Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records
A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.
Alabama Democratic Party, 1860 Delegation minutes
Minutes and roll of Alabama's delegation, who were "accredited to the Baltimore and Richmond Democratic convention" in Richmond, Virginia, in 1860.
Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee minutes
Minutes of the Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee meetings from 1892-1894.
Alabama Election Ephemera
Several articles and flyers about Alabama elections from the early 20th century.
Alabama Legislature petition
An 1849 petition by several Alabama legislators to Governor Reuben Chapman urging him to veto the act chartering the Central Plank Road, and a typed transcript listing the names of signers and counties that they represented.
Alabama Nurses Association records
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Alabama Review editorial records
Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Alpha Epsilon Delta records
The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Harry Mell Ayers papers
Baltzell and Bullock families papers
The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.
Marion Banks letter
Letter to Dr. E. H. Moren recommending W. C. Richardson for the professorship of English literature at Alabama A and M College.
W.R. Barron paper
A paper titled "History of Fairview Presbyterian Church from Organization to Present Date (April 23, 1889)," that includes lists of pastors, members, and elders of this Presbyterian Church in Perry County, Alabama, 1823-1889.
Benton County, Alabama, land contract
Land contract dated 29 July 1834, at White Plains, Benton (later Calhoun) County, Alabama.
James Berney letter
Letter dated 31 January 1846, from Montgomery, Alabama, to A. Jackson at Mayhew [Mississippi?] on news of Montgomery being voted the state capital and the subsequent celebration.
Peyton B. Bibb papers
Documents, mainly letters written to or by Peyton B. Bibb. There are also receipts and minutes from unidentified meetings. There is also a copy of the “Complete Rudiments of Music” by A.J. Showalter (©1906) with the name “George Bibb” written on the front cover and on the first page.
Big Creek Baptist Church Records
Deed for land, lists of members, and monthly meeting minutes of this Baptist church in Coker, Alabama.
George E. Brewer letter
Two typescript copies of a 1919 letter describing Bird H. Young who was the model for nineteenth century author Johnson J. Hooper's (1815-62) character Simon Suggs.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Cantelou family genealogy
Photocopies of various documents concerning the ancestry of members of the Cantelou family of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Collective Protection documents
Documents on Collective Protection probably produced by authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. They cover all areas of collective protection such as home protection, lighting restrictions, espionage and sabotage, war gases and shelters.
John Cuthbert letter
Letter, written by John A. Cuthbert from San Souci, Mobile Bay, Alabama, on 29 June 1848 to Governor Reuben Chapman of Alabama, urging the appointment of William R. King to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate.
Dallas County, Alabama, Treasurer records
One ledger containing the treasurer’s records pertaining to taxes and other fines and fees paid in Dallas County, Alabama from 1868 to 1873.
De Soto Expedition Commission Records
Correspondence, publications, maps, and ephemera relating to Hernando de Soto, his expedition of 1540, and the effects of Spanish exploration and colonization in Alabama and the Southeastern United States.
Early Alabama documents
Documents from the mid nineteenth century, including store and tax receipts, court orders, letters, property appraisals, etc., from Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, mainly pertaining to West Alabama
Early Alabama Land Grants and Applications for Purchase
Applications for grants and for the purchase of land, mainly in Marengo and Washington counties in Alabama. There are also a few other legal documents pertaining to disputed applications.
Early Educational Institutions in the South
Tuition receipts, a printed announcement, and a clipping, from several schools, primarily in Alabama.
Johnnie M. Edwards paper
Paper titled "Inventory of Public Records in the Cherokee County Courthouse" containing an inventory of public records in the Cherokee County, Alabama, courthouse, 1882-1930.
Elliott and Carl Mill time book
A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
John Falconer deed
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, from John Falconer to Jonathan Mayhew, in 1823
City of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, correspondence
Letters created and received by the city of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, mainly relating to routine matters in this small town, including city maintenance concerns.
Zachariah Fields deed
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 3 March 1833, to Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitman.
Willis H. Gibson letter of appointment
Letter dated 28 June 1850 from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, appointing Gibson as a U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama
Goodloe, Lane, Pride, Barton and Rutland Families Collection
Correspondence, receipts, photographs, sheet music, and genealogies of the Goodloe family and several branches of the family.
Eliza Williams Chotard Gould memoirs
Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.
Rachel Duke Hamilton papers
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).
W. A. Handley letter
Letter written to the U.S. House of Representatives at the beginning of his term as a member of the House.
Henry Watkins Collier inaugural address before the two houses of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama at its second biennial session
The inaugural address given by Governor Henry W. Collier in 1849.
Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums
This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Daniel Thompson McCall, Jr. collection
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."
Staci Niemeyer paper "Folk Dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education"
Essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 by progressive educator Marietta Johnson in Fairhope, Alabama.
William H. Ely letters
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.