Popular culture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85104904
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Jackson Riddle papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0162
Overview
Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.
Dates:
1864 - 1956
Billy Lightelle Vaudeville Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3870
Overview
The collection contains one scrapbook with items collected by Lightelle, vaudeville performer, and contains receipts for payments for performances; employment contracts; photographs; programs; song lyrics and scripts; plot ideas and storylines; and two pieces of handwritten sheet music.
Dates:
1912 - 1928
Biography of Harry A. Frankel by Helene Davis Frankel, circa 1948, 1990
File — Box 4265.001: [1006233187], Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
This file contains a photocopy of a biography of performer Harry A. Frankel written by his wife, "Smiles" Frankel (Helene Davis Frankel). According to her biography, Frankel himself was known as "Singin' Sam," thanks to a lengthy career in vaudeville, usually in blackface, and later as a radio pitchman for the Great States Lawn Mower Company, Barbasol, and Coca Cola, on station WLW. The cover page indicates that "Mary Ellen" wrote about Harry Frankel in her newspaper column. Another note on the...
Dates:
circa 1948, 1990
Branscomb Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4017
Overview
Letters, land grants, diplomas, certificates, scrapbook, daguerreotype, and other miscellaneous documents, as well as quilts and other textiles (including a wedding dress from the early 20th century)
Dates:
after 1865
William Preston Copeland cash books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3707
Overview
Cash books of this 19th century Eufaula, Alabama, doctor.
Dates:
1877-1900
Mary Elizabeth Counselman collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0361
Abstract
A collection of manuscripts and publications from Alabama sci-fi/horror writer Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Dates:
1940 - 1980
Cowbellion de Rakin Society initiation ceremony script
Collection
Identifier: W-0035
Overview
Handwritten script outlining an 1847 initiation ceremony conducted by Mobile, Alabama's earliest mystic society, the Cowbellian de Rakin Society.
Dates:
1847
Early 20th century newspapers, magazines, and miscellaneous material
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3723
Overview
Newspapers, magazines, and other miscellaneous materials dating from about 1915 through 1954
Dates:
1915-1954
"I Love Tuscaloosa" bumper stickers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3721
Overview
Bumper stickers proclaiming
I [heart icon] Tuscaloosa
Dates:
after 1977
George B. Inge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0728
Overview
Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.
Dates:
1862 - 1975
The Molton Apartments, Birmingham, Alabama, Year 1913
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3717
Overview
Booklet about the Molton Apartments in Birmingham, Alabama, built in 1913, describing the apartments and their conveniences.
Dates:
1913
Edward C. Moore Madrid Notebooks of Da Vinci essay
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0476
Overview
Essay (probably never published) written in 1989 by Dr. Edward C. Moore titled "The Madrid Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci". The article explains what Moore, as Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, had witnessed and experienced when a colleague found two of the "lost notebooks" of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Spanish National Library.
Dates:
1967-1989
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
Northport Study Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3738
Overview
Minutes and correspondence of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club.
Dates:
1978-1990
The Other Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3720
Overview
Records, scrapbooks, and photographs of The Other Club, a debate society on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
1992-2010
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
Tuscaloosa Music Study Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1438
Overview
A collection of club records, constitution and by-laws, member lists, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials of this Tuscaloosa arts organization.
Dates:
1904-2007
University of Alabama Glee Club Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3645
Overview
Collection of posters, placards, and other materials of the University of Alabama Glee Club
Dates:
1906-1936
"Victory Varieties" concert program
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1756
Abstract
Program for a variety show directed by Alexander Maissel and presented at Ft. Custer, Michigan, on 20 July 1943.
Dates:
1943 July 20
Wade Hall Collection on Arts and Culture
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4265
Overview
The Wade Hall Collection on Arts and Culture contains poems, correspondence, music, memorabilia, and other materials related to arts and leisure activities in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dates:
circa 1800s-2005
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-006
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four black and white photographs depicting barbeque stand in Binghamton, New York.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-013
Abstract
This collection consists of ten black and white photographs depicting unidentified people and places as well as scenes of Daytona Speedway, Peace Bridge at the United State and Canada border, and scenes from Wyoming.
Dates:
1920 - 1940
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.017: [1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-072
Abstract
This collection consists of four photographs depicting scenes from Leo A. Seltzer's Walkathon, taken place in Louisville, Kentucky, and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dates:
1930
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-004
Abstract
This collection consists of nine black and white photographs depicting scenes of a traveling entertainers.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Sarah Louise Walls papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1521
Overview
Papers of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, resident including a collection of materials about covered bridges.
Dates:
1935-1973