Southern Life and Culture

Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama

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.

A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.

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.

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.

Contract making Kate Beatty, a resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a member of the Birmingham Bridal Gift Association.

Includes the papers of the King family of Perry County, Alabama, who owned plantations and other businesses.

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.

Letter asking for support of a petition to have October 26, 1985, declared "Mule Appreciation Day U.S.A."

Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.

A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.

Scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's organization documenting their monthly meetings and events, from 1983 through 2008.

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.

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.

This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.

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.

Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."

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.

A collection of personal correspondence and essays on various Southern topics by this Marengo County attorney and politician.

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.

Photocopied handouts from conference

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.

Typewritten accounts of artists and their works in Southern States Art League exhibitions, 1938-1940.

Records of daily sales in a general store in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama, 1837.

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.

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.

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.

Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings about this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family.

This collection consists of seven black and white photographs depicting unidentified people outside of City Hall building in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

This collection consists of two black and white photographs depicting auto garage in Kentucky.

This collections consists of two black and white photographs depicting Sue Farley McQuiston and unidentified man in a baseball uniform.

This collection consists of sixteen black and white photographs depicting various scenes from Jacksonville, Florida.

This collection consist of ninety-six photographs people and places from Kentucky and Louisiana.

This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.

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.

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.

This collections consists of seventy-three black and white photographs depicting unidentified family and scenes from Kentucky and Indiana.

This collection consists of three photographs depicting unidentified people from Kentucky.

This collection consists of nineteen black and white photographs depicting unidentified people from Paducah, Kentucky and San Antonio, Texas.

This collection consists of thirty-five black and white photographs depicting scenes from Louisville, Kentucky.

Four photographs of people and places in Tennessee.

This collection consists of seven photographs depicting some identified and some unidentified people in Clearwater, Florida.

This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.

This collection consists of seven photographs depicting scenes from Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky.

This collection consists of nineteen photographs depicting scenes from Estero Island, Florida.

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.

Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.

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