Daily Life and Family

A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.

Family letters written by Juliet Bestor Coleman, her daughter, Alice Coleman Meriwether, and her son-in-law, John Samuel Meriwether, between 1833 and 1864. The bulk of the correspondence is between Alice and her husband, John, while he was serving in the 38th and 40th Alabama Infantry Regiments during the Civil War.

Letters to Jennie Miller (Mrs. Earl Adams) of Shelby, Ohio, and Angola, Indiana, from friends and family

Miscellaneous genealogies of various Alabama families

Poster with family Christmas cards and a scrapbook about Frank M. Moody

Three postcards dealing with daily life and family and one letter appears to be a scam-type chain letter

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.

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.

Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman

A letter to Joshua P. Eyre from his friend, Fred M. Owen in Chester, Pennsylvania.

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.

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

Small rectangular photo album containing photographs of prominent African American family probably from around Washington, District of Columbia area.

Images of canoeing on the Black Warrior river, camping, practicing shooting, and surveying.

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.

Images of Smith's family, steamboats, and surveying.

Images of Smith family, steamboats, and surveying.

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.

This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.

Prices of domestic produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865

Materials from three generations of the Reade family

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.

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.

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.

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.

This collection consists of Savage family photographs documenting their travels and everyday life.

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.

Letter to his wife discussing his daily activities

Handwritten letters from Private Lawrence Shea to his mother E.U. Shea.

Papers, photographs, family Bible, and books of this Tuscaloosa family

Commonplace and copybook of this Birmingham, Alabama, young woman.

Three photo albums created by the Snow family from Tuscaloosa.

A letter dated 26 December 1853, to his father, discussing the weather and requesting money for tuition and board at the University of Alabama.

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.

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.

A letter by an unknown author, to her sister Sallie, discussing war news, known wounded, and attitudes towards the war.

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.

A 1927 letter from "Miss Ellen" in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to her aunt, Louise Swilley in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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.

This collection contains letters of correspondence.

Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.

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.

One hundred and seven photographs and two albums with one hundred and three photographs of the Tillery family.

A letter from Tompkins to his brother, Charles Tompkins, Jr. in King William County, Virginia, discussing family news, personal health, and cotton farming.

Two letters to Mary Torrey about her upcoming marriage