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Archibald McLauchlin Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0961

Abstract Correspondence, 1860-1869, and diaries, 1854-1870, of this North Carolina native who settled in Upper Peach Tree, Wilcox County.

Dates: 1854 - 1870

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joshua Hill Foster Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0535

Overview Papers of a University of Alabama graduate, Baptist minister, planter, teacher (University of Alabama, 1873-1892) and president of Alabama Central Female College, 1869-1873.

Dates: 1839 - 1904

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Abstract Letters to L. C. Garland, President of the University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Oregon Territorial Centennial 1848-1948 Commemorative U.S. Postage Stamp First Day of Issue Envelope

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2702

Overview A First Day of Issue Oregon Territorial Centennial 1848-1948 Commemorative United States Postage Stamp envelope commemorating the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Oregon territorial government. The stamp pictures a wagon on the Oregon Trail and portraits of John McLoughlin and Jason Lee.

Dates: 1948 August 14

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Theodore A. Van Dyke Genealogical Research

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2677

Overview A page of genealogical research from the Freehold and Middletown R. D. Church baptismal records to Theodore VanDyke of Philadelphia, Pennsylvanis. The research was done by the Holland Society of New York who charged VanDyke $1.00.

Dates: 1907 May 9

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Richard Chanoweth Promissory Note

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2580

Overview Photocopy of promissory note in which Richard Chanoweth of Kentucky County acknowledges receipt of a barrel of whiskey and promises to deliver deer skins to Philip Engle as payment.

Dates: 1779 July 12

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Reverend Father Aurelius Maschio Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2641

Overview Reverend Father Aurelius Maschio of Matunga, Bombay, India, writes to the proprietor of Holland's Jewelry Store in Moline, Illinois, requesting a donation for the "poor victims of the earthquake and the floods" in India. Letter typed on air mail stationery.

Dates: 1950 October 24

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Nan Wallace Invitation

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2685

Overview An invitation to Nan Wallace to a dinner and dance on December 29, 1941.

Dates: 1941 December

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James William Oakley Jr. Photographs

Collection — Box: 38034.001

Identifier: 2010-020

Abstract Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.

Dates: 1956 February

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Donn Sanford photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2010-021

Abstract Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.

Dates: 1956 February

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Louis D. Corson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0360

Overview Papers of the former University of Alabama Dean of Men.

Dates: 1956-02-03 - 1956-09-14

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Kathrina Brown James Genealogical Notes

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0742

Abstract Genealogical information on the James family, much of it written by Mrs. James, including family documents, lineage charts, and articles about her husband, William K. E. James, a pastor in Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1754 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1978

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W. C. Olds Photographic Album and Speech

Collection

Identifier: 2022-029

Scope and Contents This collection contains one photographic album of 494 black-and-white photographs and one 14-page typescript speech from compiler W. C. Olds while traveling through South America during 1906 and 1907. The photographs are of daily life, street and market scenes, and city views of destinations in South America, including Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, and Paraguay. The speech is addressed to an unspecified "Board of Trade" and describes Olds meeting locals, bartering at markets, and...

Dates: 1906 - 1907

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Labor Union Ledgers, 1888-1903

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4340

Scope and Contents This collection consists of two ledgers dated from 1888 to 1903 from the Birmingham-based United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers of America Local Lodge No. 7. The first ledger is dated from 1888- to 1891 and includes meeting minutes, officer reports, and propositions and resolutions with details of the resulting votes. The second ledger is a list of the local union’s members from 1888- to 1903.

Both ledgers have worn cloth covers and fragile spines. Careful handling is required.

Dates: 1888 - 1903

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ella Wilcox Photographic Album

Collection

Identifier: 2022-028

Scope and Contents One photographic album of 356 black-and-white photographs following the daily life and travels of amateur photographer Ella Wilcox in Colorado and Mexico during the early to mid-1900s. The photographs in Colorado are scenes of teaching at a local school and scenic shots of Ironton, Telluride, Rocky Ford, and Cheyenne Mount among others. Photographs taken during travels through Mexico highlight market and street scenes in Mérida in Yucatán, Mayan ruins, and Mexico City among others.

