Southern Life and Culture
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:
J. O. Campbell diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0139
Overview
Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama
Dates:
1895-01 - 1895-05
J. R. Odom store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Overview
Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.
Dates:
1920-1937
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
L. O. Dawson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2563
Overview
Contains incoming correspondence to L.O. Dawson, a Baptist minister in west Alabama and east Mississippi at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, including letters from family members and friends as well as correspondence with members of the various religious organizations with which Dawson was affiliated.
Dates:
1893 - 1904
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
Poellnitz and Meador Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2013-011
Abstract
This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.
Dates:
1859 - 1925
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
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
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
Sallie Hill paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0032
Abstract
A typescript copy of an address delivered by Sallie Hill at the April 20, 1960, meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. The address, "Alabama Food Ways," describes traditional southern food and food history.
Dates:
1960
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
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
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
Southern States Art League Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1318
Overview
Typewritten accounts of artists and their works in Southern States Art League exhibitions, 1938-1940.
Dates:
unknown
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: W0129.13
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 2009001.017: [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
Identifier: 2009-114
Overview
This collection consists of nineteen photographs depicting scenes from Estero Island, Florida.
Dates:
1913-02-09
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-017
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of seven black and white photographs depicting unidentified people outside of City Hall building in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Dates:
1917
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two black and white photographs depicting auto garage in Kentucky.
Dates:
1915
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-019
Scope and Contents
This collections consists of two black and white photographs depicting Sue Farley McQuiston and unidentified man in a baseball uniform.
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-025
Abstract
This collection consists of sixteen black and white photographs depicting various scenes from Jacksonville, Florida.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.005: [1006241502]
Identifier: 2009-027
Abstract
This collection consist of ninety-six photographs people and places from Kentucky and Louisiana.
Dates:
1910 - 1936
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-001
Abstract
This collection consists of six black and white photographs depicting family members from Erie, Kentucky. Only a few family members are identified: Patria Beard and Eudora and Monsy Jepson.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.001: [1006241534]
Identifier: 2009-002
Abstract
This collection consists of eighty-one black and white photographs depicting scenes from Seneca, Westminster, and Charleston, South Carolina. This collection also depicts members of an unidentified family, possibly from South Carolina.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.001: [1006241534]
Identifier: 2009-005
Abstract
This collections consists of seventy-three black and white photographs depicting unidentified family and scenes from Kentucky and Indiana.
Dates:
1915 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950
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 2009001.011: [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 2009001.016: [1006241513]
Identifier: 2009-069
Abstract
Four photographs of people and places in Tennessee.
Dates:
1880
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 2009001.019: [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 2009001.035: [1006241532]
Identifier: 2009-176
Overview
This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.
Dates:
1896
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