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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
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
Collection on women in Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0005
Overview
A variety of materials related to several Alabama women, some of whom are well-known in Alabama and the nation, while others were simple women going about their daily lives. This is also the affirmative side of a debate speech presented by Benjamin F. Eborn at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, on the question "Is Woman Really Better Than Man?"
Dates:
1853-1957
Battle family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Overview
Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1855-1871
"Mammy stories"
Collection
Identifier: W-0026
Overview
Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Dates:
between 1900 and 1920
Order of the Eastern Star Records and Minutes for Dora, Alabama, Chapter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4286
Overview
One ledger recording the minutes of the Dora, Alabama, chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Dates:
1907 - 1909
"The Home of the Brownings"
Collection
Identifier: W-0092
Overview
Handwritten notes Octavia Walton Le Vert used during her lecture, "Home of the Brownings," which described her 1855 visit to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Dates:
circa 1870
Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0095
Overview
Contains copies of four speeches written by Talladega educator Joseph B. Graham and presented to various civic and social clubs; also contains one letter signed by Selma politician Edmund Pettus
Dates:
1884-1902
Up-To-Date Study Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1492
Overview
Minutes, financial records, correspondence, newspaper articles about, and yearbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club.
Dates:
1901-2019
Augusta Evans Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1563
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1859-1909
Mary Dees Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2562
Overview
Two scrapbooks created by and featuring Mary Dees, a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Hollywood actress of the 1930s. The larger scrapbook of photos and newspaper clippings is related to Dees' work as Jean Harlow's stand-in and double in the Hollywood movie Saratoga. When Harlow died before finishing Saratoga, Dees filled in to complete the film in her place. There are also photographs, newspaper clippings and playbills, a...
Dates:
1933-2004
Billie Jean Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3417
Overview
The collection contains materials related to Billie Jean Young's one-woman show Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light… and other materials produced and gathered by Young.
Dates:
1983 - 2002
Emory Peebles Hildreth Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0669
Overview
Newspaper clippings and a manuscript written by Hildreth
Dates:
unknown
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
Clarence E. and Minnie McDermaid Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2682
Overview
This collection mainly contains correspondence from Emma O. Lundberg to her nephew Clarence McDermaid planning his educational path and discussing his hobbies of music and gardening, events in her everyday life, family and friends, trips, and holidays. There is a large amount of general correspondence from Katharine Lenroot to both Minnie and Clarence consisting of holiday cards and letters discussing daily events, family members, and the illnesses of Emma Lundberg. Emma Lundberg and...
Dates:
1919 - 1975
Kathryn Tucker Windham Manuscript, Common Threads
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1820
Abstract
Alabama author’s manuscript for the book, Common Threads.
Dates:
2000
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-093
Overview
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1930 - 1942
Tuscaloosa History Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-029
Abstract
Photographs depicting Tuscaloosa people and places.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
Sara Browne Mediterranean and North African Travels Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2014-032
Overview
This photographic album contains images depicting Sara Browne's Mediterranean and North African travels, winter 1930 - 1931.
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Agnes Ellen Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0635
Overview
Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.
Dates:
1919 - 1945
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
J. E. Mulkin Collection of African American Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-027
Overview
This collection consists of 151 photographs and glass plate negatives of African Americans.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Miriam Houston Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-218
Overview
This collection consists of nineteen photographs of Miriam Houston and other women modeling.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
Vijay Parekh Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-208
Overview
This collection consists of ten color and thirty-eight black and white photographs of the residents of the International House at the University of Alabama, Shyhming Chang August 2, 1962, Christmas 1963, and different stage performances.
Dates:
1960 - 1964
Robert E. Johnson photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-205
Abstract
Prints and one original snapshots of wedding of Dr. and Mrs. R.E. Johnson. He was a professor of history at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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
Truman S. Smith Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-020
Abstract
Family photos of Truman A. Smith (son of Eugene Allen Smith) and his wife Pearl Boyles of Mobile.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
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
Tillery Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-024
Abstract
One hundred and seven photographs and two albums with one hundred and three photographs of the Tillery family.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
Zell George Herman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-003
Abstract
Collection contains photographs and photographic albums from 1919 – 1995. Black and white and color snapshots of Zell George and Maxcine “Mac” Shores Herman. Chronicles the life of Zell and Mac Herman from the late 1940s to Mac’s death in 1995.
Dates:
1919 - 1995
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
Simpson Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-019
Abstract
Primarily cabinet cards, mounted albumen prints and carbon prints; individuals are identified as members of the Peebles, Colvin, Ball, Simpson, Davis, Greene, Heard, Norris, Spencer, Taylor and [Perrow] families; some photographs taken by F.M. Turner, Tuscaloosa photographer, as well as photographers in Anniston, Eutaw, and Birmingham.
Dates:
1850 - 1910
Nuckols Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-013
Abstract
Three black and white mounted photographs, possibly from Greensboro, Alabama. Scenes include sawmill, a group of female students in commencement attire and the interior of an office building.
Dates:
1900
Gorgas Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-014
Abstract
Collection consists of forty-nine photographs of William Crawford Gorgas (1854 - 1920) family, son of Josiah and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. Collection includes formal portraits of William Crawford Gorgas from infancy to adulthood, wife Marie, daughter Aileen and her children, Amelia Gayle Gorgas, friends of the Gorgas family, and interior and exterior scenes of the Gorgas homes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Cuba and Panama. Collection also includes a portrait photograph entitled "Hood's Children" that...
Dates:
1854 - 1920
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
Catherine Hixon Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0679
Abstract
A letter dated 17 July 1853, from Pike County, Alabama to her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Horn at St. Andrews Bay, Florida. It discusses family matters and health.
Dates:
1853-07-17
Alma Bishop Williams Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-032
Abstract
Collection consists of Bishop and Harry’s family, a family friend’s photographs, and some unidentified photographs.
Dates:
1862 - 1974
Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract
Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.
Dates:
1938
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
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
Southern Rural Women's Network Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3395
Overview
Records of the Southern Rural Women's Network (SRWN) containing materials about the operation and mission of the SRWN.
Dates:
1977 - 2002
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
Victor Hugo Friedman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-020
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with ninety-nine photographs depicting Victor Hugo Friedman, a native of Tuscaloosa and local philanthropist, and his friends.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Mazie Hogan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3469
Overview
Newspaper clippings of stories written by Mazie Hogan
Dates:
1894
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
Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0539
Overview
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Julia Neely Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0515
Overview
Correspondence by and to Julia Neely Finch, as well as her poetry and short stories, written between 1890 and 1926, as well as a small handwritten and typescript collection of Julia’s poems and short stories and a Common Place Book, which served as a scrapbook of her published pieces.
Dates:
1890 - 1926
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
Pettigrew Family Carte de Visite
Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract
Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy.
Acc # 015-008
Dates:
1866
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