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Government, Law and Politics

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 179 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Jane Neilson Law Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4036
Abstract

Notebook of law cases

Dates: 1859

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

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...
Dates: 1796 - 1898

Peter Brannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Abstract

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

Presidential political campaign ephemera, 2012

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3703
Abstract

Bumper stickers and pins from the Obama/Biden and Romney/Ryan presidential campaigns for 2012.

Dates: 2012

Rafael Carrera Announcements Broadsides

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4331
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two broadsides distributed by Guatemalan President José Rafael Carrera y Turcios in 1857 that announce battle results against William Walker in Nicaragua. One broadside announces the surrender of William Walker and one broadside welcomes home troops from the battlefront. Both broadsides are written in Spanish.

Dates: 1857

Rare vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: PM-013
Abstract

Contains a variety of rare, published materials. Most notable are the almanacs, biographies, guidebooks, art catalogs, and works of literature.

Dates: circa 1750-2000

Republican Party Letters of Recommendation

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3895
Abstract

Two unsigned letters providing reasons why L. J. Bryan and Attorney Reese should not be given federal appointments

Dates: circa 1905

Robert H. Smith legal notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Abstract

Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.

Dates: circa 1870

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

Charles H. Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3060
Abstract

Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.

Dates: 1889-1906

Septimus D. Cabaniss papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract

Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.

Dates: 1820-1937

James H. Shaw Correspondence with George Wallace

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4071
Abstract

Letter to and one from former governor George C. Wallace

Dates: 1991-1998

John Gill Shorter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1267
Abstract

Copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials, including approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.

Dates: 1861-1872

James Q. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1290
Abstract

Contains a certificate from the Marion Military Institute, 1898, letters of correspondence 1892 -1939, financial receipts, newspaper clippings, telegrams 1918, legal documents from his election time period as Attorney General of Alabama 1918-1930, personal papers, notes and remarks as his time as judge 1930-1940's.

Dates: unknown

Southern Poverty Law Center scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3596
Abstract

Newsletters, magazines, and newspapers related to civil rights, the KKK, and the Neo-Confederate movement.

Dates: circa 1980s

Donald W. Stewart papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1349
Abstract

Contains the papers of state congressman.

Dates: circa 1975 - 1990

Letters from U.S. Senators regarding the "Telepost Bill" of 1910

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3730
Abstract

Letters from three U.S. Senators from Alabama to constituents in 1910 regarding the "Telepost Bill" before the 61st Congress.

Dates: 1910

Daniel Thomas papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1398
Abstract

Contains the records of Judge Daniel Thomas, including the Birdie Davis vs. School Board, Mobile, Alabama records, which was one of his most important civil rights cases based on desegregation, as well as other case records, certificates, and other notes.

Dates: 1940-1960

Thomas H. Herndon Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0667
Abstract

This collection contains letters of correspondence.

Dates: 1850 - 1879

To the People of Alabama: anti-secession document signed by Robert Jemison Jr. and thirty-two other members of Alabama's 1861 secession convention

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3788
Abstract

Document to the people of Alabama from thirty-three men at the 1861 secession convention explaining why they did not sign the Ordinance of Secession

Dates: 1861

Tuscaloosa News Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-012
Abstract

This collection consists of nine photographs depicting the Alabama football game, basketball game, Jerry Rubin speaking at the Foster Auditorium, Governor's Day, and a concert on the Quad.

Dates: 1964 - 1979

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents

 Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Abstract

Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.

Dates: 1848-1941

United States President, Cabinet, and House of Representatives, 34th Congress, Autograph Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0356
Abstract

Book containing the autographs of President Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) and his Cabinet, as well as those of virtually all members of the United States House of Representatives during the 34th Congress (3 December 1855 - 4 March 1857). The book also has the autograph of Confederate General Edmund W. Pettus, written in 1903 while he was a U.S. Senator.

Dates: 1855-1903

W. J. A. Russell Presidential Pardon collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0236
Abstract

Presidential pardon dated 18 September 1865

Dates: 1865-09-18

Judge Horace C. Wilkerson Speech

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2648
Abstract

Copy of typed script of speech given by Judge Horace C. Wilkerson to the Optimist Club (sponsored by Mobile Real Estate Association) on September 17, 1953.

Dates: 1953

William Crawford Gorgas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Dates: 1869-1920