Collections | Special Collections & Archives

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama

Collection

Identifier: W-0033

Overview Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.

Dates: 1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Woodward Iron Company records

Collection

Identifier: W-0061

Overview Correspondence, financial and legal records, annual reports, and employee newsletters produced by the Woodward Iron Company and members of the Woodward Voting Trust, from 1945-1977.

Dates: 1945 - 1977

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles Robinson papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0161

Overview Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Oliver T. Reilly papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0158

Overview Papers and guidebook covering the Battle of Antietam, created by this childhood witness

Dates: 1906-1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0160

Overview A variety of reprinted and clipped articles from various journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as bibliographical and general notes, discussing the Civil War from many angles, including medical, literary, restitution, and even specific battles and generals.

Dates: 1859 - 1979

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. I. B. DeLage letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0156

Overview A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Collection

Identifier: W-0157

Overview Papers documenting the history of Co. F of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including Company demographics and rosters, obituaries, and hand-drawn maps of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863.

Dates: 1883 - 1918

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

O. T. Brown letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0154

Overview Letter from O. T. Brown to the president of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy describing his experiences as a soldier during the Civil War.

Dates: 1898-05-26

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. S. Phillips letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0155

Overview Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.

Dates: 1865-04-18

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute

Collection

Identifier: 2020-007

Overview One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.

Dates: 1921 - 1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Anonymous Travel Diary from Boston to New Orleans

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4281

Overview Travel diary recording events of an unnamed Northern man's 1842-1843 journey from Boston to New Orleans, with descriptions of many aspects of Southern life and culture, including slavery, society, and food.

Dates: 1842 - 1843

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4279

Overview This collection contains an unsigned, handwritten diary with details matching the life of magazine writer Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix, of Texas, who associated with key players in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The diary covers her activities in Texas, Mexico, and New York during 1914-1915, including work on her novel My Brother's Keeper (1915). There is also a typed transcript of the diary.

Dates: 1914-04-23 - 1915-03-29

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Waite Album of Recuerdo de Mexico

Collection

Identifier: 2020-004

Overview One photographic album of images taken by C. B. (Charles Betts) Waite in Mexico depicting street scenes in Guadalupe and Mexico City, bullfights, and occupational images.

Dates: 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Margaret Moore Photographic Album of Atlanta University Student Life

Collection

Identifier: 2020-006

Overview One photographic album compiled by Margaret Moore containing eighty-four black-and-white photographs depicting life at Atlanta University between 1917 and 1920.

Dates: 1917 - 1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles C. Smith Collection on Tools and Machinery

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4310

Overview Collection consists of seventy items related to the history of tools and machinery from 1881 to 1956.

Dates: 1881 - 1956

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Grant Gordon Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4309

Overview Family documents, military documents, and approximately forty-seven photographs depicting Grant Gordon's family and military life in the 1940s. Of particular interest are Mr. Gordon's military records and photographs from his time serving as a squad leader in the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only African American combat unit included in the first assault forces to land on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

Dates: 1944 - 2003

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph Zebulon Hearst letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0123

Overview Typescript transcriptions of twenty-one letters written by Confederate soldier Joseph Zebulon Hearst between May 1862 and December 1864.

Dates: 1931

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lavinia Hetherling Leinau commonplace book

Collection

Identifier: W-0124

Overview Tennessee resident Lavinia Heatherling Leinau's commonplace book, containing poetry and notes from friends

Dates: 1831 - 1879; Majority of material found within 1831 - 1836

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II : typescript

Collection

Identifier: W-0120

Overview Unbound typescript of China Marine, written by Eugene Bondurant Sledge. The manuscript is 107 pages long and contains typed publisher's notations about formatting.

Dates: 2002

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

R. Landesberger letter and music

Collection

Identifier: W-0121

Overview Handwritten letter and sheet of music from Geneva (Switzerland) professor Dr. R. Landesberger to President Woodrow Wilson, dated January 7, 1919. A typed transcript of the letter is also included.

Dates: 1919-01-07

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

The American Presidency: An Interpretation: manuscript

Collection

Identifier: W-0122

Overview Unbound, handwritten manuscript of Harold Joseph Lanski's The American President: An Interpretation.

Dates: 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Columbus L. Hadaway memoir

Collection

Identifier: W-0118

Overview Typescript of Confederate soldier Columbus L. Hadaway's military memoir.

Dates: 1913

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0145

Overview Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."

Dates: 1872-04 - 1872-05

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ethel Armes letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0146

Overview Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.

