Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79133761
Found in 379 Collections and/or Records:
Elizabeth Cherry Weir Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1538
Abstract
This collection contains the will and estate papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry Weir (d. 1821) of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; letters to Pauline Jones Gandrud regarding the Cherry family genealogy; and and estate paper for John Warner of Tuscaloosa, 1824.
Dates:
1821 - 1960
Entrance gate to Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1892
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000490
Identifier: 2012.035.000490
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1892
Eugene Allen Smith Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-024
Abstract
This collection consist of two hundred and sixty nine photographs depicting buildings around The University of Alabama campus; Tombigbee and other river's in Alabama; trains; Eugene Allen Smith house on campus and his family; Alabama State Capitol; steamboats; University of Alabama baseball team; scene's from University of Mississippi; and scene's from Wetumka Penitentiary.
Dates:
1813 - 1927
Evie Searcy and Stella Searcy Johnston, 1910
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000049
Identifier: 2012.035.000049
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1910
Evie Searcy, James T. Searcy, Stella Searcy Johnston, and George A. Searcy, 1910
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000035
Identifier: 2012.035.000035
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1910
Exchange Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1640
Overview
Issues of the newsletter "The Unitor" (1922-2011), framed pictures, and brochures
Dates:
1922-2011
Executive Committee Assembly at The University of Alabama, 1917 October
Item — Box 1: [1006235687], Folder: 2011.004.000097
Identifier: 2011.004.000097
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Jones and other family members; Jones and others at the Black Warrior River; Tannehill State Park; Jones and others around Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and scenes on The University of Alabama campus.
Dates:
1917 October
Farris Dale Beason Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-216
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-four photographs of two homecoming parades at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1963 - 1964
Feronia Garden Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4025
Overview
Three scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, garden club, covering the years, 1958-1967.
Dates:
1958-1967
First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0517
Overview
List of pastors, rules of decorum, the church covenant, and baptism lists, 1838-1904. It also includes an article, "Chronicles of the First Baptist Church," by Tom Garner, clerk.
Dates:
1818-1927
First Presbyterian Church on Greensboro Avenue, 1910
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000045
Identifier: 2012.035.000045
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1910
First Presbyterian Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0518
Overview
Contains record books, 1820-1948; list of baptisms, 1845-1894; Board of Trustees record books, 1838-1911; Board of Deacons minute book, 1886-1888; and miscellaneous other documents for this Tuscaloosa, Alabama church.
Dates:
1820-1948
Fitts and Alston Families Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2016-008
Overview
Collection consist of two photo albums and eighty-six loose photographs of Fitts and Alston families adventures on their boat, "Mary Francis" through Alabama and Florida, and family portraits.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1830 - 1920
Fletcher Moore Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-017
Overview
This collection depicts photographs of the University of Alabama and men in Ku Klux Klan clothes.
Dates:
1935
Flowers on Jessie Gorgas' grave at Evergreen Cemetery, photo 1, 1926 August 14
Item — Box 3: [1006235689], Folder: 2011.004.000346
Identifier: 2011.004.000346
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting views of the Black Warrior River; camping near the Black Warrior River; students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; portrait of Pauline Jones Gandrud; Jones’s campsite and other views in Mexico; George Walter Jones’s home in Huntsville, Alabama, and other views around town; Walter B. Jones and other views at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; scenes at Johns Hopkins University; honorable military discharge, record, and commission of Walter B. Jones;...
Dates:
1926 August 14
Flowers on Jessie Gorgas' grave at Evergreen Cemetery, photo 2, 1926 August 14
Item — Box 3: [1006235689], Folder: 2011.004.000347
Identifier: 2011.004.000347
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting views of the Black Warrior River; camping near the Black Warrior River; students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; portrait of Pauline Jones Gandrud; Jones’s campsite and other views in Mexico; George Walter Jones’s home in Huntsville, Alabama, and other views around town; Walter B. Jones and other views at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; scenes at Johns Hopkins University; honorable military discharge, record, and commission of Walter B. Jones;...
Dates:
1926 August 14
Flowers on Jessie Gorgas' grave at Evergreen Cemetery, photo 3, 1926 August 14
Item — Box 3: [1006235689], Folder: 2011.004.000348
Identifier: 2011.004.000348
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting views of the Black Warrior River; camping near the Black Warrior River; students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; portrait of Pauline Jones Gandrud; Jones’s campsite and other views in Mexico; George Walter Jones’s home in Huntsville, Alabama, and other views around town; Walter B. Jones and other views at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; scenes at Johns Hopkins University; honorable military discharge, record, and commission of Walter B. Jones;...
