Daily Life and Family
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 499 Collections and/or Records:
Jennie Miller letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2459
Overview
Letters to Jennie Miller (Mrs. Earl Adams) of Shelby, Ohio, and Angola, Indiana, from friends and family
Dates:
1905-1924
Miscellaneous genealogies
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0564
Overview
Miscellaneous genealogies of various Alabama families
Dates:
after 1950
Frank M. Moody papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2322
Overview
Poster with family Christmas cards and a scrapbook about Frank M. Moody
Dates:
1954-1968
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Good Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3959
Overview
Three postcards dealing with daily life and family and one letter appears to be a scam-type chain letter
Dates:
1952 - 1966
New accession: Box temp.86
File — Box temp 86
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Two letters from Macon at Tuscaloosa to his father and sister in Jacksonville, both dated 1861, discussing his denied requests for furloughs home, and a letter from his father, Miles, to his son in Tuscaloosa, encouraging him to return home to join a local company being raised to fight in the Civil War. The collection also includes an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles Abernathy.Addition received in 2012 includes one letter dated April 14, 1861, written by Macon to his...
Dates:
1861 - 1878
John Newland and George Wilcox receipt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1703
Abstract
This collection consists of a single receipt dated March 6, 1811 and signed by Newland and Wilcox, acknowledging payment of $3 by Hugh Lemasster for taxes owed for 1809 on a farm of 100 acres of second-rate land, 2 tiths, 3 slaves, and 7 horses.
Dates:
1811 March 6
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract
This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates:
1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945
Nuckols Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-013
Abstract
Three black and white mounted photographs, possibly from Greensboro, Alabama. Scenes include sawmill, a group of female students in commencement attire and the interior of an office building.
Dates:
1900
Winifred Ruth O'Rear Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4133
Overview
Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman
Dates:
1936-1937
Fred M. Owen letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3004
Overview
A letter to Joshua P. Eyre from his friend, Fred M. Owen in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1868 August 6
Pauline Jones Gandrud papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0555
Overview
The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other information created and gathered by this Alabama genealogist. The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications.
Dates:
1900 - 1980
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
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
Photographic Album of an African American Family
Collection
Identifier: 2016-002
Abstract
Small rectangular photo album containing photographs of prominent African American family probably from around Washington, District of Columbia area.
Dates:
1910 - 1955
Photographs, 1890 - 1910
File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents
Images of canoeing on the Black Warrior river, camping, practicing shooting, and surveying.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
Photographs, 1890 - 1910
File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents
Images of Eugene Allen Smith and his family, Smith's family home on the University of Alabama campus, University of Alabama campus, canoeing, and camping.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
Photographs, 1910
File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Images of Smith's family, steamboats, and surveying.
Dates:
1910
Photographs, 1910
File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents
Images of Smith family, steamboats, and surveying.
Dates:
1910
Pickett and Williams Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2576
Overview
Contains information about the Pickett and Williams families as well as the 15th Alabama Infantry Division; also includes a membership application for the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1980-2008
Poellnitz and Meador Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2013-011
Abstract
This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.
Dates:
1859 - 1925
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
Reade family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3674
Overview
Materials from three generations of the Reade family
Dates:
1917-1982
Robert E. Johnson photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-205
Abstract
Prints and one original snapshots of wedding of Dr. and Mrs. R.E. Johnson. He was a professor of history at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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
Roemol Henry Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0666
Abstract
A letter containing genealogical information about St. Sauveur Francois Bonfils, a Napoleonic exile who served as professor of modern languages and literature at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 1847-1849.
Dates:
1951
Samuel D. Cameron and Maxwell A. Cameron Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0264
Overview
Papers, primarily letters, of two Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, brothers, Samuel D. Cameron, 2nd Alabama Cavalry and Maxwell A. Cameron, 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, to their sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Isham Robertson, during the Civil War. Additional materials include financial documents and other family letters.
Dates:
1858-1884; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates:
1833-1889
Savage Family Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: WP-020
Overview
This collection consists of Savage family photographs documenting their travels and everyday life.
