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Sydnia Keene Smyth Antebellum Architecture of Tuscaloosa Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-006
Overview
This collection consists of thirty-two photographs of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, antebellum architecture, taken by Sydnia Keene Smyth for her thesis in 1929.
Dates:
1929
John Gorman Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0116
Abstract
Contains correspondence to and from John Gorman Barr, as well as other papers of this University of Alabama student, Tuscaloosa attorney, and United States Consul in Australia, known for his humorous writings.
Dates:
1840-1858
Bryce Hospital Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0225
Overview
Various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital.
Dates:
1849-1991
W. E. Hobson, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0684
Abstract
A large collection of scrapbooks, containing twenty-nine volumes of information on the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area, one volume on historic Tuscaloosa homes, one volume of political information and two volumes on local history.
Dates:
1938-1966
"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
Samuel Henry Sprott, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1829
Abstract
Includes examination books and scrapbook of Samuel Henry Sprott, Jr. The materials pertain to Mr. Sprott's years at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1893 - 1897
Edward Bressie Vaughan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2283
Overview
Papers of both Edward Bressie Vaughan, Sr. and Jr. The majority of the papers are requisitions, receipts, Quartermaster stores, etc. from August through Novemeber 1862 during the Kentucky Campaign signed by or sent to Lieutenant Edward Bressie Vaughan, Jr.. Other papers include both Vaughan, Sr.'s and Jr.'s personal and business correspondence from 1832 through 1869. The collection also contains E.B. Vaughan, Sr.'s Oath of Allegiance (dated 30 June 1865) to the United Stated.
Dates:
1832 - 1867; Majority of material found in 1862 - 1862
Tuscaloosa News Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-012
Overview
This collection consists of nine photographs depicting the Alabama football game, basketball game, Jerry Rubin speaking at the Foster Auditorium, Governor's Day, and a concert on the Quad.
Dates:
1964 - 1979
Fletcher Moore Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-017
Overview
This collection depicts photographs of the University of Alabama and men in Ku Klux Klan clothes.
Dates:
1935
ZAP Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-008
Overview
This collection consists of photographs relating to the Alabama sororities.
Dates:
1970
Kettledrum Club Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0811
Abstract
The records of this Tuscaloosa literary club for Alabama women, including meeting minutes and scrapbooks. The latter contain photographs of and articles on early members, their husbands, their residences, and club meetings. The collection also includes papers presented at meetings.
Dates:
1888 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1965
Eliza Thomas Nolley Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1052
Abstract
This collection consists of entries taken from Nolley's “Album of Friendship,” copies of outgoings letter to her brother, Edward Dromgoole Nolly and sister Martha Ann Otey, extracts from her theme book, and a letter from a friend, Annie Glascock (?). Except for last, all are from the period when Nolley was a student at Tuscaloosa Female College. The items are annotated with information about her family and Nolley herself. The items by Nolley contain news about the school and school...
Dates:
1862 - 1866
Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-002
Overview
This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates:
1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
Tuscaloosa History Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-029
Abstract
Photographs depicting Tuscaloosa people and places.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
John McKee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0957
Abstract
A letter to Secretary of the Navy Samuel Southard, recommending the appointment of Henry Francis Toulmin as midshipman. The collection also contains two other letters by McKee and a payroll list of Choctaw Indians who served in the Creek War.
Dates:
1826 - 1827
Moores Bridge Baptist Church Minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1016
Abstract
Minutes of monthly meetings and lists of members, 1859-1888, of this Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Baptist Church.
Dates:
1859 - 1888
Three Miscellaneous Ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4042
Overview
Three early twentieth century ledgers for Tuscaloosa and Pickens county businesses.
Dates:
1908 - 1945
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
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
Powers Family Account Book and Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1157
Abstract
Book used as an account book for automobile service station patronized by Tuscaloosa, Alabama, families and as a scrapbook for United Daughters of the Confederacy clippings.
Dates:
1910 - 1926
Oscar D. Cully Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-008
Overview
This collection consists of sixty-seven photographs of the University of Alabama campus and buildings, a scene of the downtown Tuscaloosa parade, and Nitrate Plant No. 2 with Wilson Dam in the background.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
Marie Ball Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-003
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-seven photographs of Tuscaloosa area scenes, including the Washington Moody House before and after restoration, the Homan Home, and Alvin Hudson's photographs of Tuscaloosa trolleys.
Dates:
1934 - 1977
Farris Dale Beason Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-216
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-four photographs of two homecoming parades at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1963 - 1964
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-210
Abstract
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Dates:
1973-11-19
James W. Horner Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-212
Overview
This collection consists of one photograph of the University of Alabama Marching Band on the steps of the Amelia Gorgas Library.
Dates:
1943
Rives Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-209
Abstract
Two photographs from Rives Family Papers depicting Tutwiler and Little Hall in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1910 - 1919
Harry Neal Eddins Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-010
Abstract
Collection consists of eighty-seven photographs of Eddins family of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Largely portraits of family members, snapshots of family and friends, and the Eddins home. Includes photographs of a young Hudson Strode and an architectural drawing of the Hendricks's home on the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1890 - 1960
David B. McElroy Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-203
Overview
This collection consists of ten color photographs of the Ramsey Award Party, held at the University of Alabama University Club, 1986.
