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Education -- Alabama

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2008118760

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

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

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

Birmingham Dental College minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0161
Abstract A collection of board minutes, including some organizational information.
Dates: 1893-1899

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

Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0217
Overview Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Dates: 1916-1924

Dayton Female Institute announcement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0415
Abstract An 1867 announcement containing information for students of this Dayton, Alabama girls school overseen by the Rev. J.F. Tarrant and his wife.
Dates: 1867

Harold Dunn paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0460
Overview Paper by Dunn entitled "The Annual Miss Winterboro High School Beauty Pageant and its Significance to the Community."
Dates: 1991 April 8

Early Educational Institutions in the South

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0466
Overview Tuition receipts, a printed announcement, and a clipping, from several schools, primarily in Alabama.
Dates: 1844-1879

Eborn and Peteet Families papers

 Collection — Box 3154: [1005585077]
Identifier: MSS-0469
Overview Letters, written by Benjamin F. Eborn between 1884 and 1885 to his sweetheart (later his wife), Corinne Peteet Eborn. There are also other letters to Corinne from various family members, including her father, W.Y. Peteet, mother-in-law, Bettie Eborn, and her sister, Mary P. Jones.
Dates: 1879-1955

Janie May Eppes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0489
Overview Teaching materials and clippings gathered by a Birmingham, Alabama, school teacher for use in her classroom, and in the course of her own education
Dates: 1907-1957

Albert John Farrah manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0505
Overview Typescript manuscripts of two textbooks (two copies of each) created by Albert John Farrah, Dean of the University of Alabama Law School from 1912 until shortly before his death in June of 1944.
Dates: 1934

Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0095
Overview Contains copies of four speeches written by Talladega educator Joseph B. Graham and presented to various civic and social clubs; also contains one letter signed by Selma politician Edmund Pettus
Dates: 1884-1902

Greene Springs School records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0592
Overview Ledger of standings, studies, and absences of the students from 1847 through 1870 as well as an honor roll of the Humanitarian Society of this Hale County, Alabama, school.
Dates: 1847-1884

Henry Tutwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Overview Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.
Dates: 1862 - 1884

James Austin Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates: 1898-1941

Jerusha Hemphill DIploma

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0660
Overview A diploma for having completed the course of study at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates: 1865

L. A. Shaver letter, 1880 June 22

 File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.06
Scope and Contents A one-page letter written by Montgomery County (Alabama) Superintendent of Education L. A. Shaver to J. W. Dubose, appointing him to the Montgomery County Board of Education following the resignation of another board member. The letter, dated June 22, 1890, is written on stationery from Shaver's law firm.
Dates: 1880 June 22

Lecture notes on John W. Abercrombie

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Abstract Notes for a class lecture on Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama. Includes information on the construction of University buildings during his tenure, as well as his conflicts with former acting president and Latin professor William S. Wyman.
Dates: not dated

Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

 Collection
Identifier: WP-2013001
Overview This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Dates: 1909 - 1924

Lena E. Lockhart papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0871
Overview Autobiographical sketch, inspirational materials, the papers "Woman's Part in Making Alabama History - the Past" presented to the Thomaston, Marengo County, Alabama Study Club, which focuses on female educators, and "History of The Thomaston Parent-Teacher Association", as well as a history of Thomaston, Alabama, by Alma Jean Compton, and materials relating to teaching.
Dates: 1951-1963

Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: W-0033
Overview Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.
Dates: 1924

Mable B. Murphy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1032
Abstract This collections contains two letters to Murphy, agendas for guidance committee meetings and teacher in-service programs, a bibliography of guidance literature for African-American students, and a 1961 club schedule for Cobb Avenue High School.
Dates: 1953 - 1969

Manly Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0900
Abstract Includes the papers of Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, 1837-1855, and a founder of Furman University, which reflect the history of the period as well as his life as theologian and educator. It also contains materials created and gathered by other Manly family members, including his sons Basil and Charles, president of Furman University, 1881-1897.
Dates: 1818 - 1930

Marie Brink memory book, Sidney Lanier High School, 1922

 Collection
Identifier: W-0017
Overview Memory book of high school senior Marie Brink, documenting her experiences at Sidney Lanier High school in 1922
Dates: 1922

McAdory and Huey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0069
Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama
Dates: 1863 - 1929

Staci Niemeyer paper "Folk Dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education"

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0525
Overview Essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 by progressive educator Marietta Johnson in Fairhope, Alabama.
Dates: 1990 April 1

William F. Reekstin Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4113
Overview Nine photograph albums of William F. Reekstin, a student at the University of Alabama in the early 1930s documenting a variety of campus venues and activities.
Dates: 1933-1935

James H. Shaw Correspondence with George Wallace

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4071
Overview Letter to and one from former governor George C. Wallace
Dates: 1991-1998

South Alabama Education Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1311
Abstract Contains minutes, reports, member information, notes, and a flyer of this Montgomery, Alabama, and possibly Brewton, Alabama, organization
Dates: 1901 - 1902

W. H. Storey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4048
Overview Correspondence, diaries, educational materials, and genealogical documents of Storey and his family
Dates: 1890-1935

Henrietta Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1403
Abstract This collection contains the papers and correspondence of an University of Alabama Home Economics professor.
Dates: 1910-1966

Virginia J. Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Overview Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."
Dates: 1912-1937