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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:

Daniel Thompson McCall, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0393
Overview Three photographs of U. of A. students between 1884-1887 and an article by McCall about Alabamians who went to California during the 1849 "Gold Rush."
Dates: 1849-1887

T. C. McCorvey papers

 Collection
Identifier: mss-3787
Overview Diplomas, lecture-related materials, scrapbooks, photograph albums, a University Register, and account books
Dates: unknown

John Rankin McLure papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0964
Overview Contains records created by this University of Alabama College of Education dean
Dates: Unknown

Million Dollar Band Photographs and Other Media

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-037
Overview This collection consists of VHS tapes, audio cassettes, negatives, and photographs of the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band.
Dates: circa 1950 - 2002

Evelyn Minor letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3637
Overview Contains letter from University of Alabama Recorder, Teresa Pradat, advising Minor that her application to attend UA has been accepted.
Dates: 1945 November 17

University of Alabama, Frank M. Moody Music Building articles

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3702
Overview Articles covering the construction and dedication of the Frank M. Moody Music Building on the University of Alabama campus in 1987 and 1988.
Dates: 1987-1988

Moody Music Building Dedication Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-021
Overview Photographs of the opening gala of the Moody Music building.
Dates: 1988-01-15

Albert B. Moore papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1013
Overview Moore's Civil War letters, plays, naval chronology, plays, and roundtables; lists of members and board of trustees from multiple universities; notes, booklets, news, and biographies on the subject of the Civil War; etc.
Dates: unknown

Morgan Smith Gilmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0571
Overview Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.
Dates: 1954

Burton R. Morley retirement letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3701
Overview Book of letters, bound and presented to Morley on his retirement from the University of Alabama in 1968.
Dates: 1968

Natalie Thornton Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-001
Abstract One photographic album depicting scenes from The University of Alabama featuring coeds at the Kilgore House and the campus. Also scenes from Montgomery, Alabama, New York City, New Orleans, Florida, and Texas.
Dates: 1905-1911

New accession: Box temp.86

 File — Box temp 86
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Two letters from Macon at Tuscaloosa to his father and sister in Jacksonville, both dated 1861, discussing his denied requests for furloughs home, and a letter from his father, Miles, to his son in Tuscaloosa, encouraging him to return home to join a local company being raised to fight in the Civil War. The collection also includes an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles Abernathy.Addition received in 2012 includes one letter dated April 14, 1861, written by Macon to his...
Dates: 1861 - 1878

OAR Building Reports

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3923
Overview Contains reports on and photographs of UA campus buildings that were slated for destruction.
Dates: 2012

Marvin T. Ormond papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3630
Overview UA Glee Club newspaper clippings and a photo
Dates: Between 1900 and 1925

The Other Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3720
Overview Records, scrapbooks, and photographs of The Other Club, a debate society on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates: 1992-2010

Thomas Waverly Palmer records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1097
Abstract Surveys used to gather data for "Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901".
Dates: 1890

President Raymond R. Paty Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-011
Overview This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Raymond R. Paty. The records document his years as president from 1942-1947.
Dates: 1942-1954

Pershing Rifles, Company B-4, University of Alabama chapter minutes book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3813
Overview Minutes book for the University of Alabama chapter of the Pershing Rifles
Dates: 1932-1939

Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
Overview Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in...
Dates: 1956

Phi Beta Kappa papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1136
Scope and Contents This collection contains copies of the 100th Anniversary invitation and letters pertaining to this academic honor society at the University of Alabama.
Dates: 1851-1913

Phi Delta Kappa records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1138
Overview Contains the slides, accounts, members, newsletters, the stamp crest, the history, two volumes on the, "Phi Delta Kappa Journal For the Promotion of Leadership in Education", Volumes 1 & 2, 1972-74, and certificate honoring and naming the 50th anniversary designated on April 25, 1980, as well as the programs presented for the anniversary.
Dates: 1970's - 1980's

Phi Sigma Kappa records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1139
Abstract A collection of documents concerning the founding and expansion of the Alabama chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
Dates: 1879-1930

Israel Pickens correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1146
Overview Correspondence from Pickens containing information about selecting of the University of Alabama seal after the University's incorporation.
Dates: 1822-1825

Julien de Lallande Poydras papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1158
Overview Correspondence between W. S. Hoole and David Erdman concerning an original poem written by Julian Poydras in 1779 while in Louisiana
Dates: 1779

Laleah G. Pratt letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1162
Abstract A letter dated 15 September 1840, to a cousin describing the death of Professor Horace S. Pratt of the University of Alabama. The collection also includes other material on Pratt and his family.
Dates: 1840 September 15

President Frank A. Rose Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-006
Overview This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Frank A. Rose. The records document his years as president, from 1958-1969, and include information on the integration of The University of Alabama in 1963.
Dates: 1958-1969

