Iron industry and trade
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records
Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.
American Cast Iron Pipe Company nomination binder
The collection contains a binder of materials and photographs nominating the American Cast Iron Pipe Company for Birmingham, Alabama's fifth annual Beautification Award.
AS Williams III Alabama Coal and Iron records
Correspondence, annual reports and audits, maps, and other material related to coal and iron production in Alabama.
R. H. Banister industrial scrapbook
Industrial scrapbook containing articles and images pertaining to the Woodward Iron Company
Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records
This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.
Brierfield Ironworks records
Financial and legal documents of the Brierfield Ironworks along with some correspondence and printed materials, dating from 1866 to 1882. The materials are divided into two main groups: (A) those materials generated during Josiah Gorgas' control of the ironworks (1866-1869), and (B) those materials generated during Thomas S. Alvis' control of the operations (1869-1873).
Brookside-Pratt Mining Company records
This collection contains the pay records for W.M. Meadows for the year of 1919 at the Brookside-Pratt Mining Company.
Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs
Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Dallas Iron Works letterbook
Contains the Reconstruction-era letterbook of the Dallas Iron Works in Selma, Alabama.
J. M. Duncan papers
A collection of correspondence, financial papers, and artifacts belonging to this Blocton, Alabama, resident.
Essex Foundry records
Incorporation papers, by-laws, directors' minutes, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and related records.
James Bowron papers
A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.
John Mason Dill Archive: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Photographic Collection
This collection consists of photographs, drawings and graphic materials depicting John Mason Dill and his coworkers at the end of his working career as one of the draftsman at the engineering office at the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company in Birmingham and Fairfield, Alabama.
Lillian Graves Letters
The collection consists of twelve letters written by governess Lillian Graves from October 1885 through February 1886 as Graves cared for the Woodward family children in post-Civil War Alabama. Graves describes daily and holiday activities in late nineteenth-century Alabama, visiting the Woodward Iron Company mine, and makes extensive and problematic remarks about African Americans living in the Woodward home and in the area.
Robert H. McKenzie dissertation, correspondence, and notes
Copy of Robert H. McKenzie's dissertation, "A History of the Shelby Iron Company, 1865-1881," and a small collection of correspondence and research notes related to the dissertation.
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Shelby Iron Company Records
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company records
Two letterbooks, containing copies of letters written by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Assistant General Manager G. B. McCormack from 1893 to 1898. Also includes a ledger documenting the company's tax returns from 1894 to 1895, and photographs depicting TCI industrial complexes.
Woodward Family Papers
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.