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Helen N. Butler scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0244
Overview
A scrapbook by Helen N., "Nellie," Butler of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, consisting of clippings of newspaper articles, obituaries, poetry, marriage announcements, invitations, visiting cards, letters, prints and engravings.
Dates:
1857–1888
Order of Calanthe Juvenile Department papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0255
Overview
Five reports to the biennial sessions of the Supreme Court of the Order of Calanthe and one annual report for the Grand Court of the Order of Calanthe of the states of Alabama. Mattie B. Rowe of Alabama was the Supreme Juvenile Matron between 1943 and 1952.
Dates:
1943–1952
Callahan Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0262
Overview
A miscellany of materials, primarily genealogical records of a large number of families. The collection also contains files on the Hopewell Baptist Church in Fayette County, Alabama, the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company F, Alabama land records, and on women's suffrage.
Dates:
unknown
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
Mary Tarver Carroll papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0283
Overview
Contains two undated letters written from this Alabama resident to Peter Brannon, most likely the director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History; two hand-written verses; and three printed cards with Christmas illustrations and poems written by Carroll.
Dates:
circa 1930s
Margaret Chenault papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0296
Overview
Memorabilia of a University of Alabama student, 1930-1934, including a scrapbook, record book, newspapers, and student organization documents
Dates:
1930-1934
Matthew William Clinton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0318
Abstract
Text of a speech on Alabama's state capitals prepared for a 1946 Daughters of the American Revolution meeting and includes a sketch of an architect's plans for improvement of the capitol grounds.
Dates:
1946
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
Zitella Cocke papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0329
Abstract
The collection contains photocopies of photographs and poems, perhaps written by Cocke.
Dates:
circa 1950
Monroe F. Cockrell research notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract
Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.
Dates:
1949-1956
Elizabeth Tyler Coleman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0335
Abstract
A miscellany of materials including genealogy, correspondence, the diary of Priscilla Cooper Tyler, daughter-in-law of President John Tyler, a journal, and Coleman's manuscript of "Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene: 1816-1889." Includes three letters from President Tyler to his son Robert.
Dates:
1776-1955
Mary Elizabeth Counselman collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0361
Abstract
A collection of manuscripts and publications from Alabama sci-fi/horror writer Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Dates:
1940 - 1980
Ethel Creighton poem and watercolor
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0365
Overview
A poem and a watercolor by Ethel Creighton featuring the Old Spanish Tower in Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
between 1880-1953
Greene County Union Female Institute, Minutes of the meeting of Citizens of Daniel's Prairie, to... establish the female institute at Burton's Hill
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0394
Overview
Typescript copy of the minutes of a meeting to establish a female academy at Burton's Hill, Alabama, and the school's constitution and amendments.
Dates:
1836
Dayton Female Institute announcement
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0415
Abstract
An 1867 announcement containing information for students of this Dayton, Alabama girls school overseen by the Rev. J.F. Tarrant and his wife.
Dates:
1867
Harold Dunn paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0460
Overview
Paper by Dunn entitled "The Annual Miss Winterboro High School Beauty Pageant and its Significance to the Community."
Dates:
1991 April 8
Early Educational Institutions in the South
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0466
Overview
Tuition receipts, a printed announcement, and a clipping, from several schools, primarily in Alabama.
Dates:
1844-1879
Eborn and Peteet Families papers
Collection — Box: 3154
Identifier: MSS-0469
Overview
Letters, written by Benjamin F. Eborn between 1884 and 1885 to his sweetheart (later his wife), Corinne Peteet Eborn. There are also other letters to Corinne from various family members, including her father, W.Y. Peteet, mother-in-law, Bettie Eborn, and her sister, Mary P. Jones.
Dates:
1879-1955
Janie May Eppes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0489
Overview
Teaching materials and clippings gathered by a Birmingham, Alabama, school teacher for use in her classroom, and in the course of her own education
Dates:
1907-1957
Estes Embroidery Circle records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0491
Overview
Letters, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, photos, scrapbooks, and diaries of members of this social club in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
1928-1996
Hallie Farmer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0503
Overview
Newspaper clippings and other published material by and about Dr. Farmer, including bibliographies, offprints of articles, book reviews, and other materials.
Dates:
1924-1960
Margaret Faulk collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0507
Overview
Letters and other materials regarding this University of Alabama librarian; most of the collection relates to her illness and death.
Dates:
1932-1942
Sarah Healey Fenton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0510
Overview
Newspaper clippings, letters, and photographs.
