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Septima Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1296
Overview
Notes (research and school) on Biology, 1926, an address book, telegrams, receipts, notecards/research notes, a catalyst of a bug, photos, postcards, scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photos related to biology, programs and bulletins related to science. Also includes Martha Sue Garr papers and Dr. Robert S. Hodges personal and scientific papers, as well as the Unit Museum Plan file for the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Dates:
circa 1965
Daniel C. Smyly papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1300
Abstract
Correspondence, financial papers, and other material pertaining this Dallas County, Alabama, plantation owner and physician, and his family.
Dates:
1843-1871
St. John family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1330
Overview
Legal papers related to property, as well as personal and business letters
Dates:
1852-1907
Henrietta Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1403
Abstract
This collection contains the papers and correspondence of an University of Alabama Home Economics professor.
Dates:
1910-1966
Edward Dorr Tracy correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1421
Abstract
Copies of correspondence between Tracy and Clement C. Clay, Tracy and his wife, and others. The originals are held by the Perkins Library, Duke University.
Dates:
1861-1863
Union Parish records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1463
Overview
Contains records and letters of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Uniontown, Alabama form 1845-1900.
Dates:
1850-1955
Allen Howison papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2321
Overview
Letters, business records, and bank receipts from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
Dates:
1900s
Ann Hollis letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1789
Abstract
Letters, postcards, and telegrams from World War II pen pals to this former Montreat College student and resident of Headland, Henry County, Alabama.
Dates:
1943-1946
Carl Cecil papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2390
Overview
Cecil's files about the University of Alabama Faculty Senate from 1975-1980
Dates:
1975-1980
Betsy Plank collection on Helen Keller
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2397
Overview
Materials about Helen Keller and her companions, Annie Sullivan Macy and Polly Thomson. Much of the correspondence is written by Polly Thomson to Adelyn Hood.
Dates:
after 1928
Bert Rogers letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3616
Overview
Letter written to Rogers' brother
Dates:
1904 June 22
Ogletree family letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3621
Overview
Letters from family members
Dates:
1895 and 1922
Evans family letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3655
Overview
Collection of letters describing daily life of a mother to her daughter during pre- and post-Depression America
Dates:
1919-circa 1942
Peyton Norvell Wiggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3706
Overview
Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.
Dates:
1942-1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1956
Stewart Flowers collection of 19th century photographs, letters, journals, and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3708
Overview
Collection of 19th century photographs, letters, journals, and artifacts
Dates:
1860-1920
J. F. Stewart letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3802
Overview
Lletters to various friends and family members
Dates:
1845-1899
James M. Alexander letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3804
Overview
Letter from Alexander to Captain Pope
Dates:
1863 October 27
George L. Kittredge letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3808
Overview
Letters between Kittredge and his wife, including a copy of their marriage certificate as well as poetry sent in honor of his birthday
Dates:
1886-1888
Louise Vermilye papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3809
Overview
Letters between Louise and variousfriends and acquaintances as well as an application to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1862-1935
William Edwards letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3812
Thomas K. Jackson letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3814
Overview
Letters written during his career in the Confederate Army as well as a letter of amnesty on his behalf from J. Longstreet to Ulysses S. Grant
Dates:
1844-1865
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
George H. Blelock letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0173
Abstract
A letter dated 21 June 1865 to Capt. J. M. Cary of Chunnenuggee, Alabama. Blelock, a publisher in New York, offered "the most liberal terms" for the future literary productions of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) (1835-1909), an immensely popular sentimental novelist.
Dates:
1865 June 21
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
Sarah Blue collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0177
Abstract
A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, “My Golden School Days.”
Dates:
1894-circa 1915
Erline Bodine papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0179
Overview
An amalgam of genealogical research done by Bodine into the Bodine and Pate families, and a copy of a letter to Alabama Governor Guy Hunt, dated 21 March 1987, claiming damages of “about 160 A[cres] and one billion dollars” owing to a “stragedy” [sic] concocted by “Big Jim” [Fulsom?] and Franklin Roosevelt “to help the nation with my family’s resources.”
