Daily Life and Family
Subject
Subject Source: Localbroad
Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:
Adams Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0006
Abstract
This collection consists principally of correspondence among members of the Adams Family, the majority of which concerns the Confederate service of a son, who wrote many letters detailing army life and conditions. It also contains papers related to Homer and John Adams, prisoners of war who died before returning home, and an Adams Family history by Irving Adams, dated December 18, 1948.
Dates:
1849 - 1926; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1865
Album of quotations
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0058
Overview
Album containing handwritten quotations from the Bible, classical authors, and sources, as well as two handwritten copies of notices from the "Times" and "Tuscaloosa Gazette" (1881).
Dates:
[187?]-1881
W. T. Alexander genealogical papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0061
Abstract
Biographies of William Simeral Alexander of North Carolina (1817-1898) and his descendants, with reference to his ancestors to 1716, compiled in 1930 by W. T. Alexander.
Dates:
1817-1930
Alison family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0062
Abstract
Genealogical information, including typewritten booklets on various families. Individual folders are labeled with family names. The collection includes correspondence, photocopies, and photographs.
Dates:
after 1800
M. E. Allan letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0063
Overview
Letter dated 30 September 1855, to "Dear Cousin," from Bald Hill, Georgia, discussing family news, crops, children, and illnesses and deaths among family and slaves.
Dates:
1855 September 30
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
Jonathon A. B. Allison letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0068
Overview
A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war.
Dates:
1862 March 6
Andrews Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church South minute books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0079
Overview
This collection consists of a photocopy of a church record book, which contains a register of pastors (1913-1987), marriages (1889-1936), infant baptisms (1924-1988), and members.
Dates:
1913-1990
Letters from Archie to Sarah and Brother
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2214
Abstract
Collection consists of family correspondence between Archie and siblings. Discusses education, farming, and family matters.
Dates:
1860 - 1874
Ethel Marie Armes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0087
Overview
Personal letters written by Ethel Armes, a Birmingham journalist and author, primarily to Alice Wiggin of Franklin, Massachusetts.
Dates:
between 1890 and 2002
Askew family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0091
Overview
Biographical sketch, ledger, diaries, church histories, newspaper clippings, copies of poetry and pieces written about Confederate history in Alabama, address and appointment books from this Dayton, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1844-1993
Austin family collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0095
Abstract
A collection of genealogical information on the Austin, Hutto, Lambert and Knox families. It also contains family correspondence, photographs, and legal documents.
Dates:
1887-1980
A. Babbitt letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0100
Abstract
Letter from Babbitt to his cousin William H. Babbitt of Princeton, New Jersey, describing an ocean voyage from New York to Mobile, and Babbitt's subsequent doings in Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1843 December
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
William Pitt Ballinger diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0104
Abstract
Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.
Dates:
1864-1868
Baltzell and Bullock families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0105
Abstract
The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.
Dates:
1839-1921
Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract
Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
Dates:
Circa 1848-1865
Barker Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0112
Overview
Letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, genealogical records and other materials relating to Henry A. Barker (1879-1962), a Methodist Minister in Boaz, Alabama, and his family.
Dates:
undated
Mamie L. Barnett letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0115
Abstract
A letter dated 7 June 1928 from Barnett to her brother Frank.
Dates:
1928 June 7
John Gorman Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0116
Abstract
Contains correspondence to and from John Gorman Barr, as well as other papers of this University of Alabama student, Tuscaloosa attorney, and United States Consul in Australia, known for his humorous writings.
Dates:
1840-1858
James M. Barry notebooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0120
Abstract
Notebooks containing addresses and miscellaneous of papers and notes.
Dates:
circa 1940
Battle family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Overview
Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1855-1871
Harvey Beeson letters and photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0129
Abstract
Letter and photographs relating to Harvey Beeson’s ancestors in Michigan, August 1939.
Dates:
1939
William Robert Bell letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0134
Abstract
A letter dated 29 May 1864 from a Confederate soldier to his mother and sister while stationed in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
Dates:
1864 May 29
Henry R. Benagh letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0136
Abstract
A letter containing genealogical information about the Benagh family.
