Education
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85040989
Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:
Jerusha Hemphill DIploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0660
Overview
A diploma for having completed the course of study at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
1865
Joshua Hill Foster Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0535
Overview
Papers of a University of Alabama graduate, Baptist minister, planter, teacher (University of Alabama, 1873-1892) and president of Alabama Central Female College, 1869-1873.
Dates:
1839 - 1904
Francis William Kellogg Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2027
Abstract
One letter written by Francis William Kellogg to the secretary of the United States Navy recommending Malcolm Maurice Moore to the Naval School at Annapolis.
Dates:
1861 April 29
John Percy Kennedy family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2326
Scope and Contents
This collection contains newspapers from 1875 to 1936, educational material, correspondence, photographs of the family, and miscellaneous materials. There are two "Jenness Miller Monthly" which was a magazine that promoted correct dress for women.
Dates:
1837-1920
Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute
Collection
Identifier: 2020-007
Overview
One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.
Dates:
1921 - 1924
Letter from Emily to Mrs. Charles Beach, 1858-05-02
File — Box 4257.004: [1006214229], Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
Letter from Emily, a music teacher in Austinburg, Ohio, to her cousin Mrs. Charles Beach of East Ottowa, New York, talking about her students and an upcoming musical convention. She also gives a humorous account of the poor food being served in the boarding house where she lives.
Dates:
1858-05-02
Letter from Grace B. to Laura Thomas, 1885-04-16
File — Box 4257.006: [1006214231], Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Letter from Grace, a student in Canfield, Ohio, to Laura Thomas of Columbiana, Ohio, discussing her classmates and potential teaching opportunites, as well as news about mutual friends.
Dates:
1885-04-16
Lena E. Lockhart papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0871
Overview
Autobiographical sketch, inspirational materials, the papers "Woman's Part in Making Alabama History - the Past" presented to the Thomaston, Marengo County, Alabama Study Club, which focuses on female educators, and "History of The Thomaston Parent-Teacher Association", as well as a history of Thomaston, Alabama, by Alma Jean Compton, and materials relating to teaching.
Dates:
1951-1963
Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0033
Overview
Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.
Dates:
1924
Membership
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains official AAUW charters and bylaws, as well as policy information of AAUW branch organizations.
Dates:
1928-2002
Monroe Estes arithmetic book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0493
Overview
Handmade, handwritten booklet of arithmetic problems and answers, including problems in simple and compound subtraction, measurements, vulgar fractions, barter, foreign exchange, and simple and compound interest.
Dates:
1856-1857
Monroe F. Cockrell research notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract
Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.
Dates:
1949-1956
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
Staci Niemeyer paper "Folk Dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education"
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0525
Overview
Essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 by progressive educator Marietta Johnson in Fairhope, Alabama.
Dates:
1990 April 1
Orange Town Common School Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3910
Overview
Notebook documenting the financial and statistical makeup of the Common Schools in he Town of Orange, Rockland County, New York
Dates:
1821-1828
P. C. Rogers Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0050
Abstract
This collection contains a photocopy of the text of a speech titled "Growing Old Gracefully," delivered by P.C. Rogers to the Alabama Retired Teachers Association, Summer Conference, June 24, 1959.
Dates:
1959-06-24
Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society charter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2410
Overview
Charter of the University of Alabama chapter of the freshman honor society
Dates:
1930 January 6
Photographs by Sandoz Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2008-015
Overview
Photographs were taken by Sandoz Photographer.
Dates:
1905
Carolyn Elizabeth Shepherd Price papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1632
Overview
Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes, instructions and essays Carolyn Shepherd Price collected and used as teaching materials in her home economics class. They include a broad range of topics including child development, clothing, health and home management and decoration.
Dates:
1921-1984
Publications
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains collection materials published by the AAUW or by branches thereof; publications include items like books, newsletters and bulletins, as well as directories, yearbooks and promotional materials.