Dates:
undated
Bogy and Smith Families genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract
A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
undated
Dr. Bonner letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0185
Abstract
Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.
Dates:
1958
Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0186
Abstract
Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.
Dates:
1836-1843
Amelia Boswell letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0190
Abstract
Letter dated 13 August 1847, from Boswell of El Dorado, Arkansas, to her cousin, Elizabeth A. Boswell of Pike County, Alabama, discussing the health of family members, crops, and weather.
Dates:
1847 August 13
Boyd family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0194
Abstract
Photocopies of various documents and letters relating to Alfred Boyd (1814-82) and his descendants as well as a typescript history of the family of Joel Willis, Sr., and a typescript paper by Bruce L. Bennett of Ohio State University titled, "Sports and Physical Education in Colonial Times."
Dates:
1816-1943; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1859
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
Walter Lawrence Bragg letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0200
Overview
Copies of incoming letters dated 1881-1882, from the Alabama state archives.
Dates:
1881-1882
William Woodward Brandon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0203
Overview
Documents concerning Alabama governor William Woodward Brandon, including letters, news clippings, postcards, and transcripts of speeches.
Dates:
1920-1935
Gerard C. Brandon letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0204
Overview
Letter from the Governor of Mississippi to Alabama Governor John Murphy regarding an unsettled financial transaction between the two states.
Dates:
1828 October 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
Charles Bernier papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0143
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence of The University of Alabama's alumni association director, 1920-54, and a proposed constitution for the Alabama Alumni Association (AAUA).
Dates:
1920-1954; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1951
Bessemer Civic Music Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0144
Abstract
Collection of items relating to this club from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, including programs, press releases, clippings, etc.
Dates:
1949-1954
Beta Phi Mu, Beta Kappa Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0147
Abstract
Correspondence, bank records, scrapbooks, meeting agendas, and minutes, of the University of Alabama chapter of the National Library and Information Studies honorary.
Dates:
1975-1990
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
Winafred Bird letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0158
Abstract
A letter from Bird dated 5 May 1822, from Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina to her son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1822 May 5
Alonzo Van Vlack papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0166
Abstract
Typed transcripts and one handwritten letter from a Union soldier to his parents while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama, and at a parole camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are also typed transcriptions of manuscripts describing prison life and the explosion of the Steamer Sultana.
Dates:
1864-1865
A. M. Blair letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0169
Abstract
A letter dated 30 November 1843, to Blair's brother Edwin in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing a sea voyage from New York, to Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1843 November 30
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
Iveson L. Brookes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0214
Abstract
A large collection of letters to and from this Baptist clergyman, planter and southern sectionalist, including defenses of the South, Brookes's business transactions, and family matters.
Dates:
1811-1911; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1865
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0216
Overview
Letter dated 15 March 1921 from Brotherhood of Trainmen Vice President, Val Fitzpatrick, to union members concerning a strike against the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlantic Railway Company.
Dates:
1921 March 16
Alfred A. Brown letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0218
Overview
Letter dated 16 January 1863, from Canterbury, New Hampshire, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burroughs, West Acton, Massachusetts, concerning friends and family
Dates:
1863 January 16
Richard Trapier Brumby letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0224
Overview
Letter from Brumby, dated 2 April 1834, from Tuscaloosa, to the firm of Wragg and Stewart in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning a debt owed to the firm
Dates:
1834 April 2
John H. Bryson letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0227
Overview
Letter from Bryson, dated 12 March 1891, from Huntsville, Alabama, to the Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, St. Louis, Missouri, inviting him to visit Huntsville and discussing the inauguration of a Mr. Briggs
Dates:
1891 March 12
Charles Mitchell Burford letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0231
Overview
Letter written by Burford, dated 20 October 1847, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to his brother in Summerfield [Alabama?]
Dates:
1847 October 20
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