Dates: 1926 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1949

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph D. Evans and Company Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2876

Overview A letter from Joseph D. Evans and Company of New York City, New York, to Kyle and Brother of Lynchburg, Virginia about a tobacco order.

Dates: 1884 February 1

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letter from "Butch" to Chickie

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2949

Overview A letter from Corporal "Butch" to Chickie of Louisville, Kentucky about his time with the United States Army.

Dates: 1942 October 12

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Italian Agricultural Community, Lambert, Alabama, Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0734

Abstract Biographical sketches of the Italian settlers of Lambert, Mobile County, Alabama, a photocopy of Sadie Hattenstein's obituary, and a compilation of information on Italians in Alabama from 1890 to 1920.

Dates: 1907 - 1983

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jack D. L. Holmes papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0001

Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.

Dates: 1963-1988

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0002

Overview Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1897

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Marjorie L. Smith Cotton Slides

Collection

Identifier: 2007-004

Overview This collection contains seventy-one color slides depicting various stages of cotton production, taken by Marjorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Slides also show images of an African American church in Hayneville.

Dates: 1960 - 1965

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2007-009

Overview Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.

Dates: 1901 - 1903

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jubilee Singers of the University of Alabama Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2008-004

Overview This collection consists of colored photographs relating to the Jubilee Singers' 1972 and 1973 concert tours of northeast Alabama.

Dates: 1972 - 1973

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

Collection

Identifier: WP-2013001

Overview This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.

Dates: 1909 - 1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Reward Broadside for Runaway Slaves

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3761

Overview Early broadside offering a reward for two runaway slaves.

Dates: 1833-04-09

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sesquicentennial Ball Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2008-023

Abstract This collection consists of fourty two color prints capturing the celebration of hundred and fifty years of The University of Alabama.

Dates: 1981-04

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Foster Mark Kirksey Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0827

Abstract An extensive collection of business and personal papers and correspondence of this Greene County, Alabama planter, commission merchant, sheriff, and Confederate commissary agent, and his extended family.

Dates: 1795 - 1953

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Forum Records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1793

Overview This collection consists of records pertaining to the creation of this LGBT newsletter published in Birmingham, Alabama. The materials include administrative records, community involvement papers, audio and visual materials, and newspaper production files.

Dates: 1977-2002

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Postcard Collection

Collection

Identifier: WP-002

Overview The collection consists of both black-and-white and color twentieth century postcards collected by Mr. A.S. Williams III. The postcards represent many subjects, including states, foreign countries, civil war battle sites, Confederate monuments, and other Americana.

Dates: 1900 - 1960

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Brierfield Ironworks records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0212

Overview Financial and legal documents of the Brierfield Ironworks along with some correspondence and printed materials, dating from 1866 to 1882. The materials are divided into two main groups: (A) those materials generated during Josiah Gorgas' control of the ironworks (1866-1869), and (B) those materials generated during Thomas S. Alvis' control of the operations (1869-1873).

Dates: 1864-1897; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1882

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0369

Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.

Dates: 1833-1889

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Edward Calvin Crow correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0378

Overview Correspondence between E. C. Crow and Dr. John M. Gallalee of the University of Alabama regarding a newspaper article on Gen. Josiah Gorgas, as well as a newspaper article on the oldest judge in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1952

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John E. Curry collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0386

Overview Photocopies of letters from David H. Vinton, Assistant Quartermaster in New York, to Lieutenant Josiah Gorgas at Watervliet Arsenal, refusing to grant Gorgas’s request for supplies to be sent to Pensacola, and from University of Alabama cadet John H. Marshall in Tuscaloosa, discussing the possible role of the cadets in the defense of the state, the fainting of several cadets during a dress parade, and inquires about his family.

