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"Mammy stories"
Collection
Identifier: W-0026
Overview
Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Dates:
between 1900 and 1920
Hugh Young Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4280
Overview
This collection contains a handwritten copy of A Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida with Itineraries, a report written by US Army engineer Hugh Young in preparation for General Andrew Jackson’s 1818 march into Pensacola, West Florida, during the First Seminole War.
Dates:
1818
Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4289
Overview
This collection contains a diary and scrapbook kept by Ernestine Jones in 1951 when she went on a national tour as winner of the "Spirit of Cotton" competition held by the Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee, an annual African American festival in Memphis, Tennessee. It also contains four program books from the festival for the years 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1955.
Dates:
1951-1955
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Mabel Smythe-Haith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3117
Overview
Papers, books, and photographs belonging to Mabel Smythe-Haith, former ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, concerning academics, diplomacy, and civil rights.
Dates:
1950-2004
Jo Tartt Jr. and Judith Tartt Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4303
Overview
Collection consists of a variety of materials related to the life of Jo Cowin Tartt Jr. and his wife, Judith Watkins Tartt. The materials are predominately focused on Mr. Tartt's childhood and various careers throughout his life. Of notable interest are his photographs of the Alabama Black Belt during the 1960s through the early 1980s, which depict life and living conditions in small-town Alabama after the Civil Rights movement. In addition to his photographs, other materials include journals,...
Dates:
1890 - 2019
Billie Jean Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3417
Overview
The collection contains materials related to Billie Jean Young's one-woman show Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light… and other materials produced and gathered by Young.
Dates:
1983 - 2002
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
Good Samaritan Hospital's School of Nursing Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2021-006
Overview
One photographic album containing images and ephemera related to Gertrude Owens' time as a student at the Good Samaritan Hospital's Nursing School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dates:
1951
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
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-210
Abstract
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Dates:
1973-11-19
Solomon and Lucinda Perteet Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1129
Abstract
Includes receipts and legal papers of this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, free black man and his wife.
Dates:
1829 - 1872
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
S. A. McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0968
Abstract
Notes by McPherson while a theological student at Payne University, a college for African Americans founded in 1889 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, and copies of three commencement addresses at Attalla, Etowah County, and Thomas, Jefferson County, Alabama Public Schools.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
National Alliance of Postal Employees. District Four, Birmingham Branch, Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1036
Abstract
Material related to the Birmingham chapter of this organization of African-American postal employees, 1951-53.
Dates:
1951 - 1953
Bruce A. Hood Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0696
Abstract
Paper entitled "Some Rambling Thoughts on the American Negro and Current Related Issues," describing life for African Americans since emancipation
Dates:
1965
Ragland Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2016-001
Abstract
17 images of Ragland family.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940
Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract
Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.
Dates:
1938
Southern Rural Women's Network Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3395
Overview
Records of the Southern Rural Women's Network (SRWN) containing materials about the operation and mission of the SRWN.
Dates:
1977 - 2002
Photographic Album of an African American Family
Collection
Identifier: 2016-002
Abstract
Small rectangular photo album containing photographs of prominent African American family probably from around Washington, District of Columbia area.
Dates:
1910 - 1955
Victor Hugo Friedman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-020
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with ninety-nine photographs depicting Victor Hugo Friedman, a native of Tuscaloosa and local philanthropist, and his friends.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
James M. Research Materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace
Collection
Identifier: 2015-004
Overview
This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio and video recordings all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.
Dates:
1930 - 1979
Tuskegee Airmen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1446
Abstract
Photocopied articles, clippings, press releases, programs, membership rosters, and memoirs relating to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of men who participated in the first pilot training program for African-Americans during World War II.
Dates:
1983 - 1989
Jennie C. Lee Papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0113
Overview
Contains photographs, letters, programs, and other materials created and collected by Lee, who was director of the Tuskegee Choir for twenty-five years (1903-1928).
Dates:
1891 - 1938
Pettigrew Family Carte de Visite
Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract
Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy.
Acc # 015-008
Dates:
1866
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract
Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.
Dates:
1860-02-16
Lillian Graves Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4316
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twelve letters written by governess Lillian Graves from October 1885 through February 1886 as Graves cared for the Woodward family children in post-Civil War Alabama. Graves describes daily and holiday activities in late nineteenth-century Alabama, visiting the Woodward Iron Company mine, and makes extensive and problematic remarks about African Americans living in the Woodward home and in the area.
Dates:
October 1885-February 1886
Don Speed Smith Goodloe Papers
Collection — Box: 4312.001
Identifier: MSS-4312
Scope and Contents
This collection highlights the efforts of African American educator Don Speed Smith Goodloe to improve secondary education for African American students in Maryland’s segregated educational system from 1910 to 1911. The collection is composed of two series: Correspondence, 1910-1911, and Records for the Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie for the Training of Colored Youth, also known as the Maryland State Normal School No. 3. The collection is strong in incoming correspondence as it...
