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Commonplace books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85029002

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Annie Perkins commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3875
Abstract

The collection consists of one commonplace book containing handwritten and published recipes as well as published poems collected by Perkins of Eutaw, Alabama.

Dates: Approximately 1867

Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0015
Abstract

Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.

Dates: 1861-1903

Daniel Pinkney Christenberry commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0299
Abstract

A list of citations, evidently documenting Christenberry's reading, on various topics, mostly historical and literary

Dates: 1883-1911

Commonplace book on Christianity and slavery

 Collection
Identifier: W-0032
Abstract

Commonplace book with entries addressing a number of topics, including church politics, theological concerns, childrearing practices, and slavery.

Dates: between 1840 and 1851

Cornelia Bolen Commonplace Book and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4225
Abstract

Commonplace book and three photographs of Cornelia Bolen, a nurse in 1930s Alabama and Florida

Dates: 1930-1950

Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0373
Abstract

A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.

Dates: circa 1835-1886

Gaillard and Hurtel families papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Abstract

Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.

Dates: 1838-1885

Henry Tutwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Abstract

Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

Julia Neely Finch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0515
Abstract

Correspondence by and to Julia Neely Finch, as well as her poetry and short stories, written between 1890 and 1926, as well as a small handwritten and typescript collection of Julia’s poems and short stories and a Common Place Book, which served as a scrapbook of her published pieces.

Dates: 1890 - 1926

Lavinia Hetherling Leinau commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0124
Abstract

Tennessee resident Lavinia Heatherling Leinau's commonplace book, containing poetry and notes from friends

Dates: 1831 - 1879; Majority of material found within 1831 - 1836

Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract

Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.

Dates: Circa 1848-1865

Mary C. Kelly scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0036
Abstract

Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.

Dates: 1855 - 1866

Kate Speake Penny commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1125
Abstract

A commonplace book of Kate's favorite literary authors, which includes her own notes, quotes, and reflections.

Dates: 1879

Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Abstract

Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.

Dates: approximately 1835-1894

Mary Lucinda Smith Commonplace Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4146
Abstract

Commonplace and copybook of this Birmingham, Alabama, young woman.

Dates: after 1860

Val Taylor Commonplace Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4120
Abstract

A small commonplace book filled with newspaper clippings and handwritten poems

Dates: 1892-1906

Verner family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3741
Abstract

Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings about this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family.

Dates: 1888-1968

Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract

This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.

Dates: 1798 - 1990