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Letter books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2014129300

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Coleman Hargrove papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0630
Abstract

Personal and business correspondence, class notes, and financial records of attorney and politician, Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1835-1911

Bell Factory letterbook and cloth samples

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0131
Abstract

Corporate letterbook, 1882-1906, and cloth samples of "Bell checks" and "Bell stripes" manufactured by the Bell Factory, Huntsville, Alabama, after the Civil War.

Dates: 1882-1906

Bryce Hospital Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0225
Abstract

Various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital.

Dates: 1849-1991

Emmett Bryan Carmichael collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0278
Abstract

Approximately 300 letters sent to Emmett Carmichael by "renowned Americans," primarily from prominent physicians and university administrators from Alabama.

Dates: unknown

John Cottingham Curry papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0387
Abstract

Items from Curry's tenure at the University of Alabama, including season tickets for sporting events, invitations to social events and organizations, and a binder of correspondence relating to reunions of the University of Alabama class of 1916.

Dates: 1916-1971

Dallas Iron Works letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0097
Abstract

Contains the Reconstruction-era letterbook of the Dallas Iron Works in Selma, Alabama.

Dates: 1866-1879

Joseph J. Elliott letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0481
Abstract

A copy book of letters, primarily to his fiance/wife, Maud Hoskinson of Weogufka, Coosa County, Alabama.

Dates: 1900-1902

Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0045
Abstract

Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings

Dates: 1866-1889

George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Abstract

Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.

Dates: 1886 - 1898

A. B. Hanson records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0623
Abstract

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

Hearst, Dennis and Company Letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0656
Abstract

The 1871-1872 letterbook of a firm in Richmond, Dallas County, Alabama.

Dates: 1871 - 1872

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 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

John Horry Dent papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0430
Abstract 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

Joseph Murrell letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Abstract

Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

Dates: 1861

James Maxwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2317
Abstract

Letterbook about the 1907 proposed extension of the Warrior Branch for the M&O Railroad

Dates: 1907

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...
Dates: 1797 - 1973

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0104
Abstract

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

Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1493
Abstract

This collection contains plantation ledgers, law notes, and personal and business correspondence of Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff between 1882 and 1917. It also includes a scrapbook on Robert Van de Graaff's accelerator made in 1966 by Mrs. Welch's Fourth Grade class at Northington Elementary School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1832 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1917