Dates:
1951
Sam Bennett letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0138
Abstract
An 1848 letter written from Chickasaw, Alabama, to his cousin in Tuscumbia, Alabama, discussing the weather of the "sunny South," temperance, sailing to New Orleans, and various family matters.
Dates:
1848 May 7
Berman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2329
Overview
Contains material created and kept by the Berman family of St. Louis, Missouri. Letters written by Dr. William (Bill) Berman and his wife Marian make up the bulk of the collection. These are primarily letters written, often in Hebrew, by Bill and Marian from Ft. Riley, Kansas, where Bill served as an Army doctor during World War Two.
Dates:
1927-1957
Winafred Bird letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0158
Abstract
A letter from Bird dated 5 May 1822, from Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina to her son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1822 May 5
Birmingham Examiner financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract
Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
Dates:
1963-1964
Charlie J. Black papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Overview
Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Dates:
1985-1987
John Blackwell deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0168
Abstract
A deed recording a transfer of land in Montgomery County, Alabama, dated 25 September 1828, from John Blackwell to Thomas Mastin.
Dates:
1828 September 25
A. M. Blair letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0169
Abstract
A letter dated 30 November 1843, to Blair's brother Edwin in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing a sea voyage from New York, to Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1843 November 30
Susie L. Meyers Bobb letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3658
Overview
Correspondence between family and friends of the Bobb, Raymond, and Meyers families of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa. The letters date from 1873-1922, and most of them are written to Susie L. Meyers Bobb, who was likely also Susie L. Raymond.
Dates:
1873-1922
Erline Bodine papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0179
Overview
An amalgam of genealogical research done by Bodine into the Bodine and Pate families, and a copy of a letter to Alabama Governor Guy Hunt, dated 21 March 1987, claiming damages of “about 160 A[cres] and one billion dollars” owing to a “stragedy” [sic] concocted by “Big Jim” [Fulsom?] and Franklin Roosevelt “to help the nation with my family’s resources.”
Dates:
undated
Bogy and Smith Families genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract
A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
undated
Boling Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Overview
Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.
Dates:
1833-1870
Amelia Boswell letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0190
Abstract
Letter dated 13 August 1847, from Boswell of El Dorado, Arkansas, to her cousin, Elizabeth A. Boswell of Pike County, Alabama, discussing the health of family members, crops, and weather.
Dates:
1847 August 13
Franklin Welsh Bowdon letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0191
Abstract
A letter dated 24 October 1835, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa to the editor of the Weekly Globe requesting a six-month subscription to the newspaper.
Dates:
1835 October 24
Charles Boyd genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0195
Abstract
A collection of genealogical records pertaining to Boyd's family.
Dates:
undated
Boyd family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0194
Abstract
Photocopies of various documents and letters relating to Alfred Boyd (1814-82) and his descendants as well as a typescript history of the family of Joel Willis, Sr., and a typescript paper by Bruce L. Bennett of Ohio State University titled, "Sports and Physical Education in Colonial Times."
Dates:
1816-1943; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1859
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
L.O. Brackeen paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0451
Overview
Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.
Dates:
1962 April 26
Peter Brannon papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates:
1900-1966
Branscomb Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4017
Overview
Letters, land grants, diplomas, certificates, scrapbook, daguerreotype, and other miscellaneous documents, as well as quilts and other textiles (including a wedding dress from the early 20th century)
Dates:
after 1865
Charity Sophia Rutland Brett commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0206
Overview
Mid-nineteenth-century combination cookbook and scrapbook that includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," and a "remedy for cholera," among others.
Dates:
1851-1856
1926 Bridal shower booklet
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2751
Overview
A 1926 bridal shower booklet created for the bride, Bernice, by the women who attended the party.
Dates:
1926
Broadnax, Cleavland, and McKerrill account ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0213
Overview
Ledger recording purchases by customers at this general store in Eutaw, Green County, Alabama.
Dates:
1866
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
Alfred A. Brown letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0218
Overview
Letter dated 16 January 1863, from Canterbury, New Hampshire, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burroughs, West Acton, Massachusetts, concerning friends and family
Dates:
1863 January 16
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