Collections | Special Collections & Archives

Henry Conrad Blanford papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0171

Abstract Bound prayer book and related materials dealing with this Lay Reader of the Episcopal Church's healing missions in Anniston and Ensley, Alabama.

Dates: 1920-1922

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Abstract A letter dated 21 June 1865 to Capt. J. M. Cary of Chunnenuggee, Alabama. Blelock, a publisher in New York, offered "the most liberal terms" for the future literary productions of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) (1835-1909), an immensely popular sentimental novelist.

Dates: 1865 June 21

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John H. Blitz report

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0174

Abstract A Cultural Resources Report by Blitz on the archaeological significance of the proposed site for a poultry processing plant in Cullman County, Alabama.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Blocton, Alabama Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2010-004

Overview This collection consists of nine photographs of Italian - Americans living in Blocton, Alabama. Photographs were used in the fall 1986 Alabama Heritage article.

Dates: 1900 - 1938

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Blocton Home Band photographs

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3632

Overview Photographs of this 1914 group

Dates: circa 1914

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sarah Blue collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0177

Abstract A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, “My Golden School Days.”

Dates: 1894-circa 1915

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Blue Star Salute Foundation Materials

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4051

Overview United States Blue Star Service Flag (roughly 8.5" x 14"), membership brochures, and announcements of upcoming events honoring U. S. veterans in the Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama.

Dates: 2014

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bluff Park United Methodist Church records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0178

Overview A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1978-1981

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Janette Goldstein Blum Scrapbook Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3913

Overview Scrapbooks, print materials, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Blum and her time at the University of Alabama

Dates: circa 1930s

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary minutes

Collection

Identifier: W-0076

Overview Ledger contains minutes of the Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary. Through the years the members discussed issues such as visiting hours, expanding the operating room, controlling patient behavior, and finding a resident physician to work nights and therefore assist with patients in the maternity ward.

Dates: 1888 - 1896

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bobalition of Slavery 1822 Broadside

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4323

Scope and Contents One broadside from an 1816-1837 contemporary Bobalition series that satirized the annual July 14th Abolition Day celebrations for African Americans. This broadside has an imprint from "The Flying Booksellers," a woodcut image, and text in three columns.

Dates: 1822-07-15

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Susie L. Meyers Bobb letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3658

Overview Correspondence between family and friends of the Bobb, Raymond, and Meyers families of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa. The letters date from 1873-1922, and most of them are written to Susie L. Meyers Bobb, who was likely also Susie L. Raymond.

Dates: 1873-1922

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Erline Bodine papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0179

Overview An amalgam of genealogical research done by Bodine into the Bodine and Pate families, and a copy of a letter to Alabama Governor Guy Hunt, dated 21 March 1987, claiming damages of “about 160 A[cres] and one billion dollars” owing to a “stragedy” [sic] concocted by “Big Jim” [Fulsom?] and Franklin Roosevelt “to help the nation with my family’s resources.”

Dates: undated

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Olin Boggess Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2004

Overview One letter from Olin Boggess, of Lakeland, Florida, to his brother Walter. The letter concerns a trip of Olin's.

Dates: 1929 June 20

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bogy and Smith Families genealogy

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0180

Abstract A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.

Dates: undated

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Boid Family Bible

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4089

Overview Old Testament portion of a family Bible

Dates: 1818

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Boling Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0181

Overview Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.

Dates: 1833-1870

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Washington Boman teaching agreement

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3547

Overview Photocopied teaching and pay agreement

Dates: 1853-1859

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Wade Hampton Boman teaching agreement

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3550

Overview Photocopies of his teaching and pay agreement.

Dates: 1846 February 9

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bone Camp Methodist Church records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0184

Abstract This collection contains the constitution, membership lists, articles of faith, rules of decorum, records of church activities 1843-1904, and church register, 1862-1935, giving lists of members and of pastors of this Methodist church in Northport, Alabama.

Dates: 1843-1935

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Dr. Bonner letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0185

Abstract Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.

Dates: 1958

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0186

Abstract Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.

Dates: 1836-1843

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Book Arts Broadsides and Ephemera

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3917

Dates: 1950 - 2012

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Book of Newspaper Clippings

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3442

Overview Scrapbook of poems and short stories clipped from unidentified newspapers, circa 1845.

Dates: circa 1845

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Booker T. Washington letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0136

Overview Letter from Booker T. Washington asking for financial support for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The letter is dated November 12, 1915, two days before Washington's death.

