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Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0030
Overview
Minutes of the Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee meetings from 1892-1894.
Dates:
1892-1894
Alabama Nurses Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Dates:
1913-1977
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Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.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 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 Circuit Court, 17th District, Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0055
Overview
A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.
Dates:
1815-1835
Alabama Democratic Party, 1860 Delegation minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0057
Overview
Minutes and roll of Alabama's delegation, who were "accredited to the Baltimore and Richmond Democratic convention" in Richmond, Virginia, in 1860.
Dates:
1860
United States Congressional Act establishing the Alabama Territory
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3794
Overview
This collection contains a copy of the United States congressional act establishing Alabama as an equal member of the Union.
Dates:
1817 March 3
Holliman and Stewart families letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3749
Overview
Civil War letters and miscellaneous documents of James Franklin Holliman and William Stewart, to and from their families between 1862-1911.
Dates:
1837-1936
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
Ben Hunt Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4005
Overview
Scrapbook of Hunt's years in the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1906-1922
Ordinance to Dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other states united under the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America" Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4028
Overview
Alabama's ordinance of secession, 1861
Dates:
1861 January 11
Framed Imprint of the Original Seal for the University of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4112
Overview
Imprint of the original seal of the University of Alabama's first seal which was lost for 125 years.
Dates:
2015
General Grand Accepted Order of Brothers & Sisters certificate
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3553
Overview
Certificate establishing "a Tabernacle to be known by the Name and Title of Venus Tabernacle No. 56" in 1907.
Dates:
1907
Paula E. Robertson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3601
Overview
Early history of Northport, Ala. (1931, photocopy); Brief history of Gorgas House with 1962 Inventory;
- T.A. Dearson Inventory
Dates:
after 1900
Kappa Delta Epsilon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3610
Overview
Records of the organization
Dates:
after 1950
Lumsden's Battery battle flag, Alabama Light Artillery, Confederate States Army
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3719
Overview
Battle flag of Lumsden's Battery, Company "F", 2nd Light Artillery Battalion.
Dates:
between 1861 and 1865
Winton M. Blount papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0176
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of this Montgomery, Alabama, business leader, during his term as United States Postmaster General (1969-1971).
Dates:
1956-2004
Benton County, Alabama, land contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0141
Abstract
Land contract dated 29 July 1834, at White Plains, Benton (later Calhoun) County, Alabama.
Dates:
1834 July 29
James Berney letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0142
Abstract
Letter dated 31 January 1846, from Montgomery, Alabama, to A. Jackson at Mayhew [Mississippi?] on news of Montgomery being voted the state capital and the subsequent celebration.
Dates:
1846 January 31
Peyton B. Bibb papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0153
Abstract
Documents, mainly letters written to or by Peyton B. Bibb. There are also receipts and minutes from unidentified meetings. There is also a copy of the “Complete Rudiments of Music” by A.J. Showalter (©1906) with the name “George Bibb” written on the front cover and on the first page.
Dates:
1886–1906
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract
Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
Dates:
1873
Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0163
Overview
One ledger that records the association's meetings from 1913-1916.
Dates:
1913-1916
George E. Brewer letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0207
Overview
Two typescript copies of a 1919 letter describing Bird H. Young who was the model for nineteenth century author Johnson J. Hooper's (1815-62) character Simon Suggs.
Dates:
1919 October 15
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Overview
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Dates:
1865 June 16
Canebrake collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0267
Overview
Materials relating principally to the community of Dayton in Marengo County, Alabama. It includes land grants, the Dayton city code, town council minutes, and some family records.
Dates:
circa 1837?
Cantelou family genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0271
Overview
Photocopies of various documents concerning the ancestry of members of the Cantelou family of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Dates:
1855–1965
Monroe F. Cockrell research notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract
Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.
Dates:
1949-1956
Collective Protection documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0344
Abstract
Documents on Collective Protection probably produced by authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. They cover all areas of collective protection such as home protection, lighting restrictions, espionage and sabotage, war gases and shelters.
Dates:
1941-1945
Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0373
Overview
A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.
