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Business records

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Overview Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Dates: 1861-1869

A. S. Williams III Collection Aquisition Paperwork

 Collection
Identifier: W-0116
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, cost estimates, brochures, plans, notes, and various other documents regarding the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection and the University of Alabama Libraries' acquisition of the collection from Mr. A.S. Williams III. Correspondence is primarily between the University of Alabama's Dean of Libraries, Louis A. Pitschmann, and various university offices and personnel, Mr. Williams, and Stephen Rowe (curator and archivist of the Eufaula Athenaeum). Also included are...
Dates: 2008 - 2010

Alabama Marble Quarries prospectus/stock subscription form

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0042
Overview A prospectus describing the marble quarried by the firm in Talladega County, Alabama, and the demand for it. At the bottom of the second page is a stock subscription form.
Dates: 1910

Alabama Power Company Coal Mines

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0046
Overview Variety of reports from Alabama Power Company's Gorgas, Marvel, Blocton, and Cahaba coal mines in the mid-20th century.
Dates: 1941-1968

Alabama receipts and statements, 1846-1858

 File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.08
Scope and Contents The collection contains receipts and statements from various vendors in Mobile, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama, between 1846-1872. These receipts and statements are to a variety of people.
Dates: 1846-1858

Allen and Jemison Hardware Company ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3193
Overview Two business ledgers of the Allen and Jemison Hardware Company of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates: 1929 October - 1962 September

Allen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Overview The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.
Dates: 1848-1906

Andrew Coleman Hargrove papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0630
Overview Personal and business correspondence, class notes, and financial records of attorney and politician, Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates: 1835-1911

Ashville Railroad Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0090
Abstract Photocopies of resolutions about the formation of the company, legal documents, printed maps, certificates of incorporation, and board meeting notices related to the Ashville Railroad Company, 1882-1884.
Dates: 1882 - 1884

Barrie Lucien Holt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0692
Overview Contains the papers of Barrie Lucien Holt, covering his life as a capitalist, planter, financier, and quartermaster general of the Alabama National Guard. Holt was an organizer and majority shareholder in the Prattville Cotton Mills and Banking Company, as well as a partner in D. M. Snow and Company.
Dates: 1841-1950

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

Benton County, Alabama, land contract

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0141
Abstract Land contract dated 29 July 1834, at White Plains, Benton (later Calhoun) County, Alabama.
Dates: 1834 July 29

Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.
Dates: 1886-1982

Beta Phi Mu, Beta Kappa Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0147
Abstract Correspondence, bank records, scrapbooks, meeting agendas, and minutes, of the University of Alabama chapter of the National Library and Information Studies honorary.
Dates: 1975-1990

Hugo F. Biedermann papers

 Collection — Box 5041
Identifier: MSS-0155
Abstract The collection includes copies of patents granted Biedermann, as well as contracts and some scattered miscellaneous papers. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of projects worked on by the firm of Skinner and Biedermann, including the Anniston Army Depot and many buildings on the University of Alabama campus, including the Engineering building, Lloyd Hall, Denny Chimes, Denny Stadium, Doster Hall, Graves Hall, and others.
Dates: circa 1940s

Birmingham Coal and Coke Company shipping records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0160
Abstract Ledger of shipping records including destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.
Dates: 1920-1923

Birmingham Dental College minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0161
Abstract A collection of board minutes, including some organizational information.
Dates: 1893-1899

Birmingham Examiner financial records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
Dates: 1963-1964

Winton M. Blount papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0176
Abstract This collection contains the papers of this Montgomery, Alabama, business leader, during his term as United States Postmaster General (1969-1971).
Dates: 1956-2004

Bluff Park United Methodist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0178
Overview A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates: 1978-1981

Brewster and Conley sales records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Overview Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.
Dates: 1838 - 1846

Brierfield Ironworks records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0212
Overview Financial and legal documents of the Brierfield Ironworks along with some correspondence and printed materials, dating from 1866 to 1882. The materials are divided into two main groups: (A) those materials generated during Josiah Gorgas' control of the ironworks (1866-1869), and (B) those materials generated during Thomas S. Alvis' control of the operations (1869-1873).
Dates: 1864-1897; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1882

