Collections | Special Collections & Archives

William P. Abrams diaries

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0005

Abstract Diaries of travels from New Hampshire to Alabama; to Havana, Cuba; and to the midwestern United States. The majority of entries were written in Gainesville, Alabama, where this New Hampshire native settled.

Dates: 1839 - 1848

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Appalachian Mountain Club in Mexico Journal

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4329

Scope and Contents One journal written by various members of the Appalachian Mountain Club as they traveled through Mexico on a thirty-three-day excursion between February and March 1939. The journal entries are chronologically bound, approximately one page in length each, typewritten, and initialed by the club member writing for the day. The first page includes a list of names and addresses for the members on the excursion.

Dates: 1939-02 - 1939-03

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Savage Family Photographic Album

Collection

Identifier: WP-020

Overview This collection consists of Savage family photographs documenting their travels and everyday life.

Dates: 1909 - 1910

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Pauline Jones Gandrud papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0555

Overview The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other information created and gathered by this Alabama genealogist. The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications.

Dates: 1900 - 1980

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Hiking near Mexico City in 1922-1924 Photographic Album

Collection — Container: 2022-023

Identifier: 2022-023

Scope and Contents One photographic collection of 39 stereoviews of hikers, hiking trails, and outdoor activity areas near Mexico City and Toluca, Mexico, between 1922 and 1924. Some of the locations captured are rivers, hills, and Nevado de Toluca. Most of the photographs are captioned in Spanish and some include location and date information.

Dates: 1922 - 1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mexico in the 1920s Photographic Album

Collection

Identifier: 2022-021

Scope and Contents One photographic album containing 28 black and white photographs of daily life and scenery in Mexico during the 1920s. Some of the cities identified include León, Tepotzotlán, Chiapas, and Cuernavaca. Various daily life scenes include locals making crafts, farmers plowing land, pets and animals, and houses. About half of the photographs are captioned and all measure 5" x 7".

Dates: circa 1920s

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Stella Long Postcard Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4155

Overview Postcards to and from this Hamilton, Ontario, Canada native, as well as to and from her family and friends. There are also delegate and guest tickets to the Republican National Conventions of 1908 and 1916 held in Chicago, Illinois, and a travel brochure from Havana, Cuba.

Dates: 1903-1952

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mary Hairston Collection of Travel Ephemera from National Association of Colored Women (NACW) Convention

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4307

Overview A collection of travel ephemera from a cross-country trip Mary Hairston took to attend the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in Los Angeles, California, in 1952.

Dates: 1952

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cuban postcards

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3695

Overview Postcards depicting scenes in Cuba in the early twentieth century.

Dates: circa 1910-1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Eyre Damer papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0392

Overview A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.

Dates: after 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2009-100

Overview This collection consists of 248 photographs depicting people, and scenes from Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana.

Dates: 1910 - 1950

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.029

Identifier: 2009-129

Overview This collection consists of forty-one photographs depicting scenes from China and from Philippines. Most of the scenes are of Beijing from 1930s, other scenes include Summer Palace, Seventeen-Arch Bridge, Temple of Heaven in the Forbidden City, Great Wall of China and railroad station in South Peking.

Dates: 1930 - 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2009-013

Abstract This collection consists of ten black and white photographs depicting unidentified people and places as well as scenes of Daytona Speedway, Peace Bridge at the United State and Canada border, and scenes from Wyoming.

Dates: 1920 - 1940

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2009-023

Abstract This collection consists of five black and white photographs depicting scenes from New York, "Majestic Sight Seeing Co." tour bus, and unidentified people and places.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2009-033

Abstract This collection consists of forty black and white photographs depicting scenes from Kentucky: Dix River Dam, Kentucky River, Six River and the Green River, scenes from Mammoth Cave, Great Onyx Cave, Great Onyx Hotel, Summit Hotel, and Brooklyn Bridge.

Dates: 1923 - 1925

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2009-037

Abstract This collection consists of thirty-three black and white photographs depicting scenes from Allegheny Mountains; railroad tracks, river, bridge and a train station.

Dates: 1913

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2009-047

Abstract This collection consists of thirty-eight black and white photographs depicting scenes from Panama.

Dates: 1935 - 1937

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W. K. Ichimmel Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2130

Overview Letter from W.K. Ichimmel from South Bend, Indiana, to his unnamed friend. The letter discusses his upcoming trip to Paris and the workers at the shirt factory where he works.

Dates: 1889-07-24

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.012

Identifier: 2009-049

Abstract This collection consists of twenty black and white photographs depicting scenes from unidentified tropical island.

Dates: 1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.016

Identifier: 2009-066

Abstract This collection consists of twelve photographs depicting scenes from Virginia, such as Fort Monroe, Blue Ridge Mountain, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Old Point Comfort.

