews. See the finding aid for a detailed inventory of the contents of the collection.
Dates:
1961-[2009]
Ann Jordan Farm papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0080
Overview
Photocopies of Sidney Z. Mitchell's correspondence, articles relating to his career, and other biographical information. It also includes Jordan family deeds, photographs taken at Ann Jordan Farm, legal documents and correspondence relating to the Jordan Family Cemetery, articles about Ann Jordan Farm and Jordan Dam, and furniture catalogs and floor plans.
Dates:
1874-1950
Annie Perkins commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3875
Overview
The collection consists of one commonplace book containing handwritten and published recipes as well as published poems collected by Perkins of Eutaw, Alabama.
Dates:
Approximately 1867
Douglas Arant Alabama Academy of Honor materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0081
Overview
Materials relating to Arant's 1978 induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor, including a scrapbook with pictures from the induction, biographical information on members, and past programs from induction ceremonies.
Dates:
1974-1986
Letters from Archie to Sarah and Brother
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2214
Abstract
Collection consists of family correspondence between Archie and siblings. Discusses education, farming, and family matters.
Dates:
1860 - 1874
Edmund Armes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0086
Overview
Typed correspondence and telegrams from Armes in his capacity as Birmingham, Alabama chairman of the Sewanee (University of the South) endowment campaign to area Episcopalians, seeking donations for the institution. The collection also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the campaign, and information on fundraising events.
Dates:
1919
Ethel Marie Armes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0087
Overview
Personal letters written by Ethel Armes, a Birmingham journalist and author, primarily to Alice Wiggin of Franklin, Massachusetts.
Dates:
between 1890 and 2002
Ashville Railroad Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0090
Abstract
Photocopies of resolutions about the formation of the company, legal documents, printed maps, certificates of incorporation, and board meeting notices related to the Ashville Railroad Company, 1882-1884.
Dates:
1882 - 1884
Askew family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0091
Overview
Biographical sketch, ledger, diaries, church histories, newspaper clippings, copies of poetry and pieces written about Confederate history in Alabama, address and appointment books from this Dayton, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1844-1993
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
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