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B. V. Horne Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0704
Abstract
Letter to Elizabeth (possibly his wife) explaining his financial situation.
Dates:
1853-12-27
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
Naval Training Center Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2011-001
Abstract
This collection consists of six color photographs depicting the 346th Recruit Brigade Review Naval Training Center in Orlando, Florida, January 9, 1976.
Dates:
1976-01-09
Raymond Hunt Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-008
Abstract
Seventeen photographs taken by Raymond Hunt of the C.S.S. Alabama model constructed by him. Images are showing the finished model, various stages of construction, and close-up showing details on the model.
Dates:
1993
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
James Elisha Folsom, Sr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-012
Abstract
Collection consists of sixteen portraits of Governor James Elisha Folsom, Sr.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
Jerry Oldshue Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-014
Abstract
Color snapshots of John Thomas Croxton grave marker in Paris, Kentucky, taken by University of Alabama Archivist, Jerry C. Oldshue.
Dates:
1992-07
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
Harold M. McLemore Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2012-012
Abstract
Scrapbook compiled by Harold McLemore (UA, BA 1980) of nineteenth-century Alabama courthouses in Lee, St. Clair, Talladega, Perry, Coosa, Wilcox, Bullock, Greene, Lowndes, Chambers, Colbert and Pickens counties. Photographs are accompanied by stories and newspaper clippings regarding various courthouses.
Dates:
1890
Herman W. and Mattie Hesse Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2012-004
Abstract
One photographic album of Dr. Herman W. and Mattie Hesse’s trip to Europe aboard the S.S. Berlin in June 1930. Album contains photographs and picture postcards of famous European landmarks in England, Western Europe, and Canada.
Dates:
1930-06
Capehart-Rains Project Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-016
Abstract
This collection of five color photographs showing different types of airman’s residence in Tennessee, Texas, and Florida. This is a part of the Caiphart-Rains project.
Dates:
Unknown
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
William Stanley Hoole Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-006
Abstract
Two photographs of C.S.S. Alabama model.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
Rose Quong Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-022
Abstract
Nineteen black and white publicity photographs of Australian born Chinese stage and screen actress, Rose Quong. Most of the images bearing photographer stamps on reverse of images.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Hendrix Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-019
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-four photographs showing railroad workers using heavy equipment built by American Hoist & Derrick Company and groups of people from various counties in Alabama.
Dates:
1905 - 1909
Atkinson Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-193
Overview
This collection consists of fourteen photographs, possibly portraits of the Atkinson family and their friends, taken by photographers in Anniston, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Rochester, Staten Island, and Brooklyn, New York; and Chicago, Illinois.
Dates:
1880 - 1894
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
Lamar McCarty Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-196
Overview
This collection consists of twelve photographs of homecoming festivities at the University of Alabama, probably taken by Lamar McCarty, University of Alabama Graduate (1938).
Dates:
1937 - 1938
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
Daniel T. McCall, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-197
Overview
This collection consists of four cabinet cards of University of Alabama students from the 1880s, three taken by W. E. Magee, a Tuscaloosa photographer, and one taken by Clary, a Birmingham photographer.
Dates:
1886 - 1887
Macon County, Alabama, Bond Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0890
Abstract
Bonds for public servants and for securing administrators of estates, 1834-43. Includes index of names.
Dates:
1834 - 1843
Knabe and Scott Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0828
Abstract
Two bound volumes, one a daybook covering August 1, 1887 through August 1, 1888, the other an index.
Dates:
1887 - 1888
Emil Ludwig Typescripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0883
Abstract
The proof and carbon typescript of Ludwig's Der Nil: Lebenslauf eines Stromes. (Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1935), and corrected typescript of the English translation by Mary H. Lindsay, which was published in 1936 under the title Nile: the Life-story of a River.
Dates:
1935
Confederate States Army, Second Alabama Light Artillery Battalion, Lumsden's Battery, Muster Roll
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0885
Abstract
Muster roll of Lumsden's Battery near the time of its formation in November 1861.
Dates:
1861
J. T. Broadnax and Company Accounts Journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0735
Abstract
A journal recording individual accounts, although it does not detail specific purchases.
Dates:
1867 - 1868
Francis Scott Key Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0812
Abstract
A letter dated 4 February 1834, to Alabama Governor John Gayle, thanking him for a nice visit to Tuscaloosa, probably during Key's mission to resolve a dispute between the U.S. government and Alabama over the dispostion of lands taken from the Creek Indians. Key's letter also discusses congressional debates on the Bank of the United States.
Dates:
1834-02-04
Byron Franklin Watson Honorable Discharge
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1608
Abstract
Watson's honorable discharge from the United States States Army, 10 December 1918.