Dates: 1921 - 1944

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Booker T. Washington letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0136

Overview Letter from Booker T. Washington asking for financial support for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The letter is dated November 12, 1915, two days before Washington's death.

Dates: 1915-11-01

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Josiah Clark Nott and George R. Gliddon book prospectus

Collection

Identifier: W-0137

Overview Advertisement for Nott's and Gliddon's forthcoming book, Types of Mankind: or, ethnological researches, published in 1854.

Dates: 1854

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. O. Campbell diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0139

Overview Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama

Dates: 1895-01 - 1895-05

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

American Settlement Company letter and constitution

Collection

Identifier: W-0135

Overview Constitution of the American Settlement Company (a subscription company which sold plots of land to Kansas settlers) and a letter written by a company representative

Dates: 1855-06-11

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Helen Reid Roberts papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1197

Abstract A collection of publications by the poet Helen Reid Roberts. Includes copies of acceptance letters and covers of publications.

Dates: 1940 - 1997

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Adrien Rouquette papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1212

Abstract This collection contains a manuscript French/Choctaw dictionary titled Vocabulaire Choctaw (lac Pontchartrain) Louisiane, a photograph of Father Roquette's chapel, and two clippings from newspapers.

Dates: 1885

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. C. Roycroft papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1213

Abstract Papers of a Confederate Army officer and Northport, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama resident, including his diary from the final months of the Civil War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1866 - 1884

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book

Collection

Identifier: W-0015

Overview Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.

Dates: 1861-1903

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Robert H. Smith legal notebook

Collection

Identifier: W-0016

Overview Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.

Dates: circa 1870

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Marie Brink memory book, Sidney Lanier High School, 1922

Collection

Identifier: W-0017

Overview Memory book of high school senior Marie Brink, documenting her experiences at Sidney Lanier High school in 1922

Dates: 1922

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Pickett Springs, Alabama, city records

Collection

Identifier: W-0027

Overview Ballots, voting lists, city council minutes, oaths of office, and correspondence related to elections in the town of Pickett Springs, Alabama, and a map of the area.

Dates: 1888 - 1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger

Collection

Identifier: W-0031

Overview Ledger documenting expenses, admittances, and discharges at a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital from 1 April to 4 November 1861.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Francois Ludger Diard poetry notebook and Mobile scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0025

Overview Notebook of this Mobile, Alabama, native's poetry and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters relating to his work.

Dates: 1917-1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Tall Shadows: Origins and Operations of McGriff, Seibels, and Williams, Inc., Insurance Brokers"

Collection

Identifier: W-0028

Overview Unpublished corporate history of McGriff, Seibels and Williams Inc., one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Daniel Geary scrapbook on the history of the Mobile Volunteer Fire Companies

Collection

Identifier: W-0024

Overview Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, illustrations, and handwritten notes related to the history of volunteer firefighter companies in Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Daniel Geary.

Dates: 1830-1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Platt Waller papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0085

Overview Contains photographs, correspondence, and typescript speeches written by diplomat George Platt Waller. Also contains a small journal and receipts related to his father's medical practice.

Dates: 1894 - 1895; 1952 - 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Henry Tutwiler papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0081

Overview Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties

Collection

Identifier: W-0082

Overview One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.

Dates: 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Collection

Identifier: W-0083

Overview Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.

Dates: 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph Murrell letterbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0084

Overview Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Account of the Battle of Cartagena

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4272

Overview The Account of the Battle of Cartagena contains a three-page handwritten description, in French, of a siege by American and British troops against the Spanish-held city of Cartagena, present-day Colombia. The document contains details similar to those found in other accounts of a 1741 siege against the city during a conflict known as the War of Jenkins's Ear (1739-1748).

Dates: 1741

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Enos D. Hopping Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4302

Overview This collection contains papers relating to the life and career of Enos D. Hopping (1805-1847), who was a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

Dates: 1826 - 1866

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Hiram Berry Civil War Letters to Hannibal Hamlin

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4290

Overview This collection contains twenty-two letters from Union General Hiram G. Berry to US Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, both of Maine, along with copies of two letters of recommendation from generals who served with Berry. The letters detail Berry's activities in Virginia during the US Civil War.

Dates: 1862-1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

African American Mounted Photographs Collection

Collection

Identifier: WP-014

Overview A collection of thirteen black-and-white mounted portraits depicting African Americans.

Dates: 1920 - 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letters to Marquis de Lafayette Lane

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4301

Overview This collection contains letters sent to Maine native Marquis de Lafayette Lane while he served as US consul to Veracruz, Mexico, a post he held from 1862-1867.

Dates: 1863 - 1867

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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