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Earl Tilford Manuscript: Turning the Tide: The University of Alabama in the 1960s
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4004
Overview
Manuscript of Tilford's book that charts the ups and downs of The University of Alabama during the turbulent decade of the 1960s.
Dates:
2014
John Medinos Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3364
Overview
This collection contains one letter from John C. Medinos, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Station in New York, to his future brother-in-law Herbert Dessert of Fall River, Massachusetts. He told Dessert he had gotten a military haircut and his training was not too hard.
Dates:
1944 January 18
Hugh Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1611
Abstract
Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.
Dates:
1820 - 1898
Meat Regulations in 1818 Mexico Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4332
Scope and Contents
One broadside published in 1818, by Viceroy Juan José Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza in Mexico City, Mexico, legislating the transportation, sale, and slaughter of meat by individuals and meat markets. The broadside dictates the animals and sexes that could be slaughtered, the weight and price of meat for sale, and sanitation practices for meat markets. There are two signatures and two ink stamps near the bottom of the broadside with some wear throughout the broadside.
Dates:
1818
Dominique Doux Fiquet Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2008-028
Overview
Photograph album containing images of students and faculty at The University of Alabama in 1859 and includes the oldest known photograph of the campus.
Dates:
1859
Albert M. Rains papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1178
Abstract
Correspondence, texts of speeches, and federal government publications relating to housing, labor, mass transportation, and waterways development, including the Warrior-Tombigbee, Chattahoochee, and Coosa Rivers. Rains's correspondents included Silvio O. Conte, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Conrad M. Fowler, Charles B. Heinz, H. A. Morris and John Sparkman.
Dates:
1902-1966
James F. Doster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0447
Overview
Materials this Tuscaloosa native and history professor at The University of Alabama created and collected.
Dates:
undated
Searcy Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-035
Abstract
Photos of this Tuscaloosa family are in two photograph albums that contain images from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, the Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, and Warrior River (bridge and flooding), and family activities.
Dates:
1870 - 1987
Lister Hill papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0670
Abstract
Subject files, correspondence, reports, and other materials by, to, and about this Alabama senator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1923- 1938 and the U. S. Senate from 1938-1969.
Dates:
1921-1968
Integration
Record Group
Identifier: RG-030
Overview
Material related to the 1963 integration of The University of Alabama by Vivian Malone and James Hood.
Dates:
1963
Eugene Allen Smith Glass Negatives
Collection
Identifier: 2007-005
Overview
This collection consists of glass plate negatives depicting Eugene Allen Smith's geological survey trips; various scenes from the University of Alabama campus, building the Smith Hall, Central Iron & Coal in Holt, Alabama, and mining sites, museum artifacts, maps, pages from books, and his family.
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Samuel Gholson Woolf papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1578
Abstract
A collection of personal correspondence and essays on various Southern topics by this Marengo County attorney and politician.
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Brewster and Conley sales records
Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Overview
Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1838 - 1846
Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary minutes
Collection
Identifier: W-0076
Overview
Ledger contains minutes of the Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary. Through the years the members discussed issues such as visiting hours, expanding the operating room, controlling patient behavior, and finding a resident physician to work nights and therefore assist with patients in the maternity ward.
Dates:
1888 - 1896
McAdory and Huey family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0069
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama
Dates:
1863 - 1929
John Forbes and Company land records
Collection
Identifier: W-0074
Overview
Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memoranda and notes concerning the partners of this mercantile firm.
Dates:
1799 - 1849
Andrew McClure Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0070
Overview
Patent documents, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Andrew McClure Jones.
Dates:
1879 - 1892
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: W-0071
Overview
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
Robert H. McKenzie dissertation, correspondence, and notes
Collection
Identifier: W-0072
Overview
Copy of Robert H. McKenzie's dissertation, "A History of the Shelby Iron Company, 1865-1881," and a small collection of correspondence and research notes related to the dissertation.
Dates:
1971
George H. Thompson plantation records
Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Overview
Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
Dates:
1855 - 1874
Adam H. Whetstone diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0080
Overview
Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs
Collection
Identifier: W-0077
Overview
Record book of Chaplain Benjamin Franklin Whittemore of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts, describing the military service of its members
Dates:
1863 - 1887
Morris E. Boss letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0078
Overview
Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.
Dates:
1861 - 1865
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833 - 1905
Albert W. Sadler Collection of Color Slides from a Trip to India and Burma
Collection
Identifier: 2017-003
Overview
Collection of color slides chronicling Albert W. Sadler's 1961 trip to India and Burma (now Myanmar) with two colleagues.
Dates:
1961
Williams Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4278
Overview
Papers related to the Williams family of Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are two notebooks belonging to Barabara Adeline Williams, one of which she kept while in nursing school and the other while she was attaining her high school diploma.
Dates:
1891 - 1999
Dauphin Island, Alabama, public development papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0148
Overview
Papers and plat maps of real estate developments in Dauphin Island, Alabama, in 1953, 1958, and 1961.
