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Adam H. Whetstone diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0080
Overview
Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0055
Overview
A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.
Dates:
1815-1835
Alabama Cultivation Promotional Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-025
Scope and Contents
One photographic album created in July 1911 of 18 black and white photographs promoting land cultivation in Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama. Photographs are of different types of fruit that can grow in Alabama and examples of orchards in bloom. The photographs measure 3 3/8" x 5 1/2" and are adhesive mounted to 16 paper leaves.
Dates:
1911-07-22 - 1911-07-24
History of the Alabama Democratic Party Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3025
Overview
Letters, poll lists, and ephemera relating to the Democratic Party of Alabama.
Dates:
1896-1946
Alabama Democratic Party, 1860 Delegation minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0057
Overview
Minutes and roll of Alabama's delegation, who were "accredited to the Baltimore and Richmond Democratic convention" in Richmond, Virginia, in 1860.
Dates:
1860
Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0030
Overview
Minutes of the Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee meetings from 1892-1894.
Dates:
1892-1894
Alabama Election Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3022
Overview
Several articles and flyers about Alabama elections from the early 20th century.
Dates:
1916-1930
Alabama Historical Association Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0036
Abstract
Programs and correspondence relating to the annuals convention of the Alabama Historical Association, 1951-54.
Dates:
1951-2006
Alabama Legislature petition
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0039
Overview
An 1849 petition by several Alabama legislators to Governor Reuben Chapman urging him to veto the act chartering the Central Plank Road, and a typed transcript listing the names of signers and counties that they represented.
Dates:
1849
Alabama Nurses Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Dates:
1913-1977
Alabama Republican Party Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3894
Overview
Memoranda and correspondence relating to the 1908 United States presidential election from Calhoun and Elmore Counties in Alabama
Dates:
1907-1908
Alabama Review editorial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0051
Overview
Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Dates:
1976-1987
Alabama Warriors speech text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0053
Overview
Text of a speech describing the contribution of Emma Sansom, Joseph Wheeler, Raphael Semmes, and John Pelham to Alabama history, read at the February 2, 1933, meeting of the Canebreak Rifle Guard Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1933
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
Allen Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Overview
The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.
Dates:
1848-1906
Alpha Beta Alpha Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-217
Overview
One color and five black and white photographs of Alpha Beta Alpha Convention at Illinois State University, showing Miss Jean Nelson (Instructor Illinois State University), Miss Welch (Librarian Illinois State University), Maureen Bray (Illinois State), Hilda Weeks (MSCW), Linda Pinder (West University of Alabama), Mary Kate Meredith (University of Alabama), Suellen Reed (University of Alabama), Dona Wrench, and two photos of Illinois State University.
Dates:
1968-04
Alpha Epsilon Delta records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Overview
The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Dates:
1926-1951
Andrew Coleman Hargrove papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0630
Overview
Personal and business correspondence, class notes, and financial records of attorney and politician, Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1835-1911
Austin L. Venable Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1498
Abstract
This collection contains manuscripts, research materials (original documents, notes, photostats, and microfilm), and copies of historical journals.
Dates:
1834 - 1971
Harry Mell Ayers papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0097
Abstract
Contains the correspondence of this New Deal Democrat and Civil Rights supporter who owned the newspaper, the Anniston Star. The correspondence deals with local, state, and national political campaigns, elections, education, civil rights, editorials, letters to the editor, and events of the times. The collection also contains personal correspondence with other newspapermen, educators, and statesmen; copies of editorials and clippings on Alabama politics, Anniston, education, the Federal...
Dates:
1918-1956
Baltzell and Bullock families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0105
Abstract
The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.
Dates:
1839-1921
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
Eutaw Banks... Their Story as Suggested by the WCB Photo Albums (PDF files on CD-ROM)
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4176
Overview
The story of the family of James Oliver Banks II of Eutaw, Alabama, as told in the photographs of his son Wilkes Coleman Banks.
Dates:
1852-1941
Marion Banks letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0110
Abstract
Letter to Dr. E. H. Moren recommending W. C. Richardson for the professorship of English literature at Alabama A and M College.
