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Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4289
Overview
This collection contains a diary and scrapbook kept by Ernestine Jones in 1951 when she went on a national tour as winner of the "Spirit of Cotton" competition held by the Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee, an annual African American festival in Memphis, Tennessee. It also contains four program books from the festival for the years 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1955.
Dates:
1951-1955
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
Peter and Rose Swereda Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1817
Abstract
Includes letters written by a World War II bomber pilot and his wife from training facilities in Tennessee and Alabama to his family in New Jersey.
Dates:
1943 - 1944
John H. Pettway Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1134
Abstract
Letter from Pettway in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Professor John L. Calhoun at the University of Alabama regarding the current status of his church membership.
Dates:
1897-02
Martin Luther Stansel Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1336
Abstract
A letter dated 27 April 1863, to his wife, Olivia, written from Manchester, Tennessee. It discusses camp news, rumors of enemy movements, Stansel's wound, and eye surgery on his horse.
Dates:
1863-04-27
Capehart-Rains Project Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-016
Abstract
This collection of five color photographs showing different types of airman’s residence in Tennessee, Texas, and Florida. This is a part of the Caiphart-Rains project.
Dates:
Unknown
Atkinson Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-193
Overview
This collection consists of fourteen photographs, possibly portraits of the Atkinson family and their friends, taken by photographers in Anniston, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Rochester, Staten Island, and Brooklyn, New York; and Chicago, Illinois.
Dates:
1880 - 1894
Alonzo B. Palmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1606
Abstract
This collection contains Palmer's diary, April-July 1865, when his Regiment, the First Ohio Light Artillery, was stationed in Tennessee and Alabama. The diary's frequent entries describe daily life in the camp, including meals, weather, and military activities. The collection also contains a photograph, ca. 1870, of several men, including Palmer, outside a store.
Dates:
1865 - 1956
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
James D. Williams Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1561
Abstract
A collection of publications, pamphlets, reports and legal papers dealing with environmentalists' opposition to the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers during the 1970s. It includes newspaper and magazine articles, Corps of Engineers reports, records of lawsuits filed, National Wildlife Federation publications, various environmental groups' newsletters, and etc.
Dates:
1969 - 1974
P. H. McBride Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0938
Abstract
An 1863 letter from Columbia, Tennessee, to his wife and children, while serving in an unnamed Confederate regiment under General N. B. Forrest.
Dates:
1863
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
Townsend Heaton letters
Collection
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
Sallie Hooper Morrow Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4244
Overview
Sallie Hooper Morrow (1872-1927) was a member of a prominent family from Nashville, Tennessee. This collection contains one hundred and thirty letters she wrote from 1891-1895 to her future husband, Thomas Ludlow Chrystie, while he was in New York City training to be a lawyer.
Dates:
1891-1895
Joseph Jermain Slocum Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4295
Overview
Five letters written by this Union officer serving in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
March 26 - June 1, 1862
Roy and Sara Swindell Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2926
Overview
Letters from Roy Swindell and Sara Swindell to their family, who lived in Chattanooga, and later Nashville, Tennessee. The letters discuss missing home, traveling for work, and Bible verses. One letter is from Sara to their son James, an officer in the armed services during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1935
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.016
Identifier: 2009-069
Abstract
Four photographs of people and places in Tennessee.
Dates:
1880
American railroad station plans
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3747
Overview
Over 140 original plans of train stations from the late nineteen and early twentieth centuries, primarily on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Most are in ink on waxed architect's paper and are variously sized.
Dates:
1881-1942
Reverend E. A. Henderson Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-019
Abstract
Collection consists of four photographs of Chickamauga Battlefield in Georgia and Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dates:
1905
W. E. Spraggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1327
Overview
Contains the note books of his work as an engineer in Nashville, Tennessee, two books on engineering, photo cards from the Sigma Nu fraternity in Indianapolis, Indiana, and an invitation to the University of Alabama, Alabama Corps of Cadets on July 5, 1876.
Dates:
unknown
Mobile Terminal and Railway Company circular
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1783
Abstract
A prospectus and preliminary circular for the Mobile Terminal and Railway Company, with the details of the company and bonds that would mature on 1 September 1935.
Dates:
circa 1911
Camp Forrest photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3554
Overview
Photograph of Camp Forrest, Tennessee, 1941
Dates:
1941 May 22
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
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
Mary Pickens Opie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1073
Overview
Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1887-1946
J. D. Sutter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1372
Overview
Contains the plans, letters, lists of supplies needed, and other personal notes of J.D. Sutter, a landscape contractor in Birmingham, Alabama, from the late 1920s through the 1950s.
Dates:
1928-1961
James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1547
Overview
A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.
Dates:
1862-1863
Marcus Joseph Wright memoirs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1585
Overview
An incomplete typescript copy (18 pp.) of, "Memoirs of Brigadier General Marcus J. Wright, CSA."
Dates:
unknown
Charles H. Howe Civil War Diary and Map
Collection
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
George Woodard and Gene Smith letters
Collection
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
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