University of Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79139264
Found in 305 Collections and/or Records:
Oscar D. Cully Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-008
Overview
This collection consists of sixty-seven photographs of the University of Alabama campus and buildings, a scene of the downtown Tuscaloosa parade, and Nitrate Plant No. 2 with Wilson Dam in the background.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
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
Rex Milford Wallace Jr. Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1515
Overview
A copy of a paper, "The University of Alabama: From the Beginning to the End. A Comparison of the Experiences of Members of the War Classes of the University of Alabama, 1861-1865 in the Confederate Army with that of Other Southerners," written for History 415: The New South at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1980
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
Rives Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-209
Abstract
Two photographs from Rives Family Papers depicting Tutwiler and Little Hall in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1910 - 1919
R.M. Brumby Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1825
Abstract
Includes letters written to R.M. Brumby, a University of Alabama graduate, from his mother and son from the late 19th-century through the early 20th-century. It also includes an appointment letter from the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1892 - 1920
Robert E. Tidwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1407
Abstract
This collection includes papers, some written by Tidwell, correspondence, invitations, and bulletins.
Dates:
1941 - 1974
Robert Loveman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0879
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of correspondence, 1884-1923, to and from a University of Alabama graduate, author, and poet.
Dates:
1884 - 1981
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
Samuel Frances Hobbs Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-005
Abstract
One photographic album, labeled on the cover “Poison a Farce” theater production. Scenes show individuals in costume for theatrical production, probably at the University of Alabama, where Hobbs was a law student in 1907.
Dates:
1907
Samuel Henry Sprott, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1829
Abstract
Includes examination books and scrapbook of Samuel Henry Sprott, Jr. The materials pertain to Mr. Sprott's years at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1893 - 1897
Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates:
1833-1889
Saul Gordon Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2010-013
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with one hundred and forty-three photographs of Saul Gordon, a University of Alabama student in the early 1930s. Album contains scenes of campus life, including coeds, buildings, football, the band, ROTC and dorm life. Several photographs are depicting devastation caused by the March 22, 1932 Northport tornado. These photographs are accompanied by clippings relating details of the disaster. Album also includes photographs with scenes from the 1932 New...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
Scott Logan Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2021-008
Overview
This collection consists of thirty-seven photographs depicting the University of Alabama sporting events.
Dates:
1952 - 1953
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
"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
The University of Alabama Valedictory Address
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3905
Overview
The collection contains one thirteen-page speech, handwritten by the valedictorian of the graduating class of the University of Alabama, recalling fond memories of college life, time spent in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as well as an appreciative address to the University president, and an address to fellow students offering advice for the future.
Dates:
1870
Theta Nu Epsilon
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1394
Overview
Yearbooks and articles about the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternal organization.
Dates:
1916-1990s