Popular culture

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Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.

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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.

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...

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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)

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Cash books of this 19th century Eufaula, Alabama, doctor.

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A collection of manuscripts and publications from Alabama sci-fi/horror writer Mary Elizabeth Counselman

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Handwritten script outlining an 1847 initiation ceremony conducted by Mobile, Alabama's earliest mystic society, the Cowbellian de Rakin Society.

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Newspapers, magazines, and other miscellaneous materials dating from about 1915 through 1954

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Bumper stickers proclaiming I [heart icon] Tuscaloosa

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Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.

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Booklet about the Molton Apartments in Birmingham, Alabama, built in 1913, describing the apartments and their conveniences.

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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.

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;...

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Minutes and correspondence of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club.

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Records, scrapbooks, and photographs of The Other Club, a debate society on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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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.

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A collection of club records, constitution and by-laws, member lists, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials of this Tuscaloosa arts organization.

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Collection of posters, placards, and other materials of the University of Alabama Glee Club

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Program for a variety show directed by Alexander Maissel and presented at Ft. Custer, Michigan, on 20 July 1943.

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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.

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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.

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This collection consists of nine black and white photographs depicting scenes of a traveling entertainers.

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This collection consists of four black and white photographs depicting barbeque stand in Binghamton, New York.

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This collection consists of four photographs depicting scenes from Leo A. Seltzer's Walkathon, taken place in Louisville, Kentucky, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Papers of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, resident including a collection of materials about covered bridges.