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William C. Hayne letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0652
Overview
Letter from William C. Hayne of Charleston, South Carolina, to Lewis Bristol of New Haven, Connecticut, discussing immigrating to Alabama.
Dates:
1837 February 3
Hendrix Family Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: WP-022
Overview
This collection consists of Hendrix family portraits.
Dates:
1880 - 1900
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates:
1840-1925
Herbert J. Taylor Jr. Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2652
Overview
Correspondence between Major Herbert J. Taylor, Jr. (Battery 13, 136th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces) and his wife, Roberta Dorsey Taylor of Columbus, Ohio, from 1917 to 1920.
Dates:
1917-1920
Herman Packard journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1092
Abstract
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Dates:
1837-1847
Elizabeth Anne Hodo letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0686
Abstract
Letter written from Pickens County, Alabama, to Elizabeth Boswell, discussing school, friends, and social life.
Dates:
1844 September 1
Howell F. Hayslette Letter and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0654
Overview
Letter and photograph, from Hayslette in Conde, France, to "My Dear Mother," thanking her for a Christmas parcel and expressing longings for home.
Dates:
1919-01-06
Hughes family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3748
Overview
Letters written by brothers Arley and Eli Hughes while serving in the Army during World War I and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts of this large, rural Alabama family.
Dates:
1885-1919
Humphries Family Ancestor Book and Story Collection (PDF file on CD-ROM)
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4175
Overview
Family history of the Humphries of Mississippi and Alabama.
Dates:
2008
Huntsville, Alabama receipts, 1916-1917
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3700
Overview
Two receipts from Huntsville, Alabama, for groceries in 1916 and 1917
Dates:
1916-1917
Hurtel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0721
Abstract
The collection relating to this Mobile, Alabama, family consists of a family history by Caroline Garrett and newspaper clippings on Mobile Mardi Gras celebrations, dedication of the Confederate war memorial, and various other items of general Mobile interest.
Dates:
1877 - 1948
Huston Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0724
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials created by the Huston family in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, and extended family in Mobile, Alabama. Most materials center around George Waring Huston, who was killed in World War One.
Dates:
1831-1937
Jefferson Franklin Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0736
Overview
This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.
Dates:
1847 - 1921
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 A. Goble diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Overview
Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1862-1863
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 Chamberlin letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0294
Overview
Letters written to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition
Dates:
1861-1898; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863
James L. Nicholas Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4184
Overview
Papers, photographs, memorabilia, and assorted research of this North Alabama resident
Dates:
unknown
James White McClung Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0945
Abstract
This collection includes the personal and business papers of James White McClung (1798-1848), an attorney in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, and state representative for that county, as well as correspondence of various members of his family.
Dates:
1820 - 1891
Jefferson Jackson Coleman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-002
Overview
This collection consists of fifty-five photographs of the former Director of Alumni Affairs at the University of Alabama.
He was closely involved in athletics at the University of Alabama. The photographs show various aspects of his life from 1918 through 1989.
Dates:
1918 - 1989
Jerry A. Davis, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-200
Overview
This collection consists of eighty-five photographs of Jerry A. Davis, Jr. (UA, MA, 1991), his friends and family, school pictures of Tuscaloosa Academy students, University of Alabama Sigma Chi fraternity parties, and vacation scenes.
Dates:
1979 - 1989
Jesse Griffin letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Overview
A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.
Dates:
1813 September 5
Joe A. Simpson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1276
Overview
Documents pertaining to Simpson's personal and professional life.
Dates:
unknown
John and Phyllis Todd Reel to Reel
Collection
Identifier: 2014-025
Abstract
Sixty-eight reel to reels of family recordings and assorted music.
Dates:
1957 - 1982
John B. Tomilson Card
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1922
Overview
One card thanking family and friends for expressing sympathy for the death of the mother of possibly John B. Tomlinson.
Dates:
1932
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 Collier Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0536
Overview
A sizeable collection of church correspondence, sermons, and other religious materials, and family correspondence and other personal items of this farmer and Southern Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1841 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1892
John Gorman Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0116
Abstract
Contains correspondence to and from John Gorman Barr, as well as other papers of this University of Alabama student, Tuscaloosa attorney, and United States Consul in Australia, known for his humorous writings.