Dates:
1909 - 1910
Searcy Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-035
Abstract
Photos of this Tuscaloosa family are in two photograph albums that contain images from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, the Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, and Warrior River (bridge and flooding), and family activities.
Dates:
1870 - 1987
Seth Whitcomb Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1546
Scope and Contents
Letter to his wife discussing his daily activities
Dates:
1861
E.U. Shea letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1856
Overview
Handwritten letters from Private Lawrence Shea to his mother E.U. Shea.
Dates:
ca. 1910-1920
Anne Findley Shores collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3743
Overview
Papers, photographs, family Bible, and books of this Tuscaloosa family
Dates:
1885-1978
Mary Lucinda Smith Commonplace Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4146
Overview
Commonplace and copybook of this Birmingham, Alabama, young woman.
Dates:
after 1860
Snow Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-026
Overview
Three photo albums created by the Snow family from Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1865 - 1920
Sue Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1323
Overview
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence from Sue Spencer to her family and friends during the time she spent with her husband and three sons living in Africa, an experience from which she published African Creeks I Have Been Up. Both the manuscript and galley proofs are included in this collection, as well as notes and observations for Mrs. Spencer's other publications, and newspaper clippings and other items related to Mrs. Spencer's life as an...
Dates:
1956 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1964
William Angelo Steele letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1347
Abstract
A letter dated 26 December 1853, to his father, discussing the weather and requesting money for tuition and board at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1853 December 26
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
David Crockett Stuart memoir
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1364
Abstract
A copy of Stuart's 1913 memoir, which discusses his early life, Civil War service in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry Regiment, and his move to Utah in 1872.
Dates:
1913
Letter from Sue to Sallie
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1369
Abstract
A letter by an unknown author, to her sister Sallie, discussing war news, known wounded, and attitudes towards the war.
Dates:
circa 1863
Milton Swift letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1375
Overview
Two letters written from Swift to his sister Lucinda Baker, discussing living and working in Tuscumbia, Alabama, as well as health issues of his family and friends.
Dates:
1827,1834
Louise Swilley letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1376
Abstract
A 1927 letter from "Miss Ellen" in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to her aunt, Louise Swilley in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1927
Roy and Sara Swindell Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2926
Overview
Letters from Roy Swindell and Sara Swindell to their family, who lived in Chattanooga, and later Nashville, Tennessee. The letters discuss missing home, traveling for work, and Bible verses. One letter is from Sara to their son James, an officer in the armed services during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1935
Thomas H. Herndon Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0667
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Thomas K. Jackson journals
Collection
Identifier: W-0021
Overview
Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.
Dates:
1866-1873
Thornhill: the story of a house: typescript, after 1900
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.12
Scope and Contents
The unnamed author of this manuscript recounts over one hundred years of her family's history in this central Alabama home. She tells of family favorites and jealousies, fortunes and poverty, and through it all, their ties to the house.
Dates:
after 1900
Tillery Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-024
Abstract
One hundred and seven photographs and two albums with one hundred and three photographs of the Tillery family.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
G. A. Tompkins letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1414
Abstract
A letter from Tompkins to his brother, Charles Tompkins, Jr. in King William County, Virginia, discussing family news, personal health, and cotton farming.
Dates:
1842 November 20
Mary Torrey papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1415
Overview
Two letters to Mary Torrey about her upcoming marriage
Dates:
1893
Louisa Anna Toulmin letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1417
Abstract
A letter dated 5 August 1842, from Toulminville, Mobile County, Alabama, to Mrs. Samuel Ward, Newport, Rhode Island. In it Toulmin thanks Ward for the time spent together on her trip north the previous year, and inquires about various people.
Dates:
1842 August 5
Russell F. Trask letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1993
Abstract
Letters written mainly to Russell F. Trask, E.M. 1/c aboard the U.S.S. Apollo (A.S. 25) by his wife, LeElda “Lee” Trask of Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Some of the letters are written to Trask by his mother and other family member. Twenty-eight of the letters are written to Lee by Trask.
Dates:
1945