University of Alabama

A note of friendship dated 21 November 1887, between members of two different fraternities (Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau Omega) at the University of Alabama.

A paper written by Stanley Thrasher for a University of Alabama class in American Folklore. The paper relates the history of the Thrasher Brothers gospel music group, of which the author was a member.

Manuscript of Tilford's book that charts the ups and downs of The University of Alabama during the turbulent decade of the 1960s.

Galley proofs of Tillery's novel Red Bone Woman, published by the New York firm of J. Day in 1950.

A mixed collection of materials placed in a sealed container to be opened in one hundred years

This collection consists of two cabinet cards of Brett Rutledge Brown ATΩ class of 1898, University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Johns Rather, Jr. KA class of 1897, University of Alabama.

The University of Alabama Retirees Association (TUARA) minutes

Contains a collection of humor magazines: Farrago, Mahout, and Rammer Jammer.

A partial collection of meeting minutes of this service and social club for women graduates of the University of Alabama, 1934-39.

Minutes, financial reports, constitution announcements, attendance, directory of the University Investment Club

Certificate presented to UA Libraries, 2006

Drawings of the buildings at University of Alabama. Some are drawn in black ink, while others are painted.

This collection consists of seventy boxes containing mixed materials from different departments of the University of Alabama.

This collection contains twenty-eight scrapbooks created by The University of Alabama Army ROTC program from 1953-1982. The number of photographs in each scrapbook ranges from three to 610. In addition to holding photographs of cadets, sponsors, and professors, the scrapbooks document activities such as commissioning ceremonies, training excursions, and balls.

Fifteen photographs of University of Alabama Board of Trustee portraits.

Theses, primarily unbound, by students in the College of Business & Administration

A miscellany of material relating to the University of Alabama Corps of cadets, 1873-1905, including invitations to the 1873 junior exhibition and Corps of Cadets hops (dances) in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and the program for a 1905 reunion of the Corps of Cadets Company E, winner of a 1885 drill competition at the New Orleans Exposition.

A scrapbook from the University of Alabama Dancers program An Evening of Dance.

Reading lists of books for history classes at the University of Alabama

Contains University of Alabama football programs from 1925-2009.

Collection of posters, placards, and other materials of the University of Alabama Glee Club

Invitations and dance programs for University events

This collection consists of four studio portraits of a soldier.

This collection consists of five photographs of the President's Mansion, Smith Hall, Denny Chimes, and human skull and cadavers at the medical school laboratory.

This collection consists of one photograph of the University of Alabama Women's Chorus.

This collection consists of three black and white photographs of the University of Alabama Marching Band, possibly taken at the University of Alabama in 1938.

Transit display labels; receipt for payment and handwritten instructions for using the transit; and the Spine of the Records ledger for the University Observatory... recordings 1851-1887(?)

Scrapbooks of photographs, programs, information on the music camp, and the stage productions

Two souvenir photograph albums from University of Alabama, showing campus and buildings, including Garland-Clark-Manly, Morgan, Comer, Smith (interior and exterior), Woods, President's Mansion, and fraternity houses. Also Bibb Graves Hall, Morgan Hall, Tutwiler Dorm, Gorgas House, President’s Mansion, Bryce entrance, Union building, Quad and Chimes, and Fraternity row from 1930s.

A collection of material concerning the 1976 rededication of Woods Hall on the University of Alabama campus which was orginally constructed in the late 1860s.

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of stories about the University of Alabama or her alumni.

Ledger page describing the land selected for the University of Alabama in 1884

Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings about this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family.

Letters of recommendation, University of Alabama commencement program, diplomas, photographs, and newpapers

A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.

A letter dated 12 July 1883, to his sister, Caroline Miller, about examinations of students at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, the examination of the senior class at the University of Alabama, and his recent activities in Tuscaloosa. The collection also contains photograph of Miller copied from the original at the University of Texas Institute of Texas Culture

Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.

Photostatic copy of an 1862 report card of this University of Alabama student from Marion, Alabama.

Kimbrough's 1940 University of Alabama MFA thesis, titled "From Hell to Breakfast: A Novel."

The report of the naturalist hired by the trustees of the University of Alabama to acquire specimens for the proposed Museum of Natural History. It includes a list of specimens acquired, proposals for further acquisitions and collection development, and a request for additional funding.

Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings, research materials, manuscripts of published monographs, and other materials written or collected by this historian and dean of the University of Alabama Libraries.

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.

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.

Black and white photographs of students housed in Woods Hall in early 1900s.

This collection consists of four photographs depicting the exterior and interior of Tutwiler Hall at the University of Alabama.