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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
H. E. Wheeler Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-214
Overview
This folder consists of seven black and white photographs of botanical subjects in Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties, including shots of "House of Mystery" (also known as Childs Home) in Gainesville, Alabama.
Dates:
1926 - 1929
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
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
G. W. Hewitt Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0668
Abstract
A 1876 letter to the editor of the Congressional directory.
Dates:
1876
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0033
Overview
The business records of a firm with extensive mine holdings in Alabama, including minutes of stockholders meetings, 1917-1953, minutes of the board of directors, 1927-1953, and miscellaneous material.
Dates:
1917 - 1953
Lawrence S. Alexander archaeological surveys
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0060
Overview
Surveys made by Alexander when he was an employee of the Office of Archaeological Research at the University of Alabama, on lands in Jefferson, Jackson, and Geneva Counties
Dates:
1979
James Q. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1290
Overview
Contains a certificate from the Marion Military Institute, 1898, letters of correspondence 1892 -1939, financial receipts, newspaper clippings, telegrams 1918, legal documents from his election time period as Attorney General of Alabama 1918-1930, personal papers, notes and remarks as his time as judge 1930-1940's.
Dates:
unknown
Traders' National Bank Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1792
Overview
Booklets that have information about the various positions and tasks associated with the bank
Dates:
circa 1922 - 1927
Henry Conrad Blanford papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0171
Abstract
Bound prayer book and related materials dealing with this Lay Reader of the Episcopal Church's healing missions in Anniston and Ensley, Alabama.
Dates:
1920-1922
Bessemer Civic Music Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0144
Abstract
Collection of items relating to this club from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, including programs, press releases, clippings, etc.
Dates:
1949-1954
Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0163
Overview
One ledger that records the association's meetings from 1913-1916.
Dates:
1913-1916
Frederick Divers papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0437
Overview
Weekly bulletins from several central Alabama churches served by the Rev. Frederick Divers in the 1940s and 1950s. There are also letters and certificates of study as well as a booklet of baptismal certificates from 1933 to 1951. There are several World War II ration books and correspondence relating to the building program of Union Bethel Independent Methodist Church in Birmingham.
Dates:
1933-1956
Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Overview
Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Dates:
1959-1984
Gaines Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0550
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business documents relating to the Gaines family, most of it from Mobile, Choctaw, and Jefferson Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
1824-1949
W. F. Hanby pension application
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0616
Overview
Application, dated 8 July 1907, filed in Jefferson County, Alabama, for a Confederate veterans' pension.
Dates:
1907 July 8
McAdory and Huey family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0069
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama
Dates:
1863 - 1929
George and Eleanor Bridges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Overview
Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.
Dates:
1932-1965
John H. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0009
Abstract
The correspondence of a Birmingham, Alabama, mining engineer, businessman, poet, and public servant. The collection also includes a small group of papers of Adams' son, John R. Adams, an attorney and realtor.
Dates:
1889 - 1943; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1936
Valley Creek Canal, West Jefferson County, Alabama, reports
Collection
Identifier: W-0065
Overview
Two reports on a proposed canal project on the Valley and Warrior Rivers in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Dates:
1917 - 1943
Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract
This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.
Dates:
1886-1982
Edward Calvin Crow correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0378
Overview
Correspondence between E. C. Crow and Dr. John M. Gallalee of the University of Alabama regarding a newspaper article on Gen. Josiah Gorgas, as well as a newspaper article on the oldest judge in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1952
AS Williams III Alabama Coal and Iron records
Collection
Identifier: W-0062
Overview
Correspondence, annual reports and audits, maps, and other material related to coal and iron production in Alabama.
Dates:
1874 - 1943
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