Dates:
1910 - 1911
Frederick D. Kennedy Vintage Glass Paperweight Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4181
Overview
Vintage glass paperweight collection primarily featuring United Methodist or Methodist Episcopal churches around the turn of the twentieth century
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1972
Collection pertaining to the death of Martin, enslaved earthworks laborer for the Confederacy in Charleston, South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4341
Scope and Contents
Eleven documents dated between September 14, 1863, and January 21, 1864, related to the conscripted labor and death of Martin, an enslaved man, and the evaluations and repayment to Thomas W. Chiles, a slaveowner. Martin, 24 years old, was conscripted by the Confederate government to build earthworks at a strategic location on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. Provided out of obligation to the Confederate Army, Martin suffered intensive labor and poor, disease-ridden conditions that caused his...
Dates:
1863-09-14 - 1864-01-21
Photographs of African American Tobacco Farmers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-005
Overview
Eighteen photographs depicting African American tobacco farmers near Petersburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1920 - 1960
W. C. Handy Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1836
Abstract
Contains one letter written from Handy to Columbia Records executive George Avakian and Handy’s answers to a questionnaire sent by Avakian.
Dates:
1955 November 30
World War II Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4091
Overview
Photograph album containing mainly 2.5" x 2.5" snapshots of an unidentified African American soldier during the 1940s
Dates:
between 1941 and 1950
Dinah Washington Stamp and Event Program
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2775
Overview
This collection consists of a stamp and program commemorating the issuing of a Dinah Washington stamp.
Dates:
1993 June 16
Mary Hairston Collection of Travel Ephemera from National Association of Colored Women (NACW) Convention
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4307
Overview
A collection of travel ephemera from a cross-country trip Mary Hairston took to attend the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in Los Angeles, California, in 1952.
Dates:
1952
E.D. Nixon article reprints
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2963
Overview
A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Dates:
1955-1982
Ku Klux Klan pamphlet
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3892
Overview
Pamphlet lists the names of residents who "signed the petition sent to Governor [George] Wallace," and the names of the employers of the signers.
Dates:
1963 May 29
Charlie J. Black papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Overview
Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Dates:
1985-1987
W. E. B. Du Bois papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3889
Overview
Typewritten works by DuBois, including an essay entitled "The Future of Africa in America" as well as a list of "Books on the African American"
Dates:
Circa 1940
Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC)
Collection
Identifier: 2021-007
Overview
Collection consists of photographs and ephemera from an African American member of the Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC), most likely collected by either Miriam Wheeler or Herlyne Leonard.
Dates:
1943
Wilhelmina Simpson Robinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1203
Abstract
This collection contains materials relating to Simpson's participation in the Rural Project, a 1930s "program of supervised student teaching in selected crowded rural Negro schools of Montgomery County [Alabama]." It includes photographs of Tankersley, Peoples Village, Ramer, Little Zion, Jericho, and Pine Grove schools, and information about students' activities.
Dates:
1937 - 1938
Nearror Family Histories
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4189
Content Description
The Nearror family histories collection contains two items: The Nearror Family: the Life Story of Virginia C. S. Rankins and Nearror Family History. Lena Virginia (Ginger) Nearror Smith Rankins wrote her family history and life story in a spriral notebook, perhaps in the 1980s or 1990s. Her son, Oscar D. Tucker, edited and augmented her earlier writings in 2012, resulting in his published work, Nearror Family History. Both items document the history of the Nearror family, an African American...
Dates:
circa 1985 - 2012
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract
This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
Dates:
1941
Wade Hall Entertainment Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2008-030
Abstract
This collection contains two hundred and thirty eight photographs depicting people from different forms of entertainment: music, radio, television, and film.
Dates:
1900 - 1999
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-025
Abstract
This collection consists of sixteen black and white photographs depicting various scenes from Jacksonville, Florida.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-036
Abstract
This collection consists of one hundred and eighty black and white photographs depicting unidentified people from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Dates:
1900 - 1910; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1909
Wade Hall Vietnam War Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-184
Abstract
This collection consists of three photographs of Vietnam War.
Dates:
1959 - 1975
Wade Hall Collection of Korean War Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2011-003
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from urban, everyday life in South Korea through the eyes of American soldiers during or after the Korean War. Some photographs depict American soldiers.
Dates:
1951 - 1953
Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4250
Overview
The Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States contains receipts, correspondence, and other materials that document the presence of enslaved African Americans in the US South.
Dates:
1796-2005
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.013
Identifier: 2009-054
Abstract
Collection consists of thirty-eight portraits of mainly African Americans.
Dates:
1870 - 1890
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