Women

Contract making Kate Beatty, a resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a member of the Birmingham Bridal Gift Association.

Letter to Hannah H. Smith of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, from Ann of Clarendon, Rhode Island, apologizing for a poorly penned letter previously sent, as well as updating and inquiring about friends and family.

Letter from Emily, a music teacher in Austinburg, Ohio, to her cousin Mrs. Charles Beach of East Ottowa, New York, talking about her students and an upcoming musical convention. She also gives a humorous account of the poor food being served in the boarding house where she lives.

Letter written by Gennie of Harpers Ferry, Iowa, to Regina Wiedner at the Mercy Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa, discussing general news of mutual friends. She also passes along get well wishes from another mutual friend, Helene.

Letter from Susan in Danvers, Massachusetts, to her friend Belinda, discussing her children and other domestic issues.

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.

Columns, poems, songs, and other materials of this Lillian, Alabama, poet and songwriter.

Letters to Louisa Robbins of Roanoke, Indiana, from her older sister Arme Cummins of Kirkville, Iowa, and from Louisa's daughter Mary Robbins, of Ossian, Indiana. Arme tells Louisa about her rheumatism and updates her about friends and family. Mary's letter tells of a recent trip to see Laura, and talks of Laura's cooking and job, visiting with friends there, and getting dress material on sale.

One letter from Luella Smith of Readfield, Maine, to her cousin Cora B. Smith, giving her news of deaths in the family, her sorrow and loneliness, as well as other family news.

Letter from M. E. Stapleton of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to daughters Nellie and Hattie saying she would send money and then bring them some Chinese silk and other necessities on her next visit ending the letter with proposed travel arrangements.

Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."

Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.

A letter dated 5 November 1873 to an unidentified recipient from Thomas Carlyle's niece, Mary Aitken, concerning an error in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.

One letter from Mary to her mother, Mrs. L. J. Robbins of Roanoke, Indiana. Mary writes home while visiting Laura and tells her mother about Laura's cooking, deals on fabric, a barber named John, and forwards a message from her cousin.

This series contains official AAUW charters and bylaws, as well as policy information of AAUW branch organizations.

Letters from mother and daughter Lucy and Minnie Brayton of Blue Island, Illinois, to their cousin Mary, giving her news of friends and family.

This collection consists of nineteen photographs of Miriam Houston and other women modeling.

Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.

Minutes and correspondence of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club.

Three black and white mounted photographs, possibly from Greensboro, Alabama. Scenes include sawmill, a group of female students in commencement attire and the interior of an office building.

Scrapbook of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's group

Five reports to the biennial sessions of the Supreme Court of the Order of Calanthe and one annual report for the Grand Court of the Order of Calanthe of the states of Alabama. Mattie B. Rowe of Alabama was the Supreme Juvenile Matron between 1943 and 1952.

Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy. Acc # 015-008

Images of canoeing on the Black Warrior river, camping, practicing shooting, and surveying.

Images of Eugene Allen Smith and his family, Smith's family home on the University of Alabama campus, University of Alabama campus, canoeing, and camping.

Images of Smith's family, steamboats, and surveying.

Images of Smith family, steamboats, and surveying.

Confederate monuments and United Daughters of Confederacy members, as well as pages from Mattie McAdory Huey's History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy (Opelika, AL: The Post Publishing Company, 1937), compiled during her term as President of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of Confederacy.

This photographic collection consists of six photographs depicting Dewey Stewart, his wife and his mother, right before Dewey went to war.

This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.

This series contains collection materials published by the AAUW or by branches thereof; publications include items like books, newsletters and bulletins, as well as directories, yearbooks and promotional materials.

Scrapbook primarily covering the club's activities and meetings from 1926 to 1947, although there are a few items from the 1980s tucked inside.

This series contains information executive roles within the organization, leadership and planning materials and annual reports.

Bernice Shelly writes from Tracy and Oakland, California, to P.F.C. Elmer E. Rhode, stationed in San Francisco, California, about her work as a waitress and at a factory to aid the war effort. A third letter makes a third-party reference to an encounter with Elmer Rhode written by Fred Kimball of San Francisco, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Prints and one original snapshots of wedding of Dr. and Mrs. R.E. Johnson. He was a professor of history at the University of Alabama.

Written to her brother R.D. Robbins in Andover, Massachusetts, Russy's letter details her garden of lilies and plans for pomegranate and guava trees in the future. She also tells a scandalous story about a mutual acquaintance from home whose daughter eloped with a "Dutchman" at the age of 18.

This photographic album contains images depicting Sara Browne's Mediterranean and North African travels, winter 1930 - 1931.

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.

This series contains scrapbooks and scrapbook materials such as news clippings and photographs.

Photos of this Tuscaloosa family are in two photograph albums that contain images from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, the Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, and Warrior River (bridge and flooding), and family activities.

Primarily cabinet cards, mounted albumen prints and carbon prints; individuals are identified as members of the Peebles, Colvin, Ball, Simpson, Davis, Greene, Heard, Norris, Spencer, Taylor and [Perrow] families; some photographs taken by F.M. Turner, Tuscaloosa photographer, as well as photographers in Anniston, Eutaw, and Birmingham.

This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.

This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.

One hundred and seven photographs and two albums with one hundred and three photographs of the Tillery family.

Family photos of Truman A. Smith (son of Eugene Allen Smith) and his wife Pearl Boyles of Mobile.

Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.

Program for the 1890 Tuskaloosa Female College commencement exercises.