Selma (Ala.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n81127564
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-016
Overview
This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.
Dates:
1920 - 1985
Bert Neville Collection of Steamboat Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-014
Abstract
Photographs of steamboats on Alabama rivers and street scenes from Selma and Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1854 - 1920
Dallas Iron Works letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0097
Overview
Contains the Reconstruction-era letterbook of the Dallas Iron Works in Selma, Alabama.
Dates:
1866-1879
N. H. R. Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0412
Overview
Newspaper clippings, personal and business correspondence, and an account book.
Dates:
1856-1927
H.B. Dugger scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0453
Overview
A scrapbook of essays and poems clipped from Civil War era newspapers.
Dates:
1865-1869
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Collection — Box 1: [1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Overview
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1930 - 1942
George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Overview
Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.
Dates:
1886 - 1898
T. O. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0304
Abstract
Materials saved by the chief of Marion, Alabama, police including legislative reports, police reports, photos, newspaper articles, letters, affidavits concerning demonstrations in Marion, Selma, and Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1959-1966
Samuel Earle Hobbs papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0681
Overview
This collection contains the papers of an Alabama lawyer Samuel Earle Hobbs.
Dates:
unknown
Ryland Randolph trial transcript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1179
Abstract
This collection consists of the proceedings of an 1868 military commission trial of Randolph at Selma, Alabama, for the assault and battery of a Freedman named Balus Eddins.
Dates:
1868
S. A. McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0968
Abstract
Notes by McPherson while a theological student at Payne University, a college for African Americans founded in 1889 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, and copies of three commencement addresses at Attalla, Etowah County, and Thomas, Jefferson County, Alabama Public Schools.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Selma, Alabama invoices
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1249
Abstract
Ledger of invoices from Selma, Alabama
Dates:
1907