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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 It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.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
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Overview
Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates:
1876-1987
William A. Stickney diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0057
Overview
Diary of Episcopal minister William A. Stickney contains entries dated from 1841-1847. The diary documents Stickney's life as a college student at LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama, the University of Alabama, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Entries provide information about Stickney's daily life, as well as descriptions of religious services he attended and led, and a description of his personal devotions.
Dates:
1841-1847
David Holmes Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4212
Overview
Collection of two diaries, two sketchbooks, six letters, and other items created by Sergeant David Holmes (1841-1864) of the 20th Michigan Infantry. The materials provide insight into the rigors of daily life for an Civil War soldier
Dates:
1858-1864
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
John A. Vaughn diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1495
Abstract
Civil War diary of a Virginia native who later settled in Alabama. The entries are limited to 1863.
Dates:
1863
Fletcher and Jean Howington Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1627
Overview
Correspondence, writings, sermons, church bulletins, and personal financial papers relating to this Methodist minister and his wife in Alabama.
Dates:
1826 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1978
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
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
Eliza Ann McCants Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4211
Overview
The collection consists of two diaries kept by Eliza Ann McCants (1817-1844) in the antebellum South. Volume One contains 160 pages and covers the years 1840-1842. Volume Two contains 136 pages and covers the years 1843-1844.
Dates:
1840-1844
Thomas S. Jordan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0791
Abstract
Papers of this Birmingham, Alabama, dentist and his family.
Dates:
1884 - 1928
Nathaniel C. Kenyon Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0809
Abstract
Contains a photocopy of a typescript of the diary this Union officer with the 11th Illinois Infantry kept from before and during his capture in Tennessee. He provides fairly detailed descriptions of life as a prisoner of war in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and other southern cities.
Dates:
1862 - 1865
James E. Nunn Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1062
Abstract
Diary of this Mooresville, Limestone County, Alabama resident
Dates:
1854 - 1856
Samuel Pickens Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1148
Abstract
This collection contains Pickens' school notebook, 1858; his friendship book, 1858-59; war letters to his mother; and a typed transcript of his diary, 1862-1865.
Dates:
1858 - 1865
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
James Heyward North Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1056
Abstract
A copy of the 1861 diary written by a former U.S. Navy officer who sided with the Confederacy. It describes his efforts to acquire ships and position coast defenses, and his travels to Ireland, London and Paris. The original is in the University of North Carolina Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill.
Dates:
1861
Daphne Cunningham Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0385
Abstract
Diaries whose short entries provide information on the daily activities of this coed from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
James T. Tate Journal, Photograph, and Service Ribbons
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4121
Overview
Journal, photograph, and service ribbons of a young sailor aboard the USS Alabama in the years preceding the United States' entry into World War I.
Dates:
after 1918
Louise Lacy Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4122
Overview
Diary of a teenage girl in Jasper, Alabama, during January and February of 1911.
Dates:
1911 January - February
Winifred Ruth O'Rear Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4133
Overview
Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman
Dates:
1936-1937
Violet Rochelle Wolford Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4065
Overview
Diary of young woman in Cordova, Alabama, in 1918.
Dates:
1918
Mildred McCollum Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4067
Overview
Diary of young woman in Depression-era Alabama.
Dates:
1933-1937
McCorvey and Tutwiler families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0947
Overview
A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.
Dates:
1830 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
William Henderson Wood Journal and Will
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1571
Abstract
A daily journal by and last will and testament of this Collinsville, DeKalb County, Alabama resident.
Dates:
1876 - 1885
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
Esbon C. Lambert Diary and Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3924
Abstract
Diary and letters from Lambert, a United States Navy landsman aboard the USS Itasca from 1863-1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Dates:
1863-1864
Joseph S. Huhn Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3217
Overview
Pocket diary of Civil War Union soldier, Joseph S. Huhn of Company "F" of the Ohio 114th Infantry, documenting daily activities between 1 January and 21 August 1865. The remainder of the diary is miscellaneous information and a series of exam questions.
