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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

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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Overview Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.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

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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

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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

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Identifier: MSS-3699
Overview Variety of records of the Alabama Association of Historians from 1993-2009
Dates: 1993-2009

Donoho family papers

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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

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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

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Identifier: MSS-3707
Overview Cash books of this 19th century Eufaula, Alabama, doctor.
Dates: 1877-1900

Heritage Study Club Scrapbooks

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
Dates: 1963-1964

Iveson L. Brookes papers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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"

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Identifier: MSS-0594
Overview Paper titled the "Selling of the Old South."
Dates: unknown

Reminiscence of Julius C. Greene

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Identifier: MSS-0728
Overview Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.
Dates: 1862 - 1975

King family papers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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