Dates:
1926 August 14
Flowers on Jessie Gorgas' grave at Evergreen Cemetery, photo 4, 1926 August 14
Item — Box 3: [1006235689], Folder: 2011.004.000349
Identifier: 2011.004.000349
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting views of the Black Warrior River; camping near the Black Warrior River; students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; portrait of Pauline Jones Gandrud; Jones’s campsite and other views in Mexico; George Walter Jones’s home in Huntsville, Alabama, and other views around town; Walter B. Jones and other views at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; scenes at Johns Hopkins University; honorable military discharge, record, and commission of Walter B. Jones;...
Dates:
1926 August 14
Forrest Hood "Fob" James Speech Text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0741
Abstract
Handwritten original draft of a speech written enroute to Tuscaloosa and delivered by James on the occasion of the University of Alabama's 150th anniversary celebration.
Dates:
1981-04-12
Edwin Hardy Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0532
Overview
Letters written by and to Foster between 1907 and 1938, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence written by Foster’s family members and members of the United States House of Representatives concerning his application to the Consular Services. There is also a small collection of letters written in German; Foster’s report cards from Male High School (1875-1881) and his first semester grades from The University of Alabama in 1882; reports cards for his brothers, Sumner B., Thomas J., Henry...
Dates:
1872-1938
Francis Scott Key Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0812
Abstract
A letter dated 4 February 1834, to Alabama Governor John Gayle, thanking him for a nice visit to Tuscaloosa, probably during Key's mission to resolve a dispute between the U.S. government and Alabama over the dispostion of lands taken from the Creek Indians. Key's letter also discusses congressional debates on the Bank of the United States.
Dates:
1834-02-04
Front walk toward street at 510 Capstone Court, photo 1, 1950 June 11
Item — Box 15: [1006235738], Folder: 2011.004.001470
Identifier: 2011.004.001470
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting scenes at Camp A-Z and duck hunting; Jones family; Alabama Kiwanis meetings; Walter Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and turkey hunting Choctaw Bluff, Alabama.
Dates:
1950 June 11
Front walk toward street at 510 Capstone Court, photo 2, 1950 June 11
Item — Box 15: [1006235738], Folder: 2011.004.001471
Identifier: 2011.004.001471
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting scenes at Camp A-Z and duck hunting; Jones family; Alabama Kiwanis meetings; Walter Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and turkey hunting Choctaw Bluff, Alabama.
Dates:
1950 June 11
Tom Garner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1412
Overview
This paper by Tom Garner contains lists of pastors and members and monthly meeting minutes of this Baptist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1925
Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-002
Overview
This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates:
1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
George A. Searcy's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1900
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000163
Identifier: 2012.035.000163
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1900
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-210
Abstract
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Dates:
1973-11-19
George Denny, Colonel McCorvey, Walter Jones, and others, photo 1, circa 1916
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002868
Identifier: 2011.004.002868
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
circa 1916
George Johnston Jr., Stella Searcy Johnston, George Johnston, Stella Harris, and Evie Searcy, 1910
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000046
Identifier: 2012.035.000046
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1910
Guy Gilliland papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0570
Overview
Letters between Gilliland and his sweetheart (later wife) Josie, church materials from Trinity United Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, greeting cards, and photographs
Dates:
1909-1981
Girls gym class at The University of Alabama, 1916
Item — Box 6195: [1006235746], Folder: 15
Identifier: 2011.004.005620
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
180 photographs depicting World War II; Walter Jones and others in New Guinea; limestone in New Guinea; Tannehill State Park Bicentennial event; Representative Walter Flowers at Tannehill; diagrams of types of shells; Jones family; Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama; ships and boats in New Guinea; landscapes and vegetation in New Guinea; view from Cameron Plateau near Milne Bay in New Guinea; Dobodura Airfield in Papua New Guinea; Spring Cave and other caves in Madison County, Alabama; scenes...
Dates:
1916
Louisa Goffe letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0576
Overview
Letter dated 28 April 1837, from Tuscaloosa, to her sister, Mary Wyckoff, discussing Louisa's move to Tuscaloosa, the failure of her husband to visit Mary while in New York, and fashions.
Dates:
1837 April 28
Eliza Williams Chotard Gould memoirs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0582
Overview
Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.
Dates:
1868
Hale Memorial Hospital Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3890
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the planning and development of the Hale Memorial Hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis
Dates:
1952-1977
Harry Neal Eddins Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-010
Abstract
Collection consists of eighty-seven photographs of Eddins family of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Largely portraits of family members, snapshots of family and friends, and the Eddins home. Includes photographs of a young Hudson Strode and an architectural drawing of the Hendricks's home on the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1890 - 1960
Harry Riddle, Asa Raintree, and Adrian Irvine at Arch Initiation, photo 3, 1917
Item — Box 1: [1006235687], Folder: 2011.004.000086
Identifier: 2011.004.000086
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Jones and other family members; Jones and others at the Black Warrior River; Tannehill State Park; Jones and others around Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and scenes on The University of Alabama campus.
