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Roland Lee Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0011
Abstract
This collection includes documents related to the army service of this York, Alabama, native; an essay; a biographical sketch; and three miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1891- circa 1919
John Gorman Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0116
Abstract
Contains correspondence to and from John Gorman Barr, as well as other papers of this University of Alabama student, Tuscaloosa attorney, and United States Consul in Australia, known for his humorous writings.
Dates:
1840-1858
Boling Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Overview
Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.
Dates:
1833-1870
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
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
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 It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.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
C.S.S. Tuscaloosa Logs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0251
Overview
Portions of the logs for the C.S.S. Alabama and the C.S.S. Tuscaloosa. The logs document the daily weather, longitude and latitude as well as information about engagements with enemy ships. There is also a list of ships captured by the Alabama from 5 September 1862 to 20 June 1863 and copies of the correspondence between Lieutenant John Low as captain of the C.S.S. Tuscaloosa and various authorities of the British colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Dates:
1862–1864
Citizens of Macon County Ku Klux Klan letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0303
Overview
A letter dated July 1870 and signed by "Citizens of Macon County K. K. K.", threatening W. B. Bowen of Macon County, Alabama.
Dates:
1870 July
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
Benjamin J. Gaston Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3915
Overview
Letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry.
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Wynne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3918
Overview
Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.
Dates:
1804-2009
Alabama railroads of the past collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0042
Overview
Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.
Dates:
1855-1945
Collection of Alabama governors materials
Collection
Identifier: W-0054
Overview
Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.
Dates:
1820-1970
Battle family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Overview
Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1855-1871
Garner family letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0030
Overview
Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.
Dates:
1832-1886
Samuel Ledford Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4236
Overview
Samuel Ledford (1828-1863) served as a private for the Confederacy in the US Civil War as part of the North Carolina 55th Infantry Regiment. This collection consists of fifty letters Ledford wrote to his wife Lucinda from May 1862 to June 1863 while his regiment was engaged in campaigns throughout North Carolina and Virginia.
Dates:
1862-1863
Louis Mahaffey Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4240
Overview
Louis Mahaffey was a US soldier during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). This collection contains two notebooks of letters he wrote home to his family in Baltimore, Maryland, during his service overseas.
Dates:
1899-1901
J. D. Barron research material on Native Americans
Collection
Identifier: W-0088
Overview
Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.
Dates:
1887-1906
Gaillard and Hurtel families papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Overview
Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.
Dates:
1838-1885
Thomas McAdory Owen correspondence on A Bibliography of Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0093
Overview
Contains correspondence between Thomas McAdory Owen and Mississippi authors and scholars regarding Owen's A Bibliography of Mississippi.
Dates:
1896-1909
Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence
Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Overview
Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
Dates:
1821-1838
Emma Gelders Sterne papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0099
Overview
Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.
Dates:
1934-1953
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
Montgomery and West Point Railroad minute books
Collection
Identifier: W-0102
Overview
Contains two minute books, with entries from directors' and stockholders' meetings of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad from March 1846 to June 1870.
Dates:
1846-1870
Sue Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1323
Overview
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence from Sue Spencer to her family and friends during the time she spent with her husband and three sons living in Africa, an experience from which she published African Creeks I Have Been Up. Both the manuscript and galley proofs are included in this collection, as well as notes and observations for Mrs. Spencer's other publications, and newspaper clippings and other items related to Mrs. Spencer's life as an...
Dates:
1956 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1964
Hudson Strode Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1361
Overview
Hudson Strode (1892-1976) was a literature and creative writing professor at The University of Alabama from 1916-1963, and a writer of more than a dozen nonfiction books. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, prints, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to his travels and literary career.
Dates:
1753-1986
Willie T. White papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract
Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1860-1970
Augusta Evans Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1563
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1859-1909
John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0431
Overview
Collection contains letters written by John Horry Dent, Jr. (signed J. Horry Dent) of Barbour County, Alabama, from 1861 March 15 to 1864 July 1 to his father, John Horry Dent of Eufaula, Alabama. There are also two letters written by Dent Jr.’s fellow officers to Dent's father detailing information of Dent Jr.’s part aboard the C.S.S. McRae during the battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and his subsequent capture and internment at Fort Warren in May 1862.