Dates:
1865
Charles Ellis diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2819
Overview
Diary written by First Sergeant Charles Ellis of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The diary contains daily notes concerning regimental duty in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1865.
Dates:
1865
Diary of an Alabama Presbyterian Minister, 1832
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2646
Overview
Diary of an unidentified Presbyterian minister from Alabama, recording his travel from Alabama to New York to attend the Presbyterian Church's Assembly in Philadelphia in 1832.
Dates:
1832
James Neff Civil War Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4070
Overview
Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.
Dates:
1864
R. H. Cook Diary and Poems
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4114
Overview
Diary for the year 1869 written by a young man in Rose Hill, Mississippi.
Dates:
1869-1880
J. J. Magee diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3764
Overview
Civil War diary of Captain J. J. Magee of Company D, Eighth Alabama Infantry.
Dates:
1861
Miss T. Jackson Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4068
Overview
Primitive diary of a young lady of Gainesville, Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1860
Mr. Canly Scotland and European Travel Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4069
Overview
Detailed travel diary of a young man and his family traveling in Scotland and Europe in 1860.
Dates:
1860
Elizabeth Schmenk composition book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3490
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Schmenk composition book contains letters to her brother and various writings.
Dates:
1880
P. H. P. Typed Diaries and Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4064
Overview
Typed diary of a northern women who moved to Alabama when her husband was relocated to an Army base there.
Dates:
c. 1950
Alma Simpson Travel Journals
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4204
Overview
A detailed account of a family's travels during the early 1920s as described by an independent young college woman during her summer vacations.
Dates:
1923-1925
Daniel R. Hundley Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0716
Abstract
Hundley's diary covers the years 1861-64. The entries discuss secession and preparations for war, wartime service, private thoughts, news from home, and other matters.
Dates:
1861 - 1864
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
Woodward Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Overview
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.
Dates:
1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950
Wade Hall Collection of Diaries and Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4259
Overview
This collection consists of diaries, scrapbooks, and other personal books belonging to various individuals across the United States.
Dates:
1799 - 2003
Askew family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0091
Overview
Biographical sketch, ledger, diaries, church histories, newspaper clippings, copies of poetry and pieces written about Confederate history in Alabama, address and appointment books from this Dayton, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1844-1993
Baltzell and Bullock families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0105
Abstract
The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.
Dates:
1839-1921
William Pitt Ballinger diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0104
Abstract
Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.
Dates:
1864-1868
John Taylor Banks diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0109
Abstract
Diary of druggist who served in the 6th Alabama Regiment. Also includes a biographical sketch and a coroner's report signed by Banks.
Dates:
1862-1893
James C. Bennett papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0137
Abstract
A miscellaneous collection of Civil War material of this Union soldier from Indiana, including enlistment lists, muster roles, war songs, writings, drawings, a diary, genealogical information, and clippings. All materials are photocopies of originals.
Dates:
circa 1862-1899; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1869
Ellsworth Hults diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3735
Overview
The diary of the paymaster's clerk aboard the USS Galena from February through November 1864. There is also a transcription of the diary and a photograph of Admiral James Forsyth "the tallest man in the American Navy, 6 ft 6."
Dates:
1864 February - November
James McClung Sieg Congo mission journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3745
Overview
Journal kept by Presbyterian missionary to Africa in 1907-1908.
Dates:
1907-1910
Charles Raven Brockmann diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3757
Overview
The diaries of a librarian, traveling salesman, and committed diarist.
Dates:
1906-1970
Diary of E. Carey Moore in England in 1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4337
Scope and Contents
One diary consisting of 205 pages kept by E. Carey Moore from January to July of 1890 as he traveled throughout England on business. The diary makes mention of interactions with politician Robert Todd Lincoln, British diplomat Clement Lloyd Hill, and banker John C. New. Some of the companies mentioned throughout the diary are Colonia Coffee Plantation, Canara and Escuadron Coffee Plantations, and Tepis. The diary is bound, with blank pages dated from July 25, 1890, to the end of the year. The...
Dates:
1890-01-01 - 1890-07-24
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