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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: [Barcode: 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: [Barcode: 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: [Barcode: 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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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: [Barcode: 1006100295], Folder: 005
Identifier: Folder 5
Abstract

Photographs of students at the Woods Hall at the University of Alabama campus.

Dates: 1900

Jacob Frederic Goossen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0579
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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