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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Art League bulletins and exhibition announcements

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0019
Abstract

Contains 18 bulletins and exhibition announcements of this state-wide artists' organization

Dates: 1940 - 1943

Ben Zellers Grocery Account Book, circa 1900

 File — Box 4267.002: [Barcode: 1005680108], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This file contains a small cloth-bound account book belonging to Ben Zellers. The inside front and both back covers feature advertisements for Royal Baking Powder. According to the back cover, "The United States Government Report shows the Royal to be the purest and strongest baking powder in [sic] the market." Most of the book's pages are blank.

Dates: circa 1900

Black Warrior Review posters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3460
Abstract

Posters advertising issues of the Black Warrior Review

Dates: 1981-2000

Catalog collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0286
Abstract

Six catalogs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three are clothing catalogs, one is a plant catalog, one is an automobile supply catalog, and one is a biography/silverware catalog.

Dates: 1883–1910s

Farm Security Administration Photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Abstract

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

Harco Drugs records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0626
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials including newsletters, an employee handbook, memoranda, sales, publicity and marketing information, and other items.

Dates: 1974-1997

"I Love Tuscaloosa" bumper stickers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3721
Abstract

Bumper stickers proclaiming I [heart icon] Tuscaloosa

Dates: after 1977

Miscellaneous documents, 1860-2007

 File — Box WSC002: [Barcode: 1006241709], Folder: w0150.03
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents relating to the Civil War, but only indirectly. Included are an 1860 ad for General William Walker's book, The War in Nicaragua; a Masonic memorial card for Jere Clemens Dennis of Dadeville, Alabama; a 2007 ad for a rare salt print of General Thomas Carmichael Hindman, C.S.A.; photocopy of page 422 of volume XVIII (1910) of Confederate Veteran, article titled "Proof about Coffin for General...
Dates: 1860-2007

Mother's Day Advertisement, circa 1934

 File — Box 4267.003: [Barcode: 1005680106], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This file contains a card with an advertisement for the Fox Company of San Antonio, Texas. On the front is a picture of an elderly couple sitting together. The message on the other side urges readers to order film for a family photograph, and indicates that May 13 is Mother's Day.

Dates: circa 1934

Josiah Clark Nott and George R. Gliddon book prospectus

 Collection
Identifier: W-0137
Abstract

Advertisement for Nott's and Gliddon's forthcoming book, Types of Mankind: or, ethnological researches, published in 1854.

Dates: 1854

Southern Business Guide - Illustrated advertisement, circa 1875

 File — Box WSC001: [Barcode: 1006241611], Folder: W0129.16
Scope and Contents

This single page from an undated issue of the Southern Business Guide - Illustrated highlights Columbus Female College in Columbus, Georgia, and the Beymer, Bauman, and Company

Dates: circa 1875

Swans Down Cake Flour Advertisement, 1927

 File — Box 4267.002: [Barcode: 1005680108], Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

This file contains one folded four-page advertisement for Swans Down Cake Flour sent out from the Educational Department of Igleheart Brothers, Inc. The ad includes a testimonial letter from a bride who says that Swans Down makes her cakes and pies turn out perfectly, and three pages of recipes for baked goods that can be made with the flour, including quick rusks, quick Sally Lunn, and apple cake, with illustrations of the treats.

Dates: 1927

Mrs. A. G. Tower Dressmaking Trade Card

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4027
Abstract

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, dressmaker's trade card

Dates: circa 1880

"Types One Meets in any Men's Restroom" handbill

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1854
Abstract

Small handbill that gives humorous descriptions of the different types of men in a restroom.

Dates: ca. 1950

W. S. Hoole Library Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3780
Abstract

A variety of scrapbooks, several of which contain a variety of information on Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the University of Alabama.

Dates: after 1800

J.D. Whittington dry goods advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3551
Abstract

Dry goods advertisement

Dates: between 1880-1900