University of Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79139264
Found in 232 Collections and/or Records:
Eugene Allen Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1286
Overview
Contains field notes, correspondence letters, receipts, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorandum, notebooks, copy of the Crimson White (Commencement edition), and dinner guest list for E.A. Smith's 70th birthday party.
Dates:
1837-1921
Evolutionary Working Group (EVOWOG) papers and ALLELE (Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution) posters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4233
Overview
Papers documenting the early history of the Evolutionary Working Group (EVOWOG) on the University of Alabama campus and ALLELE (Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution) speaker series
Dates:
2005-2014
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
Albert John Farrah manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0505
Overview
Typescript manuscripts of two textbooks (two copies of each) created by Albert John Farrah, Dean of the University of Alabama Law School from 1912 until shortly before his death in June of 1944.
Dates:
1934
Margaret Faulk collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0507
Overview
Letters and other materials regarding this University of Alabama librarian; most of the collection relates to her illness and death.
Dates:
1932-1942
William Baker Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers University of Alabama materials
Collection — Box 2339: [xxxxxxxxxx]
Identifier: MSS-0523
Overview
Items relating to Walter Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers as students at the University of Alabama, including commencement programs, SGA and WSGA ribbons, Triangle ribbon, library card, and invitation to a dance
Dates:
1943-1946
Alexander Brevard Forney diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3641
Overview
1840 University of Alabama diploma
Dates:
1840
Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Overview
Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Dates:
1959-1984
Edwin Hardy Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0532
Overview
Letters written by and to Foster between 1907 and 1938, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence written by Foster’s family members and members of the United States House of Representatives concerning his application to the Consular Services. There is also a small collection of letters written in German; Foster’s report cards from Male High School (1875-1881) and his first semester grades from The University of Alabama in 1882; reports cards for his brothers, Sumner B., Thomas J., Henry...
Dates:
1872-1938
President Richard C. Foster Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-008
Overview
This record group contains the presidential records of Dr. Richard C. Foster, University of Alabama president from 1937 to 1941.
Dates:
1923-1948
Richard Clarke Foster scrapbooks and papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0537
Overview
Scrapbook and folder containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming president of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1941
Gregory Free letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3613
Overview
Letters about Dixon Hall Lewis and the refurbishment of one of his specially constructed chairs.
Dates:
1974
Richard Furman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Overview
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826-1865
President John M. Gallalee Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-012
Overview
This record group contains the presidental records of John M. Gallalee, president of The University of Alabama from 1948 to 1953.
Dates:
1927-1975
University of Alabama Gallalee physics collection - "Shroud of Washington"
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3486
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the "Shroud of Washington", a cloth that shows an image of George Washington under ultraviolet lights. The cloth was brought in by Mark Graham, Physics Lab Coordinator, UA Physics Dept., January 2000; the purpose of the demostration was to show phosphorescence.
Dates:
2000-1-1
Marian Gallaway papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0554
Overview
Collection of play scripts, theatre notes, research, programs, and photographs compiled by the long-time director of the University of Alabama Theater.
Dates:
after 1948
Alexander Michael Garber Jr. diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3791
Overview
This collection contains the University of Alabama diploma conferred to Alexander Michael Garber, Jr.
Dates:
1876 July 9
Thomas Henry Garner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0560
Overview
Correspondence, postcards, invitations, and other items, including letters (1887-1892) from Alston Fitts while he was in Europe.
Dates:
1887-?1913
Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-002
Overview
This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates:
1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
George Nichols Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-035
Overview
This collection consists of black and white photographs depicting the life of George Nichols as a student at the University of Alabama and some years after his graduation.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Thomas Scott Gray diploma
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3793
Overview
This collection contains the University of Alabama Bachelor of Arts degree conferred to Thomas Scott Gray.
Dates:
1847
Group of people looking at a document, 1956 February
Item — Box 38034.001: [1006241591], Folder: 2010.021.000008
Identifier: 2010.021.000008
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Photographs of Autherine Lucy attending The University of Alabama in February 1956. Lucy was the first African American student admitted to the school. University administrators expelled her after a few tumultuous days on campus.
Dates:
1956 February
Guild of Professional Writers for Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0601
Overview
Materials related to the organization's activities, including its statement of purpose, membership applications and rolls, correspondence, newspaper clippings, works of members, announcements, calendars, newsletters, minutes, and financial records.
Dates:
1977-1999; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1994
Wiley Hagler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0607
Overview
Correspondence, school papers, clippings, and photographs.
Dates:
1901-1972
Virginia Hansen scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0622
Overview
Scrapbook kept during the 13th annual session of summer school for teachers at the University of Alabama, June 8-July 19, 1916, that includes photographs, autographs, anecdotes, notes of social events, a newsletter, and postcards of University of Alabama scenes.