Dates:
1861 - 1864
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates:
1869-1920
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
H. C. Harris letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0639
Overview
Letter dated 2 November 1862, from Camp Forney, near Mobile, to his sister in Livingston, Alabama, discussing going into winter quarters, decrying the army and the plight of the common soldier, and vehemently expressing his wish for a substitute to take his place in the army during the Civil War.
Dates:
1862 November 2
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
S. R. Norton letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1059
Abstract
Letters of a Union soldier in the 18th Michigan Infantry to his wife, written from Decatur, Stevenson, and Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864-1865
Marguerite Le Noir De Rouvray, Comtesse de Lostanges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0877
Overview
Letters and papers reflecting the social, political and economic disorder in Santo Domingo, where the Comtesse was an important land owner, together with miscellaneous items pertaining to Duke Gaston Pierre Marc de Levis, as well as . The collection also includes references to Comtesse de Lostanges' father, the Marquis Laurent Francois Le Noir de Rouvray. In French.
Dates:
1775 - 1852
Daughters of the American Colonists, Colonel George Reade Chapter (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2654
Overview
Eleven scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama,women's organization, covering the beginning years of organization (1956-1960) through 1998.
Dates:
1956-1998
Henry Washington Hilliard correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0674
Abstract
Contains photocopies of correspondence of Henry Washington Hilliard with others, regarding his various diplomatic appointments, as Foreign Minister to Belgium and Berlin.
Dates:
1841-1887
World War II letters collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Overview
Collection of letters to and from service men and women during World War II.
Dates:
1940-1945
James Thomas Heflin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0659
Abstract
Correspondence, speeches, press releases, biographical notes, campaign literature, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia of this member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator from Alabama.
Dates:
1895 - 1951
Hillel Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0672
Overview
Records, mostly correspondence of Rabbi Henry A. Fischel (1948-1956), relating to the activities of the Hillel Foundation and its role in student life at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1956
Gordy Brule Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4166
Overview
Letters written by and to Gordon "Gordy" Brule who served in the 447th Bomb Squad World War II.
Dates:
1943 - 1949
Roger Hertz Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4167
Overview
Almost daily letters written by Hertz and his family between 1944 and 1946 while he was serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Dates:
1944 - 1946
William A. Lyle Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4164
Overview
Letters written by William A. Lyle from 1943 to 1946, primarily to his mother in New York City, while he was serving in the United States Naval Reserves at the U.S. Naval bases in Maryland, California, and Hawaii, during World War II.
Dates:
1943 - 1945
L. N. Hitchcock Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0677
Abstract
Letter written from Mobile, Alabama, to Gideon Luger, discussing government problems
Dates:
1838-08
James Hillhouse Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0673
Abstract
A letter from the minister of the Greensboro Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Alabama, to an unidentified recipient discussing Hillhouse's wishes for the Presbyterians to reform the Catholic Church.
Dates:
1835-04
Howell F. Hayslette Letter and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0654
Overview
Letter and photograph, from Hayslette in Conde, France, to "My Dear Mother," thanking her for a Christmas parcel and expressing longings for home.
Dates:
1919-01-06
Ralph S. Bradley Manuscript and Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1824
Abstract
Collection contains a photocopied manuscript of Ralph Bradley’s Above Mortal: Novel in Three Parts and three letters of condolences to R. S. Bradley, Jr. after the death of Ralph S. Bradley, Sr.
Dates:
1998
Edward Bressie Vaughan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2283
Overview
Papers of both Edward Bressie Vaughan, Sr. and Jr. The majority of the papers are requisitions, receipts, Quartermaster stores, etc. from August through Novemeber 1862 during the Kentucky Campaign signed by or sent to Lieutenant Edward Bressie Vaughan, Jr.. Other papers include both Vaughan, Sr.'s and Jr.'s personal and business correspondence from 1832 through 1869. The collection also contains E.B. Vaughan, Sr.'s Oath of Allegiance (dated 30 June 1865) to the United Stated.
Dates:
1832 - 1867; Majority of material found in 1862 - 1862
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