Collections | Special Collections & Archives

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

Different Bands of Comanches and Their Probable Location and Population: Manuscript

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4147

Overview Manuscript by Lieutenant J. S. Stewart (CSA), describing the various bands of Comanches, indicating the tribe numbers and probable locations in Arkansas and Texas.

Dates: circa 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Commercial and Vernacular Photographs of Mexico City and Its Environs

Collection

Identifier: 2020-003

Overview One photographic album containing 124 silver gelatin prints depicting a trip to Mexico City and the surrounding area by an unknown photographer.

Dates: circa 1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Commonplace book on Christianity and slavery

Collection

Identifier: W-0032

Overview Commonplace book with entries addressing a number of topics, including church politics, theological concerns, childrearing practices, and slavery.

Dates: between 1840 and 1851

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mrs. Arthur Comstock WWII Air Warning Service Certificates

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4061

Overview Two World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Air Warning Service certificates awarded to Mrs. Arthur Comstock (Mae) for serving in the Ground Observer Corps.

Dates: 1943-1944

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate Flag, Ku Klux Klan Klavern, Crenshaw County, Alabama

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3275

Overview Reproduction confederate flag last used by the Ku Klux Klan Klavern of Crenshaw County, Alabama, in the early 1960s.

Dates: between 1950 and 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Confederate memoirs," volumes II and III

Collection

Identifier: W-0012

Overview Unpublished typescript of the memoirs of twenty Confederate soldiers

Dates: 1861-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate Military History of Alabama

Collection

Identifier: W-0056

Overview Manuscript of General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Military History of Alabama.

Dates: 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Seventh Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Company F (Rucker's Company) records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1254

Overview Contains the muster roll of the Seventh Alabama Calvary Regiment.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Ninth Georgia Cavalry Regiment (Cobb's Legion) vouchers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0565

Overview Vouchers issued to soldiers of the Ninth Georgia Cavalry Regiment by the Confederate States Army for pay, etc.

Dates: 1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Third Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company C (Swanson's Company) muster roll

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0351

Overview The muster roll of Captain William G. Swanson's Company, Company D, of the Third Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4 May 1861.

Dates: 1861 May 4

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0350

Overview Letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department's Nitre and Mining District 10, to P.J. Weaver, requesting his urgent cooperation in the manufacturing of nitre.

Dates: 1864 October 4

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi

Collection

Identifier: W-0014

Overview A handwritten ledger documenting the collection and distribution of foraged and purchased materials by Confederate officers at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi.

Dates: 1862-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Thirty-Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0349

Overview A miscellany of materials pertaining to the 38th Virginia Infantry Regiment, including muster rolls of Company A, a special order naming hospital stewards, a certificate of disability, and a list of payment and clothing issued.

Dates: 1862-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Union Bark Conrad proof of ownership and registration

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3725

Overview Photocopies of the 1861 Proof of Ownership and Registration forms for the Bark Conrad which was later captured by the C.S.S. Alabama and recommissioned as the Tuscaloosa

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Dr. Edward Augustus Cook collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0354

Overview Collection contains materials relating mainly to Dr. Edward Augustus Cook’s medical practice in Kirk’s Grove, Cherokee County, Alabama including account ledgers, daybooks, register of births and deaths, correspondence, and a photograph.

Dates: 1882 - 1920

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

R. H. Cook Diary and Poems

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4114

Overview Diary for the year 1869 written by a young man in Rose Hill, Mississippi.

Dates: 1869-1880

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cooper and McAmis Families Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3213

Overview Letters and other miscellaneous materials of two sisters, Maggie Cooper of Marion, Alabama, and Mattie McAmis of Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1861-1893

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W.H.H. Cooper furlough

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0222

Overview A furlough dated 13 December 1861, issued to W. H. H. Cooper, a private in Captain D. L. Patterson's Company, 20th Mississippi Volunteers for the period 13 December 1861 to 12 January 1862.

Dates: 1861 December 13

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Preston Copeland cash books

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3707

Overview Cash books of this 19th century Eufaula, Alabama, doctor.

Dates: 1877-1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cooper and Binford records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0355

Overview Two account books from 1848 and 1849.

Dates: 1848-1849

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cornelia Bolen Commonplace Book and Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4225

Overview Commonplace book and three photographs of Cornelia Bolen, a nurse in 1930s Alabama and Florida

Dates: 1930-1950

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Correspondence on Boston Relief Mission to Savannah, Georgia

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4269

Overview This collection contains correspondence and other documentation regarding a mission by citizens of Boston to send supplies to Savannah, Georgia, in January 1865, while the city was occupied by William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union troops during the US Civil War.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Patricia V. Cosby collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3620

Overview Aa scrapbook and other material about University of Alabama alumni

Dates: after 1940

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mary Elizabeth Counselman collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0361

Abstract A collection of manuscripts and publications from Alabama sci-fi/horror writer Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Dates: 1940 - 1980

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John M. Counts Letters from Dr. George Denny

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4110

Overview Seven letters from Dr. George Denny attempting to coax Counts back to the University of Alabama

Dates: 1924

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0362

Overview Scrapbook documenting the history of the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Home Demonstration Club and includes photos, newspaper clippings, and club documents.