Dates:
1928-2002
Radical South Zine Collection
Collection
Identifier: PM-005
Overview
Zines created by southern young women, on a variety of personal and political topics, including art, drugs, education, gender and sexuality, mental health, music, people and society, popular culture, race and ethnicity, religion and spirituality, and sex. There are approximately 150 titles from the 1990s-2000s.
Dates:
1990s - 2000s
Rare vertical file
Collection
Identifier: PM-013
Overview
Contains a variety of rare, published materials. Most notable are the almanacs, biographies, guidebooks, art catalogs, and works of literature.
Dates:
circa 1750-2000
Reports and Executive Information
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains information executive roles within the organization, leadership and planning materials and annual reports.
Dates:
1928-2002
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hudson Letters, 1900-1906
File — Box 4257.003: [1006214228], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
One letter to Reverend Hudson of Peabody, Massachusetts, from John M. Nichols of Portland, Maine, saying he (Nichols) had been appointed the principle of Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine, and including newspaper clippings describing the appointment. The second letter is from S. F. Kittredge to Mrs. Hudson to tell her about her trip by train to Oregon and to discuss church business.
Dates:
1900-1906
Richard Furman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Overview
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826-1865
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
Scrapbooks, Photographs
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains scrapbooks and scrapbook materials such as news clippings and photographs.
Dates:
1928-2002
Sidney Lanier High School Oracle Newspaper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1723
Abstract
A copy of vol. 1, no 5 (December 17, 1925) of the Oracle News, a newspaper published by the students of Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1925-12-17
Mollie Sink Alabama Female Institute diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2400
Overview
Alabama Female Institute diploma of Mollie Sink
Dates:
1861 June 26
Mary Rebecca Strudwick memory book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3633
Overview
Memory book from Demopolis (Ala.) High School 1909 graduate
Dates:
1909
Eldred Burder Teague papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1390
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of the religious compositions of an 1840 graduate of the University of Alabama who became a prominent Baptist minister.
Dates:
1844-1883
Marten ten Hoor papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1391
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, texts of speeches and addresses, reports, class notes for lectures and seminars, papers relating to philosophy and other subjects, and materials pertaining to conferences of the various professional organizations to which Professor ten Hoor belonged.
Dates:
1913-1974
Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract
The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.
Dates:
1840-1862
Tuskaloosa Female College commencement programme, 1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3726
Overview
Program for the 1890 Tuskaloosa Female College commencement exercises.
Dates:
1890 June 10
Tuscaloosa Study Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1442
Overview
Yearbooks, secretary's notes, news clippings, minutes, invitations, and photographs of this Tuscaloosa women's group.
Dates:
1922 - 2002
Henry Tutwiler Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2044
Abstract
A letter from Tutwiler recommending a student for a teaching position at an unidentified school in Cahaba, Alabama
Dates:
1834 June 17
United States Civil Works Administration records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1480
Overview
Contains the surveys of business records in Alabama from 1931-1936.
Dates:
1931-1936
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
Wade Hall Photographs; Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.030: [1006241527]
Identifier: 2009-140
Overview
This collections consists of five photographs depicting children in their classroom and their teacher.
Dates:
1900 - 1901
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.034: [1006241531]
Identifier: 2009-156
Abstract
This collection consists of nine photographs depicting school boys in front of a building.
Dates:
1950
William H. Ely letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Overview
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.
Dates:
1820 - 1821
William H. Malott Certificates, undated
File — Box 4257.027: [1006213001], Folder: 57
Scope and Contents
Two certificates given to William Malott by his instructor J. C. Johnson for "Good Behavior and Correct Recitation" and "Diligence and Good Behavior".
Dates:
undated
William Stanley Hoole Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0699
Overview
Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings, research materials, manuscripts of published monographs, and other materials written or collected by this historian and dean of the University of Alabama Libraries.
Dates:
1920 - 1989
William S. Wright letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2210
Abstract
A letter from William S. Wright of Pittsford, Vermont, to Emerson R. Wright in Greenville, Alabama. The letter discusses education, family matters, and the evils of slavery.
Dates:
1840 February 24
Wynne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3918
Overview
Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.
Dates:
1804-2009