Dates:
1840-1858
John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0431
Overview
Collection contains letters written by John Horry Dent, Jr. (signed J. Horry Dent) of Barbour County, Alabama, from 1861 March 15 to 1864 July 1 to his father, John Horry Dent of Eufaula, Alabama. There are also two letters written by Dent Jr.’s fellow officers to Dent's father detailing information of Dent Jr.’s part aboard the C.S.S. McRae during the battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and his subsequent capture and internment at Fort Warren in May 1862.
Dates:
1861 - 1864
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
John Will Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0760
Abstract
A collection of correspondence and other papers. Johnson's correspondents included John H. Bankhead, Albert Boutwell, Carl Elliott, Lister Hill, Albert Rains, James A. Simpson, John Sparkman, and Chauncey Sparks.
Dates:
1936 - 1951
Johnson Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0758
Overview
This collection contains bills, family records, and wills of the Johnson family.
Dates:
unknown
Henry P. Johnston papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0765
Abstract
Genealogical documents concerning the Johnston family including a large German family tree and copies of photographs
Dates:
Unknown
Jones and Callaway Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3031
Overview
Family papers containing letters, a farm journal, and writings of members of the Jones and Callaway families in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida
Dates:
1845-1940; Majority of material found in 1860-1900
Jones Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0773
Abstract
A family bible containing birth and death entries for members of the Jones and Matheson families, plus clippings of obituaries and of poems published by Sallie Jones.
Dates:
1764 - 1864
Joseph Booth Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2124
Overview
Contains Joseph Booth of Carroll County, Ohio wrote to his brother Jeremiah Booth, of Arlington, Illinois, discussing the death of their mother and other personal issues.
Dates:
1876-09-10
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 Wilbourn Young letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1596
Abstract
A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
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
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
Julia Neely Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0515
Overview
Correspondence by and to Julia Neely Finch, as well as her poetry and short stories, written between 1890 and 1926, as well as a small handwritten and typescript collection of Julia’s poems and short stories and a Common Place Book, which served as a scrapbook of her published pieces.
Dates:
1890 - 1926
Kate Beatty Birmingham Bridal Gift Association membership certificate
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0126
Abstract
Contract making Kate Beatty, a resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a member of the Birmingham Bridal Gift Association.
Dates:
1882
Kathrina Brown James Genealogical Notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0742
Abstract
Genealogical information on the James family, much of it written by Mrs. James, including family documents, lineage charts, and articles about her husband, William K. E. James, a pastor in Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1754 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1978
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
Kolb Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2132
Overview
John Frederick Kolb and Valentine Bruner Kolb were from Frederick County, Maryland, and fought for the Union in the Civil War. Valentine Kolb's letters to his family discuss battles, artillery, and prisoners; John F. Kolb's notification to enroll is included as well as a letter he wrote to his parents. Letters to their father are also included.
Dates:
1861 - 1868
Krecker-Jobe family history
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0830
Overview
Contains genealogical materials and pages (possibly from a scrapbook) that include 19th-century photos.
Dates:
circa 1900-1970s
L. O. Dawson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2563
Overview
Contains incoming correspondence to L.O. Dawson, a Baptist minister in west Alabama and east Mississippi at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, including letters from family members and friends as well as correspondence with members of the various religious organizations with which Dawson was affiliated.
Dates:
1893 - 1904
Alton Lambert papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0837
Abstract
A collection of genealogical information, cemetery records, photos, clippings, correspondence, and other materials.
Dates:
circa 1980s
John Lambert and descendants manuscript
Collection — Box: 1758
Identifier: MSS-0150
Abstract
Manuscript of Bethea's and Austin's book about this Revolutionary War soldier and his family. The book was published in 1978.
Dates:
circa 1978
Lamkin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3901
Overview
Deed and survey from 1843 for land in North Carolina, correspondence covering family news and daily life, two family Bibles, as well as three books written by family friends
Dates:
1843 - 1990
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