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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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Newspaper clippings, personal and business correspondence, and an account book.

Dates: 1856-1927

H.B. Dugger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0453
Abstract

A scrapbook of essays and poems clipped from Civil War era newspapers.

Dates: 1865-1869

Farm Security Administration Photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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