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J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties
Collection
Identifier: W-0082
Overview
One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.
Dates:
1899
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
James Bowron papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract
A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.
Dates:
1861-1928
James Boykin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract
Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates:
1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870
James Strother Caller Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0263
Overview
Letter written by Caller, dated 2 August 1852, from Gosport, Clarke County, Alabama, to Messrs. Jno. A. Winston &c, commission merchants of Mobile, Alabama, asking for a correction on the account of W. McConnell
Dates:
1852-08-02
James Woodrow Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1572
Abstract
A letter dated 22 September 1852, from LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama, requesting a subscription to a journal titled the Presbyterian.
Dates:
1852-09-22
John Cocke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates:
1810-1899
John Horgan Jr. Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2009-170
Overview
The collection consists of twenty-three industrial photographs taken around Birmingham, Ensley, Sheffield, Anniston, Bessemer, and Woodward, Alabama in 1889. Photographer from Birmingham, Alabama, John Horgan, Jr. took the photos for Truman H. Aldrich and presented them to him in June 1889.
Dates:
1889-06-01
John Horry Dent papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0430
Overview
There are four typescript documents in the folder also: (1) Commodore John Herbert Dent, U.S. Navy, 1782–1823; (2) Charles I. Graves in Egypt (1875–1878); (3) Cape Guardafui by Lt. Col. Graves (the proceedings of the meeting of October 1880); and (4) Report of Lt. Col. Graves, 4th July 1878.The Plantation Book (or Farm Journal v.1) was written by John Horry Dent from January 1840 through December 1842 to record actual expenditures and incomes from his estate and to provide...
Dates:
1840-1891
Joseph Emerson Brown letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0219
Overview
Letters from Brown, most of them to his friend and business associate General Ira R. Foster, Quartermaster General of the State of Georgia during the Civil War. Also contains copies of letters between Brown and Georgia politician Howell Cobb, regarding appointing Foster as a special railway postal agent for north Georgia and north Alabama.
Dates:
1857-1867
Joseph H. Bradford Accounts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0199
Abstract
Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.
Dates:
1836-1841
Joshua Hill Foster Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0535
Overview
Papers of a University of Alabama graduate, Baptist minister, planter, teacher (University of Alabama, 1873-1892) and president of Alabama Central Female College, 1869-1873.
Dates:
1839 - 1904
Kennedy Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0802
Overview
Store ledger of a Florence, Alabama firm.
Dates:
Unknown
Knabe and Scott Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0828
Abstract
Two bound volumes, one a daybook covering August 1, 1887 through August 1, 1888, the other an index.
Dates:
1887 - 1888
Labor relations papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3454
Overview
Miscellaneous labor relations documents
Dates:
1930s-1960s
Lawrence County, Alabama Tavern License
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0847
Scope and Contents
A license dated 23 September 1835, granted to Alexander M. Brooks, Edward Jones, and M. Seuris to operate a tavern in Lawrence County, Alabama.
Dates:
1835-09-23
Lehmann, Ullman, and Barclay records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0852
Overview
Records of this Birmingham, Alabama, accounting firm
Dates:
1920s-1970s
Letter to Servant Cokeram
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1733
Abstract
Letter from unknown writer to his servant Cokeram, instructing to provide provisions for an impending visit by the queen. Undated.
Dates:
no date; possibly 1600s
Lister Hill papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0670
Abstract
Subject files, correspondence, reports, and other materials by, to, and about this Alabama senator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1923- 1938 and the U. S. Senate from 1938-1969.
Dates:
1921-1968
John Kerr Little papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0866
Abstract
The John K. Little collection contains papers and memorabilia of John K. Little - a member of a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pioneer family, and himself a long time resident of Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1937 - 1947
L. M. Falk and Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0833
Overview
A ledger and cash book.
Dates:
unknown
Madison County, Alabama, Probate Court Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0894
Abstract
Records of the granting of letters testamentary, settling estates and guardianships, and other matters, 1863.
Dates:
1863
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
Edward F. McCrossin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0950
Overview
Contains personal papers and company records.
Dates:
Unknown
Earl McGowin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0955
Overview
Contains family papers and business records.
