Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0038
Overview
Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.
Dates:
1890 - 1900
Belser and Harris legal firm financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1796
Abstract
A ledger recording the financial transactions of the central Alabama law firm of James Belser and Nathan Harris
Dates:
1846-1850
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract
Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.
Dates:
1860-02-16
Canebrake collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0267
Overview
Materials relating principally to the community of Dayton in Marengo County, Alabama. It includes land grants, the Dayton city code, town council minutes, and some family records.
Dates:
circa 1837?
Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, account book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0495
Overview
A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.
Dates:
1922-1924
W. Stuart Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0643
Overview
Papers and manuscript drafts of this Alabama author.
Dates:
Unknown
Hugh Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1611
Abstract
Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.
Dates:
1820 - 1898
Jo Tartt Jr. and Judith Tartt Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4303
Overview
Collection consists of a variety of materials related to the life of Jo Cowin Tartt Jr. and his wife, Judith Watkins Tartt. The materials are predominately focused on Mr. Tartt's childhood and various careers throughout his life. Of notable interest are his photographs of the Alabama Black Belt during the 1960s through the early 1980s, which depict life and living conditions in small-town Alabama after the Civil Rights movement. In addition to his photographs, other materials include journals,...
Dates:
1890 - 2019
John Witherspoon DuBose papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0086
Overview
Contains newspaper serialization of John Witherspoon DuBose's Chronicles of the Canebreak, as well as photographs, correspondence, biographical sketches and newspaper clippings related to this Alabama historian.
Dates:
1893 - 1918
Marengo County, Alabama Circuit Court docket
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0905
Overview
Contains materials on court cases in Marengo County, Alabama, from 1844-1848.
Dates:
1844-1848
Marengo County, Alabama Court records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0906
Overview
Contains court records for Marengo County, Alabama, from 1818-1966
Dates:
unknown
Mary Rebecca Strudwick memory book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3633
Overview
Memory book from Demopolis (Ala.) High School 1909 graduate
Dates:
1909
William P. Abrams diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0005
Abstract
Diaries of travels from New Hampshire to Alabama; to Havana, Cuba; and to the midwestern United States. The majority of entries were written in Gainesville, Alabama, where this New Hampshire native settled.
Dates:
1839 - 1848