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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
Commonplace book on Christianity and slavery
Collection
Identifier: W-0032
Overview
Commonplace book with entries addressing a number of topics, including church politics, theological concerns, childrearing practices, and slavery.
Dates:
between 1840 and 1851
James Lockhart Goodloe letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0089
Overview
Contains one letterbook, which includes the autobiography of James Lockhart Goodloe, a Tennessee lawyer.
Dates:
1876
Eldred Burder Teague papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1390
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of the religious compositions of an 1840 graduate of the University of Alabama who became a prominent Baptist minister.
Dates:
1844-1883
Samuel Richmond Caffee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2114
Abstract
Diary (and photocopies) and other documents written by Samuel Richmond Caffee, physician and founding member of Avondale Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. There are also documents written by others about Dr. Caffee.
Dates:
1858-1977
F.M. Dansby diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2744
Overview
This collection contains the diary of F.M. Dansby, an Episcopalian priest in Birmingham, Jeffereson County, Alabama. The diary only covers the Sundays of each month, where Dansby indicates where he preached and on what texts.
Dates:
1890-1895
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
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
"Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church in Tuskaloosa, Alabama."
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0676
Overview
A paper titled "Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church in Tuskaloosa, Alabama." It includes lists of pastors, elders, and deacons, 1820-79.
Dates:
1901
Big Creek Baptist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0156
Abstract
Deed for land, lists of members, and monthly meeting minutes of this Baptist church in Coker, Alabama.
Dates:
1821 - 1913
Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.
Dates:
1798 - 1990
Hopewell Baptist Church Historical Information
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0702
Abstract
A list of original members and some of the pastors of this Alabama church by an unknown author.
Dates:
1822 - 1913
Richard Furman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Overview
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826-1865
John Collier Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0536
Overview
A sizeable collection of church correspondence, sermons, and other religious materials, and family correspondence and other personal items of this farmer and Southern Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1841 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1892
Bethany Baptist Church, Buhl, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0149
Abstract
Contains original and photocopies of the church records books of Bethany Baptist Church of Buhl (now at Coker), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, dating from 1832 to 1981, including the Articles of Faith, Rules of Decorum, members names, pastor’s salary, and the constitution of the Bethany Baptist Church.
Dates:
1832 - 1981
Kennedy Baptist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3886
Overview
Photocopies of the records of this Kennedy, Alabama, Baptist church, including business meeting notes, budget notes, and records of daily church activities
Dates:
1981-1985
George G. Hardin poems and song
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0627
Overview
Religious poems and hymn written by Hardin when he was in his 80s and 90s
Dates:
1981-1986
Newbern (Ala.) Methodist Church membership register
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1045
Overview
The signatures of the members of this Methodist Church in Newbern, Perry County, Alabama, in 1950
Dates:
1950
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.029
Identifier: 2009-126
Abstract
This collection consists of three photographs depicting nuns.
Dates:
1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-012
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three black and white photographs depicting unidentified nuns and a church.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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
L. O. Dawson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2563
Overview
Contains incoming correspondence to L.O. Dawson, a Baptist minister in west Alabama and east Mississippi at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, including letters from family members and friends as well as correspondence with members of the various religious organizations with which Dawson was affiliated.
Dates:
1893 - 1904
Berman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2329
Overview
Contains material created and kept by the Berman family of St. Louis, Missouri. Letters written by Dr. William (Bill) Berman and his wife Marian make up the bulk of the collection. These are primarily letters written, often in Hebrew, by Bill and Marian from Ft. Riley, Kansas, where Bill served as an Army doctor during World War Two.
Dates:
1927-1957
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.010
Identifier: 2009-043
Abstract
This collection consists of three black and white photographs depicting monks at an unidentified monastery.
Dates:
1910
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-095
Abstract
This collection consists of nine photographs depicting religious noon services at the L&N train station in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1952 - 1954
Methodist Episcopal Church, Uniontown, Ala., church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0302
Overview
Membership registers, a ledger of church giving, and minutes and records of the Woman's Missionary Society of this Methodist church in Uniontown, Perry County, Alabama, from 1869 to 1966
Dates:
1869-1966
Newbern Circuit, Alabama Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, church registers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1044
Overview
A register of members of several churches in this Perry County, Alabama, circuit and minutes of quarterly conferences. The collection includes records pertaining to Newbern, Craig's Chapel, Flatwoods, Hamburg, Mt. Carmel, Wesley's Chapel, and Scott's Station churches.