Dates: 1913

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.016

Identifier: 2009-067

Abstract This collection consists of six photographs depicting scenes along the Hudson River.

Dates: 1913-07

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.016

Identifier: 2009-068

Abstract This collection consists of thirteen photographs depicting scenes from Pensacola and surrounding area, including Fort Pickens, Fort McRae, Fort Barrancas, and the Pensacola Navy Yard. This collection also depicts scenes from DeFuniak Spring, Florida.

Dates: 1890

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.020

Identifier: 2009-096

Abstract This collection of 155 photographs of unidentified people, and various scenes of New Zealand and United States, navy ship and sailors, people fishing, and other activities.

Dates: 1890 - 1959

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.025

Identifier: 2009-105

Overview This collection consists of thirty-five photographs depicting scenes from Philippines, such as Manila Harbor, lighthouse, Philippines National Bank, Manila Jockey Club, etc., and China.

Dates: 1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.026

Identifier: 2009-112

Overview This collection consists of fifty-nine photographs depicting scenes from family’s travels through Washington State, Alaska (Taku Glacier, Columbia Glacier, Spencer Glacier, Auk Lake, Mendenhall Glacier, Portland Canal, Prince Rupert, Juneau, and Ketchikan) and British Columbia (Grenville Channel).

Dates: 1940 - 1941

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.027

Identifier: 2009-116

Overview This collection consists of nineteen photographs depicting people in South America and Mexico.

Dates: 1900 - 1909

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.027

Identifier: 2009-120

Overview This collection of twenty-eight photographs depicting scenes from Japan: parade, shops, people wearing traditional Japanese cloths and street scenes.

Dates: 1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.035

Identifier: 2009-174

Abstract This collection consists of four photographs depicting outdoor scenes. One is of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Warsaw, New York.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.036

Identifier: 2009-182

Abstract This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting people enjoying time at a pool at The Cloister Hotel and on the beach at Sea Island, Georgia.

Dates: 1946

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-132

Overview This collection consists of eleven photographs depicting scenes from Japan around 1910.

Dates: 1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.030

Identifier: 2009-142

Overview This collection consists of three photographs depicting volcanos in Hawaii.

Dates: 1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.032

Identifier: 2009-150

Abstract This collection consists of 213 photographs depicting scenes from various places, such as cities, farms, tourist attractions, and rivers in Ireland, Scotland, France, and New York.

Dates: 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Collection — Box: 2009001.033

Identifier: 2009-153

Overview This collection consists of twenty-three photographs depicting people engaged in outdoors activities in Canada, Washington state, and Oregon.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Buford Boone papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0187

Abstract Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Eddy Lanier King Gilmore papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0572

Overview Compositions, scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Eddy Lanier King Gilmore, of Selma, Alabama, and his Russian-born wife, Tamara Kolb-Chernashovaya, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The bulk of material is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Dates: circa 1940 - 1967

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Audubon Place (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) Historic District collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0094

Overview A collection of information compiled in 1981 in the process of applying for historic designation for this Tuscaloosa, Alabama district. It includes historical data, newspaper clippings about houses, lists of previous owners, special features of houses, floor plans, and an historical inventory of various homes.

Dates: 1981-1985

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. Babbitt letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0100

Abstract Letter from Babbitt to his cousin William H. Babbitt of Princeton, New Jersey, describing an ocean voyage from New York to Mobile, and Babbitt's subsequent doings in Alabama.

Dates: circa 1843 December

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Pitt Ballinger diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0104

Abstract Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.

Dates: 1864-1868

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Rare vertical file

Collection

Identifier: PM-013

Overview Contains a variety of rare, published materials. Most notable are the almanacs, biographies, guidebooks, art catalogs, and works of literature.

Dates: circa 1750-2000

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Gertrude Hill Lakey collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3698

Overview Souvenir post cards and other mementos and keepsakes. There is also a typed manuscript by Jacqueline Box Blaylock, "A Tribute to the Memory of Perry Jackson Box."

Dates: 1919-1934

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Steven Gross Panama Canal collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3709

Overview Memorabilia from the Panama Canal.

Dates: 1915-1979

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Dr. Bonner letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0185

Abstract Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.

Dates: 1958

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. L. Boynton maps

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0197

Abstract Printed maps of Georgia with additions showing routes taken for "botanical tours."

Dates: 1895-1902

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. M. Blair letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0169

Abstract A letter dated 30 November 1843, to Blair's brother Edwin in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing a sea voyage from New York, to Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1843 November 30

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Burnham papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0233

Abstract Correspondence and other material relating to the captivity of Captain John Burnham in Algiers, 1793-94, his attempts to buy his freedom and subsequent efforts to secure reimbursement from Congress.

Dates: 1792-1832/1943?

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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