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Bryce Hospital Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0225
Overview
Various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital.
Dates:
1849-1991
John Cocke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates:
1810-1899
Jesse Griffin letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Overview
A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.
Dates:
1813 September 5
Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract
The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.
Dates:
1840-1862
John F. Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1806
Abstract
Contains correspondence, financial materials, and material relating to the Grange, Farmers’ Alliance, Agricultural Relief, and other agricultural organizations of this Choctaw County, Mississippi, farmer who was an agent for the Daniel Pratt Company.
Dates:
1856-1888
Agnes Ellen Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0635
Overview
Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.
Dates:
1919 - 1945
Benjamin T. Barret Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0117
Abstract
A collection containing family correspondence, bills, receipts, clippings, and other items.
Dates:
1836 - 1921; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1900
James Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0737
Abstract
This collection contains accounts of a cotton plantation; records of a farm's cotton crop, including the number of hands employed and the amount picked; and recipes.
Dates:
1814 - 1884
Spring Valley Foods, Inc. Stock Sales Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1329
Overview
Large volume with information about the sale of 300,000 shares of common stock of Spring Valley Foods, Inc. at $1 par value. Includes correspondence with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a prospectus, memorandums, power of attorney information, letters from key parties involved, and certificates in a clearly labeled 72 section volume with table of contents.
Dates:
1969 - 1970
Hugh Gantt Lollar Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0874
Abstract
A small collection of letters from Oregonia, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, to his cousin Hugh Robinson, Level Land, Abeville, South Carolina. The chief subjects are agricultural conditions and prices.
Dates:
1859 - 1860
Green Underwood Record Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1459
Overview
Record book of Green Underwood in Dallas County, Alabama, lists information about cotton purchases and money due and owed to him. He lists how the money he has should be divided upon his death. He adds entries until his death in 1852; someone else made notes and entries until 1895.
Dates:
1843 - 1894
Thomas K. Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0786
Abstract
This collection contains a miscellany of correspondence, financial papers, cotton sales records, Confederate bonds, and other items.
Dates:
1852 - 1909
Georgia Census 1850 and 1860
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0566
Abstract
Handwritten census records for counties in Georgia. Contains information on numbers of slaves, acres of improved and unimproved land, and value of farms. Summary information provided for some counties. Counties included (1850): Elbert, Franklin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Greene, Gordon, Hall, Harris, Heard, Henry, and Houston. Counties included (1860): Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glynn, Gordon, Hall, Harrid, Heard, Houston, Lowndes, and Montgomery.
Dates:
unknown
Booth Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3170
Overview
Letters to and from members of the Booth family. Family and friends write about their experiences farming and raising livestock in Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa from 1857 to 1886.
Dates:
1857 - 1886
John Collier Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0536
Overview
A sizeable collection of church correspondence, sermons, and other religious materials, and family correspondence and other personal items of this farmer and Southern Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1841 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1892
Alabama Cultivation Promotional Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-025
Scope and Contents
One photographic album created in July 1911 of 18 black and white photographs promoting land cultivation in Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama. Photographs are of different types of fruit that can grow in Alabama and examples of orchards in bloom. The photographs measure 3 3/8" x 5 1/2" and are adhesive mounted to 16 paper leaves.
Dates:
1911-07-22 - 1911-07-24
La Tigra Cattle Ranch in Argentina Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-014
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one photographic album from the studio of Samuel Boote of 27 photographs from the 1880s visually documenting the La Tigra cattle ranch located near Olavarría, Argentina. Photographs measure between 6½” x 8½” and 4¾” x 7” and do not include captions.
Dates:
circa 1880s
Photographs of African American Tobacco Farmers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-005
Overview
Eighteen photographs depicting African American tobacco farmers near Petersburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1920 - 1960
Floyd R. Dunn papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0459
Overview
Letters and photographs from the governors of the 50 United States providing general information about each state, including each state’s government (number of state senators and representatives), the state flower, bird, and tree, and the population according to the United States Census of 1970
Dates:
1971
Lynchburg Mule Traders Association Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3884
Overview
Letter asking for support of a petition to have October 26, 1985, declared "Mule Appreciation Day U.S.A."
Dates:
1985
J. M. Bradshaw Farm Journals
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3693
Overview
The journals of this Luverne, Alabama, farmer.
Dates:
1912-1916
Huntsville, Alabama receipts, 1916-1917
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3700
Overview
Two receipts from Huntsville, Alabama, for groceries in 1916 and 1917
Dates:
1916-1917
Eyre Damer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0392
Overview
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.
Dates:
after 1900
Whitfield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1628
Overview
Papers of this Marengo County, Alabama, plantation family including correspondence, financial papers and business receipts, land sale documents, and Nathan Bryan Whitfield's presidential pardon.
