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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85037601

Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:

John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0326
Abstract Three bound volumes of this Alabama attorney and politician and his wife: John Cochran's diary; Mary Wellborn Cochran's journal; and a miscellany of copies of some of John Cochran's outgoing correspondence, journal entries of his, and copies of some freedman contracts to which he was party. Also includes two unidentified photographs that appear to be from the early twentieth century.
Dates: 1839-1915

Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.
Dates: 1820-1920

King family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0817
Overview Includes the papers of the King family of Perry County, Alabama, who owned plantations and other businesses.
Dates: 1803-1894

Porter King papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0820
Overview Contains personal materials of this Civil War veteran. King was a member of the Marion Light Infantry.
Dates: 1860s

Louise Lacy Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4122
Overview Diary of a teenage girl in Jasper, Alabama, during January and February of 1911.
Dates: 1911 January - February

Fred Lawrence diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0848
Abstract Photocopies of a Diary
Dates: 1946 - 1947

Libba Mayo papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0936
Overview Excerpts from the diary of John G. Traylor (1817-43), an early Dallas County, Alabama resident, a genealogy of the Traylor family, and a history of the town of Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama.
Dates: 1825-1925

Mildred McCollum Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4067
Overview Diary of young woman in Depression-era Alabama.
Dates: 1933-1937

McCorvey and Tutwiler families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0947
Overview A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.
Dates: 1830 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950

James Neff Civil War Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4070
Overview Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.
Dates: 1864

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Overview Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates: 1876-1987

Winifred Ruth O'Rear Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4133
Overview Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman
Dates: 1936-1937

P. H. P. Typed Diaries and Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4064
Overview Typed diary of a northern women who moved to Alabama when her husband was relocated to an Army base there.
Dates: c. 1950

Peter Brannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates: 1900-1966

Ellen Pratt diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1160
Overview Diary of Ellen Pratt
Dates: 1925-1928

Florence Marks Pratt diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1161
Overview Three diaries
Dates: 1910 to 1920

Samuel D. Risley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4141
Overview Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Dates: 1822-1909; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1865

Samuel Pickens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1148
Abstract This collection contains Pickens' school notebook, 1858; his friendship book, 1858-59; war letters to his mother; and a typed transcript of his diary, 1862-1865.
Dates: 1858 - 1865

John C. C. Sanders papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1229
Overview Contains copies of diaries, letters of correspondence, and newspapers.
Dates: 1896-1906

Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates: 1833-1889

Elizabeth Schmenk composition book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3490
Scope and Contents Elizabeth Schmenk composition book contains letters to her brother and various writings.
Dates: 1880

James McClung Sieg Congo mission journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3745
Overview Journal kept by Presbyterian missionary to Africa in 1907-1908.
Dates: 1907-1910

Alma Simpson Travel Journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4204
Overview A detailed account of a family's travels during the early 1920s as described by an independent young college woman during her summer vacations.
Dates: 1923-1925

Charles Henry Snedeker diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1301
Abstract Transcript of a diary created by a Union soldier who served in Company H of the 124th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry and mustered out in 1865.
Dates: 1863-1865

Sue Spencer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1323
Overview This collection chiefly consists of correspondence from Sue Spencer to her family and friends during the time she spent with her husband and three sons living in Africa, an experience from which she published African Creeks I Have Been Up. Both the manuscript and galley proofs are included in this collection, as well as notes and observations for Mrs. Spencer's other publications, and newspaper clippings and other items related to Mrs. Spencer's life as an...
Dates: 1956 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1964

W. H. Storey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4048
Overview Correspondence, diaries, educational materials, and genealogical documents of Storey and his family
Dates: 1890-1935

James T. Tate Journal, Photograph, and Service Ribbons

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4121
Overview Journal, photograph, and service ribbons of a young sailor aboard the USS Alabama in the years preceding the United States' entry into World War I.
Dates: after 1918

Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.
Dates: 1840-1862

Thomas K. Jackson journals

 Collection
Identifier: W-0021
Overview Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.
Dates: 1866-1873

Thomas S. Jordan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0791
Abstract Papers of this Birmingham, Alabama, dentist and his family.
Dates: 1884 - 1928

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents

 Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates: 1848-1941

United States Corps of Engineers Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4047
Overview Correspondence, log books, and project maps from the United States Corps of Engineers
Dates: 1926-1977

Wade Hall Collection of Diaries and Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4259
Overview This collection consists of diaries, scrapbooks, and other personal books belonging to various individuals across the United States.
Dates: 1799 - 2003

Carrie Watkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1531
Overview Letters, recipes, and love poems, as well as her diary, written between 1857 and 1864 in Huntsville, Alabama, with her daily thoughts, favorite excerpts from literature and history, math problems, drawings of architecture, and problem solving.
Dates: 1857-1864

Wendell Willkie letter, 1940 February 10

 File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.10
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter from Wendell L. Willkie, dated February 10, 1940, to John Calhoun Caldwell of Birmingham, Alabama. Willkie thanks Caldwell for commenting on an article Willkie wrote for Reader's Digest.
Dates: 1940 February 10

William A. Stickney diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0057
Overview Diary of Episcopal minister William A. Stickney contains entries dated from 1841-1847. The diary documents Stickney's life as a college student at LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama, the University of Alabama, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Entries provide information about Stickney's daily life, as well as descriptions of religious services he attended and led, and a description of his personal devotions.
Dates: 1841-1847

William Cooper Diaries and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0357
Abstract The collection consists of six diaries for 1864, 1867, 1876, 1882, 1884, and 1887, and a photograph of Cooper, an attorney from Tuscumbia, Alabama. The diaries contain daily entries made by Cooper and, in his absence from home, his wife, and give a great deal of information about the community, his activities, and his family.
Dates: 1864-1887

William Crawford Gorgas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates: 1869-1920

William Henderson Wood Journal and Will

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1571
Abstract A daily journal by and last will and testament of this Collinsville, DeKalb County, Alabama resident.
Dates: 1876 - 1885

Cunningham Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3810
Overview Wilson's writings during his medical practice in the late 1890's
Dates: after 1865

Violet Rochelle Wolford Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4065
Overview Diary of young woman in Cordova, Alabama, in 1918.
Dates: 1918

Woodward Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Overview An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.
Dates: 1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950