Dates: 1911

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Peter Courtney indenture

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0363

Overview Handwritten indenture document, dated 1 January 1704, by which Peter Courtney of Middlesex County, England, leased a property, "Eagle Hollow" or "Parks Suggs," to Samuel Rogers of Cornwall County, England.

Dates: 1704 January 1

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

A.J. Cousins papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3768

Overview Newspapers clippings, sermons, letters, telegrams, and cabinet card photographs.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cousins papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2289

Overview Sermons, photographs, correspondence, and church programs

Dates: 1883-1910

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Fletcher J. Cowart Autobiography and Family History

Collection — Box: SC1850-1899.001, Folder: 2731.1

Identifier: MSS-2731

Overview A mimeographed copy of a typed manuscript about the Cowart family history compiled by Fletcher J. Cowart of Troy, Alabama, in 1883.

Dates: 1883

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cowbellion de Rakin Society initiation ceremony script

Collection

Identifier: W-0035

Overview Handwritten script outlining an 1847 initiation ceremony conducted by Mobile, Alabama's earliest mystic society, the Cowbellian de Rakin Society.

Dates: 1847

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cowin family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0364

Overview Photocopies of the diary and essays written by John H. Cowin of Green County, Alabama covering events from 22 April through 13 November 1861 as well as a smaller diary for the month of January 1863. There is also a presidential pardon and oaths of allegiance certificates for Samuel Cowin, as well as photocopies of miscellaneous documents including Alabama tax statements from 1875 and 1877 and newspaper clippings, and a Civil War era Smith and Wesson Model 2 Army revolver. Also in the...

Dates: 1861–1921

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

H. Cox Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4126

Overview Letter from uncle in Mt. Vernon, Alabama, to niece in Brooklyn, New York, telling her about the yellow fever outbreak in Mobile.

Dates: 1839 October 17

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J.M. Craft Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2539

Overview J.M. Craft, a veteran living in a U.S. Soldier's Home in Kansas City, Missouri, writes about his daily life.

Dates: 1940 January 9

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Walter R. Crane notebooks

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0366

Overview Two bound notebooks of handwritten lecture notes made by Walter R. Crane

Dates: after 1870

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Charles Cravner papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0367

Overview Legal papers, correspondence, photos, geneology, sheet music, blueprints, sermons, postcards, and journals all related to the Cravner family.

Dates: 1803-1963

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James P. Creath letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0370

Overview Letter written by a Uniontown, Alabama, businessman dated 29 April 1893, to his fiancée.

Dates: 1893 April 29

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Creek Indian Land Sales Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0371

Overview Documents pertaining to the sale of lands belonging to Ko Yoo Quae, Alpetter Hadjo, Co Choc O Nee, Coch Che Yo Ho Lo, and Pelis-hart-ke - all Creek Indians living in Alabama between 1833 and 1841.

Dates: 1833 - 1841

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ethel Creighton poem and watercolor

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0365

Overview A poem and a watercolor by Ethel Creighton featuring the Old Spanish Tower in Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: between 1880-1953

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mary Creighton letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3195

Overview Contains three letters written by Mary Creighton of Boston, Massachusetts, to a Mr. Jenks of Ridgeway, Missouri. She sought information on the whereabouts of her cousin William, whom she had not seen for many years.

Dates: 1917

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

T. H. Crenshaw, Jr., papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0372

Overview Photocopies of the papers of the Crenshaw family, including personal and business correspondence, bills, receipts, etc.

Dates: 1810-1884

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Creole Social Club records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0374

Overview Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.

Dates: 1878-1902

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Crimson Theatre radio plays collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0375

Overview Scripts for several radio plays performed by the Crimson Theatre on the WABP radio station on the University of Alabama campus.

Dates: circa 1953

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Oliver Harlan Cross papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3478

Overview Papers include a CD and a photograph

Dates: after 1945

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 Crowley papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2895

Overview A collection of manuscripts and correspondence relating to the writing and publishing of three works by John Crowley.

Dates: 1969-1978

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Laurence Crowley World's Great War for Freedom Roll of Honor Certificate

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3419

Overview Large certificate featuring a picture of Laurence Crowley in uniform with the information of the place and date of his enlistment in World War II.

Dates: after 1943

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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