Dates: 1915-11-01

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Booth Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3170

Overview Letters to and from members of the Booth family. Family and friends write about their experiences farming and raising livestock in Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa from 1857 to 1886.

Dates: 1857 - 1886

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bootlegging Court records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0188

Abstract One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.

Dates: 1871-1881

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Border Springs Baptist Church of Christ records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0189

Abstract Photocopies of records, including board meeting minutes, the covenant, rules of decorum, lists of members, of members received, and resolutions by this Caledonia, Mississippi church.

Dates: 1900-1949; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1949

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Amelia Boswell letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0190

Abstract Letter dated 13 August 1847, from Boswell of El Dorado, Arkansas, to her cousin, Elizabeth A. Boswell of Pike County, Alabama, discussing the health of family members, crops, and weather.

Dates: 1847 August 13

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Franklin Welsh Bowdon letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0191

Abstract A letter dated 24 October 1835, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa to the editor of the Weekly Globe requesting a six-month subscription to the newspaper.

Dates: 1835 October 24

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles Boyd genealogy

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0195

Abstract A collection of genealogical records pertaining to Boyd's family.

Dates: undated

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Boyd family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0194

Abstract Photocopies of various documents and letters relating to Alfred Boyd (1814-82) and his descendants as well as a typescript history of the family of Joel Willis, Sr., and a typescript paper by Bruce L. Bennett of Ohio State University titled, "Sports and Physical Education in Colonial Times."

Dates: 1816-1943; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1859

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. L. Boynton maps

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0197

Abstract Printed maps of Georgia with additions showing routes taken for "botanical tours."

Dates: 1895-1902

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

L.O. Brackeen paper

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0451

Overview Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.

Dates: 1962 April 26

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Arthur F. Bradley Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3287

Overview Letter from Private Arthur F. Bradley, written on 18 May 1944, while stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, to his parents in Dubuque, Iowa.

Dates: 1944 May 18

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. M. Bradshaw Farm Journals

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3693

Overview The journals of this Luverne, Alabama, farmer.

Dates: 1912-1916

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Braxton Bragg Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4174

Overview Letter written by Bragg from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to his wife.

Dates: 1853 June 3

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Walter Lawrence Bragg letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0200

Overview Copies of incoming letters dated 1881-1882, from the Alabama state archives.

Dates: 1881-1882

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Gerard C. Brandon letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0204

Overview Letter from the Governor of Mississippi to Alabama Governor John Murphy regarding an unsettled financial transaction between the two states.

Dates: 1828 October 29

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Brandon Memorial United Methodist Church records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0202

Overview Lists of members, pastors, marriages, baptisms, and deceased members, as well as church directories of this Methodist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1911-1991

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Woodward Brandon papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0203

Overview Documents concerning Alabama governor William Woodward Brandon, including letters, news clippings, postcards, and transcripts of speeches.

Dates: 1920-1935

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Branscomb Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4017

Overview Letters, land grants, diplomas, certificates, scrapbook, daguerreotype, and other miscellaneous documents, as well as quilts and other textiles (including a wedding dress from the early 20th century)

Dates: after 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Richard Branscomb and Lewis Branscomb papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0205

Overview Diary, travel journals, and account book of Richard Edwin Branscomb (1902-1980), Methodist Minister from Guin, Alabama, and Condensed Minute Book for Presiding Elders of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church belonging to Branscomb’s father, Lewis Capers Branscomb (1865-1930).

Dates: 1922-1935

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Brant Crawley Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2009-206

Abstract Collection consists of twenty-nine photographs of Sardis Cemetery in Bullock County, Alabama.

Dates: 1993

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Brazilian Community Building During the 1960s Photographic Album

Collection

Identifier: 2022-009

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 147 black and white or sepia toned photographs of Daniel K. Ludwig’s business ventures in 1960s Brazil. Photographs measure between 2 ½”x 3” and 4”x5” and are captioned with simple descriptions such as “transportation” and “arriving on ranch.” The photographs show building an airstrip and infrastructure, cattle ranching, and land clearing. Many photographs show Ludwig’s employees and locals posing with bi-planes, animals, and their community while undertaking Ludwig’s...

Dates: circa 1960s

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charity Sophia Rutland Brett commonplace book

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0206

Overview Mid-nineteenth-century combination cookbook and scrapbook that includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," and a "remedy for cholera," among others.

Dates: 1851-1856

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Glenda Brewer research paper

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0208

Overview Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.

Dates: 1975

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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