Dates:
1917
Harry Riddle during Arch Initiation at The University of Alabama, 1917
Item — Box 1: [1006235687], Folder: 2011.004.000087
Identifier: 2011.004.000087
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Jones and other family members; Jones and others at the Black Warrior River; Tannehill State Park; Jones and others around Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and scenes on The University of Alabama campus.
Dates:
1917
Hazel and Doug Jones with dog, Vic, and puppies at home, photo 1, 1955 May 1
Item — Box 18: [1006235743], Folder: 2011.004.001809
Identifier: 2011.004.001809
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; Jones family; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; George Walter Jones’s farm; clearing swamp for planting millet for ducks; whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico; and Douglas Jones boating on the Tensaw River.
Dates:
1955 May 1
Hazel and Doug Jones with dog, Vic, and puppies at home, photo 2, 1955 May 1
Item — Box 18: [1006235743], Folder: 2011.004.001810
Identifier: 2011.004.001810
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; Jones family; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; George Walter Jones’s farm; clearing swamp for planting millet for ducks; whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico; and Douglas Jones boating on the Tensaw River.
Dates:
1955 May 1
Hazel and Doug Jones with dog, Vic, and puppies at home, photo 3, 1955 May 1
Item — Box 18: [1006235743], Folder: 2011.004.001811
Identifier: 2011.004.001811
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; Jones family; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; George Walter Jones’s farm; clearing swamp for planting millet for ducks; whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico; and Douglas Jones boating on the Tensaw River.
Dates:
1955 May 1
Hazel Jones with dog, Vic, and puppies at home in Tuscaloosa, photo 1, 1955 May 1
Item — Box 18: [1006235743], Folder: 2011.004.001812
Identifier: 2011.004.001812
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; Jones family; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; George Walter Jones’s farm; clearing swamp for planting millet for ducks; whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico; and Douglas Jones boating on the Tensaw River.
Dates:
1955 May 1
Hazel Jones with dog, Vic, and puppies at home in Tuscaloosa, photo 2, 1955 May 1
Item — Box 18: [1006235743], Folder: 2011.004.001813
Identifier: 2011.004.001813
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; Jones family; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; George Walter Jones’s farm; clearing swamp for planting millet for ducks; whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico; and Douglas Jones boating on the Tensaw River.
Dates:
1955 May 1
Hazel, Nelson, and Walter Jones standing outside on Nelson's birthday, 1927 March 27
Item — Box 4: [1006235690], Folder: 2011.004.000368
Identifier: 2011.004.000368
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; Walter, Hazel, and Nelson Jones; Dismals Canyon, Franklin County, Alabama; scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; Jessie Gorgas's grave at Evergreen Cemetery; Colonel Butler's war table, ROTC, The University of Alabama; other Jones family members; plants in Mobile County, Alabama; houses at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama; and fraternity pin and other items.
Dates:
1927 March 27
Henry and Jim Snow when college students, 1928
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000378
Identifier: 2012.035.000378
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1928
Henry Snow and members of Phi Delta Theta at The University of Alabama, 1926
Item — Box 5253: [1006241587], Folder: 2012.035.000375
Identifier: 2012.035.000375
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of one mounted print, showing four members of the Tuscaloosa Searcy family (Evie, James T., Stella, and George), seated in chairs on a porch. Two photograph albums contain scenes from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, the Warrior River (bridge and flooding), hunting, fishing, and transportation. There are also travel images from the western United States and Florida. The images...
Dates:
1926
Herr Chester walking down a sidewalk at The University of Alabama, 1917 October
Item — Box 1: [1006235687], Folder: 2011.004.000098
Identifier: 2011.004.000098
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Jones and other family members; Jones and others at the Black Warrior River; Tannehill State Park; Jones and others around Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and scenes on The University of Alabama campus.
Dates:
1917 October
"Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church in Tuskaloosa, Alabama."
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0676
Overview
A paper titled "Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church in Tuskaloosa, Alabama." It includes lists of pastors, elders, and deacons, 1820-79.
Dates:
1901
W. E. Hobson, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0684
Abstract
A large collection of scrapbooks, containing twenty-nine volumes of information on the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area, one volume on historic Tuscaloosa homes, one volume of political information and two volumes on local history.
Dates:
1938-1966
James Hogan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0687
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.
Dates:
Unknown
B.J. Hollars research notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3643
Overview
Research notes on civil rights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
unknown