Business and Labor
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 156 Collections and/or Records:
Catalog collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0286
Overview
Six catalogs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three are clothing catalogs, one is a plant catalog, one is an automobile supply catalog, and one is a biography/silverware catalog.
Dates:
1883–1910s
Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Overview
Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Dates:
1901 - 1903
Central Plank Road Company, Tallassee Branch records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0292
Overview
Charter and organizational information of the Tallassee Branch of the Central Plank Road Company
Dates:
1850-1853
Richard Chanoweth Promissory Note
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2580
Overview
Photocopy of promissory note in which Richard Chanoweth of Kentucky County acknowledges receipt of a barrel of whiskey and promises to deliver deer skins to Philip Engle as payment.
Dates:
1779 July 12
George Rooks Clayton deeds
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0312
Overview
Conveyances of land in Montgomery, Alabama, to George Whitman, May 20, 1831, and Charles Crommelin, March 26, 1835.
Dates:
1831, 1835
Clements family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0316
Abstract
Papers of a Tuscaloosa family whose members included Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Clements, Frank Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, and others. The bulk of the papers relate to Frank Bugbee Clements.
Dates:
1846-1948
Cobb Coal Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0322
Overview
This collection contains records from an Alabama coal company.
Dates:
1924-1981
Whitefoord R. Cole papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0332
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to a president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Dates:
1895-1979
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
Coleman and Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0333
Overview
Journals, day books, and cash books for Coleman and Company.
Dates:
1851-1869
Coleman and Duke dry goods receipt book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0334
Abstract
A ledger from a dry goods store in Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, containing receipts from various firms and individuals for monies received for accounts, shipping by steamer, etc.
Dates:
1853-1869
John J. Coleman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0338
Abstract
A collection of tax receipts, bills for drygoods items, indenture contracts, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1825-1849
Cooper and Binford records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0355
Overview
Two account books from 1848 and 1849.
Dates:
1848-1849
Peter Courtney indenture
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0363
Overview
Handwritten indenture document, dated 1 January 1704, by which Peter Courtney of Middlesex County, England, leased a property, "Eagle Hollow" or "Parks Suggs," to Samuel Rogers of Cornwall County, England.
Dates:
1704 January 1
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
Eyre Damer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0392
Overview
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.
Dates:
after 1900
Thomas Dauser papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0398
Overview
Letters, postcards, photos, newsclipping, and passport of this German shoemaker who emigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the 1880s. All material is in German.
Dates:
1882-1921
Jefferson Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0404
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1823-1917
John Davis mortgage
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0406
Abstract
A mortgage dated 20 June 1835 on slaves made out to Whitman Brane company in Montgomery County, Alabama.
Dates:
1835 June 20
John V. Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0407
Abstract
This collection contains Davis' resume, photographs of plating machines designed by him and Udylite company pamphlets.
Dates:
1963-1988
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
Jere Clemens Dennis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0428
Overview
Personal, family, and business papers of a Tallapoosa County attorney, including legal case files as well as Sons of Confederate Veterans, Alabama National Guard, and Masonic materials.
Dates:
1841-1935
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
Dimon, Fay, and Beers records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0436
Abstract
A collection containing business correspondence and receipts of this Mobile, Alabama, partnership which included the city's Chief of Police, C. A. R. Dimon.
Dates:
1866
J. M. Duncan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0456
Abstract
A collection of correspondence, financial papers, and artifacts belonging to this Blocton, Alabama, resident.
Dates:
1894-1932
Early Alabama documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0464
Overview
Documents from the mid nineteenth century, including store and tax receipts, court orders, letters, property appraisals, etc., from Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, mainly pertaining to West Alabama
Dates:
1844-1887
Eborn and Peteet Families papers
Collection — Box 3154: [1005585077]
Identifier: MSS-0469
Overview
Letters, written by Benjamin F. Eborn between 1884 and 1885 to his sweetheart (later his wife), Corinne Peteet Eborn. There are also other letters to Corinne from various family members, including her father, W.Y. Peteet, mother-in-law, Bettie Eborn, and her sister, Mary P. Jones.
Dates:
1879-1955
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
John K. and William M. Elliott daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0482
Overview
Photocopies of the daybooks of John K. Elliott and his son, William M. Elliott, of the Payneville, Sumter County, Alabama area, spanning the years from 1870 through 1911.
Dates:
1870-1911
Joseph J. Elliott letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0481
Overview
A copy book of letters, primarily to his fiance/wife, Maud Hoskinson of Weogufka, Coosa County, Alabama.
Dates:
1900-1902
Ensley Merchants Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0487
Overview
Minutes, bank statements, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, area organization
Dates:
1929-1944
Edward Eppes notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0488
Overview
Notebook containing handwritten notes, including billing and account information, property dimensions, worklogs, and sketches of tools, of this Georgia-based civil engineer.
Dates:
1894-1912
Essex Foundry records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0490
Overview
Incorporation papers, by-laws, directors' minutes, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and related records.
Dates:
1916-1965
Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, account book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0495
Overview
A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.
Dates:
1922-1924
Ezell Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0498
Abstract
Record book for store located in either Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama, or Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1879-1910
F. H. Petrie letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1620
Abstract
Letters written from Colbert Shoals and Florence, Alabama, to a business partner about digging canals around shoals on the Tennessee River. Petrie discusses sickness, heavy rains, high water, and lack of funding.
Dates:
1831 - 1833
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
Zachariah Fields deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0512
Overview
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 3 March 1833, to Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitman.
Dates:
1833 March 2
H. P. and Elisa K. Fleischman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0521
Overview
Letters of a commission merchant in the Caribbean and on the Mississippi River, and his family.
Dates:
1827-1850
The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4199
Overview
Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.
Dates:
2016
Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0531
Overview
Primarily receipts and statements but the collection also includes Robert S. Foster’s will and a deed for 1,274 acres of land from the heirs of Robert S. Foster to Edmond L. Prince in 1859 for the sum of $19,110.00. Most of the statements are for the freight, wharfage, drayage, weighing and storage of cotton shipped by steamboats, and are listed for either Mrs. Ann Foster or the Estate of Robert S. Foster. Other receipts are for the purchase of clothing, books and magazine subscriptions.
Dates:
1833-1859
Mary M. Foster fire insurance policy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0291
Overview
A fire insurance policy dated 22 December 1881, taken out by Mary M. Foster of Clayton, Alabama, on her "frame dwelling house part one & half story & part one story, & dining room & kitchen attached, occupied by her. . . . "
Dates:
1881 December 22
Frank Everard Ardrey, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-022
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the railroads, trolleys, and railroad stations throughout Alabama.
Dates:
1912 - 1974
Will Franke paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0540
Overview
A paper titled "Jefferson County 1850," written by this Birmingham, Alabama, native at the request of the Birmingham Historical Society and includes a detailed listing of the county's merchants and political leaders circa 1850.
Dates:
1950
Franklin Collier Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-033
Overview
This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Garner Family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0559
Overview
A scrapbook of local news and events compiled by Mrs. J. T. Garner of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
after 1892
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
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
Louis Gerstman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0567
Overview
Papers of this Selma, Dallas County, Alabama insurance agent and manager of the Edwards Opera House and the Academy of Music, 1879-1896.
Dates:
1879-1896
Eddy Lanier King Gilmore papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0572
Overview
Compositions, scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Eddy Lanier King Gilmore, of Selma, Alabama, and his Russian-born wife, Tamara Kolb-Chernashovaya, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The bulk of material is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1940 - 1967