Dates:
1916-1917
Marvin P. Harper papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0632
Abstract
A variety of documents covering: slave ownership documents concerning crimes and deaths; Farrah Law Society plaque; UA football picture from 1920s; Church programs; Stamps; Daughters of the Confederacy minutes. McCall diploma, 1879; and Kennedy family papers.
Dates:
1875-1930
Ralph Murray Havens papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0650
Overview
Diaries, letters, and other papers related to Havens's service in the European Theater of Operations, 1944-1945.
Dates:
1943-1946
Bessie Leach Hayden paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0651
Overview
Paper entitled "Then Came the Women: The University in the Nineties," written by Bessie Leach Hayden, Dean of Women, about the first sixty years of coeducation at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1953
Jesse C. Hearne, Jr. Scrapbook of Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. on the University of Alabama Campus, 1936
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2567
Overview
Contains scrapbook kept by Jesse C. Hearne Jr., highlighting events of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. groups on the University of Alabama campus in 1936. It is primarily newspaper clippings, but there are 13 photographs.
Dates:
1936
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates:
1840-1925
Hill Ferguson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0511
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, and reports about The University of Alabama collected by this alumnus and trustee of the institution.
Dates:
1892-1964
Hillel Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0672
Overview
Records, mostly correspondence of Rabbi Henry A. Fischel (1948-1956), relating to the activities of the Hillel Foundation and its role in student life at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1956
Robert Shattuck Hodges papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3528
Overview
Quizzes/ notes for biogeography and cell physiology classes and a biochemistry class syllabus
Dates:
1930-1959
Ben Hunt Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4005
Overview
Scrapbook of Hunt's years in the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1906-1922
Linda Jackson scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3546
Overview
Scrapbook of the historical places on the University of Alabama campus
Dates:
after 1950
Jacob Frederic Goossen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0579
Overview
Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1940-1995
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
James Harry Cowan Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2008-006
Overview
Collection consists of one photographic album with sixty-two photographs of James Harry Cowan, a University of Alabama student from 1915 - 1918. Scenes include University athletes and sporting events, pre-game activities in front of Woods Hall, in Birmingham and Rickwood Park. Also contains newspaper clippings and memorabilia.
Dates:
1915 - 1918
Perry B. James papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0743
Overview
Collection includes a letter from James, president of Athens College, Athens, Alabama, to William Stanley Hoole, head of the University of Alabama Libraries, about a paper James had written, "The Counties North of the Tennessee River," and a manuscript of the paper.
Dates:
1959
James William Oakley Jr. Photographs
Collection — Box 38034.001: [1006241591]
Identifier: 2010-020
Abstract
Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.
Dates:
1956 February
Jasons scrapbook, 1961-1963
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0747
Overview
This collection contains a scrapbook.
Dates:
1961-1963
Jefferson Jackson Coleman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-002
Overview
This collection consists of fifty-five photographs of the former Director of Alumni Affairs at the University of Alabama.
He was closely involved in athletics at the University of Alabama. The photographs show various aspects of his life from 1918 through 1989.
Dates:
1918 - 1989
John Gorman Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0116
Abstract
Contains correspondence to and from John Gorman Barr, as well as other papers of this University of Alabama student, Tuscaloosa attorney, and United States Consul in Australia, known for his humorous writings.
Dates:
1840-1858
Sylvester Jones scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3635
Overview
Two three-ring binders of material and two bound books (unpublished memory books, "Sylvester Jones: In Rememberance")
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Joseph Judson Smith Jr. University of Alabama Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4308
Overview
One scrapbook compiled by Joseph Judson Smith Jr. during his time at The University of Alabama, containing ephemera, documents, and photographs related to academics, clubs, sports, and activities.
Dates:
1923 - 1937
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
Jubilee Singers of the University of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-004
Overview
This collection consists of colored photographs relating to the Jubilee Singers' 1972 and 1973 concert tours of northeast Alabama.
Dates:
1972 - 1973
Louis D. Corson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0360
Overview
Papers of the former University of Alabama Dean of Men.
Dates:
1956-02-03 - 1956-09-14
Mary C. Partlow and John C. Pritchitt paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1107
Abstract
A 1981 paper titled "John William Abercrombie, Thirteenth President of the University of Alabama, 1902-1911" written for a University of Alabama class by Mary C. Partlow and John C. Pritchitt.
Dates:
1981
Frederick Richard Maxwell diplomas
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3790
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the college diplomas of Frederick Richard Maxwell from the University of Alabama and the National Business College from 1881; and the tintype of Frederick Richard Maxwell.
Dates:
1881