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Plantation life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85102824

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Overview Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Dates: 1865 June 16
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract

James Lockhart Goodloe letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0089
Overview Contains one letterbook, which includes the autobiography of James Lockhart Goodloe, a Tennessee lawyer.
Dates: 1876
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Lockhart Goodloe letterbook

Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Dates: 1874 - 1950
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards

John Horry Dent papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0430
Overview There are four typescript documents in the folder also: (1) Commodore John Herbert Dent, U.S. Navy, 1782–1823; (2) Charles I. Graves in Egypt (1875–1878); (3) Cape Guardafui by Lt. Col. Graves (the proceedings of the meeting of October 1880); and (4) Report of Lt. Col. Graves, 4th July 1878.The Plantation Book (or Farm Journal v.1) was written by John Horry Dent from January 1840 through December 1842 to record actual expenditures and incomes from his estate and to provide...
Dates: 1840-1891
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John Horry Dent papers

Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates: 1797 - 1973
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box 2009001.017: [1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
Dates: 1941
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

Zachary Meriwether Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0980
Abstract Papers of a Greene County, Alabama, physician and plantation owner.
Dates: 1819 - 1857
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Zachary Meriwether Papers