Plantations -- Alabama

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Photographs Bishop family on Tanglewood plantation.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the history, ownership, and legacy of Tanglewood, a plantation house and its 474 acres of surrounding land in Hale County, Alabama. Materials include books, correspondence, personal and scholarly writings, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and blueprints.The collection traces Tanglewood’s history from its settlement by Page Harris (1795–1887) in 1824 and the construction of the existing house in 1859. It also highlights...

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Collection consists of Bishop and Harry’s family, a family friend’s photographs, and some unidentified photographs.

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This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.

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Photographs of Tanglewood Plantation, and unidentified people.

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Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.

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Copy of a crop lien for $50 against the crop John G. Hardin will harvest on a plantation in Elmore County, Alabama, owned by B.S. Walkley.

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This collection contains accounts of a cotton plantation; records of a farm's cotton crop, including the number of hands employed and the amount picked; and recipes.

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...

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Account book that documents business on the plantation, including several letters that were laid in between the pages that concerned renters on the property

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A legal contract in which J.J. Ricks and William Hines rent Martha Jones' plantation in Lawrence County, Alabama.

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...

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Material concerning the business and plantation activities of George (1812-1879) and James Skinner (1801-1883) of Marengo County.

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Correspondence, financial papers, and other material pertaining this Dallas County, Alabama, plantation owner and physician, and his family.

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This short article gives a brief overview of the ownership and residents of this Talladega, Alabama, historic home. There are also two black and white photographs of the house.

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Two sales ledgers for a plantation store belonging to Louis W. Turpin of New Berne, Alabama. Contains daily listings by person, listing what they purchased and how much each item cost. One book is from April 21-July 17 1879, and the other is January 1 - March 9, 1880.