Collections | Special Collections & Archives

A. F. Hopkins Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0703

Abstract A letter from Hopkins to Silas Parsons of Huntsville, Alabama, about the debt and finances of clients

Dates: 1844-12-11

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

Collection

Identifier: W-0006

Overview Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.

Dates: 1861-1869

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. R. Moen Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1008

Abstract A letter dated 31 May 1831, from Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, to M. P. Collins of Collins and Company, Hartford, Connecticut. It reports on businesses in various towns along the Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers and the axes they stock, noting which sell Collins and Company's goods and which do not.

Dates: 1831-05-31

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Adams Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0006

Abstract This collection consists principally of correspondence among members of the Adams Family, the majority of which concerns the Confederate service of a son, who wrote many letters detailing army life and conditions. It also contains papers related to Homer and John Adams, prisoners of war who died before returning home, and an Adams Family history by Irving Adams, dated December 18, 1948.

Dates: 1849 - 1926; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Agnes Ellen Harris Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0635

Overview Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.

Dates: 1919 - 1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Aileen Kilgore Henderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0661

Overview Drafts and final manuscripts of the works of this award-winning Alabama children's author, and correspondence with her editor and with her fans. Also a United States Army Women's Corps uniform [not AKH's actual uniform; the attached insignia may or may not be hers either]: jacket, blouse, skirt and garrison cap, circa 1944-1951 and other military recognitions.

Dates: 1938 - 2008

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Association for Continuing Education and Service papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3468

Overview Records for the association including papers from the annual meeting and a directory

Dates: 1973-1975

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Association for Young Children records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0020

Abstract A collection containing meeting minutes, correspondence, the organization's constitution and by-laws, photographs, and other materials.

Dates: 1959 - 1987

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's Alabama authors collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0064

Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, signed book pages, publication announcements, catalogs, and newspaper clippings related to the careers of several Alabama authors as well as the Alabama Writers Conclave and the Birmingham Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Dates: 1868-1989

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Circuit Court, 23rd District, records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0056

Overview Primarily records of suits for debt, arranged chronologically, by circuit court and county court, including judge's dockets.

Dates: 1809-1926

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Democratic State Executive Committee records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0425

Abstract Record book containing letters, records of members' disputes, meeting minutes, and other materials

Dates: 1892-1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0038

Overview Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.

Dates: 1890 - 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Library Association Records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0040

Abstract Meeting minutes, correspondence and records of officers and chairs of committees and roundtables, material relating to annual meetings, and other documents.

Dates: 1904 - 2005

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Manufacturing Association records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0041

Overview Includes membership information, correspondence to members, newsletters, data on industrial growth, and civic booster brochures from various Alabama cities.

Dates: 1953 - 1979

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Marble Quarries prospectus/stock subscription form

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0042

Overview A prospectus describing the marble quarried by the firm in Talladega County, Alabama, and the demand for it. At the bottom of the second page is a stock subscription form.

Dates: 1910

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Political Figures Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0045

Overview Letters and documents signed by various Alabama political figures, including William Brockman Bankhead, Ruben Chapman, Clement Comer Clay, and Henry Watkins Collier.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama railroads of the past collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0042

Overview Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.

Dates: 1855-1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama School Libraries: a history

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0052

Overview This collection contains papers that are associated with Alabama School Libraries. This includes newspaper clippings, association newsletters, correspondence, and reports with the bulk of the materials from the 1940s.

Dates: 1930-1970

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Lamar Aldridge papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0059

Overview Letters home written while Aldridge was in training in Georgia and then serving in France during World War I.

Dates: 1917-1919

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James M. Alexander letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3804

Overview Letter from Alexander to Captain Pope

Dates: 1863 October 27

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Eliab Buck Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2009

Abstract Two letters, dated in 1870, written by Alfred E. Buck of Mobile, Alabama while he was serving in the United States House of Representatives, to the editor of the Congressional Directory.

Dates: 1870

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Parmenter papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0153

Overview Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0058

Overview Correspondence, research notes, typescripts, and galley proofs of sisters and Alabama authors Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Allison Johnson.

Dates: 1917-1959

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0561

Overview Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.

Dates: 1850-1873

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alison family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0062

Abstract Genealogical information, including typewritten booklets on various families. Individual folders are labeled with family names. The collection includes correspondence, photocopies, and photographs.

Dates: after 1800

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Allan F. Archer papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0082

Overview Documents pertaining to the career of Dr. Allan F. Archer from 1932 to 1951 when he worked at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey of Alabama. The material primarily focuses on Dr. Archer’s study of spiders, but includes crabs, mollusks, crustacean and matters of ecological and biological importance as well.

Dates: 1932-1951

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

M. E. Allan letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0063

Overview Letter dated 30 September 1855, to "Dear Cousin," from Bald Hill, Georgia, discussing family news, crops, children, and illnesses and deaths among family and slaves.

Dates: 1855 September 30

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Allen and Jemison Hardware Company catalogs

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0066

Abstract Two catalogs, 1913 and 1928, of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hardware store.

Dates: 1913, 1928

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jonathon A. B. Allison letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0068

Overview A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war.

Dates: 1862 March 6

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alston Fitts Letters and Photograph

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0520

Overview Letters from this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, physician to his wife and children before and after he was shipped to France during World War I, as well as a photograph of Fitts.

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ambrose Doss Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0446

Overview Collection contains letters written by Ambrose Doss of Jefferson County, Alabama, to his wife, Sarah Brake Doss while he was in Co. C of the 19th Alabama Regiment from the time of his enlistment in 1861 until his death on 1864 July 5 near Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia. There is also a letter from Lt. J. W. Rouse, dated 1864 July 6, to Sarah telling her of Ambrose’s death and burial. There are several miscellaneous documents including a short biographical sketch of Doss and a booklet titled...

Dates: 1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

American Association of University Professors, University of Alabama Chapter records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0072

Overview A collection of meeting minutes, committee reports, correspondence, membership information, constitutions, and other material.

Dates: 1949-1975; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

American Association of University Women, Tuscaloosa Branch records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0073

Overview Includes the Tuscaloosa branch secretary’s notebooks, which contain the association's official correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, and other records that vary by year. Also includes the executive board files and scrapbooks

Dates: 1928-2002

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2356

Overview Correspondence, photographs, diary, books, stationery set, newspaper clippings, and dog tags of Andrew William Johnson Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1940s, before and after he was in the Army.

Dates: 1940-1949

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Al Andrews Amateur Journalism Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0016

Abstract A very large collection of individually-produced fan magazines (fanzines or ‘zines), circular letters, and related materials, principally of science fiction fantasy subjects, named in honor of Birmingham native and science fiction artist, Al Andrews. See the finding aid for a detailed inventory of the contents of the collection.

Dates: 1961-[2009]

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Douglas Arant Alabama Academy of Honor materials

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0081

Overview Materials relating to Arant's 1978 induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor, including a scrapbook with pictures from the induction, biographical information on members, and past programs from induction ceremonies.

Dates: 1974-1986

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letters from Archie to Sarah and Brother

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2214

Abstract Collection consists of family correspondence between Archie and siblings. Discusses education, farming, and family matters.

Dates: 1860 - 1874

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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