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Mary Dees Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2562
Overview Two scrapbooks created by and featuring Mary Dees, a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Hollywood actress of the 1930s. The larger scrapbook of photos and newspaper clippings is related to Dees' work as Jean Harlow's stand-in and double in the Hollywood movie Saratoga. When Harlow died before finishing Saratoga, Dees filled in to complete the film in her place. There are also photographs, newspaper clippings and playbills, a...
Dates: 1933-2004
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Depositions of Peyton and Jane Graves in the Case of Elva v. Edwin Jenkins

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4234
Overview These depositions, which total fourteen pages, contain the August 1853 testimony of plantation owner Peyton L. Graves and his wife, Jane, regarding the case brought by their neighbor Elva Jenkins against her husband Edwin Jenkins, in Wilcox County, Alabama. The depositions include accounts of a violent dog attack against Elva, as well as her resentment over Edwin’s favoritism toward their slave Becky.
Dates: 1853 August 21
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Donn Sanford photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-021
Abstract Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.
Dates: 1956 February
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Eleanor Drenth Dodson Letters

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Identifier: MSS-4165
Overview Letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California, from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California.
Dates: 1942 - 1946
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Elise Ayers Sanguinetti Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0098
Abstract This collection consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, and galley proofs, as well as reviews and notices of Elise Ayers Sanguinetti, the Alabama author of The Last of the Whitfields (1962), The New Girl (1964), The Dowager (1968), and McBee's Station (1972).
Dates: 1929 - 2003
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix Diary

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Emory Peebles Hildreth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0669
Overview Newspaper clippings and a manuscript written by Hildreth
Dates: unknown
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Estes Embroidery Circle records

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Eugene Allen Smith Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-024
Abstract This collection consist of two hundred and sixty nine photographs depicting buildings around The University of Alabama campus; Tombigbee and other river's in Alabama; trains; Eugene Allen Smith house on campus and his family; Alabama State Capitol; steamboats; University of Alabama baseball team; scene's from University of Mississippi; and scene's from Wetumka Penitentiary.
Dates: 1813 - 1927
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Farm Security Administration Photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-093
Overview The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama. Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Dates: 1930 - 1942
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Farr Family Papers

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Identifier: MSS-4363
Dates: 1823-1952
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sarah Healey Fenton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0510
Overview Newspaper clippings, letters, and photographs.
Dates: 1950s- 1980s
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Feronia Garden Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4025
Overview Three scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, garden club, covering the years, 1958-1967.
Dates: 1958-1967
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Fleta McWhorter Dowling and Gwen McWhorter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1643
Abstract This collection consists of letters between Fleta McWhorter Dowling and her sister Gwen McWhorter, 1943-46, chiefly concerning the latter’s doctoral dissertation subject, some letters from others to Gwen McWhorter, and two Gwen McWhorter problem statements on the use of participation in the development of school health programs.
Dates: 1943 - 1949
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Baker Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers University of Alabama materials

 Collection — Box: 2339
Identifier: MSS-0523
Overview Items relating to Walter Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers as students at the University of Alabama, including commencement programs, SGA and WSGA ribbons, Triangle ribbon, library card, and invitation to a dance
Dates: 1943-1946
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0539
Overview Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.
Dates: 1918 - 1919
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ruth Bealle Glass Memory Book and UA Athletic Association membership ticket

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3868
Overview The Ruth Bealle Glass Memory Book is from Glass's senior year at Tuscaloosa High School and includes notes from classmates and faculty, photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, invitations, programs, and other mementos.
Dates: 1926 - 1927
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Gorgas Family Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-014
Abstract Collection consists of forty-nine photographs of William Crawford Gorgas (1854 - 1920) family, son of Josiah and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. Collection includes formal portraits of William Crawford Gorgas from infancy to adulthood, wife Marie, daughter Aileen and her children, Amelia Gayle Gorgas, friends of the Gorgas family, and interior and exterior scenes of the Gorgas homes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Cuba and Panama. Collection also includes a portrait photograph entitled "Hood's Children" that...
Dates: 1854 - 1920
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter

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Identifier: W-0095
Overview Contains copies of four speeches written by Talladega educator Joseph B. Graham and presented to various civic and social clubs; also contains one letter signed by Selma politician Edmund Pettus
Dates: 1884-1902
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.031
Identifier: 2009-146
Overview Thirteen photographs depicting scenes of everyday activities in various places.
Dates: 1900 - 1930
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bessie Leach Hayden paper

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Henry Tutwiler papers

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Identifier: W-0081
Overview Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.
Dates: 1862 - 1884
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Elizabeth Anne Hodo letter

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Identifier: MSS-0686
Abstract Letter written from Pickens County, Alabama, to Elizabeth Boswell, discussing school, friends, and social life.
Dates: 1844 September 1
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Edna Lee Holladay Diary

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Identifier: MSS-4044
Overview Diary (and transcription) kept by Edna Lee Holladay during her college days at the University of Alabama
Dates: 1936-1939
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"The Home of the Brownings"

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Identifier: W-0092
Overview Handwritten notes Octavia Walton Le Vert used during her lecture, "Home of the Brownings," which described her 1855 visit to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Dates: circa 1870
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. E. Mulkin Collection of African American Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-027
Overview This collection consists of 151 photographs and glass plate negatives of African Americans.
Dates: 1910 - 1920
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James William Oakley Jr. Photographs

 Collection — Box: 38034.001
Identifier: 2010-020
Abstract Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.
Dates: 1956 February
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jerry A. Davis, Jr. Photographs

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jerusha Hemphill DIploma

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0660
Overview A diploma for having completed the course of study at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates: 1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Julia Neely Finch Papers

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Kate Beatty Birmingham Bridal Gift Association membership certificate

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Identifier: MSS-0126
Abstract Contract making Kate Beatty, a resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a member of the Birmingham Bridal Gift Association.
Dates: 1882
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Kathryn Tucker Windham Manuscript, Common Threads

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Identifier: MSS-1820
Abstract Alabama author’s manuscript for the book, Common Threads.
Dates: 2000
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lena E. Lockhart papers

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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lorraine Standish Papers

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Identifier: MSS-1636
Abstract Columns, poems, songs, and other materials of this Lillian, Alabama, poet and songwriter.
Dates: 1970 - 2010
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Mammy stories"

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Identifier: W-0026
Overview Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Dates: between 1900 and 1920
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book

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Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
Dates: Circa 1848-1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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