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Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.036

Identifier: 2009-178

Abstract This collection consists of thirty-six photographs depicting people engaged in leisurely activities at Big Barbee Lake in Indiana and Webster Lake in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1900 - 1909

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.036

Identifier: 2009-179

Abstract This collection consists of four photographs depicting people engaged in a leisurely activities.

Dates: 1890 - 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.036

Identifier: 2009-180

Abstract This collection consists of twelve photographs depicting scenes on the "Water Queen" show boat and the people on a shoreline.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.036

Identifier: 2009-181

Abstract This collection consists of three photographs depicting people in Kentucky.

Dates: 1890 - 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.036

Identifier: 2009-182

Abstract This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting people enjoying time at a pool at The Cloister Hotel and on the beach at Sea Island, Georgia.

Dates: 1946

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-132

Overview This collection consists of eleven photographs depicting scenes from Japan around 1910.

Dates: 1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-134

Overview This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people. One photograph depicts President Calvin Coolidge in Sioux City, Iowa, August 25, 1927.

Dates: 1910 - 1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-135

Overview Sixteen photographs of people engaged in outdoor activities in Kentucky.

Dates: 1910

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-141

Overview This collection consists of eight photographs depicting people and homes in Aztec, New Mexico.

Dates: 1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-143

Abstract This collection consists of thirty-four photographs depicting people from Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois engaged in various activities: playing in a snow, playing baseball and driving cars. Also this collection consist of portraits of military men from World War I.

Dates: 1910 - 1940

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.031

Identifier: 2009-148

Overview This collection consists of twelve photographs depicting people engaged in an everyday activities in Nebraska.

Dates: 1940

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.032

Identifier: 2009-150

Abstract This collection consists of 213 photographs depicting scenes from various places, such as cities, farms, tourist attractions, and rivers in Ireland, Scotland, France, and New York.

Dates: 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.033

Identifier: 2009-152

Overview This collection consists of three photographs depicting people at leisure.

Dates: Circa 1960

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.033

Identifier: 2009-153

Overview This collection consists of twenty-three photographs depicting people engaged in outdoors activities in Canada, Washington state, and Oregon.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.033

Identifier: 2009-154

Overview This collection consists of seventeen photographs depicting people engaged in everyday activities.

Dates: 1910 - 1915

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.034

Identifier: 2009-157

Overview This collection consists of three photographs depicting boys playing in a swimming pool.

Dates: 1943

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.034

Identifier: 2009-158

Overview This collection consists of six photographs depicting family during a Christmas holiday.

Dates: 1940 - 1941

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Walter Bryan Jones photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2011-004

Overview Includes personal and family photographs, as well as photographs taken in association with Jones' professional endeavors as state geologist of Alabama and during his military service in World War I and World War II.

Dates: 1915 - 1950; 1890 - 1973

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Watkins Mercantile and Banking Company, Faunsdale, Alabama, statements

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3729

Overview Statements from the Watkins Mercantile and Banking Company of Faunsdale, Alabama, detailing items purchased by Miss Winnie Walker in the last quarter of 1892.

Dates: 1892

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Annie Early Wheeler scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2890

Overview Extensive scrapbook concerning the life and home of Annie Wheeler, daughter of "Fighting" Joe Wheeler.

Dates: 1950

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1547

Overview A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.

Dates: 1862-1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William B. Shirdan papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1266

Abstract Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dates: 1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Gray Little Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0868

Abstract A collection of family correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating to this Livingston, Alabama native who is credited with introducing football at the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1837 - 1938

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Jesse Robinett Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1624

Abstract This collection consists of a handwritten original paper and typescript copy containing the names of family members and stories about the family's experience during Rousseau's Raid, July 10-22, 1864, in which a Union Army force raided from Decatur, Alabama, to the southward.

Dates: 1957

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Strong Comstock papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0348

Overview Business correspondence, account sheets, contracts, miscellaneous receipts, etc., of a Montgomery, Alabama, merchant, 1843-1867.

Dates: 1842-1867

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sterling Wood papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1570

Overview Contains notes, photograph albums, scrapbooks, notebooks, research notes, geneaology notes, family records, wills and letters on the Wood family from the 1860's-1972.

Dates: 1860-1972

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1583

Abstract This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.

Dates: 1798 - 1990

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Marcus Joseph Wright memoirs

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1585

Overview An incomplete typescript copy (18 pp.) of, "Memoirs of Brigadier General Marcus J. Wright, CSA."

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William S. Wright letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2210

Abstract A letter from William S. Wright of Pittsford, Vermont, to Emerson R. Wright in Greenville, Alabama. The letter discusses education, family matters, and the evils of slavery.

Dates: 1840 February 24

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wynn Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1590

Abstract An extensive collection of correspondence, diaries and legal and financial papers relating to John Henry Irby Wynn (1787-1854), teacher and farmer in Limestone County, Alabama, and his son Alexander Montgomery (1823-1897), daughter-in-law Martha (Curtis) Wynn (1826-1907), and grandson John Robert Wynn (ca. 1860-1896). The diaries include accounts of Alexander Wynn's trip to Arkansas in the 1850s.

Dates: 1845 - 1913

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wynne Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3918

Overview Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.

Dates: 1804-2009

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Zell George Herman Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2012-003

Abstract Collection contains photographs and photographic albums from 1919 – 1995. Black and white and color snapshots of Zell George and Maxcine “Mac” Shores Herman. Chronicles the life of Zell and Mac Herman from the late 1940s to Mac’s death in 1995.

Dates: 1919 - 1995

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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