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Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman

 Collection
Identifier: W-0047
Overview Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman of Athens, Alabama, from her husband and sisters between 1834 and 1843.
Dates: 1834-1843

Rice, Chilton, and Jones, attorneys, letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0049
Overview Letterbook containing copies of correspondence written by Montgomery, Alabama, lawyers Samuel F. Rice, John M. Chilton, Thomas G. Jones, and Ariosto A. Wiley, between 1871-1873.
Dates: 1871-1873

Henry DeBardeleben business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Overview Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.
Dates: 1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905

Howard Weeden papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0008
Overview Three composition books filled with collections of quotations and illustrations and one book of devotions.
Dates: between 1735 and 1905

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents

 Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates: 1848-1941

Mary C. Kelly scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0036
Overview Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.
Dates: 1855 - 1866

Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0037
Overview Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Dates: 1916

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates: 1849-1861

B. L. Holt correspondence on the 1908 Confederate Veterans Reunion

 Collection
Identifier: W-0044
Overview Holt's correspondence between May and June 1908, relating to his duties as quartermaster general in securing hotels accommodations and horses for Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and members of his staff who participated in the veteran's parade and other reunion events.
Dates: 1908

Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0045
Overview Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings
Dates: 1866-1889

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Overview Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace
Dates: 1947 - 1948

"Harwell G. Davis: Alabama Statesman and Baptist Leader": typescript

 Collection
Identifier: W-0004
Overview Typescript of Susan Hunt Ingram Ray's master's thesis on Harwell G. Davis.
Dates: 1996

A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Overview Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Dates: 1861-1869

Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860, volume 2, manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: W-0007
Overview Includes a carbon copy of the manuscript Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860, volume 2, written by William H. Brantley Jr. The bound manuscript is 371 pages long and covers the history of banking in the state from 1837 to 1849; it is part of a two-volume work that covers the years 1816-1860.
Dates: 1967

Kate H. Durr Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3433
Overview Scrapbook of Kate H. Durr, given to her on Christmas Day, 1892, by her Aunt Kate. The scrapbook is filled with newspaper articles of varying subjects.
Dates: 1892 December 25

Myer L. Feldman Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3687
Overview Letters from Myer L. Feldman to his wife, Ida, and baby daughter, Sally Ann, while he was in the United States Navy, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Base near Seneca, New York, and aboard the USS LSM(R)-197 amphibious ship.
Dates: 1944-1945

William B. "WIllie" Pape Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3689
Overview Two scrapbooks kept by Willie Pape during his years in England as well as a bound volume of his sheet music.
Dates: 1862-1875

Captain Slick collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0274
Overview Numerous legal papers pertaining to the slander case of John Berry versus James Latham, in Jackson and Madison Counties, Alabama, 1830-34, and that of Alanson Huff versus Cowart et al., Madison County, 1831-1833. These appear to have been collected by James W. Bragg for a paper delivered to the Alabama Historical Association in 1957. A photocopy of Bragg's paper, "Captain Slick, Arbiter of Early Alabama Morals," and another by Jack K. Williams, "Crime and Punishment in Alabama, 1819-1940" are...
Dates: 1830-1834

J. T. Wiswall papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0011
Overview Two notebooks, containing mathematical equations and scientific essays, as well as the handwritten manuscripts of J. T. Wiswall's works "The African" and "Iliad of the Family," neither of which were ever published.
Dates: circa 1860

Benton Bell Seat memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0013
Overview This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is approximately 200 pages long. Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, and it was typed and produced in 1939 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates: 1916, 1939

Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0058
Overview Correspondence, research notes, typescripts, and galley proofs of sisters and Alabama authors Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Allison Johnson.
Dates: 1917-1959

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

Wynn Family papers

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Identifier: MSS-1590
Abstract An extensive collection of correspondence, diaries and legal and financial papers relating to John Henry Irby Wynn (1787-1854), teacher and farmer in Limestone County, Alabama, and his son Alexander Montgomery (1823-1897), daughter-in-law Martha (Curtis) Wynn (1826-1907), and grandson John Robert Wynn (ca. 1860-1896). The diaries include accounts of Alexander Wynn's trip to Arkansas in the 1850s.
Dates: 1845 - 1913

Joseph Wilbourn Young letters

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Identifier: MSS-1596
Abstract A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.
Dates: 1918 - 1919

John C. McRae Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0970
Abstract This collection contains financial papers and a presidential pardon.
Dates: 1854 - 1893

William Joseph Mims Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0992
Abstract Material on Mims' family history and materials relating to Weevilnip Company of Macon, Georgia. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture relating to false labeling, as well as company advertising. The collection also contains two small notepads, one with notes on teaching and one with notes on history, boll weevils, and other subjects.
Dates: 1886 - 1924

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

S. A. McPherson Papers

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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

William MacMillan Petition and Report

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Identifier: MSS-0966
Abstract The report of the naturalist hired by the trustees of the University of Alabama to acquire specimens for the proposed Museum of Natural History. It includes a list of specimens acquired, proposals for further acquisitions and collection development, and a request for additional funding.
Dates: 1830 - 1831

