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James Heyward North Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1056
Abstract
A copy of the 1861 diary written by a former U.S. Navy officer who sided with the Confederacy. It describes his efforts to acquire ships and position coast defenses, and his travels to Ireland, London and Paris. The original is in the University of North Carolina Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill.
Dates:
1861
John A. Vaughn diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1495
Abstract
Civil War diary of a Virginia native who later settled in Alabama. The entries are limited to 1863.
Dates:
1863
John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0326
Abstract
Three bound volumes of this Alabama attorney and politician and his wife: John Cochran's diary; Mary Wellborn Cochran's journal; and a miscellany of copies of some of John Cochran's outgoing correspondence, journal entries of his, and copies of some freedman contracts to which he was party. Also includes two unidentified photographs that appear to be from the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1839-1915
Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.
Dates:
1820-1920
King family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0817
Overview
Includes the papers of the King family of Perry County, Alabama, who owned plantations and other businesses.
Dates:
1803-1894
Porter King papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0820
Overview
Contains personal materials of this Civil War veteran. King was a member of the Marion Light Infantry.
Dates:
1860s
Louise Lacy Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4122
Overview
Diary of a teenage girl in Jasper, Alabama, during January and February of 1911.
Dates:
1911 January - February
Fred Lawrence diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0848
Abstract
Photocopies of a Diary
Dates:
1946 - 1947
Libba Mayo papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0936
Overview
Excerpts from the diary of John G. Traylor (1817-43), an early Dallas County, Alabama resident, a genealogy of the Traylor family, and a history of the town of Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama.
Dates:
1825-1925
Mildred McCollum Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4067
Overview
Diary of young woman in Depression-era Alabama.
Dates:
1933-1937
McCorvey and Tutwiler families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0947
Overview
A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.
Dates:
1830 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Nathaniel C. Kenyon Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0809
Abstract
Contains a photocopy of a typescript of the diary this Union officer with the 11th Illinois Infantry kept from before and during his capture in Tennessee. He provides fairly detailed descriptions of life as a prisoner of war in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and other southern cities.
Dates:
1862 - 1865
James Neff Civil War Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4070
Overview
Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.
Dates:
1864
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Overview
Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates:
1876-1987
Winifred Ruth O'Rear Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4133
Overview
Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman
Dates:
1936-1937
P. H. P. Typed Diaries and Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4064
Overview
Typed diary of a northern women who moved to Alabama when her husband was relocated to an Army base there.
Dates:
c. 1950
Peter Brannon papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates:
1900-1966
Florence Marks Pratt diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1161
Overview
Three diaries
Dates:
1910 to 1920
Samuel D. Risley Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4141
Overview
Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Dates:
1822-1909; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1865
Samuel Pickens Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1148
Abstract
This collection contains Pickens' school notebook, 1858; his friendship book, 1858-59; war letters to his mother; and a typed transcript of his diary, 1862-1865.
Dates:
1858 - 1865
John C. C. Sanders papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1229
Overview
Contains copies of diaries, letters of correspondence, and newspapers.
Dates:
1896-1906
Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates:
1833-1889
Elizabeth Schmenk composition book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3490
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Schmenk composition book contains letters to her brother and various writings.
Dates:
1880
James McClung Sieg Congo mission journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3745
Overview
Journal kept by Presbyterian missionary to Africa in 1907-1908.
Dates:
1907-1910
Alma Simpson Travel Journals
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4204
Overview
A detailed account of a family's travels during the early 1920s as described by an independent young college woman during her summer vacations.
Dates:
1923-1925
Charles Henry Snedeker diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1301
Abstract
Transcript of a diary created by a Union soldier who served in Company H of the 124th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry and mustered out in 1865.
Dates:
1863-1865
Sue Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1323
Overview
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence from Sue Spencer to her family and friends during the time she spent with her husband and three sons living in Africa, an experience from which she published African Creeks I Have Been Up. Both the manuscript and galley proofs are included in this collection, as well as notes and observations for Mrs. Spencer's other publications, and newspaper clippings and other items related to Mrs. Spencer's life as an...
Dates:
1956 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1964
W. H. Storey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4048
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, educational materials, and genealogical documents of Storey and his family
Dates:
1890-1935
James T. Tate Journal, Photograph, and Service Ribbons
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4121
Overview
Journal, photograph, and service ribbons of a young sailor aboard the USS Alabama in the years preceding the United States' entry into World War I.
Dates:
after 1918
Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract
The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.
Dates:
1840-1862
Thomas K. Jackson journals
Collection
Identifier: W-0021
Overview
Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.
Dates:
1866-1873
Thomas S. Jordan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0791
Abstract
Papers of this Birmingham, Alabama, dentist and his family.
Dates:
1884 - 1928
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
United States Corps of Engineers Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4047
Overview
Correspondence, log books, and project maps from the United States Corps of Engineers
Dates:
1926-1977
Paul Turner Vaughn diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1496
Abstract
Civil War diary of a soldier from Marengo County, Alabama. It contains entries describing camp life, marching, and fighting in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia; including the Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain.
Dates:
1863-1864
Wade Hall Collection of Diaries and Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4259
Overview
This collection consists of diaries, scrapbooks, and other personal books belonging to various individuals across the United States.
Dates:
1799 - 2003
Carrie Watkins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1531
Overview
Letters, recipes, and love poems, as well as her diary, written between 1857 and 1864 in Huntsville, Alabama, with her daily thoughts, favorite excerpts from literature and history, math problems, drawings of architecture, and problem solving.
Dates:
1857-1864
William A. Stickney diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0057
Overview
Diary of Episcopal minister William A. Stickney contains entries dated from 1841-1847. The diary documents Stickney's life as a college student at LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama, the University of Alabama, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Entries provide information about Stickney's daily life, as well as descriptions of religious services he attended and led, and a description of his personal devotions.
Dates:
1841-1847
William Cooper Diaries and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0357
Abstract
The collection consists of six diaries for 1864, 1867, 1876, 1882, 1884, and 1887, and a photograph of Cooper, an attorney from Tuscumbia, Alabama. The diaries contain daily entries made by Cooper and, in his absence from home, his wife, and give a great deal of information about the community, his activities, and his family.
Dates:
1864-1887
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates:
1869-1920
William Henderson Wood Journal and Will
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1571
Abstract
A daily journal by and last will and testament of this Collinsville, DeKalb County, Alabama resident.
Dates:
1876 - 1885
Cunningham Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3810
Overview
Wilson's writings during his medical practice in the late 1890's
Dates:
after 1865
Violet Rochelle Wolford Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4065
Overview
Diary of young woman in Cordova, Alabama, in 1918.
Dates:
1918
Woodward Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Overview
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.
Dates:
1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950
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