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Alabama historical documents collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0037
Overview
Miscellaneous deeds, certificates, bills of sale, legal suits, court orders, and bonds pertaining to various regions or persons in Alabama. Includes a copy of the post-Civil War loyalty oath.
Dates:
1826-1866
Joseph Emerson Brown letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0219
Overview
Letters from Brown, most of them to his friend and business associate General Ira R. Foster, Quartermaster General of the State of Georgia during the Civil War. Also contains copies of letters between Brown and Georgia politician Howell Cobb, regarding appointing Foster as a special railway postal agent for north Georgia and north Alabama.
Dates:
1857-1867
Francis Bugbee papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Overview
Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.
Dates:
1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820
James Bowron papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract
A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.
Dates:
1861-1928
A. and R. Cain Tannery and General Store records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0254
Overview
Daybooks and an accounts ledger kept by the owners of a tannery and general store on Tanyard Street, Northport, Alabama
Dates:
1869-1880
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
American Cast Iron Pipe Company nomination binder
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3456
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a binder of materials and photographs nominating the American Cast Iron Pipe Company for Birmingham, Alabama's fifth annual Beautification Award.
Dates:
1975
Coleman and Coleman mercantile records
Collection
Identifier: W-0051
Overview
Two ledgers documenting sales made at the Coleman, Hearst, and Company mercantile, also named Coleman and Coleman, located in Richmond, Alabama, in the 1860s.
Dates:
1861-1862
Southern Trade and Diplomacy Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4214
Overview
The collection consists of one letter and two pamphlets related to trade and diplomacy in the antebellum South.
Dates:
1837 - 1860
Cameron McRae Plummer book list
Collection
Identifier: W-0087
Overview
Contains a list of books compiled by Haunted House Book Shop owner Cameron McRae Plummer.
Dates:
1950-1961
Early Huntsville, Alabama, letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0100
Overview
Two unrelated letters, dated from 1822 and 1831, containing information about Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1822, 1831
Milner Coal and Railroad Company meeting minutes
Collection
Identifier: W-0101
Overview
Minutes of directors and stockholders' meetings between 1900 and 1910
Dates:
1900-1910
A.Y. Sharpe and Son, Demopolis, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1260
Abstract
Partial records of a Demopolis, Alabama, general store, including amounts brought forward, 1880-1892; and purchases, 1893-1911. Some loose pages are laid in to the account book.
Dates:
1880-1911
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
Alex Gunn ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0603
Overview
Account and invoice ledgers of Alex Gunn's Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama store from 1909 to 1914.
Dates:
1909-1914
Allen and Jemison Hardware Company ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3193
Overview
Two business ledgers of the Allen and Jemison Hardware Company of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1929 October - 1962 September
Barrie Lucien Holt papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0692
Overview
Contains the papers of Barrie Lucien Holt, covering his life as a capitalist, planter, financier, and quartermaster general of the Alabama National Guard. Holt was an organizer and majority shareholder in the Prattville Cotton Mills and Banking Company, as well as a partner in D. M. Snow and Company.
Dates:
1841-1950
Spencer J. McMorris daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0967
Abstract
Records of daily sales in a general store in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama, 1837.
Dates:
1837
C. H. Miller Store Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0987
Abstract
General merchandise store records, including ledgers, daybooks, correspondence and miscellaneous materials from a business located in Miller, Marengo County, Alabama.
Dates:
1891-1910
J. R. Odom store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Overview
Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.
Dates:
1920-1937
Phil E. Hill General Store Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0671
Abstract
An account ledger for a general store in Fairfield, Alabama, possibly owned by Phil E. Hill
Dates:
1873 - 1874
Hearst, Dennis and Company Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0656
Abstract
The 1871-1872 letterbook of a firm in Richmond, Dallas County, Alabama.
Dates:
1871 - 1872
Three Miscellaneous Ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4042
Overview
Three early twentieth century ledgers for Tuscaloosa and Pickens county businesses.
Dates:
1908 - 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
Ashville Railroad Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0090
Abstract
Photocopies of resolutions about the formation of the company, legal documents, printed maps, certificates of incorporation, and board meeting notices related to the Ashville Railroad Company, 1882-1884.
Dates:
1882 - 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
Franklin Collier Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-033
Overview
This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
E. Sears Letters and Account
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1238
Abstract
Two letters, dated 25 January and 23 June 1859, to C. E. Hull, M.D., New York, the latter of which includes details of mileage, expenses, and accounts settled, 13-23 June 1859, while selling patent medicine in Alabama.
Dates:
1859
Knabe and Scott Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0828
Abstract
Two bound volumes, one a daybook covering August 1, 1887 through August 1, 1888, the other an index.
