University of Alabama -- Buildings -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Album, 1930 - 1932
File — Box 5244: [1006235653], item: 1
Identifier: Album 1
Abstract
University of Alabama campus buildings; dorm rooms; football games; cotton gin; football game in California; Mardi Gras in New Orleans 1932; Gulfport, Mississippi; University of Alabama football team; Northport tornado, March 22, 1932; ROTC; track and field; University of Alabama coed; John "hurry" Cain, halfback on University of Alabama football team; article about the Lynn high school; articles about the Northport tornado, March 22, 1932; other news article; cards of YMCA; Cotillion Club...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
Album 1, 1900 - 1920
File — Box 5339: [1006241877], Folder: 2014.007.001
Identifier: 2014.007.001
Abstract
Album consists of photographs of University of Alabama campus halls and fraternity houses.
Dates:
1900 - 1920
Album 2, 1900 - 1920
File — Box 5339: [1006241877], Folder: 2014.007.002
Identifier: 2014.007.002
Abstract
Album consists of photographs of University of Alabama campus halls and fraternity houses.
Dates:
1900 - 1920
Robert L. Bass Collection of University of Alabama Negatives
Collection
Identifier: 2023-001
Overview
This collection consists of glass plate negatives, nitrate negatives, and several gelatin developing-out paper photographs depicting The University of Alabama campus, football and baseball teams, sororities and fraternities, and students, as well as negatives of Stillman College and Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1929 - 1943
James S. P. Beck collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1795
Abstract
A miscellany of materials relating to Dr. James S. P. Beck, University of Alabama graduate (1924), including two co-authored articles about radiation burns among survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb blast and three photos of burn victims.
Dates:
1924-1947
Canterbury Chapel Christ Episcopal Church scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0272
Overview
Scrapbooks and newspaper articles highlighting church members who worked for the University and college students who attended Canterbury Chapel.
Dates:
1927-1937
Wade Hampton Coleman, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0339
Abstract
Various documents, including speeches, correspondence, reports, faculty newsletters, alumni magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings of this Alabama native and University of Alabama professor of Romance Languages
Dates:
1924-1968; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960
Denny Chimes Renovation papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0429
Abstract
Materials relating to the 1986 renovation of the University of Alabama bell tower and the fund drive to purchase a new 25-bell carillon, kept by Sandee Gibson. The collection includes a fund drive notebook, photographs of the restoration and rededication, and an information pack for fundraisers.
Dates:
undated
Dominique Doux Fiquet Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2008-028
Overview
Photograph album containing images of students and faculty at The University of Alabama in 1859 and includes the oldest known photograph of the campus.
Dates:
1859
Douthitt scrapbook materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0399
Overview
Material, mostly photocopies, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama.
Dates:
1865 - 1877
Folder 5, 1900
File — Box 6148: [1006100295], Folder: 005
Identifier: Folder 5
Overview
Photographs of students at the Woods Hall at the University of Alabama campus.
Dates:
1900
Jacob Frederic Goossen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0579
Overview
Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1940-1995
Lamar McCarty Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-196
Overview
This collection consists of twelve photographs of homecoming festivities at the University of Alabama, probably taken by Lamar McCarty, University of Alabama Graduate (1938).
Dates:
1937 - 1938
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
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
Paula E. Robertson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3601
Overview
Early history of Northport, Ala. (1931, photocopy); Brief history of Gorgas House with 1962 Inventory;
- T.A. Dearson Inventory
Dates:
after 1900
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
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
University of Alabama Architecture Drawings
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2012-042
Scope and Contents
Drawings of the buildings at University of Alabama. Some are drawn in black ink, while others are painted.
Dates:
1827 - 1869
University of Alabama Reel to Reel Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012-038
Abstract
Reel to Reels of events on the University of Alabama campus, such as: Alumni recordings; Board of Trustees; Bear Bryant Show; Senator Jim Allen; Congressman Hale Boggs; Governor John Love; Leftenant Governor Jere Beasley; Leftenant Governor Albert Brewer; Winton Blount; Hilaritas 1971 - 1974; 1960s Honors Days; Interview with Vivian Malone, Robert Kennedy's visit to University of Alabama; Jane Fonda's visit to University of Alabama; interview with Yitzak Rabin; Maintenance strike; Capstone...
Dates:
1960 - 1979
University of Alabama Rotunda excavation materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1211
Overview
This collection contains materials relating to the 1984 excavation of the Rotunda, the building which originally housed the University of Alabama library, natural history collection, and assembly room. It was destroyed by United States Army forces on 4 April 1865. Included are newspaper clippings, memoranda, notes on the history of the campus, placement of buildings, surface surveys, and photographs, as well as material on the Pratt house and Madison and Jefferson Halls.
Dates:
circa 1984
University of Alabama Souvenir Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: 2014-007
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1900 - 1920
University of Alabama Woods Hall rededication letters and pamphlets
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1573
Overview
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.
Dates:
1976
Woods Hall Student Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-033
Abstract
Black and white photographs of students housed in Woods Hall in early 1900s.
Dates:
1900