Dates:
1878 May 24
W.R. Barron paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0119
Abstract
A paper titled "History of Fairview Presbyterian Church from Organization to Present Date (April 23, 1889)," that includes lists of pastors, members, and elders of this Presbyterian Church in Perry County, Alabama, 1823-1889.
Dates:
1889 April 23
Bell Factory letterbook and cloth samples
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0131
Abstract
Corporate letterbook, 1882-1906, and cloth samples of "Bell checks" and "Bell stripes" manufactured by the Bell Factory, Huntsville, Alabama, after the Civil War.
Dates:
1882-1906
William Robert Bell letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0134
Abstract
A letter dated 29 May 1864 from a Confederate soldier to his mother and sister while stationed in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
Dates:
1864 May 29
Benton County, Alabama, land contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0141
Abstract
Land contract dated 29 July 1834, at White Plains, Benton (later Calhoun) County, Alabama.
Dates:
1834 July 29
James Berney letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0142
Abstract
Letter dated 31 January 1846, from Montgomery, Alabama, to A. Jackson at Mayhew [Mississippi?] on news of Montgomery being voted the state capital and the subsequent celebration.
Dates:
1846 January 31
Peyton B. Bibb papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0153
Abstract
Documents, mainly letters written to or by Peyton B. Bibb. There are also receipts and minutes from unidentified meetings. There is also a copy of the “Complete Rudiments of Music” by A.J. Showalter (©1906) with the name “George Bibb” written on the front cover and on the first page.
Dates:
1886–1906
Big Creek Baptist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0156
Abstract
Deed for land, lists of members, and monthly meeting minutes of this Baptist church in Coker, Alabama.
Dates:
1821 - 1913
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract
Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
Dates:
1873
Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0163
Overview
One ledger that records the association's meetings from 1913-1916.
Dates:
1913-1916
Winton M. Blount papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0176
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of this Montgomery, Alabama, business leader, during his term as United States Postmaster General (1969-1971).
Dates:
1956-2004
Buford Boone papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract
Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.
Dates:
1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968
George E. Brewer letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0207
Overview
Two typescript copies of a 1919 letter describing Bird H. Young who was the model for nineteenth century author Johnson J. Hooper's (1815-62) character Simon Suggs.
Dates:
1919 October 15
Charles Edward Bridges letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0209
Overview
A letter dated 24 February 1849, written from the University of Alabama to Sam Houston, advising him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Erosophic Society.
Dates:
1849 February 24
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Overview
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Dates:
1865 June 16
C. N. Henkle Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0664
Abstract
A letter dated January 1878, to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing Henkle's involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.
Dates:
1878-01
Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Overview
Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.
Dates:
1964-1988
Canebrake collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0267
Overview
Materials relating principally to the community of Dayton in Marengo County, Alabama. It includes land grants, the Dayton city code, town council minutes, and some family records.
Dates:
circa 1837?
Cantelou family genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0271
Overview
Photocopies of various documents concerning the ancestry of members of the Cantelou family of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Dates:
1855–1965
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
Charles N. Moore Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1014
Abstract
Notes and course outline for the first electronic data processing course taught at University of Alabama (1957). Also includes historical notes by Dr. Moore, and journals of 4th and 5th Annual Electronic Data Processing Conferences (1959, 1960).
Dates:
1957 - 1994
Thomas P. Clinton letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0319
Overview
Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.
Dates:
Unknown
Collective Protection documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0344
Abstract
Documents on Collective Protection probably produced by authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. They cover all areas of collective protection such as home protection, lighting restrictions, espionage and sabotage, war gases and shelters.
Dates:
1941-1945
Confederate Military History of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0056
Overview
Manuscript of General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Military History of Alabama.
Dates:
1899
Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0373
Overview
A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.
Dates:
circa 1835-1886
John Cuthbert letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0389
Overview
Letter, written by John A. Cuthbert from San Souci, Mobile Bay, Alabama, on 29 June 1848 to Governor Reuben Chapman of Alabama, urging the appointment of William R. King to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate.
Dates:
1848 June 29
D. M. N. Ross Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1208
Abstract
A paper titled "A brief history of the military department of the University of Alabama, 1860-1936,"written by D.M.N. Ross.
Dates:
n.d.
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