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Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
Dates: Circa 1848-1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Prentiss Ingraham and Joseph H. Ingraham Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0729
Abstract Material relating to "dime novelist" Prentiss Ingraham and his father, Joseph Holt Ingraham, kept by Prentiss's daughter, Rosa. Included are clippings, letters, poetry, photographs and other items, and a a list of books by Ingraham held by the W. S. Hoole Library.
Dates: 1839 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1868 - 1950
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W. A. Mair Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-025
Overview This collection consists of two photographic albums with 230 photographs showcasing highlights of W. A. Mair travels with his friends and family through Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Mexico, and Tennessee.
Dates: 1900 - 1901
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Townsend Heaton letters

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Identifier: W-0091
Overview Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Dates: 1861-1864
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Edward Lee Hotel Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4321
Scope and Contents One handmade sign from the Edward Lee Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi, from approximately 1963 supporting freedom and equality. The sign measures approximately 30" x 20" and is marked with the initials "EL" in two corners. The Edward Lee Hotel was one of two African American-owned hotels in Jackson, Mississippi.
Dates: 1963
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Y. Gholson Legal Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4130
Overview Two pocket ledgers listing the cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans, of this Pontotoc, Mississippi, lawyer, from 1839-1842
Dates: 1839-1842
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Humphries Family Ancestor Book and Story Collection (PDF file on CD-ROM)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4175
Overview Family history of the Humphries of Mississippi and Alabama.
Dates: 2008
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
Dates: 1941
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.015
Identifier: 2009-060
Abstract This collection consists of eighty-one photographs depicting unidentified people and scenes from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Washington, New York, Wyoming, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon and England.
Dates: 1915 - 1940
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.016
Identifier: 2009-063
Abstract Six photographs of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Dates: 1913
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-094
Abstract This collection consists of seven photographs depicting city of Alton, Illinois and scenes along a river: a bridge, a steamboat, and the shoreline.
Dates: 1914-07
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sam Dale envelope fragment

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3732
Overview Fragment of an envelope sent to David Holmes, then governor of the Mississippi Territory (which included the state of Alabama), on 15 May 1817, by Sam Dale at Fort Claiborne, Alabama
Dates: 1817 May 15
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Maria E. Chandler and H. R. Garner Cotton Claims Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4128
Overview Handwritten and typescript documents - correspondence, affidavits, etc. - relating to two southern clients of the New York lawyer Quinton Corwine, dealing with compensation due them for cotton seized by federal agents during the Reconstruction period
Dates: 1864-1898
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

R. Aaron Dean Account Ledger

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Identifier: MSS-4129
Overview Account ledger of R. Aaron Dean showing debits and credits charged to various individuals
Dates: 1892-1925
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Allan F. Archer papers

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Identifier: MSS-0082
Overview Documents pertaining to the career of Dr. Allan F. Archer from 1932 to 1951 when he worked at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey of Alabama. The material primarily focuses on Dr. Archer’s study of spiders, but includes crabs, mollusks, crustacean and matters of ecological and biological importance as well.
Dates: 1932-1951
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

E. O. McElroy papers

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Identifier: MSS-3758
Overview Ten U.S. postal service railroad mail service directories for several southeastern states: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; letters, postal rating exams, etc.
Dates: 1938-1948
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs

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Identifier: MSS-4339
Scope and Contents This collection from Buckner Hospital, dating from April 1862 to April 1865, is comprised of one ledger of patients treated by the hospital’s mobile unit and one ledger of medical orders. The patient ledger is 343 pages and contains patient names, ranks, regiments, companies, complaints and applied treatments, and whether the patient was discharged or died. The medical orders ledger is 141 pages of general and specific orders concerning medical treatment at field hospitals. The ledgers are...
Dates: 1862-04 - 1865-04
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. L. Townsend letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1419
Abstract Letters to his wife and family sent from Kentucky and Corinth, Mississippi in 1862. The letters give instructions for handling his business affairs and express discontent with the war.
Dates: 1862
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

The Daily Citizen newspaper

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Identifier: MSS-3556
Overview The last issue of this Vicksburg, Mississippi, newspaper printed on July 2, 1863.
Dates: 1863 July 2
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference papers

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Identifier: MSS-3599
Overview Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference records
Dates: 1971-2010
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jefferson Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0404
Abstract This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.
Dates: 1823-1917
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Early Alabama documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0464
Overview Documents from the mid nineteenth century, including store and tax receipts, court orders, letters, property appraisals, etc., from Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, mainly pertaining to West Alabama
Dates: 1844-1887
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Strother Gaines paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0551
Overview Typescript copy of Gaines's "Reminiscences of Early Times in the Mississippi Territory," which discusses the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and treaties (1810-1840).
Dates: 1908
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0602
Overview Documents dealing with various financial considerations concerning mortgages, bonds, consolidations, etc., between 1912 And 1914
Dates: 1912-1936
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Eliza Williams Chotard Gould memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0582
Overview Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.
Dates: 1868
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mississippi Territory seal

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Identifier: MSS-0999
Overview Picture of the Mississippi Territory seal
Dates: unknown
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile records

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Identifier: MSS-1000
Abstract Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists
Dates: 1836 - 1876
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Herman Packard journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1092
Abstract Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Dates: 1837-1847
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Belle M. Turner Papers

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Identifier: MSS-1428
Overview Two documents in the case of an altercation between A.L. West and Thomas M. Pearce in Noxubee, Mississippi.
Dates: circa 1867
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute

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Identifier: 2020-007
Overview One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.
Dates: 1921 - 1924
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles H. Howe Civil War Diary and Map

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Identifier: MSS-4284
Overview Civil War diary, kept by Private Charles H. Howe, written on the verso and margins of a printed Civil War-era map on which he outlined the route he traveled.
Dates: 1862-09 - 1863-09
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Woodard and Gene Smith letters

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Identifier: W-0112
Overview Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.
Dates: 1861 - 1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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