New Orleans (La.)

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...

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Hermann family visit to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mississippi River; LSU Rodeo; family Christmas 1948, 1949 and 1950; visit to Canada; Zell's graduation picture; Singleton family home in Pompano, Florida; Hermann family visits to Fairhope, Mobile, Alabama; Sea Island, Georgia; St. Augustine, Florida; and Waukula, Florida.

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1819 contract for construction of the central tower on the St. Louis Cathedral.

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Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.

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Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.

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Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.

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Contains diary kept by Virginia Henry Mears while on a journey with her husband from Philadelphia to New Orleans shortly before the Civil War, along with other family materials and photographs.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists

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One photographic album depicting scenes from The University of Alabama featuring coeds at the Kilgore House and the campus. Also scenes from Montgomery, Alabama, New York City, New Orleans, Florida, and Texas.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Photograph album with 242 photographs and three items, depicting view of New Orleans from Hotel Monteleone; Southern Pacific's ferry barge, Mastodon, on the Mississippi River; railroad stations and trains in Mexico; Plaza Principal in Monterrey, Mexico; various mountains and landscapes in Mexico; villages and huts in Mexico; Tampico, Mexico; Pánuco River; ships and tankers; basalt plugs, sandstone, and limestone in Mexico; Huasteca pump station at Juan Casiano oil field; Los Naranjos oil...

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...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Photograph album with 242 photographs and three items, depicting view of New Orleans from Hotel Monteleone; Southern Pacific's ferry barge, Mastodon, on the Mississippi River; railroad stations and trains in Mexico; Plaza Principal in Monterrey, Mexico; various mountains and landscapes in Mexico; villages and huts in Mexico; Tampico, Mexico; Pánuco River; ships and tankers; basalt plugs, sandstone, and limestone in Mexico; Huasteca pump station at Juan Casiano oil field; Los Naranjos oil...

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A letter dated 7 July 1840, from New Orleans, to his father in Greensburg, Kentucky, discussing business, Vaughn's health, and local excitement over an election.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Photograph album with 242 photographs and three items, depicting view of New Orleans from Hotel Monteleone; Southern Pacific's ferry barge, Mastodon, on the Mississippi River; railroad stations and trains in Mexico; Plaza Principal in Monterrey, Mexico; various mountains and landscapes in Mexico; villages and huts in Mexico; Tampico, Mexico; Pánuco River; ships and tankers; basalt plugs, sandstone, and limestone in Mexico; Huasteca pump station at Juan Casiano oil field; Los Naranjos oil...

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Contains the original copy of Espy Williams, "The Last Quest of Merlin" play. Given at the Round Table Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1908. Also includes the signatures of the actors and a photograph of Espy Williams.