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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:

Victor Hugo Friedman Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-020
Abstract

Collection consists of one photo album with ninety-nine photographs depicting Victor Hugo Friedman, a native of Tuscaloosa and local philanthropist, and his friends.

Dates: 1890 - 1899

Virginia J. Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Abstract

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

Wade Hall Collection of African American Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4274
Abstract

Materials created by or about African Americans, collected by Wade Hall

Dates: 1800 - 1999

Wade Hall Collection of Korean War Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-003
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from urban, everyday life in South Korea through the eyes of American soldiers during or after the Korean War. Some photographs depict American soldiers.

Dates: 1951 - 1953

Wade Hall Entertainment Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-030
Abstract

This collection contains two hundred and thirty eight photographs depicting people from different forms of entertainment: music, radio, television, and film.

Dates: 1900 - 1999

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-025
Abstract

This collection consists of sixteen black and white photographs depicting various scenes from Jacksonville, Florida.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.035: [Barcode: 1006241532]
Identifier: 2009-176
Abstract

This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.

Dates: 1896

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-036
Abstract

This collection consists of one hundred and eighty black and white photographs depicting unidentified people from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.

Dates: 1900 - 1910; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1909

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.013: [Barcode: 1006241510]
Identifier: 2009-054
Abstract

Collection consists of thirty-eight portraits of mainly African Americans.

Dates: 1870 - 1890

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.014: [Barcode: 1006241511]
Identifier: 2009-055
Abstract

Seventy-nine images of mainly African Americans from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Dates: 1870 - 1950

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.016: [Barcode: 1006241513]
Identifier: 2009-065
Abstract

Three images of African American children.

Dates: 1970

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.017: [Barcode: 1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract

This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.

Dates: 1941

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.019: [Barcode: 1006241516]
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract

This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.

Dates: 1909 - 1910

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.020: [Barcode: 1006241517]
Identifier: 2009-096
Abstract

This collection of 155 photographs of unidentified people, and various scenes of New Zealand and United States, navy ship and sailors, people fishing, and other activities.

Dates: 1890 - 1959

Wade Hall Vietnam War Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-184
Abstract

This collection consists of three photographs of Vietnam War.

Dates: 1959 - 1975

Wade Hall World War Il Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-189
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from World War II, portraits of the soldiers, and scenes with their families.

Dates: 1939 - 1960

Dinah Washington Stamp and Event Program

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2775
Abstract

This collection consists of a stamp and program commemorating the issuing of a Dinah Washington stamp.

Dates: 1993 June 16

William C. Castleman Letter, 1928-01-18

 File — Box 4257.020: [Barcode: 1006214244], Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Letter from William C. Castleman of Sparta, Kentucky, to Lura C. Backer of Verona, Kentucky, telling her how much he misses her and loves her.

Dates: 1928-01-18

Williams Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4278
Abstract

Papers related to the Williams family of Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are two notebooks belonging to Barabara Adeline Williams, one of which she kept while in nursing school and the other while she was attaining her high school diploma.

Dates: 1891 - 1999

World War II Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4091
Abstract

Photograph album containing mainly 2.5" x 2.5" snapshots of an unidentified African American soldier during the 1940s

Dates: between 1941 and 1950

Frances Virginia McLin Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4191
Abstract

Papers of a Sheffield, Alabama, elementary school teacher, her family, and allied families.

Dates: 1879-1974

Wylheme H. Ragland Collection of Funeral Bulletins

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3763
Abstract

Funeral and memorial service worship bulletins primarily featuring African Americans from northern Alabama area.

Dates: 1930s-2016

Wylheme H. Ragland Collection of Genealogical Research

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4186
Abstract

Genealogical research material on several successful families of North Alabama in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dates: Unknown