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Joseph J. Elliott letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0481
Overview
A copy book of letters, primarily to his fiance/wife, Maud Hoskinson of Weogufka, Coosa County, Alabama.
Dates:
1900-1902
Ensley Merchants Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0487
Overview
Minutes, bank statements, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, area organization
Dates:
1929-1944
Edward Eppes notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0488
Overview
Notebook containing handwritten notes, including billing and account information, property dimensions, worklogs, and sketches of tools, of this Georgia-based civil engineer.
Dates:
1894-1912
Essex Foundry records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0490
Overview
Incorporation papers, by-laws, directors' minutes, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and related records.
Dates:
1916-1965
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
Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, account book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0495
Overview
A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.
Dates:
1922-1924
Exchange Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1640
Overview
Issues of the newsletter "The Unitor" (1922-2011), framed pictures, and brochures
Dates:
1922-2011
Ezell Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0498
Abstract
Record book for store located in either Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama, or Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1879-1910
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
Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview
Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates:
1849-1861
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
Fitts and Alston Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4198
Overview
Papers, correspondence, and photographs from three generations of two Tuscaloosa, Alabama, families.
Dates:
1900 - 1966
H. P. and Elisa K. Fleischman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0521
Overview
Letters of a commission merchant in the Caribbean and on the Mississippi River, and his family.
Dates:
1827-1850
The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4199
Overview
Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.
Dates:
2016
Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0531
Overview
Primarily receipts and statements but the collection also includes Robert S. Foster’s will and a deed for 1,274 acres of land from the heirs of Robert S. Foster to Edmond L. Prince in 1859 for the sum of $19,110.00. Most of the statements are for the freight, wharfage, drayage, weighing and storage of cotton shipped by steamboats, and are listed for either Mrs. Ann Foster or the Estate of Robert S. Foster. Other receipts are for the purchase of clothing, books and magazine subscriptions.
Dates:
1833-1859
Foster Mark Kirksey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0827
Abstract
An extensive collection of business and personal papers and correspondence of this Greene County, Alabama planter, commission merchant, sheriff, and Confederate commissary agent, and his extended family.
Dates:
1795 - 1953
Mary M. Foster fire insurance policy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0291
Overview
A fire insurance policy dated 22 December 1881, taken out by Mary M. Foster of Clayton, Alabama, on her "frame dwelling house part one & half story & part one story, & dining room & kitchen attached, occupied by her. . . . "
Dates:
1881 December 22
Francis Bugbee papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Overview
Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.
Dates:
1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820
Frank Everard Ardrey, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-022
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the railroads, trolleys, and railroad stations throughout Alabama.
Dates:
1912 - 1974
Will Franke paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0540
Overview
A paper titled "Jefferson County 1850," written by this Birmingham, Alabama, native at the request of the Birmingham Historical Society and includes a detailed listing of the county's merchants and political leaders circa 1850.
Dates:
1950
Franklin Collier Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-033
Overview
This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Gaines Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0550
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business documents relating to the Gaines family, most of it from Mobile, Choctaw, and Jefferson Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
1824-1949
Garner Family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0559
Overview
A scrapbook of local news and events compiled by Mrs. J. T. Garner of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
after 1892
Geological Survey of Alabama papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-3511
Overview
Geological Survey of Alabama and the State Oil and Gas Board materials
Dates:
1975-2000
George and Eleanor Bridges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Overview
Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.
Dates:
1932-1965
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
George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Overview
Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.
Dates:
1886 - 1898
Louis Gerstman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0567
Overview
Papers of this Selma, Dallas County, Alabama insurance agent and manager of the Edwards Opera House and the Academy of Music, 1879-1896.
Dates:
1879-1896
Eddy Lanier King Gilmore papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0572
Overview
Compositions, scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Eddy Lanier King Gilmore, of Selma, Alabama, and his Russian-born wife, Tamara Kolb-Chernashovaya, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The bulk of material is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1940 - 1967
Samuel S. Goodman hotel ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0578
Overview
Guest register from 11 July 1889 through 31 January 1890 of this Scottsville, Virginia, hotel.
Dates:
1889-1890
Green and Hopper deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0588
Overview
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 30 August 1832, by Moses Green and Joseph D. Hopper to George Whitman.
Dates:
1832 August 30
David D. Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0593
Overview
This collection consists of correspondence that discusses labor union issues.
Dates:
1919-1936
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0602
Overview
Documents dealing with various financial considerations concerning mortgages, bonds, consolidations, etc., between 1912 And 1914
Dates:
1912-1936
Alex Gunn ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0603
Overview
Account and invoice ledgers of Alex Gunn's Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama store from 1909 to 1914.
Dates:
1909-1914
Edward Hall letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0609
Overview
Business letters to Addin Lewis in New Haven, Connecticut, from Hall in Mobile, Alabama, 10 March and 15 April 1837 and 17 August 1840.
Dates:
1837, 1840
A. B. Hanson records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0623
Overview
Letterbook from 12 March to 15 May 1888, other correspondence and cases, a ledger labeled "pleadings" between 18 July 1888 to 26 February 1891 containing general correspondence and cases, and other miscellaneous material from 1888.
Dates:
1888-1891
Harco Drugs records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0626
Overview
Miscellaneous materials including newsletters, an employee handbook, memoranda, sales, publicity and marketing information, and other items.
Dates:
1974-1997
John G. Hardin crop lien
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0628
Overview
Copy of a crop lien for $50 against the crop John G. Hardin will harvest on a plantation in Elmore County, Alabama, owned by B.S. Walkley.
Dates:
1875 July 19
Daniel J. Haughton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0649
Overview
Mainly personal correspondence and newspaper clippings about the passing of Daniel Haughton
Dates:
1980s
Hearst, Dennis and Company Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0656
Abstract
The 1871-1872 letterbook of a firm in Richmond, Dallas County, Alabama.
Dates:
1871 - 1872
Henry DeBardeleben business records
Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Overview
Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.
Dates:
1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905
Hildreth Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4117
Overview
Letter from nephew Hildreth to his uncle with an unfavorable answer to a request for advice concerning a debt owed him by a former British vice consul to Mobile during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864 February 4
James Hogan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0687
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.
Dates:
Unknown
James Holt carpentry notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0693
Abstract
This collection consists of an account book created by this Montgomery, Alabama, carpenter, with notes and entries relating primarily to the purchase of construction items such as nails, plaster, boards, etc.
Dates:
1848
William Hoskins letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0647
Overview
Letter dated 31 March 1796, from Hoskins in Bordeaux, France, to James Swan in America, addressing potential business prospects.
Dates:
1796 March 31
Allen Howison papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2321
Overview
Letters, business records, and bank receipts from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
Dates:
1900s
Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama, paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0432
Abstract
A paper containing a list of trades and professions in Huntsville, Alabama, and describing the geography of Huntsville and Madison County. Includes original, typewritten copy, and photocopy.
Dates:
circa 1809
J. A. Montgomery business records
Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview
Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates:
1889 - 1898
J. O. Campbell diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0139
Overview
Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama
Dates:
1895-01 - 1895-05
J. R. Odom store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Overview
Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.
Dates:
1920-1937
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