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Natalie Thornton Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2012-001
Abstract
One photographic album depicting scenes from The University of Alabama featuring coeds at the Kilgore House and the campus. Also scenes from Montgomery, Alabama, New York City, New Orleans, Florida, and Texas.
Dates:
1905-1911
Boling Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Overview
Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.
Dates:
1833-1870
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
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
Jerusha Hemphill DIploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0660
Overview
A diploma for having completed the course of study at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
1865
Daniel Thompson McCall, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0393
Overview
Three photographs of U. of A. students between 1884-1887 and an article by McCall about Alabamians who went to California during the 1849 "Gold Rush."
Dates:
1849-1887
Melpothalian Society Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0977
Abstract
This collection contains an account of the society's proceedings, a list of members, and a note for $5,000 to W. P. Douthit dated Oct. 15, 1844.
Dates:
1836 - 1844; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1837
University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Portraits
Collection
Identifier: 2021-002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four studio portraits of a soldier.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
D. M. N. Ross Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1208
Abstract
A paper titled "A brief history of the military department of the University of Alabama, 1860-1936,"written by D.M.N. Ross.
Dates:
n.d.
Delta Chi Fraternity Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4223
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five scrapbooks for the UA chapter of Delta Chi Fraternity, thirteen issues of the Delta Chi Quarterly, two issues of The Counselor, and a series of publications collected by Charles E. Carlin. The scrapbooks contain photographs, clippings, invitations, correspondence, and notes added by Carlin explaining the state of the scrapbooks. Carlin collected the series of publications in a binder titled "Publications of Historical Interest to the Alabama Chapter of Delta...
Dates:
1952 - 2017; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1977
University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections UA Students Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2021-001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one photograph of the University of Alabama Women's Chorus.
Dates:
1929
Kappa Alpha Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-062
Abstract
This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the Kappa Alpha Order members at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1951 - 1988
Myrtis Parker Handley Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-016
Abstract
Collection consists of thirty-eight photographs of students and teachers at Mt. Olive School in Mt. Olive, Alabama, where Handley was a teacher.
Dates:
1947 - 1963
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
M. Carolyn Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1292
Abstract
The collection contains material created and gathered as research for "A North Alabama Country Boy's Journey into the World of Nuclear Technology." Written for Professor Gary Mills at the University of Alabama, the paper is about Lester Elkin Burkhart, who worked in the United States atomic energy program.
Dates:
1982
Alto Lee Whitehurst Class Notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1549
Abstract
Notes for history classes at the University of Alabama during the 1940s, among them U.S. History, World History, and the History of the Old South.
Dates:
1944
Phillips High School Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1141
Abstract
This collection consists of a miscellany of items pertaining to the Phillips High School (Birmingham, Alabama) class of 1930.
Dates:
1930 - 1980
Joshua Busby Oden Arithmetic Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1283
Abstract
Arithmetic textbook/workbook used by Joshua Busby Oden. A 1956 note inside the front cover says the book was presented to Dr. A.B. Moore, University of Alabama history professor and dean of the Graduate School
Dates:
1845
Jerry A. Davis, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-200
Overview
This collection consists of eighty-five photographs of Jerry A. Davis, Jr. (UA, MA, 1991), his friends and family, school pictures of Tuscaloosa Academy students, University of Alabama Sigma Chi fraternity parties, and vacation scenes.
Dates:
1979 - 1989
William Columbus Ward Speech Text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1525
Abstract
The text of Ward's 1858 valedictory address, delivered at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1858-07-15
S. A. McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0968
Abstract
Notes by McPherson while a theological student at Payne University, a college for African Americans founded in 1889 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, and copies of three commencement addresses at Attalla, Etowah County, and Thomas, Jefferson County, Alabama Public Schools.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Deborah Nygren Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1063
Abstract
A paper written by Deborah A. Nygren for the University of Alabama's History 567 class in 1976 entitled "The Carpetbaggers of the 1867 Alabama Constitutional Convention: A Study of Personal and County Characteristics on Carpetbaggers in Alabama during the Reconstruction era." It examines the relationship between the popular conceptions of carpetbaggers and the role played by black voters in electing them to office, as they related to pre-war anti-secession sentiment and voting patterns, and to...
Dates:
1976
Lucien Owen Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1085
Abstract
A letter dated 8 October 1857, from a student at the University of Alabama to his father, which dicusses student life.
Dates:
1857-10-08
R. W. Withers Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1567
Abstract
May 1858 letter from a student at Green Springs School, Havana, Alabama, describing school life.
Dates:
1858-05
Woods Hall Student Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-033
Abstract
Black and white photographs of students housed in Woods Hall in early 1900s.
