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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
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
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
Spencer J. McMorris daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0967
Abstract
Records of daily sales in a general store in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama, 1837.
Dates:
1837
C. H. Miller Store Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0987
Abstract
General merchandise store records, including ledgers, daybooks, correspondence and miscellaneous materials from a business located in Miller, Marengo County, Alabama.
Dates:
1891-1910
J. R. Odom store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Overview
Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.
Dates:
1920-1937
Alice A. Lide Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0127
Abstract
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Alice A. Lide, recounting his life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.
Dates:
undated
James Austin Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview
A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates:
1898-1941
Southern States Art League Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1318
Overview
Typewritten accounts of artists and their works in Southern States Art League exhibitions, 1938-1940.
Dates:
unknown
Dan T. Carter Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-092
Overview
This collection consists of forty-five photographs depicting former Alabama Governor George Wallace, Jr. used by Dan T. Carter in his book "The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of The New Conservatism and The Transformation of American Politics" 1995. Images of the various stages of Wallace's life, his family, and his wife, Lurleen. Many are official photographs released from the Governor's office.
Dates:
1918 - 1974
Bedford H. Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3683
Overview
Legal documents, financial records, correspondence, and other personal papers of this Tuscaloosa County probate judge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1830-1945
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
Wynn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1590
Abstract
An extensive collection of correspondence, diaries and legal and financial papers relating to John Henry Irby Wynn (1787-1854), teacher and farmer in Limestone County, Alabama, and his son Alexander Montgomery (1823-1897), daughter-in-law Martha (Curtis) Wynn (1826-1907), and grandson John Robert Wynn (ca. 1860-1896). The diaries include accounts of Alexander Wynn's trip to Arkansas in the 1850s.
Dates:
1845 - 1913
Poellnitz and Meador Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2013-011
Abstract
This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.
Dates:
1859 - 1925
William H. Ely letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Overview
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.
Dates:
1820 - 1821
Mary Yost Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-011
Scope and Contents
This collection is of one photographic album of 70 pages with 270 black and white photographs assembled by Mary Yost of a group of friends and spouses who were motorcycle enthusiasts and their travels through the American southeast. Captured are images of an unofficial motorcycle club and their trips, travels, daily life in Virginia and surrounding states, and images of military men at American bases during World War II. Photographs measure between 2¾”x 2½” and 3½” x 5” and most are captioned.
Dates:
1940 - 1942
Young-White Mercantile Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1600
Abstract
Records of this Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama, general store which operated 1905 to 1933.
Dates:
1905 - 1933
Pickett and Williams Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2576
Overview
Contains information about the Pickett and Williams families as well as the 15th Alabama Infantry Division; also includes a membership application for the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1980-2008
Bullock County Historical Society papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2589
Overview
Papers, correspondence and research relating to the establishment of the Bullock County Historical Society, as well as some transcriptions of oral histories, cemetery records, and "genealogical" correspondence about the town of Midway and Bullock County.
Dates:
1977-1987
Lynchburg Mule Traders Association Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3884
Overview
Letter asking for support of a petition to have October 26, 1985, declared "Mule Appreciation Day U.S.A."
Dates:
1985
University of Alabama Corps of Cadets collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0029
Overview
A miscellany of material relating to the University of Alabama Corps of cadets, 1873-1905, including invitations to the 1873 junior exhibition and Corps of Cadets hops (dances) in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and the program for a 1905 reunion of the Corps of Cadets Company E, winner of a 1885 drill competition at the New Orleans Exposition.
Dates:
1873-1905
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
Alabama Scenes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2583
Overview
These black-and-white photo-lithographs show residences, public buildings and scenic views from around Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1900
Whitfield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1628
Overview
Papers of this Marengo County, Alabama, plantation family including correspondence, financial papers and business receipts, land sale documents, and Nathan Bryan Whitfield's presidential pardon.
Dates:
1820-1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-079
Abstract
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting some identified and some unidentified people in Clearwater, Florida.
Dates:
1950-02-09
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-114
Overview
This collection consists of nineteen photographs depicting scenes from Estero Island, Florida.
Dates:
1913-02-09
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-017
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of seven black and white photographs depicting unidentified people outside of City Hall building in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Dates:
1917
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two black and white photographs depicting auto garage in Kentucky.
Dates:
1915
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-019
Scope and Contents
This collections consists of two black and white photographs depicting Sue Farley McQuiston and unidentified man in a baseball uniform.
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-022
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five photographs depicting unidentified people in Kentucky.
Dates:
1900s
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-025
Abstract
This collection consists of sixteen black and white photographs depicting various scenes from Jacksonville, Florida.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.005
Identifier: 2009-027
Abstract
This collection consist of ninety-six photographs people and places from Kentucky and Louisiana.
Dates:
1910 - 1936
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-001
Abstract
This collection consists of six black and white photographs depicting family members from Erie, Kentucky. Only a few family members are identified: Patria Beard and Eudora and Monsy Jepson.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.001
Identifier: 2009-002
Abstract
This collection consists of eighty-one black and white photographs depicting scenes from Seneca, Westminster, and Charleston, South Carolina. This collection also depicts members of an unidentified family, possibly from South Carolina.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.001
Identifier: 2009-005
Abstract
This collections consists of seventy-three black and white photographs depicting unidentified family and scenes from Kentucky and Indiana.
Dates:
1915 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.010
Identifier: 2009-038
Abstract
This collection consists of three photographs depicting unidentified people from Kentucky.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.010
Identifier: 2009-040
Abstract
This collection consists of nineteen black and white photographs depicting unidentified people from Paducah, Kentucky and San Antonio, Texas.
Dates:
1910 - 1930
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.011
Identifier: 2009-046
Abstract
This collection consists of thirty-five black and white photographs depicting scenes from Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1913 - 1915
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.016
Identifier: 2009-069
Abstract
Four photographs of people and places in Tennessee.
Dates:
1880
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract
This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.
Dates:
1909 - 1910
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-087
Abstract
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting scenes from Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1925-08
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.035
Identifier: 2009-176
Overview
This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.
Dates:
1896
Annie Perkins commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3875
Overview
The collection consists of one commonplace book containing handwritten and published recipes as well as published poems collected by Perkins of Eutaw, Alabama.
Dates:
Approximately 1867
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
Flight of Doodle! broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3710
Overview
Small broadside of the 14-verse poem, Flight of Doodle! about the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), with each Confederate state's performance in the battle making up a stanza.
Dates:
1862
Dan Price letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3713
Overview
Letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1868.
Dates:
1868 December 21
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
Edmund Armes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0086
Overview
Typed correspondence and telegrams from Armes in his capacity as Birmingham, Alabama chairman of the Sewanee (University of the South) endowment campaign to area Episcopalians, seeking donations for the institution. The collection also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the campaign, and information on fundraising events.
Dates:
1919
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
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