Showing Collections: 1 - 50 of 154
Alabama historical documents collection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
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 It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.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
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
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
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
Franklin Collier Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-033
Overview
This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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. 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
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
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
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
The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4199
Overview
Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.
Dates:
2016
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-071
Abstract
This collection consists of four photographs depicting firefighters from Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1910 - 1940
Letter to Servant Cokeram
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1733
Abstract
Letter from unknown writer to his servant Cokeram, instructing to provide provisions for an impending visit by the queen. Undated.
Dates:
no date; possibly 1600s
Thomas J. Scott and Sons Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2552
Overview
Contains primarily the incoming correspondence from companies, firms and lawyers with whom Thomas J. Scott and Sons did business. There is also correspondence between the Scotts and some hand copied letters from the Scotts to others. There are also letters from the Scott's church, clubs and lodges as well as requests for appointments to various post offices in Alabama.
Dates:
1885 - 1943
W. K. Ichimmel Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2130
Overview
Letter from W.K. Ichimmel from South Bend, Indiana, to his unnamed friend. The letter discusses his upcoming trip to Paris and the workers at the shirt factory where he works.
Dates:
1889-07-24
Cahill Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2282
Abstract
The Cahill Family Papers consist of personal correspondence to and from Clyde M., Michael J., and Belle Mills Cahill of Ohio. Also included in the collection are receipts and miscellaneous financial documents.
Dates:
1886-1935
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.025
Identifier: 2009-109
Overview
This collection consists of eight photographs depicting oil well workers in Texas.
Dates:
1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.034
Identifier: 2009-162
Abstract
This collection consists of four photographs depicting headquarters of the Caribbean Coast Planters Company.
Dates:
1913-03
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.031
Identifier: 2009-149
Abstract
This collection consists of three photographs depicting scenes from Wilburn Brothers Company in Texas.
Dates:
1920
Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Overview
Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.
Dates:
1850-1873
Elmer E. Rhode Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2550
Overview
Bernice Shelly writes from Tracy and Oakland, California, to P.F.C. Elmer E. Rhode, stationed in San Francisco, California, about her work as a waitress and at a factory to aid the war effort. A third letter makes a third-party reference to an encounter with Elmer Rhode written by Fred Kimball of San Francisco, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Dates:
1942 - 1943
Walter Bryan Jones photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2011-004
Overview
Includes personal and family photographs, as well as photographs taken in association with Jones' professional endeavors as state geologist of Alabama and during his military service in World War I and World War II.
Dates:
1915 - 1950; 1890 - 1973
Eddy Lanier King Gilmore papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0572
Overview
Compositions, scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Eddy Lanier King Gilmore, of Selma, Alabama, and his Russian-born wife, Tamara Kolb-Chernashovaya, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The bulk of material is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1940 - 1967
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract
This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates:
1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945
Louis Gerstman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0567
Overview
Papers of this Selma, Dallas County, Alabama insurance agent and manager of the Edwards Opera House and the Academy of Music, 1879-1896.
Dates:
1879-1896
S.A. and M. Railway survey notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0076
Overview
Material relating to Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery (S.A. & M.) Railway
Dates:
after 1888
Filtered By
- Subject: Business and Labor X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Names
- Cather & Brown Books 9
- Hall, Wade 8
- Williams, A. S., III 8
- Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company 3
- Alabama Fuel and Iron Company 2
- Alabama. Army National Guard 2
- Bessemer Land and Improvement Company 2
- Davis, Jefferson 2
- Elliott, Joseph J. 2
- Hargrove, Andrew Coleman 2
- Jemison, Robert, Jr. 2
- Shelby Iron Company 2
- Van de Graaff, Adrian Sebastian 2
- Academy of Music (Selma, Ala.) 1
- Alabama Central Female College (Tuscaloosa, Ala) 1
- Alabama Manufacturing Association 1
- Alabama Power Company 1
- Alabama Railroads 1
- Alabama State Fair 1
- Alabama. Constitutional Convention (1865) 1
- Allen and Jemison Hardware Company (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1
- Allen family 1
- Allen, Charles Edward, 1860-1943 1
- Allen, John Grey, 1810-1891 1
- Alvis, Thomas S. 1
- Ashville Railroad Company (Ashville, Ala.) 1
- Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company 1
- Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Company 1
- Baker, George O. 1
- Baker, Joseph M. 1
- Bank of the State of Alabama 1
- Bank of the State of Alabama. Huntsville Branch 1
- Barret, Benjamin T. 1
- Barry, James M. 1
- Bell Factory 1
- Bell, Robert F., Jr. 1
- Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Phillip) 1
- Benson, Catharine Goldthwaite 1
- Benson, Elias 1
- Benson, Nimrod Earl 1
- Benton County (Ala.) 1
- Beta Gamma Sigma 1
- Biedermann, Hugo F. 1
- Birmingham Coal and Coke Company 1
- Birmingham Historical Society 1
- Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union 1
- Birmingham Real Estate Board 1
- Blackwell, John 1
- Blount, Winton M. 1
- Bonney & Bush (Wilmington, Del.) 1
- Bowron, James 1
- Boykin family 1
- Boykin, James 1
- Bradford, Joseph H. 1
- Bragg, Walter Lawrence 1
- Brewster and Conley 1
- Brierfield Iron Works 1
- Broadnax, Cleavland, and McKerrill 1
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1
- Brown, Donald 1
- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson) 1
- Bryce Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1
- Bush & Lobdell (Wilmington, Del.) 1
- Business and Professional Women's Club (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) (1919) 1
- Cain, R. 1
- Caldcleugh, Andrew 1
- Caldwell, J. F. J. (James Fitz James) 1
- Caller, James Strother 1
- Cannon, Archie 1
- Cannon, John 1
- Cannon, Theron 1
- Caribbean Coast Planters Company 1
- Carl, Joseph 1
- Carmichael, Peter A. (Peter Archibald) 1
- Carney, Aubrey Toulmin 1
- Central City Fire Insurance Company 1
- Central Iron and Coal Company 1
- Central Plank Road Company (Tallassee, Fla.) 1
- Clayton, George Rooks 1
- Clements family 1
- Clements, Francis Bugbee 1
- Clements, Hardy 1
- Clements, Luther Morgan 1
- Clements, Martha Lavinia Bugbee 1
- Clements, Rufus Hargrove 1
- Cloak Drummer Company 1
- Cobb Coal Company 1
- Cocke family 1
- Cocke, John 1
- Cokeram, Mr. 1
- Cole, W. R. (Whitefoord R.) 1
- Coleman and Coleman Company 1
- Coleman and Duke 1
- Coleman, A. M. 1
- Coleman, A. W. 1
- Coleman, Hearst and Company 1
- Coleman, John J. 1
- Coleman, Rosa M. 1
- Columbus Nursery 1
- Comstock, William Strong 1 ∧ less
∨ more