Southern Life and Culture
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
James Austin Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview
A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates:
1898-1941
John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0326
Abstract
Three bound volumes of this Alabama attorney and politician and his wife: John Cochran's diary; Mary Wellborn Cochran's journal; and a miscellany of copies of some of John Cochran's outgoing correspondence, journal entries of his, and copies of some freedman contracts to which he was party. Also includes two unidentified photographs that appear to be from the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1839-1915
Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.
Dates:
1820-1920
Kate Beatty Birmingham Bridal Gift Association membership certificate
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0126
Abstract
Contract making Kate Beatty, a resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a member of the Birmingham Bridal Gift Association.
Dates:
1882
King family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0817
Overview
Includes the papers of the King family of Perry County, Alabama, who owned plantations and other businesses.
Dates:
1803-1894
Lynchburg Mule Traders Association Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3884
Overview
Letter asking for support of a petition to have October 26, 1985, declared "Mule Appreciation Day U.S.A."
Dates:
1985
Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract
Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
Dates:
Circa 1848-1865
Mary Yost Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-011
Scope and Contents
This collection is of one photographic album of 70 pages with 270 black and white photographs assembled by Mary Yost of a group of friends and spouses who were motorcycle enthusiasts and their travels through the American southeast. Captured are images of an unofficial motorcycle club and their trips, travels, daily life in Virginia and surrounding states, and images of military men at American bases during World War II. Photographs measure between 2¾”x 2½” and 3½” x 5” and most are captioned.
Dates:
1940 - 1942
McCorvey and Tutwiler families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0947
Overview
A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.
Dates:
1830 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Modern Culture Club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3654
Overview
Scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's organization documenting their monthly meetings and events, from 1983 through 2008.
Dates:
1936-2008
Nehemiah Denton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1602
Abstract
Correspondence and other business materials of this Brooklyn, New York, resident with business interests in Mobile, Alabama. Aside from extensive business correspondence, it includes detailed descriptions of Mobile's antebellum social life, and accounts of yellow fever epidemics and fires.
Dates:
1831-1844
Pickett and Williams Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2576
Overview
Contains information about the Pickett and Williams families as well as the 15th Alabama Infantry Division; also includes a membership application for the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1980-2008
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833-1905
Dan Price letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3713
Overview
Letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1868.
Dates:
1868 December 21
Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract
The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
Southeastern Regional Association of Family Economics - Home Management papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2391
Overview
Photocopied handouts from conference
Dates:
unknown
Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Overview
Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1897
Spencer J. McMorris daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0967
Abstract
Records of daily sales in a general store in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama, 1837.
Dates:
1837
Thornhill (Talladega, Ala.) article and photographs, 1932 March 12
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W 0129.13
Scope and Contents
This short article gives a brief overview of the ownership and residents of this Talladega, Alabama, historic home. There are also two black and white photographs of the house.
Dates:
1932 March 12
Tom S. Birdsong paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0159
Abstract
A paper by Birdsong entitled "The Destruction of the University of the State of Alabama," prepared for presentation to the Alabama Historical Association in 1975.
Dates:
1975
University of Alabama Corps of Cadets collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0029
Overview
A miscellany of material relating to the University of Alabama Corps of cadets, 1873-1905, including invitations to the 1873 junior exhibition and Corps of Cadets hops (dances) in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and the program for a 1905 reunion of the Corps of Cadets Company E, winner of a 1885 drill competition at the New Orleans Exposition.
Dates:
1873-1905
Verner family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3741
Overview
Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings about this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1888-1968
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.016: [1006241513]
Identifier: 2009-069
Abstract
Four photographs of people and places in Tennessee.
Dates:
1880
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.017: [1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-079
Abstract
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting some identified and some unidentified people in Clearwater, Florida.
Dates:
1950-02-09
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.019: [1006241516]
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract
This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.
Dates:
1909 - 1910
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.010: [1006241507]
Identifier: 2009-038
Abstract
This collection consists of three photographs depicting unidentified people from Kentucky.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.010: [1006241507]
Identifier: 2009-040
Abstract
This collection consists of nineteen black and white photographs depicting unidentified people from Paducah, Kentucky and San Antonio, Texas.
Dates:
1910 - 1930
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.019: [1006241516]
Identifier: 2009-087
Abstract
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting scenes from Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1925-08
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.011: [1006241508]
Identifier: 2009-046
Abstract
This collection consists of thirty-five black and white photographs depicting scenes from Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates:
1913 - 1915
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.035: [1006241532]
Identifier: 2009-176
Overview
This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.
Dates:
1896
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-114
Overview
This collection consists of nineteen photographs depicting scenes from Estero Island, Florida.
Dates:
1913-02-09
Whitfield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1628
Overview
Papers of this Marengo County, Alabama, plantation family including correspondence, financial papers and business receipts, land sale documents, and Nathan Bryan Whitfield's presidential pardon.
Dates:
1820-1920
Peyton Norvell Wiggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3706
Overview
Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.
Dates:
1942-1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1956
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
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
A. S. Williams III Collection of Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: WP-003
Overview
Collection contains sixty-one photographic albums of various subjects collected by A. S. Williams III
Dates:
1840 - 2010
Bedford H. Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3683
Overview
Legal documents, financial records, correspondence, and other personal papers of this Tuscaloosa County probate judge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1830-1945
Woodward Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Overview
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.
Dates:
1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950
Samuel Gholson Woolf papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1578
Abstract
A collection of personal correspondence and essays on various Southern topics by this Marengo County attorney and politician.
Dates:
1930-1931
Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.
Dates:
1798-1990
Wynn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1590
Abstract
An extensive collection of correspondence, diaries and legal and financial papers relating to John Henry Irby Wynn (1787-1854), teacher and farmer in Limestone County, Alabama, and his son Alexander Montgomery (1823-1897), daughter-in-law Martha (Curtis) Wynn (1826-1907), and grandson John Robert Wynn (ca. 1860-1896). The diaries include accounts of Alexander Wynn's trip to Arkansas in the 1850s.
Dates:
1845-1913
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
Young-White Mercantile Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1600
Abstract
Records of this Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama, general store which operated 1905 to 1933.
Dates:
1905-1933