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Letters to Carleton K. Butler

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2793

Overview Bound correspondence written in 1978 to Col. Carleton K. Butler, director of the University of Alabama's Million Dollar Band.

Dates: 1978 September-October

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Carleton K. Butler papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2486

Overview photocopies of University of Alabama band programs, Alumni Bulletin for the University from 1979, and the Birmingham News (Alabama) from 1979

Dates: 1979

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Overview A scrapbook by Helen N., "Nellie," Butler of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, consisting of clippings of newspaper articles, obituaries, poetry, marriage announcements, invitations, visiting cards, letters, prints and engravings.

Dates: 1857–1888

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jack S. Butler papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2485

Overview Letters written to and from Lt. Jack S. Butler and his wife, Maxine, in 1945, while he was stationed in Italy, and she was in Notasulga and Auburn, AL

Dates: 1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Edmund Butterworth manuscript

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0245

Overview Manuscript of Butterworth's book "Stock Car Racer," which was published by W.W. Norton and Company, 1966

Dates: 1966

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mike Bynum papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0246

Overview Manuscript (photocopy) of Bynum's book "High Tide" (published by Cross Roads Books, 1978) and research notes

Dates: 1978

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Byrd LeRoy Architectural Rendering, Health Sciences Research Building, University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4222

Overview Large architectural rendering of the new Health Sciences Research Building at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama (now the University of Alabama in Birmingham).

Dates: 1957

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. B. Waite Mexico in 1904 Photographic Album

Collection

Identifier: 2022-010

Scope and Contents The collection is 36 5x8” photographs of Charles Betts “C. B.” Waite’s work through urban and rural Mexico during 1904. Scenes depicted are of local laborers, street views including architecture and vendors, Mexican cities, and agricultural scenes. One photograph is of the catacombs of Guanajuato. A few photographs are captioned in Spanish on the print.

Dates: 1904

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. C. Sale and Sallie Sale Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1223

Abstract This collection contains two letters, one by C. C. Sale from Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 26 May [1864] to his wife, and one from Sallie Sale from Culpeper Courthouse, Virginia 30 July [1864] to her sister.

Dates: 1860

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. H. Miller Store Records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0987

Abstract General merchandise store records, including ledgers, daybooks, correspondence and miscellaneous materials from a business located in Miller, Marengo County, Alabama.

Dates: 1891-1910

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. I. B. DeLage letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0156

Overview A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. Robert Churchill Collection Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2008-001

Overview In 1938, the University of Alabama acquired the personal library of Thomas Payne Thomson, a New Orleans businessman and bibliophile: Houses in Louisiana circa 1915.

Dates: 1913 - 1915

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. S. Phillips letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0155

Overview Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.

Dates: 1865-04-18

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ottokar T. Cadek papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0253

Overview Correspondence, diaries, genealogies, and various other documents relating to the life of this violinist, conductor, and teacher.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cadwallader Jones Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0775

Abstract A letter dated 29 November 1862, from Orange Court House, Virginia to Jones's daughter, Fanny Iredell Erwin. It details a Confederate army march from north of Winchester to Orange Court House, and expresses delight in the scenery and admiraltion of an especially fine farm.

Dates: 1862-11-29

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cahaba, Alabama Public Land Office record

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1172

Overview Public land office records from Cahaba, Alabama, possibly created by George S. Gaines.

Dates: 1825 - 1830

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cahaba Coal Mining Company meeting minutes

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3805

Overview Meeting minutes for this Alabama coal mining company

Dates: 1892 September 16

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cahill Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2282

Abstract The Cahill Family Papers consist of personal correspondence to and from Clyde M., Michael J., and Belle Mills Cahill of Ohio. Also included in the collection are receipts and miscellaneous financial documents.

Dates: 1886-1935

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Calcedonia Cemetery gravestone list

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0259

Overview A 1992 list of names found on gravestones in this Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, cemetery.

Dates: 1992

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Andrew Caldcleugh account book

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0331

Abstract A book containing miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1778- c. 1811. The identifying label states that this is the account book for a sawmill. Many of the entries relate to lumber sales, but others do not, throwing doubt upon the attribution. The cover is inscribed "A Caldcleugh Mill April 28th 1803."

Dates: 1778 - circa 1811

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Hamlin Caldwell family genealogy

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0256

Overview Genealogy completed in 1958 by Daisy Caldwell and Jessie King Cave. The work documents the life of Hamlin Caldwell of Scottsboro, Alabama, and his descendants.

Dates: 1958 December 1

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. F. J. Caldwell letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0257

Overview Letter written by Caldwell, dated 5 September 1861, to James Simms of Charleston, South Carolina, inquiring about a note and asking for assistance in getting a secretaryship with the Confederate Commissioners being sent to Europe.

