Community and Place

Images of family Christmas in Mobile, Alabama; Mac and Zell in Tallahassee, Florida; unidentified wedding.

A collection of genealogical records.

Images of Zell and Mac at St. George Island.

Photographs depicting bar in Havana, Cuba, an orange grove in California, and other unidentified people and places.

Photographs depicting portraits of unidentified people, visit to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, fairgrounds, school children with their teachers, canoeing, and covered bridge in Cambridgeboro, Pennsylvania.

Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.

Photographs depicting school children, Kentucky University faculty and graduates from 1900s, "Old Fellows Home" bend, and other unidentified people.

Photographs depicting shoe store, family homes, school children, and family Christmas dinner.

Photographs are depicting school children, family portraits, and other unidentified people.

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Photographs depicting aerial view of Wallace, Idaho, a grocery store, and unidentified people.

Photographs depicting portraits of unidentified people, grocery store, family picnics, and a farm.

Photographs depicting portraits of unidentified people, a saw mill, and court house in Fort Worth, Texas.

Photographs depicting unidentified people, and places.

Photographs are depicting framers, outdoor scenes, teachers, and other unidentified places.

Photographs are depicting a river dam, construction are, unidentified families, and a school building.

An essay on the history of Fort Toulouse, constructed in 1717 near Wetumpka, Alabama

Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.

Warranty deed for property in Alabama given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Foster to Mrs. Sallie H. Hester

This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.

Correspondence, legal and business documents relating to the Gaines family, most of it from Mobile, Choctaw, and Jefferson Counties, Alabama.

Paper by Gandy titled "History of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Gordo, Alabama, 1838-1938." It actually covers the church's history through 1957 and includes lists of members and pastors.

This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.

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.

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

Handwritten census records for counties in Georgia. Contains information on numbers of slaves, acres of improved and unimproved land, and value of farms. Summary information provided for some counties. Counties included (1850): Elbert, Franklin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Greene, Gordon, Hall, Harris, Heard, Henry, and Houston. Counties included (1860): Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glynn, Gordon, Hall, Harrid, Heard, Houston, Lowndes, and Montgomery.

Papers of this Selma, Dallas County, Alabama insurance agent and manager of the Edwards Opera House and the Academy of Music, 1879-1896.

Letter dated 8 August 1864 to her cousin, a soldier in the Confederate Army, discussing interruptions in railroad service, provisions for the army, and poor people at home.

Guest register from 11 July 1889 through 31 January 1890 of this Scottsville, Virginia, hotel.

Correspondence of this delegate to the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1901 as well as printed reports from the Convention.

Typescript copy of the minutes of a meeting to establish a female academy at Burton's Hill, Alabama, and the school's constitution and amendments.

Ledger of standings, studies, and absences of the students from 1847 through 1870 as well as an honor roll of the Humanitarian Society of this Hale County, Alabama, school.

Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.

Collection of pre- and post- Civil War letters and genealogies (all photocopies), as well as minutes for the New River Baptist Church, in Fayette County, Alabama, from 1826-1911.

Account and invoice ledgers of Alex Gunn's Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama store from 1909 to 1914.

Minutes of the Board of Alderman, Gurley, Madison County, Alabama from 16 December 1913 through 8 October 1920

Includes the manuscripts of two books by Guy Ward Hubbs, who received his doctorate from the University of Alabama. The works include Tuscaloosa County, Alabama: An Illustrated History and Rowdy Tales From Early Alabama

This collection consists of five photographs depicting unidentified people in Kentucky.

Thirteen photographs depicting scenes of everyday activities in various places.

Letters written to Mary Hallowell from various government officials in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, regarding her request for help for "refugees" from Tennessee during and immediately after the Civil War. These refugees were Tennessee residents who had remained loyal to the Union and had moved farther north during the War.

Contains notebooks kept by this Montgomery, Alabama, resident on natural and civic historical topics.

Application, dated 8 July 1907, filed in Jefferson County, Alabama, for a Confederate veterans' pension.

Petition to Alabama Governor Clement Comer Clay from the citizens of Morgan County, Alabama, on behalf of Archimedes Hank, to repeal or reduce penalty for forfeiture of bond for failure to appear in court.

Letterbook from 12 March to 15 May 1888, other correspondence and cases, a ledger labeled "pleadings" between 18 July 1888 to 26 February 1891 containing general correspondence and cases, and other miscellaneous material from 1888.

Letter written in 1876 by African American member of Congress from Alabama to the United States Centennial Commission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, requesting an additional invitation for his wife to attend the opening of the Centennial International Exhibition of Industry.

Letters from Senator Sampson W. Harris of Alabama, dating from 1848 to 1857, written from Washington, DC, to the Congressional Globe and to the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable J.C. Dobbin.

Papers and manuscript drafts of this Alabama author.

Collection consists of eighty-seven photographs of Eddins family of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Largely portraits of family members, snapshots of family and friends, and the Eddins home. Includes photographs of a young Hudson Strode and an architectural drawing of the Hendricks's home on the University of Alabama.

This collection consists of twenty-four photographs showing railroad workers using heavy equipment built by American Hoist & Derrick Company and groups of people from various counties in Alabama.