Business and Labor
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 146 Collections and/or Records:
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
John G. Hardin crop lien
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0628
Overview
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.
Dates:
1875 July 19
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 Holt carpentry notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0693
Abstract
This collection consists of an account book created by this Montgomery, Alabama, carpenter, with notes and entries relating primarily to the purchase of construction items such as nails, plaster, boards, etc.
Dates:
1848
William Hoskins letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0647
Overview
Letter dated 31 March 1796, from Hoskins in Bordeaux, France, to James Swan in America, addressing potential business prospects.
Dates:
1796 March 31
Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama, paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0432
Abstract
A paper containing a list of trades and professions in Huntsville, Alabama, and describing the geography of Huntsville and Madison County. Includes original, typewritten copy, and photocopy.
Dates:
circa 1809
J. R. Odom store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Overview
Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.
Dates:
1920-1937
Jacob Faser letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0506
Overview
Letters written from Mobile, Alabama, where Faser was working as a sword maker, to his wife in Macon, Mississippi, dealing mainly with personal news and information on the prices of available goods.
Dates:
1861-1865
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 It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.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
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
James Strother Caller Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0263
Overview
Letter written by Caller, dated 2 August 1852, from Gosport, Clarke County, Alabama, to Messrs. Jno. A. Winston &c, commission merchants of Mobile, Alabama, asking for a correction on the account of W. McConnell
Dates:
1852-08-02
John Cocke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates:
1810-1899
John Horgan Jr. Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2009-170
Overview
The collection consists of twenty-three industrial photographs taken around Birmingham, Ensley, Sheffield, Anniston, Bessemer, and Woodward, Alabama in 1889. Photographer from Birmingham, Alabama, John Horgan, Jr. took the photos for Truman H. Aldrich and presented them to him in June 1889.
Dates:
1889-06-01
John Horry Dent papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0430
Overview
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
John T. Hardier and Company records, 1840-1859
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W 0129.22
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 Emerson Brown letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0219
Overview
Letters from Brown, most of them to his friend and business associate General Ira R. Foster, Quartermaster General of the State of Georgia during the Civil War. Also contains copies of letters between Brown and Georgia politician Howell Cobb, regarding appointing Foster as a special railway postal agent for north Georgia and north Alabama.
Dates:
1857-1867
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
Joshua Hill Foster Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0535
Overview
Papers of a University of Alabama graduate, Baptist minister, planter, teacher (University of Alabama, 1873-1892) and president of Alabama Central Female College, 1869-1873.
Dates:
1839 - 1904
Labor relations papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3454
Overview
Miscellaneous labor relations documents
Dates:
1930s-1960s
Letter to Servant Cokeram
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1733
Abstract
Letter from unknown writer to his servant Cokeram, instructing to provide provisions for an impending visit by the queen. Undated.
Dates:
no date; possibly 1600s
Lister Hill papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0670
Abstract
Subject files, correspondence, reports, and other materials by, to, and about this Alabama senator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1923- 1938 and the U. S. Senate from 1938-1969.
Dates:
1921-1968
Hugh Mallory Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2649
Overview
Letter written by Hugh Mallory of Selma, Alabama, on August 15, 1932 to an unidentified person asking for names of others in the recipient's community whom Mallory could contact regarding the use of the highways by busses and trucks being operated for personal profit. Also included is a letter to the State Legistlature requesting that body to regulate such usage.
Dates:
1932
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
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
Nehemiah Denton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1602
Abstract
Correspondence and other business materials of this Brooklyn, New York, resident with business interests in Mobile, Alabama. Aside from extensive business correspondence, it includes detailed descriptions of Mobile's antebellum social life, and accounts of yellow fever epidemics and fires.
Dates:
1831-1844
Perry County, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0139
Abstract
Letters and other documents donated by a source in Perry County, Alabama. The collection consists of eight letters to Elias Benson. There is also one summons order included in the Elias Benson series. Another series contains the will of Philip Smith of South Carolina. The Thomas and Mary Jones series contains three statements of debt made to John E. Cook, along with an indenture statement and draft. The final series includes miscellaneous documents including deed certification, court records,...
Dates:
1796 - 1898
Phil E. Hill General Store Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0671
Abstract
An account ledger for a general store in Fairfield, Alabama, possibly owned by Phil E. Hill
Dates:
1873 - 1874
Prices of Domestic Produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0352
Overview
Prices of domestic produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865
Dates:
1861-1865
Elmer E. Rhode Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2550
Overview
Bernice Shelly writes from Tracy and Oakland, California, to P.F.C. Elmer E. Rhode, stationed in San Francisco, California, about her work as a waitress and at a factory to aid the war effort. A third letter makes a third-party reference to an encounter with Elmer Rhode written by Fred Kimball of San Francisco, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Dates:
1942 - 1943
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 bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
S.A. and M. Railway survey notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0076
Overview
Material relating to Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery (S.A. & M.) Railway
Dates:
after 1888
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Southern Business Guide - Illustrated advertisement, circa 1875
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W 0129.16
Scope and Contents
This single page from an undated issue of the Southern Business Guide - Illustrated highlights Columbus Female College in Columbus, Georgia, and the Beymer, Bauman, and Company
Dates:
circa 1875
Spencer J. McMorris daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0967
Abstract
Records of daily sales in a general store in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama, 1837.
Dates:
1837
W. C. Strong letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0132
Abstract
A January 1927 letter by W. C. Strong of Mobile, Alabama, recounting the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert F. Bell, Jr., an employee of the Munson Steam Ship Company docks who died on the job in late 1926.
Dates:
1927
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
Toulmin, Hazard, and Company Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1416
Overview
Correspondence from the Toulmin, Hazard and Company commission firm of Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1834 - 1837
W. K. Ichimmel Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2130
Overview
Letter from W.K. Ichimmel from South Bend, Indiana, to his unnamed friend. The letter discusses his upcoming trip to Paris and the workers at the shirt factory where he works.
Dates:
1889-07-24
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.017: [1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-071
Abstract
This collection consists of four photographs depicting firefighters from Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1910 - 1940
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.031: [1006241528]
Identifier: 2009-149
Abstract
This collection consists of three photographs depicting scenes from Wilburn Brothers Company in Texas.
Dates:
1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.025: [1006241522]
Identifier: 2009-109
Overview
This collection consists of eight photographs depicting oil well workers in Texas.
Dates:
1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.034: [1006241531]
Identifier: 2009-162
Abstract
This collection consists of four photographs depicting headquarters of the Caribbean Coast Planters Company.
Dates:
1913-03
William Strong Comstock papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0348
Overview
Business correspondence, account sheets, contracts, miscellaneous receipts, etc., of a Montgomery, Alabama, merchant, 1843-1867.
Dates:
1842-1867
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
Young-White Mercantile Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1600
Abstract
Records of this Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama, general store which operated 1905 to 1933.
Dates:
1905-1933
Yuille Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1601
Abstract
A collection of correspondence, 1861-1865, and other personal papers, as well as bills, receipts, and orders of this bakery in Mobile, Alabama, operated by Gavin Yuille (?-1849) and his sons John C. and Robert Lang Yuille (1822-?). Includes the loyalty oath taken by John C. Yuille in 1865.
Dates:
1827 - 1871