Dates:
1887 - 1888
Charles Carter Langdon Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1623
Abstract
A letter dated 6 March 1860 from Mobile to Langdon's brother, that discusses his work in the nursery business, selling fruit trees, expanding his vineyard acreage, and his winery. Langdon also addresses the slavery issue at length.
Dates:
1860-03-06
Henry DeBardeleben business records
Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Overview
Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.
Dates:
1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905
Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview
Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates:
1849-1861
A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book
Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Overview
Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Dates:
1861-1869
Lawrence County, Alabama Tavern License
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0847
Scope and Contents
A license dated 23 September 1835, granted to Alexander M. Brooks, Edward Jones, and M. Seuris to operate a tavern in Lawrence County, Alabama.
Dates:
1835-09-23
R. M. Patton Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1111
Abstract
This collection consists of a letter regarding lands due the Wills Valley Railroad Co. (part of Northeast and Southwest Alabama RR) upon completion of 20 miles of track, also an offer to purchase mineral rights to the same from Governor (military?) R. M. Patton, who was also President of the Board of Directors of the Central Mining and Petroleum Company of Alabama. Also contains a copy of some legislation.
Dates:
1866
A. F. Hopkins Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0703
Abstract
A letter from Hopkins to Silas Parsons of Huntsville, Alabama, about the debt and finances of clients
Dates:
1844-12-11
James Woodrow Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1572
Abstract
A letter dated 22 September 1852, from LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama, requesting a subscription to a journal titled the Presbyterian.
Dates:
1852-09-22
Yeatman and Kent Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1595
Abstract
A letter dated 11 July 1826, from this law firm in Huntsville, Alabama to John Gill, Jr., a Philadelphia merchant, transmitting payment on a note.
Dates:
1826-07-11
Bank of the State of Alabama, Huntsville Branch, Notices of Protest
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0107
Abstract
Notarized notices of protest against writers of drafts, bills of exchange, and promissory notes for which there were no funds available upon their due dates. Microfilmed by Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1954.
Dates:
1836 - 1837
Madison County, Alabama, Probate Court Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0894
Abstract
Records of the granting of letters testamentary, settling estates and guardianships, and other matters, 1863.
Dates:
1863
Frank Everard Ardrey, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-022
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the railroads, trolleys, and railroad stations throughout Alabama.
Dates:
1912 - 1974
Jacob Faser letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0506
Overview
Letters written from Mobile, Alabama, where Faser was working as a sword maker, to his wife in Macon, Mississippi, dealing mainly with personal news and information on the prices of available goods.
Dates:
1861 - 1865
Perry County, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0139
Abstract
Letters and other documents donated by a source in Perry County, Alabama. The collection consists of eight letters to Elias Benson. There is also one summons order included in the Elias Benson series. Another series contains the will of Philip Smith of South Carolina. The Thomas and Mary Jones series contains three statements of debt made to John E. Cook, along with an indenture statement and draft. The final series includes miscellaneous documents including deed certification, court records,...
Dates:
1796 - 1898
Alabama Marble Quarries prospectus/stock subscription form
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0042
Overview
A prospectus describing the marble quarried by the firm in Talladega County, Alabama, and the demand for it. At the bottom of the second page is a stock subscription form.
Dates:
1910
Alabama Manufacturing Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0041
Overview
Includes membership information, correspondence to members, newsletters, data on industrial growth, and civic booster brochures from various Alabama cities.
Dates:
1953 - 1979
Young-White Mercantile Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1600
Abstract
Records of this Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama, general store which operated 1905 to 1933.
Dates:
1905 - 1933
F. H. Petrie letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1620
Abstract
Letters written from Colbert Shoals and Florence, Alabama, to a business partner about digging canals around shoals on the Tennessee River. Petrie discusses sickness, heavy rains, high water, and lack of funding.
Dates:
1831 - 1833
Hugh Mallory Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2649
Overview
Letter written by Hugh Mallory of Selma, Alabama, on August 15, 1932 to an unidentified person asking for names of others in the recipient's community whom Mallory could contact regarding the use of the highways by busses and trucks being operated for personal profit. Also included is a letter to the State Legistlature requesting that body to regulate such usage.
Dates:
1932
Alabama State Fair bag
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2393
Overview
Paper bag made to promote the University of Alabama School of Chemistry exhibit at the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham, Alabama, September 26 - October 1, 1938.
Dates:
1938
Will Franke paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0540
Overview
A paper titled "Jefferson County 1850," written by this Birmingham, Alabama, native at the request of the Birmingham Historical Society and includes a detailed listing of the county's merchants and political leaders circa 1850.
Dates:
1950
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