Dates:
1986
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
Sesame Club Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1252
Abstract
Minutes, reports, attendance records, and letters of resignation from this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club, which sponsored educational programs and performed community service.
Dates:
1939 - 1943
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Preservation Society Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1433
Abstract
A set of scrapbooks containing clippings recording the work and activities of this society,1979-80, including its publication, Heritage Week.
Dates:
1969 - 1978
Caroline Virginia Samuel Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1227
Abstract
Letters from Tuscaloosa to Samuel's cousin Edmond W. Samuel, with news, social and otherwise, of Tuscaloosa, the aftermath of the Civil War, and much else.
Dates:
1865 - 1871
James Somerville Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1307
Abstract
Letters to his wife, Ellen G. Sommerville, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia while Somerville was on two trips to Alabama and Mississippi, looking for a place to settle. The Somervilles eventually chose Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The letters contain comments on traveling companions, places seen, business conditions, and etc.
Dates:
1835 - 1837
C. N. Henkle Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0664
Abstract
A letter dated January 1878, to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing Henkle's involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.
Dates:
1878-01
Hugh Gantt Lollar Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0874
Abstract
A small collection of letters from Oregonia, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, to his cousin Hugh Robinson, Level Land, Abeville, South Carolina. The chief subjects are agricultural conditions and prices.
Dates:
1859 - 1860
Saul Gordon Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2010-013
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with one hundred and forty-three photographs of Saul Gordon, a University of Alabama student in the early 1930s. Album contains scenes of campus life, including coeds, buildings, football, the band, ROTC and dorm life. Several photographs are depicting devastation caused by the March 22, 1932 Northport tornado. These photographs are accompanied by clippings relating details of the disaster. Album also includes photographs with scenes from the 1932 New...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
Lamar McCarty Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-196
Overview
This collection consists of twelve photographs of homecoming festivities at the University of Alabama, probably taken by Lamar McCarty, University of Alabama Graduate (1938).
Dates:
1937 - 1938
Francis Scott Key Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0812
Abstract
A letter dated 4 February 1834, to Alabama Governor John Gayle, thanking him for a nice visit to Tuscaloosa, probably during Key's mission to resolve a dispute between the U.S. government and Alabama over the dispostion of lands taken from the Creek Indians. Key's letter also discusses congressional debates on the Bank of the United States.
Dates:
1834-02-04
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Methodist Church Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1618
Overview
This collection contains three drafts of what was evidently a book chapter composed by Frances Spencer titled “Evolution of the Tuscaloosa Methodist Church–1824–1844.”
Dates:
1824 - 1844
A. L. Anderson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1621
Abstract
A letter dated 19 November 1859, to his sister in the north while he was building the new Alabama Insane Hospital (Bryce Hospital) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In it Anderson expresses regrets at his inability to provide her with financial assistance and his hopes that he can stay in the South, where his prospects have improved.
Dates:
1859-11-19
Solomon and Lucinda Perteet Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1129
Abstract
Includes receipts and legal papers of this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, free black man and his wife.
Dates:
1829 - 1872
Petition for Small Change Notes by Citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1132
Abstract
Signed by approximately fifty citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, this petition expresses concern over the scarcity of small change in the city. The petitioners wanted paper change tickets to alleviate the situation.
Dates:
1842-08-11
John Heyl Vincent Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1500
Abstract
A note of apology to William Ballantyne for not attending a Bible meeting.
Dates:
1850
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
Elizabeth Cherry Weir Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1538
Abstract
This collection contains the will and estate papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry Weir (d. 1821) of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; letters to Pauline Jones Gandrud regarding the Cherry family genealogy; and and estate paper for John Warner of Tuscaloosa, 1824.
Dates:
1821 - 1960
Washington Daniel Miller Letter and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0991
Abstract
A letter dated 12 July 1883, to his sister, Caroline Miller, about examinations of students at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, the examination of the senior class at the University of Alabama, and his recent activities in Tuscaloosa. The collection also contains photograph of Miller copied from the original at the University of Texas Institute of Texas Culture
Dates:
1833-07-12
W. T. Ogle Testimony
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1067
Abstract
Statement dated 18 March 1878 concerning the actions of General John T. Croxton's Union Army forces in seizing Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 1865.
Dates:
1878-03-18
Dr. James Anderson Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-002
Overview
This collection consists of seven photographs of the University of Alabama Centennial Pageant at the Denny Stadium.
Dates:
1931-05-11
Forrest Hood "Fob" James Speech Text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0741
Abstract
Handwritten original draft of a speech written enroute to Tuscaloosa and delivered by James on the occasion of the University of Alabama's 150th anniversary celebration.
Dates:
1981-04-12
Thomas Chalmers McCorvey Essay on Robert Burns
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0948
Abstract
An essay on Scottish poet Robert Burns delivered by Colonel Thomas C. McCorvey to the Druid City Literary Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 11 November 1878.
Dates:
1878-11-11
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