University of Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79139264
Found in 218 Collections and/or Records:
Lecture notes on John W. Abercrombie
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Abstract
Notes for a class lecture on Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama. Includes information on the construction of University buildings during his tenure, as well as his conflicts with former acting president and Latin professor William S. Wyman.
Dates:
not dated
President John W. Abercrombie Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-248
Overview
This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president John W. Abercrombie. The records document his years as president, from 1902-1911.
Dates:
1902 - 1911
Alabama Alumni Association, Cornerstone Committee
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0018
Overview
This collection includes a committee report; a list of donors to the Crimson Pride membership drive, 1986-1987; histories of the national alumni association and local chapters; information on the rededication of Denny Chimes in 1987; newspaper clippings about coaches Ray Perkins and Paul "Bear" Bryant; and other information on the history and alumni of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1888 - 1987
Alabama Aurora
papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3530
Overview
Alabama Aurora, 1913, and two issues from 1914-1915, with pictures of the UA campus as well as a school calendar for the year.
Dates:
1913-1915
Alabama Cadet Corps photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3555
Scope and Contents
Photograph and negative of the Alabama Cadet Corps "at Ease"
Dates:
after 1831
Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0038
Overview
Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.
Dates:
1890-1900
Alabama postcards
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3715
Overview
Postcards showing a variety of places in Alabama, including Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery.
Dates:
1918-1970s
Lawrence S. Alexander archaeological surveys
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0060
Overview
Surveys made by Alexander when he was an employee of the Office of Archaeological Research at the University of Alabama, on lands in Jefferson, Jackson, and Geneva Counties
Dates:
1979
Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Overview
Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.
Dates:
1850-1873
Allan F. Archer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0082
Overview
Documents pertaining to the career of Dr. Allan F. Archer from 1932 to 1951 when he worked at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey of Alabama. The material primarily focuses on Dr. Archer’s study of spiders, but includes crabs, mollusks, crustacean and matters of ecological and biological importance as well.
Dates:
1932-1951
Alfred Francis Alois Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4094
Overview
Memorabilia of a 1944 graduate of the University of Alabama, highlighting his athletic activities, A Club, Army ROTC, and Phi Sigma Kappa, as well as family photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1943-2013
Alpha Epsilon Delta records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Overview
The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Dates:
1926-1951
American Association of University Professors, University of Alabama Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0072
Overview
A collection of meeting minutes, committee reports, correspondence, membership information, constitutions, and other material.
Dates:
1949-1975; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960
"The Federal raid into central Alabama"
Collection
Identifier: W-0040
Overview
Text of a speech presented by James A. Anderson on April 3, 1935, at a meeting of the Kiwanis club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Union raids in Selma, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1935 April 3
Ann Jordan Farm papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0080
Overview
Photocopies of Sidney Z. Mitchell's correspondence, articles relating to his career, and other biographical information. It also includes Jordan family deeds, photographs taken at Ann Jordan Farm, legal documents and correspondence relating to the Jordan Family Cemetery, articles about Ann Jordan Farm and Jordan Dam, and furniture catalogs and floor plans.
Dates:
1874-1950
Viscountess Astor letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0092
Abstract
A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.
Dates:
1952 November 5
Arthur Bagby papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0102
Abstract
Contains materials, mostly photocopies, created by or relating to Arthur Bagby, the tenth governor of Alabama.
Dates:
1837
Frederick A. P. Barnard letter and speech
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0113
Abstract
An address to the "Gentlemen of the Erosophic Society" in 1848 at The University of Alabama and a letter to Barnard from his brother, John G. Barnard, regarding a pass for travel in 1862.
Dates:
1848, 1862
E. Scott Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2430
Overview
Bound copies of his letters and publications
Dates:
1924-1987
Robert L. Bass Collection of University of Alabama Negatives
Collection
Identifier: 2018.001
Overview
This collection consists of glass plate negatives, nitrate negatives, and several gelatin developing-out paper photographs depicting The University of Alabama campus, football and baseball teams, sororities and fraternities, and students, as well as negatives of Stillman College and Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1929 - 1943
Junius K. Battle commencement address text
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0124
Abstract
Commencement address titled "Footprints of the Creator," delivered on July 15, 1858, at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1858 July 15
James S. P. Beck collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1795
Abstract
A miscellany of materials relating to Dr. James S. P. Beck, University of Alabama graduate (1924), including two co-authored articles about radiation burns among survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb blast and three photos of burn victims.
Dates:
1924-1947
Jasper Luther Beeson collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0130
Abstract
A miscellany of materials including the text of Beeson's address to the fifty-seventh anniversary meeting of the Philomatic Society and at The University of Alabama commencement in 1889, photographs of him, newspaper clipping, a copy of a physics exam for seniors, and other items.