Dates:
1820-1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-020
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four black and white photographs depicting unidentifed women from Steward, Nevada engaged in daily life activities on a farm.
Dates:
1910 - 1919
John Newland and George Wilcox receipt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1703
Abstract
This collection consists of a single receipt dated March 6, 1811 and signed by Newland and Wilcox, acknowledging payment of $3 by Hugh Lemasster for taxes owed for 1809 on a farm of 100 acres of second-rate land, 2 tiths, 3 slaves, and 7 horses.
Dates:
1811 March 6
W. H. Allard Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3042
Overview
Letter from W.H. Allard to his brother concerning the sale and value of marble.and letter to S. H. Allard regarding plows, horses, and land.
Dates:
1857 - 1859
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.018
Identifier: 2009-080
Abstract
This collection consists of ninety-seven photographs depicting flooded streets, and people engaged in various activities.
Dates:
1910 - 1939
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.026
Identifier: 2009-111
Overview
This collection consists of twenty photographs depicting vegetables and flowers in Texas.
Dates:
1950
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.026
Identifier: 2009-113
Overview
This collection consists of fifty-nine photographs depicting scenes in West Virginia.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.031
Identifier: 2009-147
Overview
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting harvesting in Texas.
Dates:
1930
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.032
Identifier: 2009-150
Abstract
This collection consists of 213 photographs depicting scenes from various places, such as cities, farms, tourist attractions, and rivers in Ireland, Scotland, France, and New York.
Dates:
1900
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.033
Identifier: 2009-151
Overview
This collection consists of thirteen photographs depicting scenes of harvesting hay, rifle shooting, and landscapes.
Dates:
1940
Melton's Bluff Receipts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4150
Overview
Six receipts concerning Andrew Jackson's farm, Melton's Bluff, on the Tennessee River in Alabama.
Dates:
1817-1818
Nelson Clayton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0315
Abstract
Papers reflecting the activities of a cotton planter in Lee County, Alabama, 1808-1868.
Dates:
1808-1868; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1860
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
Henry Leroy McGriff farm journals
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3754
Overview
Ledgers documenting the farm inventory, taxes, profits and losses, as well as mortgages, title abstracts, and related documents
Dates:
1898-1951
Yuille Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1601
Abstract
A collection of correspondence, 1861-1865, and other personal papers, as well as bills, receipts, and orders of this bakery in Mobile, Alabama, operated by Gavin Yuille (?-1849) and his sons John C. and Robert Lang Yuille (1822-?). Includes the loyalty oath taken by John C. Yuille in 1865.
Dates:
1827 - 1871
Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0186
Abstract
Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.
Dates:
1836-1843
Amelia Boswell letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0190
Abstract
Letter dated 13 August 1847, from Boswell of El Dorado, Arkansas, to her cousin, Elizabeth A. Boswell of Pike County, Alabama, discussing the health of family members, crops, and weather.
Dates:
1847 August 13
James Boykin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract
Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates:
1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870
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
John Cannon indenture
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0269
Overview
An agreement dated 10 January 1899 and executed in Elmore County, Alabama, between J. W. Adams and John Cannon, indenturing Archie Cannon, a minor, to five months agricultural labor.
Dates:
1899 January 10
I. M. Clark letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0308
Overview
Letter dated 28 July 1861, from "Clover Bottom" (near Huntsville) to his sister, giving news of crops and weather, and stating his desire to join the army.
Dates:
1861 July 28
Thomas H. Clements letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0317
Abstract
Letters to an Alabama farmer from 1866 to 1870
Dates:
1866-1870
Ben I. Coblentz survey
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0324
Abstract
Cultural resources survey of the proposed site of a Bryant Agricultural Corporation soy bean loading facility.
Dates:
1978
Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0350
Overview
Letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department's Nitre and Mining District 10, to P.J. Weaver, requesting his urgent cooperation in the manufacturing of nitre.
Dates:
1864 October 4
William Cooper Diaries and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0357
Abstract
The collection consists of six diaries for 1864, 1867, 1876, 1882, 1884, and 1887, and a photograph of Cooper, an attorney from Tuscumbia, Alabama. The diaries contain daily entries made by Cooper and, in his absence from home, his wife, and give a great deal of information about the community, his activities, and his family.
Dates:
1864-1887
Peter Courtney indenture
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0363
Overview
Handwritten indenture document, dated 1 January 1704, by which Peter Courtney of Middlesex County, England, leased a property, "Eagle Hollow" or "Parks Suggs," to Samuel Rogers of Cornwall County, England.
Dates:
1704 January 1
W. G. Croft letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0377
Overview
Letter from W. G. Croft, dated 18 November (circa 1835) from Canebreak, Union Town, Alabama, to his brother, Randall Croft, at Beaufort, South Carolina, discussing cotton crop yields in the area.
Dates:
circa 1835
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