Mobile County (Ala.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n80165660
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Cultivation Promotional Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-025
Scope and Contents
One photographic album created in July 1911 of 18 black and white photographs promoting land cultivation in Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama. Photographs are of different types of fruit that can grow in Alabama and examples of orchards in bloom. The photographs measure 3 3/8" x 5 1/2" and are adhesive mounted to 16 paper leaves.
Dates:
1911-07-22 - 1911-07-24
Andrew Stauter with Asie, black labrador retriever, photo 1, 1942 June 11
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.000970
Identifier: 2011.004.000970
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1942 June 11
Andrew Stauter with Asie, black labrador retriever, photo 2, 1942 June 11
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.000971
Identifier: 2011.004.000971
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1942 June 11
Andrew Stauter with dog, Asie, retrieving life preserver, photo 1, 1942 June 11
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.000973
Identifier: 2011.004.000973
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1942 June 11
Andrew Stauter with dog, Asie, retrieving life preserver, photo 2, 1942 June 11
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.000974
Identifier: 2011.004.000974
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1942 June 11
A. Babbitt letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0100
Abstract
Letter from Babbitt to his cousin William H. Babbitt of Princeton, New Jersey, describing an ocean voyage from New York to Mobile, and Babbitt's subsequent doings in Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1843 December
Sam Bennett letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0138
Abstract
An 1848 letter written from Chickasaw, Alabama, to his cousin in Tuscumbia, Alabama, discussing the weather of the "sunny South," temperance, sailing to New Orleans, and various family matters.
Dates:
1848 May 7
Bisby Silin, T. A. Smith, and Charles Silin at Camp A-Z, photo 1, 1952 April 12
Item — Box 16: [1006235739], Folder: 2011.004.001585
Identifier: 2011.004.001585
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting turkey hunting and other scenes at Choctaw Bluff, Alabama; G. W. Jones and Sons seed mill; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; wild rice growing by Chuckfee Bay; and Walter Jones’s family.
Dates:
1952 April 12
Helen N. Butler scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0244
Overview
A scrapbook by Helen N., "Nellie," Butler of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, consisting of clippings of newspaper articles, obituaries, poetry, marriage announcements, invitations, visiting cards, letters, prints and engravings.
Dates:
1857–1888
Jesse Carter commonplace and letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0284
Overview
Commonplace and letterbook, with early entries dating from 1823, includes hand-written poetry and by authors such as Shakespeare and Lord Byron. Later entries date from at least 1843 and include copies of letters that mention Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras societies.
Dates:
1823-1882
Ethel Creighton poem and watercolor
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0365
Overview
A poem and a watercolor by Ethel Creighton featuring the Old Spanish Tower in Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
between 1880-1953
Creole Social Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Overview
Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.
Dates:
1878-1902
Eyre Damer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0392
Overview
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.
Dates:
after 1900
Dimon, Fay, and Beers records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0436
Abstract
A collection containing business correspondence and receipts of this Mobile, Alabama, partnership which included the city's Chief of Police, C. A. R. Dimon.
Dates:
1866
Dorman and Noel family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0443
Abstract
A genealogical record of the ancestors of Lily Dorman Ramsey, plus family correspondence of the Dormans and Noels of Greensboro and Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1831-1866
Edward R. Norville diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0105
Overview
Diary of Edward R. Norville, a Mobile, Alabama, river pilot.
Dates:
1873 - 1891
Elliott and Carl Mill time book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Overview
A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
Dates:
1886 - 1891
Elvalena Jones at Indian Mound Park, 1946 August 24
Item — Box 12: [1006235736], Folder: 2011.004.001199
Identifier: 2011.004.001199
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting duck hunting and other scenes around Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; and Elvalena Jones fishing at Indian Mound Park.
Dates:
1946 August 24
Elvalena Jones fishing at Indian Mound Park, 1946 August 24
Item — Box 12: [1006235736], Folder: 2011.004.001200
Identifier: 2011.004.001200
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting duck hunting and other scenes around Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; and Elvalena Jones fishing at Indian Mound Park.
Dates:
1946 August 24
Gaines Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0550
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business documents relating to the Gaines family, most of it from Mobile, Choctaw, and Jefferson Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
1824-1949
Rachel Duke Hamilton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0455
Overview
A photocopy of a typed draft of the manuscript of a biography of Judge Peter J. Hamilton written by his youngest daughter, Rachel Duke Hamilton Cannon (sometimes noted as Rachel-Duke).
Dates:
circa 1950
Julian Lee Rayford papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1181
Abstract
Articles and other writings of this Mobile, Alabama, artist, journalist, folklorist, and muralist who was known for his work to increase awareness of Mobilian Joe Cain who revived Mardi Gras after the Civil War.
Dates:
1953-1973
Thomas Bayley Lawson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1622
Abstract
Written from Mobile, Alabama, by Thomas Bayley Lawson, a portrait and miniature painter active primarily in Massachusetts, to Rufus Spaulding, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Speaks in great detail about business conditions and the high cost of living in Mobile. Makes observations on the treatment of slaves in the city.
Dates:
1838-01-19
Louisa Anna Toulmin letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1417
Abstract
A letter dated 5 August 1842, from Toulminville, Mobile County, Alabama, to Mrs. Samuel Ward, Newport, Rhode Island. In it Toulmin thanks Ward for the time spent together on her trip north the previous year, and inquires about various people.
Dates:
1842 August 5