Birmingham (Ala.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-016
Overview
This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.
Dates:
1920 - 1985
Alabama Forum Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1793
Overview
This collection consists of records pertaining to the creation of this LGBT newsletter published in Birmingham, Alabama. The materials include administrative records, community involvement papers, audio and visual materials, and newspaper production files.
Dates:
1977-2002
Alabama hotels and resorts of the past collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0041
Overview
Letters, receipts, and transcribed copies of newspaper articles pertaining to notable Alabama hotels, including the Exchange Hotel (Montgomery), the Morris Hotel (Birmingham), the Battle House (Mobile), the DeKalb Hotel (Fort Payne), Fruithurst Inn (Fruithurst), the Alabama Inn (Livingston), Mansion House (Mobile), the Green Bottom Inn (Huntsville), and the Point Clear Hotel (Point Clear).
Dates:
1830-1836
Alabama Labor Union Ledgers, 1888-1903
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4340
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two ledgers dated from 1888 to 1903 from the Birmingham-based United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers of America Local Lodge No. 7. The first ledger is dated from 1888- to 1891 and includes meeting minutes, officer reports, and propositions and resolutions with details of the resulting votes. The second ledger is a list of the local union’s members from 1888- to 1903.
Both ledgers have worn cloth covers and fragile spines. Careful handling is required.
Both ledgers have worn cloth covers and fragile spines. Careful handling is required.
Dates:
1888 - 1903
Alabama Nurses Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Dates:
1913-1977
Album, 1930 - 1932
File — Box 5244: [1006235653], item: 1
Identifier: Album 1
Abstract
University of Alabama campus buildings; dorm rooms; football games; cotton gin; football game in California; Mardi Gras in New Orleans 1932; Gulfport, Mississippi; University of Alabama football team; Northport tornado, March 22, 1932; ROTC; track and field; University of Alabama coed; John "hurry" Cain, halfback on University of Alabama football team; article about the Lynn high school; articles about the Northport tornado, March 22, 1932; other news article; cards of YMCA; Cotillion Club...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
American Cast Iron Pipe Company nomination binder
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3456
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a binder of materials and photographs nominating the American Cast Iron Pipe Company for Birmingham, Alabama's fifth annual Beautification Award.
Dates:
1975
B. L. Holt correspondence on the 1908 Confederate Veterans Reunion
Collection
Identifier: W-0044
Overview
Holt's correspondence between May and June 1908, relating to his duties as quartermaster general in securing hotels accommodations and horses for Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and members of his staff who participated in the veteran's parade and other reunion events.
Dates:
1908
Birmingham Examiner financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract
Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
Dates:
1963-1964
Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0163
Overview
One ledger that records the association's meetings from 1913-1916.
Dates:
1913-1916
Bluff Park United Methodist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0178
Overview
A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1978-1981
Judy Bridgers Papers--CLOSED FOR PROJECT
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2411
Overview
Papers, photographs, etc., related to her involvement in AIDS outreach in Birmingham
Dates:
1990s
Collective Protection documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0344
Abstract
Documents on Collective Protection probably produced by authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. They cover all areas of collective protection such as home protection, lighting restrictions, espionage and sabotage, war gases and shelters.
Dates:
1941-1945
Edward Calvin Crow correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0378
Overview
Correspondence between E. C. Crow and Dr. John M. Gallalee of the University of Alabama regarding a newspaper article on Gen. Josiah Gorgas, as well as a newspaper article on the oldest judge in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1952
Cruikshank family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0379
Overview
Correspondence of an Alabama family, centered in Talladega and Birmingham
Dates:
1848-1909
W. R. Cunningham papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3516
Overview
Letter from Birmingham Athletic Club discussing the fall track meet and the meeting minutes, as well as a newspaper clipping also reporting on the track meet.
Dates:
1905
Ensley Merchants Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0487
Overview
Minutes, bank statements, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, area organization
Dates:
1929-1944
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
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Collection — Box 1: [1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Overview
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1930 - 1942
Folder 16, 1958
File — Box 5275: Series Box 5275 [1006100292], Folder: 16
Identifier: Folder 16
Abstract
Images of Heramnn family in Birmingham, December 1958; unidentified elderly woman.
Dates:
1958
Will Franke paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0540
Overview
A paper titled "Jefferson County 1850," written by this Birmingham, Alabama, native at the request of the Birmingham Historical Society and includes a detailed listing of the county's merchants and political leaders circa 1850.
Dates:
1950
Mrs. Oscar Hall scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0611
Overview
Scrapbook created by Birmingham, Alabama, resident containing clippings and other items related to World War I, particularly Birmingham soldiers and sailors.
Dates:
1918-1919
A. B. Hanson records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0623
Overview
Letterbook from 12 March to 15 May 1888, other correspondence and cases, a ledger labeled "pleadings" between 18 July 1888 to 26 February 1891 containing general correspondence and cases, and other miscellaneous material from 1888.
