Technology and Industry
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0033
Overview
The business records of a firm with extensive mine holdings in Alabama, including minutes of stockholders meetings, 1917-1953, minutes of the board of directors, 1927-1953, and miscellaneous material.
Dates:
1917 - 1953
Alabama Manufacturing Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0041
Overview
Includes membership information, correspondence to members, newsletters, data on industrial growth, and civic booster brochures from various Alabama cities.
Dates:
1953 - 1979
Alabama Online Users Group bylaws and newsletters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3733
Overview
Bylaws and newsletters of this statewide technology driven support group of the 1980s.
Dates:
1983-1987
Bell Factory letterbook and cloth samples
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0131
Abstract
Corporate letterbook, 1882-1906, and cloth samples of "Bell checks" and "Bell stripes" manufactured by the Bell Factory, Huntsville, Alabama, after the Civil War.
Dates:
1882-1906
Bert Neville collection of steamboat documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1342
Abstract
A collection of bills of lading and receipts for freight costs, passage, storage, and other documents, relating to steamboat lines, mostly within Alabama, plus some receipts from stagecoaches, warehouse and storage companies, and railroads.
Dates:
1820-1945
Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract
This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.
Dates:
1886-1982
Bessemer Land & Improvement Co. and Bessemer Coal, Iron & Land Co. stock certificates
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3712
Overview
Early stock certificates from these significant coal and land development companies
Dates:
1887-1918
Birmingham Coal and Coke Company shipping records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0160
Abstract
Ledger of shipping records including destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.
Dates:
1920-1923
Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0186
Abstract
Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.
Dates:
1836-1843
Brierfield Ironworks records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0212
Overview
Financial and legal documents of the Brierfield Ironworks along with some correspondence and printed materials, dating from 1866 to 1882. The materials are divided into two main groups: (A) those materials generated during Josiah Gorgas' control of the ironworks (1866-1869), and (B) those materials generated during Thomas S. Alvis' control of the operations (1869-1873).
Dates:
1864-1897; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1882
Bush and Lobdell Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0049
Overview
Five letters and a telegram to a foundry in Delaware from various Alabama railroads concerning purchase of wheels, trucks, pinions, and other items.
Dates:
1860
Catalog collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0286
Overview
Six catalogs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three are clothing catalogs, one is a plant catalog, one is an automobile supply catalog, and one is a biography/silverware catalog.
Dates:
1883–1910s
Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Overview
Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Dates:
1901 - 1903
J.W. Clapp Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2647
Overview
Letter from J.W. Clapp in Holly Springs, Mississippi, written on June 9, 1851, to R.C. Brinkley of Florence, Alabama, regarding what appears to be the building of a proposed railroad.
Dates:
1851
Cobb Coal Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0322
Overview
This collection contains records from an Alabama coal company.
Dates:
1924-1981
Whitefoord R. Cole papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0332
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to a president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Dates:
1895-1979
Eyre Damer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0392
Overview
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.
Dates:
after 1900
John V. Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0407
Abstract
This collection contains Davis' resume, photographs of plating machines designed by him and Udylite company pamphlets.
Dates:
1963-1988
Elliott and Carl Mill time book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Overview
A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
Dates:
1886 - 1891
Edward Eppes notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0488
Overview
Notebook containing handwritten notes, including billing and account information, property dimensions, worklogs, and sketches of tools, of this Georgia-based civil engineer.
Dates:
1894-1912
Essex Foundry records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0490
Overview
Incorporation papers, by-laws, directors' minutes, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and related records.
Dates:
1916-1965
John Henry Faber papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0499
Overview
Photocopies of reports and biographical sketches written by John Henry Faber after his retirement from the Eastman Kodak Company, as well as a section on early Alabama television.
Dates:
1933 - 1988
John C. Fletcher paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0522
Overview
Transcript of a presentation by John C. Fletcher at the Alabama Clergy Conference, 1970, on the impact of industrial society and the post-industrial revolution on the youth of America
Dates:
1970 May 14
George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Overview
Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.
Dates:
1886 - 1898
William J. Gray Bama-Bell II Floating Point Mathematical Interpretative System for USS 80 System (student manual)
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4013
Overview
Student computer programming manual for the Bama-Bell II programming language for the Univac Solid State 80 computer system.
Dates:
circa 1965
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0602
Overview
Documents dealing with various financial considerations concerning mortgages, bonds, consolidations, etc., between 1912 And 1914
Dates:
1912-1936
Joseph Poleman Harkins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0631
Overview
Two publications, the Naval Aviation News, August 1966, and Tri-Supply, July 11, 1958, and a copy of a pamphlet about the Naval Air Technical Services Facility.
Dates:
1958-1966
Crittenden Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0638
Overview
Receipts from Greensboro, Alabama, stores and notes concerning the opening of the local telephone company in Greensboro in 1909.
Dates:
1909, 1949
J. A. Montgomery business records
Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview
Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates:
1889 - 1898
James Bowron papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract
A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.
Dates:
1861-1928
John R. Hodge Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0685
Abstract
Paper titled "An Editor Spends a Day with the Army,” [presented to the?] American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1942. Includes annotated photographs of editors visiting Governors Island, New York, HQ of Eastern Defense Command and First Army and photographs of defense drills somewhere on the East Coast.
Dates:
1942
John F. Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1806
Abstract
Contains correspondence, financial materials, and material relating to the Grange, Farmers’ Alliance, Agricultural Relief, and other agricultural organizations of this Choctaw County, Mississippi, farmer who was an agent for the Daniel Pratt Company.
Dates:
1856-1888
Montgomery and West Point Railroad minute books
Collection
Identifier: W-0102
Overview
Contains two minute books, with entries from directors' and stockholders' meetings of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad from March 1846 to June 1870.
Dates:
1846-1870
Mrs. Alvin Mosley Interview Transcript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2651
Overview
Transcript of an interview given by Mrs. Alvin Mosley of Ensley, Alabama, on Novemeber 30, 1942, on Birmingham radio station WBRC, regarding the government supervised Labor Board election at the TCI (Tennessee, Coal, Iron and Railroad Company) and the United Steelworkers of America union.
Dates:
1942
S.A. and M. Railway survey notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0076
Overview
Material relating to Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery (S.A. & M.) Railway
Dates:
after 1888
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
W. C. Strong letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0132
Abstract
A January 1927 letter by W. C. Strong of Mobile, Alabama, recounting the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert F. Bell, Jr., an employee of the Munson Steam Ship Company docks who died on the job in late 1926.
Dates:
1927
Timothy Healy Correspondence and Circular
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4306
Overview
Two letters and one circular encouraging capital investment in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, approximately one year after the end of the Mexican Revolution.
Dates:
1921-04-15 - 1921-04-25
Valley Creek Canal, West Jefferson County, Alabama, reports
Collection
Identifier: W-0065
Overview
Two reports on a proposed canal project on the Valley and Warrior Rivers in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Dates:
1917 - 1943
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.011: [1006241508]
Identifier: 2009-045
Abstract
This collection consists of two black and white photographs depicting unidentified train conductors.
Dates:
1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.014: [1006241511]
Identifier: 2009-056
Abstract
This collection consists of thirty-eight photographs representing unidentified people.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.030: [1006241527]
Identifier: 2009-139
Overview
This collection consists of six photographs depicting people wearing aviation clothes.
Dates:
1920-08-10
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
Wool Dyeing Instructions
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2643
Overview
Wool dyeing instructions from an unknown author in Paisley, Scotland, detail recipes and instructions for black, blue, red, and yellow wool dyes.
Dates:
1858 August 31