Dates: 1846-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0580

Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.

Dates: 1820-1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Presidents Nathaniel T. Lupton, Josiah Gorgas, and William S. Wyman Records

Record Group

Identifier: RG-249

Overview This record group contains a letterbook with correspondence to and from three Unversity of Alabama presidents, Nathaniel T. Lupton, Josiah Gorgas, and William S. Wyman, from 1871 to 1879.

Dates: 1871 - 1879

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mary Carlyle Aitken Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0015

Abstract A letter dated 5 November 1873 to an unidentified recipient from Thomas Carlyle's niece, Mary Aitken, concerning an error in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.

Dates: 1873-11-05

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Hughes family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3748

Overview Letters written by brothers Arley and Eli Hughes while serving in the Army during World War I and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts of this large, rural Alabama family.

Dates: 1885-1919

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bert Neville collection of steamboat documents

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1342

Abstract A collection of bills of lading and receipts for freight costs, passage, storage, and other documents, relating to steamboat lines, mostly within Alabama, plus some receipts from stagecoaches, warehouse and storage companies, and railroads.

Dates: 1820-1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cemeteries and Local History collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0289

Overview Papers submitted for credit in University of Alabama course EXT318 “Cemeteries and Local History,” a course in the New College Life Track. The focus of the papers is on cemeteries as reflecting the history of a locale and may examine burial patterns, customs, ornamentation, or simply be an inventory of interments.

Dates: 1989 - 2009

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

University of Alabama Women's Club records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1491

Abstract This collection contains scrapbooks, newspaper articles, yearbooks, minutes, financial records, and photographs pertaining to, along with the constitution of, this Tuscaloosa women's civic organization.

Dates: 1923-1986

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James J. and Mabel Cowart Doster Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4125

Overview Contains the personal and family records, as well as photos, correspondence, and other files during his time as an educator.

Dates: 1870-1943

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Samuel Francis Hobbs papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0682

Abstract Correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets, government publications and other materials concerning Samuel Francis Hobbs's career as the U.S. Congressman (1934-1951) from the 4th district of Alabama.

Dates: 1921-1952; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1950

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Levi Lundy Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4345

Content Description 24 letters from Levi Lundy to his brother, Joel Lundy, from September 29, 1832 to February 10, 1834. The letters document Levi’s travels to find a healthier environment and the worsening of his tuberculosis. Lundy ‘s letters were sent from Savannah and Macon, Georgia, Tuscaloosa and Mobile, Alabama, Nassau and Bimini, Bahamas, Norfolk, Virginia, Gibraltar, and Malta. There is also a letter to Joel Lundy to inform him of his brother’s death in Gibraltar on March 10, 1834.

Dates: 1832-09-29 - 1834-02-10; 1834-03

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ann Waldron Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3098

Overview Ann Waldron was born on December 14, 1924, in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended the University of Alabama, serving as editor of the Crimson White and earning a degree in journalism in 1945. She went on to work forThe Atlanta Constitution, where she met her husband Martin Waldron. The collection predominantly consists of correspondence between Ann Waldron and various individuals, as well as materials related to her work as an...

Dates: 1945 - 2010

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Earl McGowin papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0955

Overview Contains family papers and business records.

Dates: Unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0753

Abstract The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...

Dates: 1797 - 1973

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

New Years Day card

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2474

Overview Unsigned New Years Day card dated January 1, 1875

Dates: 1875

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Redden-Lancaster Families World War II Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4163

Overview Letters from Lloyd D. (Don) and Sergeant Glen C. Redden, and Robert Lancaster to the Redden's sister and brother-in-law and Lancaster's brother and sister-in-law, Barbara and James Lancaster. The letters illustrate the similar and differing experiences the men had during the war and depict a soldier's life from basic training to deployment.

Dates: 1941 - 1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jacob Frederic Goossen papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0579

Overview Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1940-1995

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0145

Abstract This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.

Dates: 1886-1982

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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