Dates:
1858-1951
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
Thomas Morrow Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3904
Overview
Letter from Morrow to William Mitchell discussing a quarrel between the two and a typewritten tract by Morrow addressed to the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, outlining ten grievances he has against it
Dates:
1849 February 12
Grant's Creek Baptist Church Record
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3907
Overview
Notebook recording the names of members of this Fosters, Alabama, Baptist church giving the date they joined the church, were baptized, and, in some instances, when they were dismissed, excluded, restored, or died
Dates:
1828-1865
J. W. Young Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4134
Overview
Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina
Dates:
1835 May 18
Andrews Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church South minute books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0079
Overview
This collection consists of a photocopy of a church record book, which contains a register of pastors (1913-1987), marriages (1889-1936), infant baptisms (1924-1988), and members.
Dates:
1913-1990
Ashcraft Corner Baptist Church History
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0089
Overview
History of Ashcraft Corner Baptist Church from 1889-1975
Dates:
1975
Harry Mell Ayers papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0097
Abstract
Contains the correspondence of this New Deal Democrat and Civil Rights supporter who owned the newspaper, the Anniston Star. The correspondence deals with local, state, and national political campaigns, elections, education, civil rights, editorials, letters to the editor, and events of the times. The collection also contains personal correspondence with other newspapermen, educators, and statesmen; copies of editorials and clippings on Alabama politics, Anniston, education, the Federal...
Dates:
1918-1956
Barker Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0112
Overview
Letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, genealogical records and other materials relating to Henry A. Barker (1879-1962), a Methodist Minister in Boaz, Alabama, and his family.
Dates:
undated
W.R. Barron paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0119
Abstract
A paper titled "History of Fairview Presbyterian Church from Organization to Present Date (April 23, 1889)," that includes lists of pastors, members, and elders of this Presbyterian Church in Perry County, Alabama, 1823-1889.
Dates:
1889 April 23
Album of quotations
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0058
Overview
Album containing handwritten quotations from the Bible, classical authors, and sources, as well as two handwritten copies of notices from the "Times" and "Tuscaloosa Gazette" (1881).
Dates:
[187?]-1881
James McClung Sieg Congo mission journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3745
Overview
Journal kept by Presbyterian missionary to Africa in 1907-1908.
Dates:
1907-1910
Little Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0863
Abstract
A collection of papers of a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family, including some correspondence, financial papers, clippings, and sketches.
Dates:
1857 - 1950
Stanley Thrasher paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1406
Abstract
A paper written by Stanley Thrasher for a University of Alabama class in American Folklore. The paper relates the history of the Thrasher Brothers gospel music group, of which the author was a member.
Dates:
1979
Evans family letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3655
Overview
Collection of letters describing daily life of a mother to her daughter during pre- and post-Depression America
Dates:
1919-circa 1942
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
Bluff Park United Methodist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0178
Overview
A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1978-1981
Bone Camp Methodist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0184
Abstract
This collection contains the constitution, membership lists, articles of faith, rules of decorum, records of church activities 1843-1904, and church register, 1862-1935, giving lists of members and of pastors of this Methodist church in Northport, Alabama.
Dates:
1843-1935
Border Springs Baptist Church of Christ records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0189
Abstract
Photocopies of records, including board meeting minutes, the covenant, rules of decorum, lists of members, of members received, and resolutions by this Caledonia, Mississippi church.
Dates:
1900-1949; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1949
Brandon Memorial United Methodist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0202
Overview
Lists of members, pastors, marriages, baptisms, and deceased members, as well as church directories of this Methodist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1911-1991
Bethel Presbyterian Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0151
Abstract
Contains “Historical Sketch of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Bullock County, East Alabama Presbytery.” It is dated June 12, 1958, and is six pages in length. Includes a list the tenure of pastors, texts of building dedications, and description of the Presbyterian Church hierarchy.
Dates:
1850-1958; Majority of material found in 1900 - 1900
Richard Branscomb and Lewis Branscomb papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0205
Overview
Diary, travel journals, and account book of Richard Edwin Branscomb (1902-1980), Methodist Minister from Guin, Alabama, and Condensed Minute Book for Presiding Elders of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church belonging to Branscomb’s father, Lewis Capers Branscomb (1865-1930).
Dates:
1922-1935
Brien Chapel A.M.E. Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0211
Overview
Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.
Dates:
1924-1973; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1956
John H. Bryson letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0227
Overview
Letter from Bryson, dated 12 March 1891, from Huntsville, Alabama, to the Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, St. Louis, Missouri, inviting him to visit Huntsville and discussing the inauguration of a Mr. Briggs
Dates:
1891 March 12
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