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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