Dates: 1861 September 5

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John H. Caldwell papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0258

Overview Business correspondence, legal papers, and reports of land agent for state of Alabama. Does not cover his entire term, 1879-1902.

Dates: 1886-1902

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Caleb Huse Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0723

Overview Six letters dated between July 20, 1859 and December 21, 1904, including two to Mason Graham in 1859, concerning the chair of mathematics and the superintendancy at Louisiana State University; one to Mary Benagh Philip in 1904, regarding a pamphlet he wrote about Confederate Army supply lines; two in 1904 from Thomas M. Owen of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History asking about Huse's memories of being a student at the University of Alabama; and one in reply to Owen.

Dates: 1859 - 1904

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Calhoun School Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0260

Overview Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.

Dates: 1891-1923

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Callahan Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0262

Overview A miscellany of materials, primarily genealogical records of a large number of families. The collection also contains files on the Hopewell Baptist Church in Fayette County, Alabama, the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company F, Alabama land records, and on women's suffrage.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Camp Aliceville, Alabama, Materials

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4196

Overview Papers, letters, and photographs of German prisoners of war during and after their internment at Camp Aliceville, Alabama.

Dates: 1943-1995

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Camp Forrest photograph

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3554

Overview Photograph of Camp Forrest, Tennessee, 1941

Dates: 1941 May 22

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Camp Lillian scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3529

Dates: 1905

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Campbell autograph album

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0265

Overview An "Atlantic Cable Charm Book" autograph album owned by a person named Campbell, containing the signature of Sam Houston and various handwritten poems.

Dates: 1859-1874

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Camping Trip Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2009-204

Overview This collection consists of seven photographs of men on a camping trip.

Dates: 1920 - 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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?

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mr. Canly Scotland and European Travel Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4069

Overview Detailed travel diary of a young man and his family traveling in Scotland and Europe in 1860.

Dates: 1860

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Isaac Cannon and Mordecai F. Doughty legal documents

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0268

Overview Photocopies of court documents from the Tuscaloosa County (Alabama) Probate Court, regarding the estates of Isaac Cannon and Mordecai F. Doughty

Dates: 1876-1890

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Cannon indenture

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0269

Overview An agreement dated 10 January 1899 and executed in Elmore County, Alabama, between J. W. Adams and John Cannon, indenturing Archie Cannon, a minor, to five months agricultural labor.

Dates: 1899 January 10

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Theron Cannon records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0270

Abstract The records of a general store in Berry, Fayette County, Alabama, including correspondence, mortgages, invoices, orders, etc.

Dates: 1914-1952

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Canterbury Chapel Christ Episcopal Church scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0272

Overview Scrapbooks and newspaper articles highlighting church members who worked for the University and college students who attended Canterbury Chapel.

Dates: 1927-1937

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Truman Capote papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0273

Abstract Marie Rudisill cookbook galleys, recipes with Capote comments, John Morris account book, James Johnson account book and the manuscript for the Yellow Drum, a play adapted from a Capote novel.

Dates: 1839-1989

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Captain Raphael Semmes Signed Carte de Visite

Collection

Identifier: 2015-003

Scope and Contents Captain Raphael Semmes signed Carte de Visite.

Dates: 1860

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Captain William McMicken Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4241

Overview Captain William McMicken (1827-1899) was a farmer, Recorder of Dodge County, Union soldier in the Civil War, Assessor of Internal Revenue of the First Congressional District of Minnesota, an employee of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and United States Surveyor General and Territorial Treasurer for the Washington Territory. He appears to have received the diary as a gift in December of 1864. Captain McMicken created entries for January through May of 1865, with a few scattered entries in...

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Eddie Carideo scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0275

Overview Souvenirs and mementoes of University of Alabama football, with some boxing and baseball memorabilia, 1932-1948, including photos of players, many of them signed, and newspaper clippings, as well as some 1935 Rose Bowl materials and photos.

Dates: 1932-1948

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Carl S. Auerbach World War II letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4202

Overview Letters from this WWII sailor to his wife and family.

Dates: 1936-1945

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Carl Schurz Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1233

Abstract This collection contains three letters composed while Schurz was traveling in the South during the summer of 1865, at least one of which was written from Alabama. It also contains a letter of introduction from Major General James H. Wilson.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Proctor Carlisle legal papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0276

Overview The draft of a claim and an answering paper, dated June 1861, relative to the seizure of the British schooner "Tropic Wind" by the U.S.S. Monticello

Dates: 1861 June

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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