Dates:
1950s- 1980s
R. L. Hanvey collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0624
Overview
A collection of Ku Klux Klan material, including a copy of the handbook "Kloran," 5th ed., a leather wallet with the Klan seal, and a group photo of unidentified Ku Klux Klan women.
Dates:
circa 1920
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
Mattie McAdory Huey papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0713
Overview
A collection including photos used in Huey's History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
Unknown
Florence (Daisy) Jaffray Harriman letter and clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0634
Overview
A letter written by Harriman to Miss Harriet D. Mitchell, thanking her for a gesture of kindness, as well as a newspaper clipping from 19 April 1963.
Dates:
1941; 1963
Belle R. Harrison letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0645
Overview
Letters to Harrison, a member of the Tuscaloosa women's literary society, the Kettledrum, relating to her book of poetry. Correspondents include Martha Young and Augusta Evans Wilson.
Dates:
1895-1903
Bessie Leach Hayden paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0651
Overview
Paper entitled "Then Came the Women: The University in the Nineties," written by Bessie Leach Hayden, Dean of Women, about the first sixty years of coeducation at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1953
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
Lena E. Lockhart papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0871
Overview
Autobiographical sketch, inspirational materials, the papers "Woman's Part in Making Alabama History - the Past" presented to the Thomaston, Marengo County, Alabama Study Club, which focuses on female educators, and "History of The Thomaston Parent-Teacher Association", as well as a history of Thomaston, Alabama, by Alma Jean Compton, and materials relating to teaching.
Dates:
1951-1963
Quaker Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1174
Abstract
Minutes, yearbooks, members' correspondence, newspaper clippings, photos, event programs, and scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, young women's civic organization.
Dates:
1897-1970
Tuscaloosa Music Study Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1438
Overview
A collection of club records, constitution and by-laws, member lists, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials of this Tuscaloosa arts organization.
Dates:
1904-2007
Bettie V. Stone diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1445
Overview
Diploma awarded by the Tuscaloosa Female Academy in 1868.
Dates:
1868
Uniontown Methodist Church Women's Missionary Society records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1465
Abstract
This collection consists of a ledger containing meeting minutes, membership rolls, dues, and etc., for the early 1880s. It also contains a copy of an inspirational talk on missions and a photocopy of a history of the Women's Missionary Society.
Dates:
1880-1940; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1885
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee Chapter, letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1470
Overview
This collection contains a letter about a meeting and the business of the chapter.
Dates:
1900
United Methodist Women, North Alabama Conference records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1473
Overview
Records of conference meetings of Methodist Women in Missions, North Alabama Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1873-1979
University Alumnae Association minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1484
Abstract
A partial collection of meeting minutes of this service and social club for women graduates of the University of Alabama, 1934-39.
Dates:
1934-1939
Carolyn Elizabeth Shepherd Price papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1632
Overview
Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes, instructions and essays Carolyn Shepherd Price collected and used as teaching materials in her home economics class. They include a broad range of topics including child development, clothing, health and home management and decoration.
Dates:
1921-1984
Alabama Temperance records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2323
Overview
Correspondence about the temperance movement in Alabama
Dates:
1880
Mollie Sink Alabama Female Institute diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2400
Overview
Alabama Female Institute diploma of Mollie Sink
Dates:
1861 June 26
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Centennial Chapter, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2401
Overview
Two scrapbooks, the meeting minutes, and charter application
Dates:
1961-2006
Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, First District scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3781
Overview
Scrapbook from the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs), First District
Dates:
1941-1942
Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, Fourth District scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3783
Overview
Two scrapbooks from the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs), Fourth District
Dates:
1948-1950
Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, Seventh District scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3785
Overview
Three scrapbooks from the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs), Seventh District
Dates:
1934-1941
Searcy Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-035
Abstract
Photos of this Tuscaloosa family are in two photograph albums that contain images from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, the Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, and Warrior River (bridge and flooding), and family activities.
Dates:
1870 - 1987
Viscountess Astor letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0092
Abstract
A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.
Dates:
1952 November 5
Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Overview
Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
approximately 1835-1894
Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4279
Overview
This collection contains an unsigned, handwritten diary with details matching the life of magazine writer Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix, of Texas, who associated with key players in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The diary covers her activities in Texas, Mexico, and New York during 1914-1915, including work on her novel My Brother's Keeper (1915). There is also a typed transcript of the diary.
Dates:
1914-04-23 - 1915-03-29
Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book
Collection
Identifier: W-0015
Overview
Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.
Dates:
1861-1903
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