Dates:
circa 1835-1886
Dallas County, Alabama, Treasurer records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0391
Overview
One ledger containing the treasurer’s records pertaining to taxes and other fines and fees paid in Dallas County, Alabama from 1868 to 1873.
Dates:
1868-1873
W.E. Dearman paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0418
Abstract
Typescript copy of Judge W.E. Dearman's "The Town of Gaston, Alabama," a history of Gaston, an abandoned town in Sumter County, Alabama.
Dates:
undated
John C. Deason papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0420
Abstract
A collection of copies of Civil War muster rolls including those of the Forty-fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. B (15 March 1862), the Twentieth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. H (16 September 1861), the Thirty-sixth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. F (13 May 1862), and the First Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. A (nd).
Dates:
1861-1862
Jere Clemens Dennis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0428
Overview
Personal, family, and business papers of a Tallapoosa County attorney, including legal case files as well as Sons of Confederate Veterans, Alabama National Guard, and Masonic materials.
Dates:
1841-1935
Frank Murray Dixon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0439
Abstract
Family correspondence, newsclippings, financial records, and photos of this Alabama governor and his family.
Dates:
1938-1981
Lewy Dorman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0444
Overview
Papers that discuss Barbour County, Alabama, history.
Dates:
undated
Michael Dorman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0445
Abstract
This collection consists principally of research material used in the writing of "The George Wallace Myth." Correspondence, proposals, and the book manuscript are among them. Galley proofs of two other books, "The Second Man," an overview of the changing role of the Vice Presidency and "Stockcar Butterworth," a book about stock car racing, are also part of the collection, as are poems, most of them unpublished, and copies of several published articles.
Dates:
1968-1976
Rachel Duke Hamilton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0455
Overview
A photocopy of a typed draft of the manuscript of a biography of Judge Peter J. Hamilton written by his youngest daughter, Rachel Duke Hamilton Cannon (sometimes noted as Rachel-Duke).
Dates:
circa 1950
Early Alabama documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0464
Overview
Documents from the mid nineteenth century, including store and tax receipts, court orders, letters, property appraisals, etc., from Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, mainly pertaining to West Alabama
Dates:
1844-1887
Early Educational Institutions in the South
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0466
Overview
Tuition receipts, a printed announcement, and a clipping, from several schools, primarily in Alabama.
Dates:
1844-1879
Johnnie M. Edwards paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0477
Overview
Paper titled "Inventory of Public Records in the Cherokee County Courthouse" containing an inventory of public records in the Cherokee County, Alabama, courthouse, 1882-1930.
Dates:
1980
Elliott and Carl Mill time book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Overview
A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
Dates:
1886 - 1891
James M. Faircloth papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0500
Overview
Includes student papers and personal papers of J. M. Faircloth, a professor of civil engineering at The University of Alabama during the years 1961 through 1969.
Dates:
1961-1969
John Falconer deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0502
Overview
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, from John Falconer to Jonathan Mayhew, in 1823
Dates:
1823 May 3
City of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0509
Overview
Letters created and received by the city of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, mainly relating to routine matters in this small town, including city maintenance concerns.
Dates:
1927-1933
Zachariah Fields deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0512
Overview
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 3 March 1833, to Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitman.
Dates:
1833 March 2
Staci Niemeyer paper "Folk Dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education"
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0525
Overview
Essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 by progressive educator Marietta Johnson in Fairhope, Alabama.
Dates:
1990 April 1
Jerome T. Fuller Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0546
Overview
Letter to J. G. Oakley written in 1934 in support of Frank M. Dixon for Governor of Alabama.
Dates:
1934 May 25
William Fulton letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0547
Overview
Typescript copy of a letter dated 12 April 1865, written by Fulton to his sister, Mrs. Theodora Fulton Pettus, describing the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, to Union forces.
Dates:
1865 April 12
Mrs. John S. Gandy paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0556
Overview
Paper by Gandy titled "History of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Gordo, Alabama, 1838-1938." It actually covers the church's history through 1957 and includes lists of members and pastors.
Dates:
1954
W. A. Handley letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0618
Overview
Letter written to the U.S. House of Representatives at the beginning of his term as a member of the House.
Dates:
1871 March 8
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