Dates:
1953 - 1961
Evie Eugenia Harris Diplomas
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3422
Overview
Two diplomas awarded to Evie Eugenia Harris by the Tuskaloosa Female College in 1884 (Mistress of Arts) and in 1888 (Graduate in Art).
Dates:
1884 - 1888
Elisha Wolsey Peck papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1120
Overview
Correspondence and financial papers of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, attorney, as well as material relating to the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1867, of which Peck was chairman.
Dates:
1837 - 1887
William Quayle correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1176
Abstract
Letters written from the First Frontier District of Texas, of which Quayle was commander, providing information on Confederate military dispositions, 1862-64. Quayle's correspondents included James Bourland, H. E. McCulloch, and James Webb Throckmorton.
Dates:
1862 - 1864
Delta Kappa Gamma, Gamma Psi Chapter Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3432
Overview
Scrapbook of the Gamma Psi Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, the society for women educators.
Dates:
1984 - 1985
John Horgan Jr. Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2009-170
Overview
The collection consists of twenty-three industrial photographs taken around Birmingham, Ensley, Sheffield, Anniston, Bessemer, and Woodward, Alabama in 1889. Photographer from Birmingham, Alabama, John Horgan, Jr. took the photos for Truman H. Aldrich and presented them to him in June 1889.
Dates:
1889-06-01
"The Federal raid into central Alabama"
Collection
Identifier: W-0040
Overview
Text of a speech presented by James A. Anderson on April 3, 1935, at a meeting of the Kiwanis club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Union raids in Selma, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1935 April 3
Lecture notes on John W. Abercrombie
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Abstract
Notes for a class lecture on Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama. Includes information on the construction of University buildings during his tenure, as well as his conflicts with former acting president and Latin professor William S. Wyman.
Dates:
not dated
Thomas P. Abernethy manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0004
Abstract
Two galleys with corrections and one type-written manuscript of Abernethy's study, The Formative Period in Alabama, subsequently published as part of the historical series of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. It is a social and political history and originated as Abernethy's doctoral thesis at Harvard University.
Dates:
circa 1965
Viscountess Astor letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0092
Abstract
A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.
Dates:
1952 November 5
Harold Bank papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0108
Abstract
A Battalion log of the 3rd Battalion, 167th Infantry, 31st Infantry Division while stationed in Mindanao, Philippine Islands, from 15 July 1944, until 10 October 1945, and the front portion of the Chicago Daily Tribune, from Tuesday, 8 May 1945. The headline reads “V. E. Day – Today”.
Dates:
1944-1945
George and Eleanor Bridges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Overview
Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.
Dates:
1932-1965
Charles E. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0007
Abstract
Materials on the Jewish synagogue in West Blocton, Alabama; a copy of his paper, "The 'Ah Goodies Ah Chem' Jewish Congregation of West Blocton, Alabama, 1905-1913," and 6 photos of the Blocton Home Band.
Dates:
1892 - 1982
John H. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0009
Abstract
The correspondence of a Birmingham, Alabama, mining engineer, businessman, poet, and public servant. The collection also includes a small group of papers of Adams' son, John R. Adams, an attorney and realtor.
Dates:
1889 - 1943; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1936
Oscar W. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract
Correspondence of this Birmingham, Alabama, minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, principally concerning the struggle to remain solvent during the Great Depression. Also includes budget sheets, receipts, reports, and legal documents for this and other A.M.E churches throughout the South.
Dates:
1909 - 1952
Sallie Hill paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0032
Abstract
A typescript copy of an address delivered by Sallie Hill at the April 20, 1960, meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. The address, "Alabama Food Ways," describes traditional southern food and food history.
Dates:
1960
Wade Hall Collection of Ashanti People Postcards
Collection
Identifier: 2014-016
Abstract
Collection includes published photographs showing everyday life of the Ashanti people.
Dates:
1930s
President Oliver C. Carmichael Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-013
Overview
This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Oliver C. Carmichael. The records document his years as president, from 1953-1957, and include information on the attempt by Autherine Lucy to end racial segration at The University of Alabama in 1956.
Dates:
1944 - 1959
Virginia J. Hanson papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Overview
Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."
Dates:
1912-1937
Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Overview
Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
approximately 1835-1894
Thomas K. Jackson journals
Collection
Identifier: W-0021
Overview
Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.
Dates:
1866-1873
Philip P. Neely scrapbook of fugitive fiction
Collection
Identifier: W-0022
Overview
Scrapbook containing handwritten notes and newspaper clippings related to Philip P. Neely's writings
Dates:
1851-1856
James Hall and Myra Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0023
Overview
Two copies of Hall's "The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Alabama Prior to 1826" and a notebook detailing his sermons and revival participation from September 1886 through May 1887; a large portion of the notebook contains Myra Hall's writings
Dates:
1886-1904
William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Overview
Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)
Dates:
1948 - 1964
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