Iveson L. Brookes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0214
Abstract A large collection of letters to and from this Baptist clergyman, planter and southern sectionalist, including defenses of the South, Brookes's business transactions, and family matters.
Dates: 1811-1911; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1865

Brookside-Pratt Mining Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0215
Overview This collection contains the pay records for W.M. Meadows for the year of 1919 at the Brookside-Pratt Mining Company.
Dates: 1919

W. L. Bruce and Sons records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0223
Overview Ledgers and daybooks of this Catherine, Wilcox County, Alabama, country store, reflecting the economic and social conditions of this rural community from 1911 to 1936
Dates: 1911-1936

Theron Cannon records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0270
Abstract The records of a general store in Berry, Fayette County, Alabama, including correspondence, mortgages, invoices, orders, etc.
Dates: 1914-1952

Cobb Coal Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0322
Overview This collection contains records from an Alabama coal company.
Dates: 1924-1981

Coleman and Coleman mercantile records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0051
Overview Two ledgers documenting sales made at the Coleman, Hearst, and Company mercantile, also named Coleman and Coleman, located in Richmond, Alabama, in the 1860s.
Dates: 1861-1862

L. H. Crumpler records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0380
Overview A collection of records of Crumpler's general store in Sylacauga, Alabama, and of his activities as justice of the peace.
Dates: 1892-1909

DeKalb Land and Mining Company minute book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0422
Abstract This collection contains the company's record and minute book for the period 1911-1920.
Dates: 1911-1920

J. W. Dennis journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0427
Abstract The accounts for a drug store in Carlowville, Dallas County, Alabama, 1867-68, including records of customers' purchases and amounts paid and owed.
Dates: 1867-1868

Elliott and Carl Mill time book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Overview A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
Dates: 1886 - 1891

Essex Foundry records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0490
Overview Incorporation papers, by-laws, directors' minutes, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and related records.
Dates: 1916-1965

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates: 1849-1861

Fitts and Alston Families Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4198
Overview Papers, correspondence, and photographs from three generations of two Tuscaloosa, Alabama, families.
Dates: 1900 - 1966

Francis Bugbee papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Overview Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.
Dates: 1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820

Gaines Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0550
Overview Correspondence, legal and business documents relating to the Gaines family, most of it from Mobile, Choctaw, and Jefferson Counties, Alabama.
Dates: 1824-1949

Geological Survey of Alabama papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-3511
Overview Geological Survey of Alabama and the State Oil and Gas Board materials
Dates: 1975-2000

George and Eleanor Bridges Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Overview Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.
Dates: 1932-1965

George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Overview 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

Samuel S. Goodman hotel ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0578
Overview Guest register from 11 July 1889 through 31 January 1890 of this Scottsville, Virginia, hotel.
Dates: 1889-1890

Harco Drugs records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0626
Overview Miscellaneous materials including newsletters, an employee handbook, memoranda, sales, publicity and marketing information, and other items.
Dates: 1974-1997

Henry DeBardeleben business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Overview Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.
Dates: 1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905

J. A. Montgomery business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates: 1889 - 1898

J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties

 Collection
Identifier: W-0082
Overview One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.
Dates: 1899

James Boykin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870

John T. Hardier and Company records, 1840-1859

 File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.22
Scope and Contents The records in this collection are for a variety of materials being shipped to and from Mobile, Alabama, primarily through John T. Hardier and Company.
Dates: 1840-1859

Joseph H. Bradford Accounts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0199
Abstract Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.
Dates: 1836-1841

Lawrence County, Alabama Tavern License

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0847
Scope and Contents A license dated 23 September 1835, granted to Alexander M. Brooks, Edward Jones, and M. Seuris to operate a tavern in Lawrence County, Alabama.
Dates: 1835-09-23

Lehmann, Ullman, and Barclay records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0852
Overview Records of this Birmingham, Alabama, accounting firm
Dates: 1920s-1970s