Education
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85040989
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes Ellen Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0635
Overview
Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.
Dates:
1919 - 1945
Alpha Epsilon Delta records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Overview
The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Dates:
1926-1951
American Association of University Professors, University of Alabama Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0072
Overview
A collection of meeting minutes, committee reports, correspondence, membership information, constitutions, and other material.
Dates:
1949-1975; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960
Frederick A. P. Barnard letter and speech
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0113
Abstract
An address to the "Gentlemen of the Erosophic Society" in 1848 at The University of Alabama and a letter to Barnard from his brother, John G. Barnard, regarding a pass for travel in 1862.
Dates:
1848, 1862
Junius K. Battle commencement address text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0124
Abstract
Commencement address titled "Footprints of the Creator," delivered on July 15, 1858, at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1858 July 15
Benjamin Franklin Meek lecture notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0974
Abstract
A volume of lectures, notes, and examinations by this University of Alabama professor of English literature.
Dates:
1872-1873
Beta Phi Mu, Beta Kappa Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0147
Abstract
Correspondence, bank records, scrapbooks, meeting agendas, and minutes, of the University of Alabama chapter of the National Library and Information Studies honorary.
Dates:
1975-1990
Dr. Bonner letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0185
Abstract
Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.
Dates:
1958
Glenda Brewer research paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Overview
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Dates:
1975
Wilburt Scott Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0221
Overview
Copies of this University of Alabama graduate and faculty member’s dissertation with other manuscripts and documents
Dates:
1960-1992
Charles Mitchell Burford letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0231
Overview
Letter written by Burford, dated 20 October 1847, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to his brother in Summerfield [Alabama?]
Dates:
1847 October 20
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael collection
Collection — Box 2356
Identifier: MSS-0279
Overview
A miscellany of material relating to this University of Alabama president, including a newspaper clipping, a Carmichael writing entitled "The Function of Instinct in Education," and a scrapbook.
Dates:
unknown
B. F. Cochran papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0325
Abstract
The texts of three of Cochran's speeches and a critical essay on the significance of Athens, Greece on later republics.
Dates:
1841
William Allen Cochrane diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0327
Abstract
A handwritten copy of Cochrane's University of Alabama diploma.
Dates:
1840
John Coglin absence report
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0343
Overview
University of Alabama report, dated 24 December 1831, stating the absences of John Colgin for the month of December.
Dates:
1831 December 24
Jefferson Jackson Coleman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0337
Abstract
Souvenirs from various events, as well as awards and honors bestowed upon Coleman, who served The University in many capacities for almost 50 years.
Dates:
1961-1974
Wade Hampton Coleman, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0339
Abstract
Various documents, including speeches, correspondence, reports, faculty newsletters, alumni magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings of this Alabama native and University of Alabama professor of Romance Languages
Dates:
1924-1968; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960
Daphne Cunningham Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0385
Abstract
Diaries whose short entries provide information on the daily activities of this coed from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
John Charles Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0411
Abstract
Letters and unpublished speeches; photocopies of letters written by Joseph Lakanal, 1762-1845.
Dates:
circa 1930
William Graham Echols papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0471
Overview
Contains articles written about and by this Methodist minister and professor of religion at the University of Alabama
Dates:
after 1892
Albert John Farrah manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0505
Overview
Typescript manuscripts of two textbooks (two copies of each) created by Albert John Farrah, Dean of the University of Alabama Law School from 1912 until shortly before his death in June of 1944.
Dates:
1934
Margaret Faulk collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0507
Overview
Letters and other materials regarding this University of Alabama librarian; most of the collection relates to her illness and death.
Dates:
1932-1942
William Baker Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers University of Alabama materials
Collection — Box 2339
Identifier: MSS-0523
Overview
Items relating to Walter Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers as students at the University of Alabama, including commencement programs, SGA and WSGA ribbons, Triangle ribbon, library card, and invitation to a dance
Dates:
1943-1946
Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Overview
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.
Dates:
1959-1984
Richard Clarke Foster scrapbooks and papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0537
Overview
Scrapbook and folder containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming president of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1941
Guild of Professional Writers for Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0601
Overview
Materials related to the organization's activities, including its statement of purpose, membership applications and rolls, correspondence, newspaper clippings, works of members, announcements, calendars, newsletters, minutes, and financial records.
Dates:
1977-1999; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1994
Virginia Hansen scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0622
Overview
Scrapbook kept during the 13th annual session of summer school for teachers at the University of Alabama, June 8-July 19, 1916, that includes photographs, autographs, anecdotes, notes of social events, a newsletter, and postcards of University of Alabama scenes.
Dates:
1916-1917
Marvin P. Harper papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0632
Abstract
A variety of documents covering: slave ownership documents concerning crimes and deaths; Farrah Law Society plaque; UA football picture from 1920s; Church programs; Stamps; Daughters of the Confederacy minutes. McCall diploma, 1879; and Kennedy family papers.
Dates:
1875-1930
Bessie Leach Hayden paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0651
Overview
Paper entitled "Then Came the Women: The University in the Nineties," written by Bessie Leach Hayden, Dean of Women, about the first sixty years of coeducation at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1953
Hill Ferguson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0511
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, and reports about The University of Alabama collected by this alumnus and trustee of the institution.
Dates:
1892-1964
Hillel Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0672
Overview
Records, mostly correspondence of Rabbi Henry A. Fischel (1948-1956), relating to the activities of the Hillel Foundation and its role in student life at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1956
University of Alabama, Frank M. Moody Music Building articles
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3702
Overview
Articles covering the construction and dedication of the Frank M. Moody Music Building on the University of Alabama campus in 1987 and 1988.
Dates:
1987-1988
Viscountess Astor letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0092
Abstract
A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.
Dates:
1952 November 5