President Oliver C. Carmichael Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-013
Overview This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Oliver C. Carmichael. The records document his years as president, from 1953-1957, and include information on the attempt by Autherine Lucy to end racial segration at The University of Alabama in 1956.
Dates: 1944 - 1959

Carolyn Elizabeth Shepherd Price papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1632
Overview Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes, instructions and essays Carolyn Shepherd Price collected and used as teaching materials in her home economics class. They include a broad range of topics including child development, clothing, health and home management and decoration.
Dates: 1921-1984

Shorty Price letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1169
Abstract A letter dated 20 March 1973, from Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama, to Joyce Lamont, acquisitions librarian at the University of Alabama Library, asking for prepayment for his forthcoming book, "Alabama Politics--Tell It Like It Is".
Dates: 1973 March 20

Radical South Zine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PM-005
Overview Zines created by southern young women, on a variety of personal and political topics, including art, drugs, education, gender and sexuality, mental health, music, people and society, popular culture, race and ethnicity, religion and spirituality, and sex. There are approximately 150 titles from the 1990s-2000s.
Dates: 1990s - 2000s

O.M. Roberts reminiscences while a student of the University of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1199
Abstract Contains a bound, typewritten recollection of this Texas governor's life as a student of the University of Alabama, 1833-1836. He presented this to the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama in 1892. The work includes a photograph of a painting of him in approximately 1835.
Dates: 1892

James M. Salem research materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2494
Overview This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, research notes, and documents, all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.
Dates: 1929-2003

James Benson Sellers manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1245
Overview Copy of Sellers' manuscript "History of the University of Alabama" as well as a copy of "University of Alabama Library News," Dec. 1, 1948.
Dates: unknown

Sesquicentennial Ball Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-023
Abstract This collection consists of fourty two color prints capturing the celebration of hundred and fifty years of The University of Alabama.
Dates: 1981-04

John Gill Shorter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1267
Overview Copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials, including approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.
Dates: 1861-1872

Sigma Alpha Epsilon papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3512
Overview Sigma Alpha Epsilon materials from 1909 to 1916
Dates: 1909-1916

T. Julian Skinner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1281
Abstract This collection consists primarily of correspondence, financial records, forms and activity reports which Skinner created as manager of the Forensic Council, a debating club at the University of Alabama, from 1933 to 1934.
Dates: 1931 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1934

Slash Pine Press publications

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: PM-019
Overview Contains printed releases of poetry from the Slash Pine Press at The University of Alabama in 2009 - 2010.
Dates: 2009-2010

Small group of people looking at a document, 1956 February

 Item — Box 38034.001: [1006241591], Folder: 2010.021.000002
Identifier: 2010.021.000002
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

Margaret B. Smith University of Alabama collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3676
Overview Materials that are associated with the University of Alabama and the Million Dollar Band
Dates: unknown

Rose Marie Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1295
Overview Contains her essay, "Solidarity: A Study in Republican Voter Constancy in South Lamar County Alabama," 1994 at University of Alabama, as well as Along with genealogy papers on various peoples, in chronological order.
Dates: unknown

Septima Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1296
Overview Notes (research and school) on Biology, 1926, an address book, telegrams, receipts, notecards/research notes, a catalyst of a bug, photos, postcards, scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photos related to biology, programs and bulletins related to science. Also includes Martha Sue Garr papers and Dr. Robert S. Hodges personal and scientific papers, as well as the Unit Museum Plan file for the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Dates: circa 1965

Wilhelmine M. Easby-Smith letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0467
Overview Two letters, dated 9 and 15 June 1896, to James H. Fitts, regarding a portrait of Easby-Smith's husband, William Russell Smith, given to the University of Alabama.
Dates: 1896 June 9, 15

Jonas Spiro Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1326
Overview Spiro's University of Alabama diploma and his Bar certificate
Dates: unknown

William Angelo Steele letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1347
Abstract A letter dated 26 December 1853, to his father, discussing the weather and requesting money for tuition and board at the University of Alabama.
Dates: 1853 December 26

Donald W. Stewart papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1349
Overview Contains the papers of state congressman.
Dates: circa 1975 - 1990

John Craig Stewart book manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1351
Abstract Edited manuscript of "Through the First Gate" published by Dodd, Mead and Co. in 1950. The work derived from Stewart's 1949 University of Alabama MA thesis of the same title.
Dates: 1950

Sydnia Keene Smyth Antebellum Architecture of Tuscaloosa Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-006
Overview This collection consists of thirty-two photographs of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, antebellum architecture, taken by Sydnia Keene Smyth for her thesis in 1929.
Dates: 1929

Alma Bishop Williams Tanglewood materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0165
Overview Material about this Hale County, Alabama, plantation house and land, including: books, correspondence, writings, newpaper clippings, photos, maps, genealogical records, and blueprints.
Dates: 1860-1973

Theta Nu Epsilon

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1394
Overview Yearbooks and articles about the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternal organization.
Dates: 1916-1990s