Dates:
1900
Ira Stark Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-023
Abstract
Sixteen black and white photographs of University of Alabama scenes, including students, football parade, ROTC functions and Governor Bibb Graves. Photographs were probably taken by Ira Stark, a University of Alabama student and graduate of 1940.
Dates:
1930 - 1947
12 Days in May Betamax Tapes
Collection
Identifier: 2013-027
Overview
Collection contains the Beta Tapes during the student unrest May 1970 at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1970-05
Eugene Allen Smith Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-024
Abstract
This collection consist of two hundred and sixty nine photographs depicting buildings around The University of Alabama campus; Tombigbee and other river's in Alabama; trains; Eugene Allen Smith house on campus and his family; Alabama State Capitol; steamboats; University of Alabama baseball team; scene's from University of Mississippi; and scene's from Wetumka Penitentiary.
Dates:
1813 - 1927
Photographic Album of an African American Family
Collection
Identifier: 2016-002
Abstract
Small rectangular photo album containing photographs of prominent African American family probably from around Washington, District of Columbia area.
Dates:
1910 - 1955
Fleta McWhorter Dowling and Gwen McWhorter Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1643
Abstract
This collection consists of letters between Fleta McWhorter Dowling and her sister Gwen McWhorter, 1943-46, chiefly concerning the latter’s doctoral dissertation subject, some letters from others to Gwen McWhorter, and two Gwen McWhorter problem statements on the use of participation in the development of school health programs.
Dates:
1943 - 1949
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
Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Overview
Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.
Dates:
1964-1988
O. B. Emerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0485
Overview
The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between O. B. Emerson and various individuals including authors, former students, and other faculty and staff from The University of Alabama. The collection also includes materials about different authors and subjects on which Dr. Emerson either taught or published, as well as a significant amount of materials related to professional organizations in which he was involved.
Dates:
1945 - 1990
Alabama Association for Young Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0020
Abstract
A collection containing meeting minutes, correspondence, the organization's constitution and by-laws, photographs, and other materials.
Dates:
1959 - 1987
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
Nancy Stallworth Shortridge Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4161
Overview
Photographs, invitations, dance cards, etc. from a University of Alabama student during the World War II years.
Dates:
1931-1992
Evelyn Minor letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3637
Overview
Contains letter from University of Alabama Recorder, Teresa Pradat, advising Minor that her application to attend UA has been accepted.
Dates:
1945 November 17
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
William Baker Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers University of Alabama materials
Collection — Box: 2339
Identifier: MSS-0523
Overview
Items relating to Walter Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers as students at the University of Alabama, including commencement programs, SGA and WSGA ribbons, Triangle ribbon, library card, and invitation to a dance
Dates:
1943-1946
Oleta Lewis Hardesty Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-017
Abstract
Collection consists of fourteen photographs of University of Alabama coeds engaged in a variety of activities around campus, probably taken by Hardesty, a 1933 graduate of Alabama.
Dates:
1931 - 1933
Lillian Pearl Brightwell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2307
Overview
Brightwell's scrapbook about her senior year at "L.G.H.S." - Louisville Girls High School in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1920
University of Alabama Kappa Alpha Pledge Register and Alumni Directory
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4140
Overview
Pledge register for the University of Alabama's Alpha Beta Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order, February 1935 - August 1948
Dates:
1935-1964
Buford Davis Notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1911
Overview
The collection contains a notebook belonging to a student named Buford Davis. The notebook contains a story entitled "A Cow with A Wooden Leg," as well as school lessons and poems.
Dates:
unknown
Sidney Lanier High School Oracle Newspaper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1723
Abstract
A copy of vol. 1, no 5 (December 17, 1925) of the Oracle News, a newspaper published by the students of Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1925-12-17
Charles Edward Bridges letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0209
Overview
A letter dated 24 February 1849, written from the University of Alabama to Sam Houston, advising him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Erosophic Society.
Dates:
1849 February 24
Calhoun School Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0260
Overview
Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Dates:
1891-1923
Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Overview
Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.
Dates:
1850-1873
William Albert Jones Quarterly Report Card
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0787
Abstract
Photostatic copy of an 1862 report card of this University of Alabama student from Marion, Alabama.
Dates:
1862-12-26
Louisville Male High School class reunion article
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3481
Overview
Article in The Courier-Journal & Times (Louisville, KY) about the Louisville Male High School class reunions.
Dates:
1976 June 6
Elise Ayers Sanguinetti Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0098
Abstract
This collection consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, and galley proofs, as well as reviews and notices of Elise Ayers Sanguinetti, the Alabama author of The Last of the Whitfields (1962), The New Girl (1964), The Dowager (1968), and McBee's Station (1972).
Dates:
1929 - 2003
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