Dates:
Unknown
Milner Coal and Railroad Company meeting minutes
Collection
Identifier: W-0101
Overview
Minutes of directors and stockholders' meetings between 1900 and 1910
Dates:
1900-1910
Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1000
Abstract
Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists
Dates:
1836 - 1876
Early Huntsville, Alabama, letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0100
Overview
Two unrelated letters, dated from 1822 and 1831, containing information about Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1822, 1831
Mobile Terminal and Railway Company circular
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1783
Abstract
A prospectus and preliminary circular for the Mobile Terminal and Railway Company, with the details of the company and bonds that would mature on 1 September 1935.
Dates:
circa 1911
Nehemiah Denton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1602
Abstract
Correspondence and other business materials of this Brooklyn, New York, resident with business interests in Mobile, Alabama. Aside from extensive business correspondence, it includes detailed descriptions of Mobile's antebellum social life, and accounts of yellow fever epidemics and fires.
Dates:
1831 - 1844
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract
This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates:
1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945
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
Phil E. Hill General Store Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0671
Abstract
An account ledger for a general store in Fairfield, Alabama, possibly owned by Phil E. Hill
Dates:
1873 - 1874
Phillips-Lester Manufacturing Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1140
Overview
Contains the records of this clothing company including: papers on the correct measurement styles and clothing type for menswear, safety manual, audit records, and transaction booklet.
Dates:
unknown
Phoenix Hotel, Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1144
Overview
This collection contains the hotels ledgers, of whom visited the hotel: date visited, their name, where they're from, and room numbers. Inside the ledgers are some of the hotels bills and certificates, including Alabama Power bill and Health Inspection certificates, as well as some other clippings the hotel may have received from their customers. Dates of the ledgers range from September 1929 - 1938.
Dates:
1909-1948
Pla-Gem Company papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1149
Overview
Brochures for the Pla-Gem Steel Furniture Company of Cullman, Alabama, selling children.s steel gym sets.
Dates:
1964
Plantation Patterns, Inc. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1150
Overview
Brochures from the late 1950s for Arlington House wrought iron furniture
Dates:
1965-1968
Cameron McRae Plummer book list
Collection
Identifier: W-0087
Overview
Contains a list of books compiled by Haunted House Book Shop owner Cameron McRae Plummer.
Dates:
1950-1961
Walter H. Powers letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1779
Abstract
A single letterbook containing copies of Gurley, Alabama businessman Walter H. Powers's outgoing correspondence, March-October 1938
Dates:
1938
Prices of Domestic Produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0352
Overview
Prices of domestic produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865
Dates:
1861-1865
R. M. Patton Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1111
Abstract
This collection consists of a letter regarding lands due the Wills Valley Railroad Co. (part of Northeast and Southwest Alabama RR) upon completion of 20 miles of track, also an offer to purchase mineral rights to the same from Governor (military?) R. M. Patton, who was also President of the Board of Directors of the Central Mining and Petroleum Company of Alabama. Also contains a copy of some legislation.
Dates:
1866
Republic Steel records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1186
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, security and insurance records, and other materials of this Birmingham steel company.
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1980
Elmer E. Rhode Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2550
Overview
Bernice Shelly writes from Tracy and Oakland, California, to P.F.C. Elmer E. Rhode, stationed in San Francisco, California, about her work as a waitress and at a factory to aid the war effort. A third letter makes a third-party reference to an encounter with Elmer Rhode written by Fred Kimball of San Francisco, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Dates:
1942 - 1943
Robert H. McKenzie dissertation, correspondence, and notes
Collection
Identifier: W-0072
Overview
Copy of Robert H. McKenzie's dissertation, "A History of the Shelby Iron Company, 1865-1881," and a small collection of correspondence and research notes related to the dissertation.
Dates:
1971
Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract
The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
S.A. and M. Railway survey notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0076
Overview
Material relating to Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery (S.A. & M.) Railway
Dates:
after 1888
Sander's Ferry papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1228
Overview
License allowing Isham Robertson to captain a ferryboat across the Warrior River at Sander's Ferry, Tuscaloosa County
Dates:
1876
Shackelford Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1255
Abstract
Contains customers' names, goods and services provided, and amount paid at this Courtland, Alabama, blacksmith shop.
Dates:
1856 - 1859
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Joseph Silva papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1273
Abstract
A business ledger maintained by Joseph Silva from Montgomery, Alabama, between 1880-1889.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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