Francis Johnson Keene Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0798
Abstract Ledger sheets of accounts recording the sale of lumber, flour, corn, and other commodities. The collection also contains poems written by and arithmetic exercises done by Frances Johnson Keene.
Dates: 1843 - 1855

B. H. B. Latrobe St. Louis Cathedral Contract

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Identifier: MSS-0845
Abstract 1819 contract for construction of the central tower on the St. Louis Cathedral.
Dates: 1819

Lawrence County, Alabama Tavern License

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0847
Scope and Contents A license dated 23 September 1835, granted to Alexander M. Brooks, Edward Jones, and M. Seuris to operate a tavern in Lawrence County, Alabama.
Dates: 1835-09-23

Judson Baptist Association, Henry County, Alabama, Records

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Identifier: MSS-0793
Abstract A single record book containing church articles, decorum for the order of business, and minutes for church meetings 1850-1865 of this Henry County, Alabama, Baptist church. The collection also contains a program for the inauguration of James Huey Edmondson as president of Judson College, 1967.
Dates: 1850 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1865

Dixon Hall Lewis Letters

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Identifier: MSS-0855
Abstract Letters of recommendation for appointments to the office of Secretary of the Navy.
Dates: 1838 - 1844

Levi Welbourne Lawler Letterbooks

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Identifier: MSS-0846
Abstract Bound typescripts of two letterbooks containing copies of outgoing letters on politics and business, 1873-76. The pagination of these copies corresponds to that of the originals.
Dates: 1873 - 1876

Louise Pinion Wilson Papers

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Identifier: MSS-1564
Abstract A miscellany of materials including an article/paper about making hats from tree bark and other natural byproducts of the lumber industry, and genealogical papers relating to the Moore, Harvie/Harvey, Pinion, and Baynham families.
Dates: 1957 - 1977

James D. Williams Papers

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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

Johnne Bryant Willbern Letters

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Identifier: MSS-1556
Abstract A series of letters written from May to September 1954, by the wife of the chair of the political science department at the University of Alabama while accompanying her husband to New Zealand, where he was teaching. They were written to family and friends and contain accounts of the family's experiences and descriptions of local customs. One newspaper clipping is also included.
Dates: 1954

Montgomery, Alabama, Cemetery Register

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Identifier: MSS-1010
Abstract A record of the sale of lots in the Montgomery, Alabama, city cemetery, 1856-78. Sales were entered in a “Registration Oath” ledger. Also includes a sample deed.
Dates: 1856 - 1878

A. R. Moen Letter

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Identifier: MSS-1008
Abstract A letter dated 31 May 1831, from Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, to M. P. Collins of Collins and Company, Hartford, Connecticut. It reports on businesses in various towns along the Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers and the axes they stock, noting which sell Collins and Company's goods and which do not.
Dates: 1831-05-31

John M. Miller Broadsides

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Identifier: MSS-0990
Abstract Two political broadsides relating to John M. Miller's campaign for the office of mayor of Cordova, Alabama, possibly in 1947.
Dates: 1947

Methodist Episcopal Church, South Russellville District, Records

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Identifier: MSS-0984
Abstract Record of the annual conference of this northwest Alabama circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Records of numbers of members gained, lost, new Sunday schools, and etc.Record of the annual conference of this northwest Alabama circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, including numbers of members gained and lost, new Sunday schools established, and other information.
Dates: 1926 - 1930

William Nazareth Mitchell Letters

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Identifier: MSS-1003
Abstract Typescript and illustrations for the book, "Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell," edited by his grandson, William C. Etherton. The letters were written to Mitchell's wife, Rachel Caroline Mitchell, while he was serving in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and north Alabama. The original letters are at the University of Illinois, Carbondale.
Dates: 1862

Merrimack Baptist Church Records

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Identifier: MSS-0981
Abstract A ledger containing the church roll, 1903-1909; meeting minutes, 1903-1908; and scattered financial records, 1904-1906, 1909 of this African-American church in Huntsville, Alabama
Dates: 1903 - 1909

Maysville, Alabama, Methodist Church Circuit Records

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Identifier: MSS-0982
Abstract This collection consists of two record books for the Maysville Circuit Methodist Conference. They contain meeting minutes and financial notes. The first book begins on April 10, 1880 and ends in 1884. Two pages, dated 22 July and 29 August 1891 have been inserted. The second book begins in 1885 and ends on December 9, 1889.
Dates: 1880 - 1889

Methodist Episcopal Church, North Alabama Conference, Records

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Identifier: MSS-0983
Abstract Records of the quarterly conference meetings of this Methodist Episcopal Church, South, circuit in Madison County, Alabama, including lists of new members, baptisms, and deaths.
Dates: 1880 - 1889

Alabama Homes Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-001
Overview 219 color photographs depicting Alabama homes.
Dates: 1970 - 1979

Northport Furniture Company Accounts

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Identifier: MSS-1058
Overview A record of accounts with individuals and suppliers, often with notes of purchases, 1911-14.
Dates: 1911 - 1914

W. T. Ogle Testimony

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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

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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

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