Dates:
1918-12-10
Alonzo B. Palmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1606
Abstract
This collection contains Palmer's diary, April-July 1865, when his Regiment, the First Ohio Light Artillery, was stationed in Tennessee and Alabama. The diary's frequent entries describe daily life in the camp, including meals, weather, and military activities. The collection also contains a photograph, ca. 1870, of several men, including Palmer, outside a store.
Dates:
1865 - 1956
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Methodist Church Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1618
Overview
This collection contains three drafts of what was evidently a book chapter composed by Frances Spencer titled “Evolution of the Tuscaloosa Methodist Church–1824–1844.”
Dates:
1824 - 1844
A. L. Anderson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1621
Abstract
A letter dated 19 November 1859, to his sister in the north while he was building the new Alabama Insane Hospital (Bryce Hospital) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In it Anderson expresses regrets at his inability to provide her with financial assistance and his hopes that he can stay in the South, where his prospects have improved.
Dates:
1859-11-19
Reverend James Young Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1599
Overview
Two letters to Reverend James M. Young, in Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, both from friends. One thanking him for his kind letter after a death in the family and discusses her newborn son. The other discussing an upcoming trip and details about their life and the lives of friends.
Dates:
1844 - 1848
Charles Carter Langdon Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1623
Abstract
A letter dated 6 March 1860 from Mobile to Langdon's brother, that discusses his work in the nursery business, selling fruit trees, expanding his vineyard acreage, and his winery. Langdon also addresses the slavery issue at length.
Dates:
1860-03-06
Women’s Missionary Society, Uniontown Methodist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1619
Abstract
This collection consists of a ledger and two papers, one a history of the society and the other about missions. The ledger contains meeting minutes from 1878 through 1885.
Dates:
1879 - 1885
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1639
Abstract
Includes records of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church located in the coal mining community of Brookwood, Alabama.
Dates:
1873 - 2004
Thomas Bayley Lawson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1622
Abstract
Written from Mobile, Alabama, by Thomas Bayley Lawson, a portrait and miniature painter active primarily in Massachusetts, to Rufus Spaulding, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Speaks in great detail about business conditions and the high cost of living in Mobile. Makes observations on the treatment of slaves in the city.
Dates:
1838-01-19
Solomon and Lucinda Perteet Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1129
Abstract
Includes receipts and legal papers of this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, free black man and his wife.
Dates:
1829 - 1872
Petition for Small Change Notes by Citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1132
Abstract
Signed by approximately fifty citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, this petition expresses concern over the scarcity of small change in the city. The petitioners wanted paper change tickets to alleviate the situation.
Dates:
1842-08-11
Rosalie Tutwiler Interview
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1452
Abstract
Photocopy typed transcript of an interview of Rosalie Tutwiler conducted by Marvin Rogers on 6 February 1976. The subject of the interview was Tutwiler's relative, the prison reformer Julia Tutwiler.
Dates:
1975-02-06
Green Underwood Record Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1459
Overview
Record book of Green Underwood in Dallas County, Alabama, lists information about cotton purchases and money due and owed to him. He lists how the money he has should be divided upon his death. He adds entries until his death in 1852; someone else made notes and entries until 1895.
Dates:
1843 - 1894
Robert E. Tidwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1407
Abstract
This collection includes papers, some written by Tidwell, correspondence, invitations, and bulletins.
Dates:
1941 - 1974
John Heyl Vincent Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1500
Abstract
A note of apology to William Ballantyne for not attending a Bible meeting.
Dates:
1850
Lou Walls Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1519
Abstract
A collection of materials, including many photographs, on the University of Alabama dancers, 1964-86.
Dates:
1964 - 1986
Rex Milford Wallace Jr. Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1515
Overview
A copy of a paper, "The University of Alabama: From the Beginning to the End. A Comparison of the Experiences of Members of the War Classes of the University of Alabama, 1861-1865 in the Confederate Army with that of Other Southerners," written for History 415: The New South at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1980
William Columbus Ward Speech Text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1525
Abstract
The text of Ward's 1858 valedictory address, delivered at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1858-07-15
Elizabeth Cherry Weir Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1538
Abstract
This collection contains the will and estate papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry Weir (d. 1821) of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; letters to Pauline Jones Gandrud regarding the Cherry family genealogy; and and estate paper for John Warner of Tuscaloosa, 1824.
Dates:
1821 - 1960
Bedford H. Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3683
Overview
Legal documents, financial records, correspondence, and other personal papers of this Tuscaloosa County probate judge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1830-1945
John F. Burnum papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3684
Overview
Collection of published articles, including correspondence relating to, drafts of, and research for the articles, as well as newspaper and journal articles that interested Dr. Burnum, photographs of colleagues and groups, certificates of achievement, and tax information.
Dates:
after 1930
Midway, Alabama, city records
Collection
Identifier: W-0046
Overview
Handwritten copy of the town charter with all ordinances from 1882 to 1937, court records, and town council minutes for the town of Midway, Alabama.
Dates:
1882-1937
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