Dates:
1888-1891
J.D. Hughes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3541
Overview
Floor plans with some detailed drawings, foundation plans, and elevations for approximately 400 house designs by this Birmingham, Alabama, designer
Dates:
unknown
James Bowron papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1861-1928
John Mason Dill Archive: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-006
Overview
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.
Dates:
1911 - 1951
Judson Dowling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1642
Abstract
The collection consists of materials relative to Dr. Judson Dowling’s activities as Birmingham, Alabama's first permanent Public Health Officer, 1917-1941, biographical materials about Dowling’s career, and materials concerning posthumous tributes and memorials to Dowling’s life and achievements.
Dates:
1921 - 1941
Leslie Porch Kerlin Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WP-005
Overview
Approximately 2,500 black-and-white photographs taken by Leslie Porch Kerlin in Alabama and the Southeast United States, depicting well-known landmarks and natural settings.
Dates:
1915 - 1974
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1831
Abstract
Contains Martin Luther King's "Birmingham Jail Treatise" or as it is commonly known, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," originally written by King on scraps of paper. This iteration is a copy transcribed and then sent to various clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, including Reverend Joe C. Higginbotham, and includes the original envelope and transcription control sheet.
Dates:
1963-04-16
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
Moore Glass Company Financial Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1012
Abstract
A short record of work performed by a Birmingham, Alabama glass company in 1958.
Dates:
1958
Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1027
Abstract
The meeting minutes (1931-1957), membership roll (1949), building fund, and other accounts (1936-1938) of this African-American church in North Birmingham.
Dates:
1931 - 1957
Collection on the Murder of Father Coyle
Collection
Identifier: W-0094
Overview
Contains an affidavit, newspaper clipping and the research notes compiled by lawyer John C. Morrow related to the 1921 murder of Birmingham priest Father James Coyle and the subsequent trial of Edwin Stephenson.
Dates:
1921
Nelson Smith Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1293
Abstract
A carbon copy of transcript of a speech titled "History of American Architecture," given by Smith in September 1963, to volunteers at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Dates:
1963
Oak Hill Memorial Association papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2964
Overview
Correspondence and documents from the Oak Hill Memorial Association, caretakers of Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1913-1953
Oscar W. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract
Correspondence of this Birmingham, Alabama, minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, principally concerning the struggle to remain solvent during the Great Depression. Also includes budget sheets, receipts, reports, and legal documents for this and other A.M.E churches throughout the South.
Dates:
1909 - 1952
Phillips High School Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1141
Abstract
This collection consists of a miscellany of items pertaining to the Phillips High School (Birmingham, Alabama) class of 1930.
Dates:
1930 - 1980
Postcards
Collection
Identifier: 2012-039
Overview
Postcards collection depicting places from Alabama, United States, and around the world.
Dates:
1890 -1970
Ralph Wyckoff Libel Suit Legal Files
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3636
Overview
The legal papers of the lawyer hire to represent the New York Times in defense of the libel suit stemming from an article by Harrison Salisbury , published on 12 April 1960, entitled "Fear and Hatred Grip Birmingham."
Dates:
1960 - 1964
Republic Steel records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1186
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, security and insurance records, and other materials of this Birmingham steel company.
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1980
Robinson Family History
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1201
Abstract
A paper written by Stephanie O. Staten on the history of the Robinshon family from Birmingham, Alabama. Includes a certificate for "Robinson Family Reunion Day"
Dates:
1990
Saul Gordon Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2010-013
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with one hundred and forty-three photographs of Saul Gordon, a University of Alabama student in the early 1930s. Album contains scenes of campus life, including coeds, buildings, football, the band, ROTC and dorm life. Several photographs are depicting devastation caused by the March 22, 1932 Northport tornado. These photographs are accompanied by clippings relating details of the disaster. Album also includes photographs with scenes from the 1932 New...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
Nicholas B. Stack papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1333
Abstract
Scrapbooks and other documents of this Birmingham, Alabama, politician dealing with Birmingham politics, mining strikes, and other business endeavors.
Dates:
1884 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1936
J. D. Sutter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1372
Overview
Contains the plans, letters, lists of supplies needed, and other personal notes of J.D. Sutter, a landscape contractor in Birmingham, Alabama, from the late 1920s through the 1950s.
Dates:
1928-1961
"Tall Shadows: Origins and Operations of McGriff, Seibels, and Williams, Inc., Insurance Brokers"
Collection
Identifier: W-0028
Overview
Unpublished corporate history of McGriff, Seibels and Williams Inc., one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1985
Frank Marion Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1386
Abstract
A collection of correspondence, memos and documents related to the military service of this Birmingham resident, including a scrapbook containing newspaper headlines and clippings about World War II, and personal mementos.
Dates:
1941-1949
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1392
Abstract
A miscellany of materials relating to the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Comapny's Fairfield Steelworks, later a part of the United States Steel Company's industrial empire.
Dates:
1921-1962
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Records
Collection
Identifier: W-0104
Overview
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.
Dates:
1893-1901
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-013
Overview
Photographs of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dates:
1960 - 1970