Dates:
1889-1890
Robert K. Bell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0133
Abstract
Unpublished manuscript of the 167th U.S. Infantry, Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment ("The Fighting Fourth") titled "The Warrior Guards from the Reconstruction to the Great War" along with some newspaper clippings, transcripts, etc. on the "Warrior Guards."
Dates:
1840-1935
Henry R. Benagh letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0136
Abstract
A letter containing genealogical information about the Benagh family.
Dates:
1951
Benjamin Franklin Meek lecture notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0974
Abstract
A volume of lectures, notes, and examinations by this University of Alabama professor of English literature.
Dates:
1872-1873
Charles Bernier papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0143
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence of The University of Alabama's alumni association director, 1920-54, and a proposed constitution for the Alabama Alumni Association (AAUA).
Dates:
1920-1954; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1951
Beta Phi Mu, Beta Kappa Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0147
Abstract
Correspondence, bank records, scrapbooks, meeting agendas, and minutes, of the University of Alabama chapter of the National Library and Information Studies honorary.
Dates:
1975-1990
Hugo F. Biedermann papers
Collection — Box 5041
Identifier: MSS-0155
Abstract
The collection includes copies of patents granted Biedermann, as well as contracts and some scattered miscellaneous papers. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of projects worked on by the firm of Skinner and Biedermann, including the Anniston Army Depot and many buildings on the University of Alabama campus, including the Engineering building, Lloyd Hall, Denny Chimes, Denny Stadium, Doster Hall, Graves Hall, and others.
Dates:
circa 1940s
John L. Blackburn papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2605
Overview
Contains personal papers, documents, records, and accomplishments of John L. Blackburn.
Dates:
1945-2000
Winton M. Blount papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0176
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of this Montgomery, Alabama, business leader, during his term as United States Postmaster General (1969-1971).
Dates:
1956-2004
Boling Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Overview
Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.
Dates:
1833-1870
Dr. Bonner letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0185
Abstract
Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.
Dates:
1958
Buford Boone papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract
Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.
Dates:
1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968
Franklin Welsh Bowdon letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0191
Abstract
A letter dated 24 October 1835, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa to the editor of the Weekly Globe requesting a six-month subscription to the newspaper.
Dates:
1835 October 24
Branscomb Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4017
Overview
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)
Dates:
after 1865
Glenda Brewer research paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Overview
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Dates:
1975
Charles Edward Bridges letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0209
Overview
A letter dated 24 February 1849, written from the University of Alabama to Sam Houston, advising him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Erosophic Society.
Dates:
1849 February 24
James Clinton Brown diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3792
Overview
This collection contains the University of Alabama law degree conferred to James Clinton Brown.
Dates:
1892 June 29
Wilburt Scott Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0221
Overview
Copies of this University of Alabama graduate and faculty member’s dissertation with other manuscripts and documents
Dates:
1960-1992
Charles Mitchell Burford letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0231
Overview
Letter written by Burford, dated 20 October 1847, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to his brother in Summerfield [Alabama?]
Dates:
1847 October 20
Carleton K. Butler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2486
Overview
photocopies of University of Alabama band programs, Alumni Bulletin for the University from 1979, and the Birmingham News (Alabama) from 1979
Dates:
1979
Mike Bynum papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0246
Overview
Manuscript (photocopy) of Bynum's book "High Tide" (published by Cross Roads Books, 1978) and research notes
Dates:
1978
Ottokar T. Cadek papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0253
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, genealogies, and various other documents relating to the life of this violinist, conductor, and teacher.
Dates:
unknown
Caleb Huse Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0723
Overview
Six letters dated between July 20, 1859 and December 21, 1904, including two to Mason Graham in 1859, concerning the chair of mathematics and the superintendancy at Louisiana State University; one to Mary Benagh Philip in 1904, regarding a pamphlet he wrote about Confederate Army supply lines; two in 1904 from Thomas M. Owen of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History asking about Huse's memories of being a student at the University of Alabama; and one in reply to Owen.
Dates:
1859 - 1904
Cantelou family genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0271
Overview
Photocopies of various documents concerning the ancestry of members of the Cantelou family of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Dates:
1855–1965
Canterbury Chapel Christ Episcopal Church scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0272
Overview
Scrapbooks and newspaper articles highlighting church members who worked for the University and college students who attended Canterbury Chapel.
Dates:
1927-1937
Eddie Carideo scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0275
Overview
Souvenirs and mementoes of University of Alabama football, with some boxing and baseball memorabilia, 1932-1948, including photos of players, many of them signed, and newspaper clippings, as well as some 1935 Rose Bowl materials and photos.
Dates:
1932-1948
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael collection
Collection — Box 2356
Identifier: MSS-0279
Overview
A miscellany of material relating to this University of Alabama president, including a newspaper clipping, a Carmichael writing entitled "The Function of Instinct in Education," and a scrapbook.
Dates:
unknown
Carl Cecil papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2390
Overview
Cecil's files about the University of Alabama Faculty Senate from 1975-1980
Dates:
1975-1980