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Business and Labor

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Brewster and Conley sales records

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Coleman and Coleman mercantile records

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Henry DeBardeleben business records

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

Robert H. McKenzie dissertation, correspondence, and notes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0072
Overview Copy of Robert H. McKenzie's dissertation, "A History of the Shelby Iron Company, 1865-1881," and a small collection of correspondence and research notes related to the dissertation.
Dates: 1971
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Robert H. McKenzie dissertation, correspondence, and notes

George H. Thompson plantation records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Overview Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
Dates: 1855-1874
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / George H. Thompson plantation records

Woodward Iron Company records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0061
Overview Correspondence, financial and legal records, annual reports, and employee newsletters produced by the Woodward Iron Company and members of the Woodward Voting Trust, from 1945-1977.
Dates: 1945-1977
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Woodward Iron Company records