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Harry Mell Ayers papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0097
Abstract
Contains the correspondence of this New Deal Democrat and Civil Rights supporter who owned the newspaper, the Anniston Star. The correspondence deals with local, state, and national political campaigns, elections, education, civil rights, editorials, letters to the editor, and events of the times. The collection also contains personal correspondence with other newspapermen, educators, and statesmen; copies of editorials and clippings on Alabama politics, Anniston, education, the Federal...
Dates:
1918-1956
Baltzell and Bullock families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0105
Abstract
The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.
Dates:
1839-1921
Arthur Bagby papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0102
Abstract
Contains materials, mostly photocopies, created by or relating to Arthur Bagby, the tenth governor of Alabama.
Dates:
1837
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
Sam Bennett letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0138
Abstract
An 1848 letter written from Chickasaw, Alabama, to his cousin in Tuscumbia, Alabama, discussing the weather of the "sunny South," temperance, sailing to New Orleans, and various family matters.
Dates:
1848 May 7
Alabama Review editorial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0051
Overview
Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Dates:
1976-1987
Alabama Warriors speech text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0053
Overview
Text of a speech describing the contribution of Emma Sansom, Joseph Wheeler, Raphael Semmes, and John Pelham to Alabama history, read at the February 2, 1933, meeting of the Canebreak Rifle Guard Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1933
M. E. Allan letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0063
Overview
Letter dated 30 September 1855, to "Dear Cousin," from Bald Hill, Georgia, discussing family news, crops, children, and illnesses and deaths among family and slaves.
Dates:
1855 September 30
Verner family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3741
Overview
Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings about this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1888-1968
Cunningham Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4011
Overview
Correspondence, maps, newspapers, and photographs of this West Alabama family
Dates:
1834-1979
Southeastern Regional Association of Family Economics - Home Management papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2391
Overview
Photocopied handouts from conference
Dates:
unknown
Modern Culture Club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3654
Overview
Scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's organization documenting their monthly meetings and events, from 1983 through 2008.
Dates:
1936-2008
Alabama Association of Historians records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3699
Overview
Variety of records of the Alabama Association of Historians from 1993-2009
Dates:
1993-2009
Donoho family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3704
Overview
Letters between members of a close Tuscaloosa family written primarily during the Civil War.
Dates:
1838-1914
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
William Preston Copeland cash books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3707
Overview
Cash books of this 19th century Eufaula, Alabama, doctor.
Dates:
1877-1900
Heritage Study Club Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3711
Overview
Scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's organization documenting their monthly meetings, trips, and events.
Dates:
1965-2012
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
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
Tom S. Birdsong paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0159
Abstract
A paper by Birdsong entitled "The Destruction of the University of the State of Alabama," prepared for presentation to the Alabama Historical Association in 1975.
Dates:
1975
Birmingham Examiner financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract
Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
Dates:
1963-1964
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
W. L. Bruce and Sons records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0223
Overview
Ledgers and daybooks of this Catherine, Wilcox County, Alabama, country store, reflecting the economic and social conditions of this rural community from 1911 to 1936
Dates:
1911-1936
Cantelou family genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0271
Overview
Photocopies of various documents concerning the ancestry of members of the Cantelou family of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Dates:
1855–1965
Carl Lamson Carmer letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0277
Overview
Letter written by this acclaimed author of Stars Fell on Alabama to Mrs. Raymond McClain, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, discussing Mrs. McLain's association with Ruby Pickens Tartt, who Carmer praises for her value to the state of Alabama and her work to raise awareness of the folk traditions of Alabama.
Dates:
1972 August 9
Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr., letter and biographical sketch
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0309
Overview
Letter written from Tuscaloosa in 1834, to his aunt, Mrs. Robert W. Withers of Erie, Greene County, Alabama, and a biographical sketch, author and date unknown, which includes information on Clay's political career, wedding, and friends.
Dates:
circa 1834
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
Dixie Art Colony newsletters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0438
Abstract
Newsletters of the Dixie Art Colony, 1940-1942, which was located between Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1940-1942
Echola School papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0470
Overview
Photocopies of attendance and tuition records, as well as a short history of the school written by one of its teachers.
Dates:
1883-1976
City of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0509
Overview
Letters created and received by the city of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, mainly relating to routine matters in this small town, including city maintenance concerns.
Dates:
1927-1933
Margaret Gillis Figh papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0513
Abstract
This collection consists mainly of folklore and tales contributed by students in Figh's folklore and English classes at Huntingdon College, plus miscellaneous contributions from family and friends.
Dates:
1940-1975
Johnny Greene paper, "Selling of the Old South"
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0594
Overview
Paper titled the "Selling of the Old South."
Dates:
unknown
Reminiscence of Julius C. Greene
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0595
Overview
Photocopy of a typescript copy of an essay by the descendant of the early settlers of Jefferson County, Alabama.
Dates:
after 1904
Bird Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0596
Overview
Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.
Dates:
1805-1885
George W. Hamner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0615
Overview
Contains notebooks kept by this Montgomery, Alabama, resident on natural and civic historical topics.
Dates:
1815-1870
Eliza Williams Chotard Gould memoirs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0582
Overview
Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.
Dates:
1868
Captain Simon Peter Gray papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0586
Overview
Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles and photographs about steamboats collected by this Mobile, Alabama, researcher.
Dates:
1934-1963
George B. Inge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0728
Overview
Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.
Dates:
1862 - 1975
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
Henry W. Reese Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1184
Abstract
Contains a letter by Reece describing his arrival in Vicksburg; a letter from William Garrard to H. F. Reese about his brother Henry; and a paper written by H. F. Reese about his brother's life.
Dates:
1863-1905
Hubert Hill Harper political cartoon collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2750
Overview
This collection contains political cartoons that appeared weekly in the early 1950s. The subjects of the cartoons are the Birmingham and Alabama school systems, the Geneva Convention, the Cold War, presidential candidates, and various other political figures and events.
Dates:
1950-1956
Hugh Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1611
Abstract
Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.
Dates:
1820 - 1898
Samuel Gholson Woolf papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1578
Abstract
A collection of personal correspondence and essays on various Southern topics by this Marengo County attorney and politician.
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833 - 1905
George and Eleanor Bridges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Overview
Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.
Dates:
1932-1965
Sallie Hill paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0032
Abstract
A typescript copy of an address delivered by Sallie Hill at the April 20, 1960, meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. The address, "Alabama Food Ways," describes traditional southern food and food history.
Dates:
1960
J. O. Campbell diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0139
Overview
Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama
Dates:
1895-01 - 1895-05
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
Richard Chanoweth Promissory Note
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2580
Overview
Photocopy of promissory note in which Richard Chanoweth of Kentucky County acknowledges receipt of a barrel of whiskey and promises to deliver deer skins to Philip Engle as payment.
Dates:
1779 July 12
Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Overview
Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1897
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