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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Air pollution legislation papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3522
Abstract

Essays and research on air pollution and air pollution legislation from 1961 through 1971 from various authors.

Dates: 1961-1971

J. D. Barron research material on Native Americans

 Collection
Identifier: W-0088
Abstract

Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.

Dates: 1887-1906

Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Abstract

Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.

Dates: 1964-1988

Charles W. Edwards research notes on Coffee County, Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: W-0106
Abstract

This collection contains research notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials compiled by Charles W. Edwards and related to his study of Coffee County. The collection also includes two drafts of his completed report, County Government and County Affairs in Coffee County Alabama.

Dates: 1925 - 1928

Cowin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0364
Abstract Photocopies of the diary and essays written by John H. Cowin of Green County, Alabama covering events from 22 April through 13 November 1861 as well as a smaller diary for the month of January 1863. There is also a presidential pardon and oaths of allegiance certificates for Samuel Cowin, as well as photocopies of miscellaneous documents including Alabama tax statements from 1875 and 1877 and newspaper clippings, and a Civil War era Smith and Wesson Model 2 Army revolver. Also in the...
Dates: 1861–1921

Walter R. Crane notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0366
Abstract

Two bound notebooks of handwritten lecture notes made by Walter R. Crane

Dates: after 1870

Margaret Dalton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3097
Abstract

Miscellaneous papers, slide carousels, photocopies of primary sources (some in German), and copies of class notes from the School of Library and Information Studies

Dates: after 1950

Eyre Damer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0392
Abstract

A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.

Dates: after 1900

W.E. Dearman paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0418
Abstract

Typescript copy of Judge W.E. Dearman's "The Town of Gaston, Alabama," a history of Gaston, an abandoned town in Sumter County, Alabama.

Dates: undated

Michael Dorman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0445
Abstract

This collection consists principally of research material used in the writing of "The George Wallace Myth." Correspondence, proposals, and the book manuscript are among them. Galley proofs of two other books, "The Second Man," an overview of the changing role of the Vice Presidency and "Stockcar Butterworth," a book about stock car racing, are also part of the collection, as are poems, most of them unpublished, and copies of several published articles.

Dates: 1968-1976

Alice Estill papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0494
Abstract

Extensive genealogy notes collected by Alice Estill of Miami, Florida (probably for the purpose of joining the Daughters of the American Revolution).

Dates: 1948-1950

James M. Faircloth papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0500
Abstract

Includes student papers and personal papers of J. M. Faircloth, a professor of civil engineering at The University of Alabama during the years 1961 through 1969.

Dates: 1961-1969

G. H. Osterhout Paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1081
Abstract

A paper titled "The Sites of the French and Spanish Forts in Port Royal Sound," composed some time after 1931. The collection also includes nine black and white photographs of excavations of Charles Fort, Parris Island, South Carolina, conducted by Osterhout in 1923.

Dates: 1923

Marian Gallaway papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0554
Abstract

Collection of play scripts, theatre notes, research, programs, and photographs compiled by the long-time director of the University of Alabama Theater.

Dates: after 1948

Virginia Chapman Green genealogical research

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0589
Abstract

Folders containing Green's personal genealogical research.

Dates: unknown

Wade Hall's Abraham Lincoln papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3521
Abstract

Hall's Abraham Lincoln research material containing newspapers, handwritten notes, and a draft of his play.

Dates: after 1937

Robert Shattuck Hodges papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3528
Abstract

Quizzes/ notes for biogeography and cell physiology classes and a biochemistry class syllabus

Dates: 1930-1959

B.J. Hollars research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3643
Abstract

Research notes on civil rights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Dates: unknown

Julia Praytor Killingsworth Paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0815
Abstract

Two versions of an article, "Vienna on the Tombigbee River" written by Julia Prayter Killingsworth about this Pickens County, Alabama town, published in 1964 as part of a series she wrote about Pickens County.

Dates: 1934

John Rankin McLure papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0964
Abstract

Contains records created by this University of Alabama College of Education dean

Dates: Unknown

Monroe F. Cockrell research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract

Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.

Dates: 1949-1956

Peter Brannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

Dates: 1900-1966

Thomas Minott Peters papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1130
Abstract

A collection of Thomas Minott Peters' notes on the study of Alabama's lichens, a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanbacteria living among fungus. The notes are handwritten by Thomas in the scientific form of Latin. Also includes his original typed paper titled, "Cataloge of Lichens in Alabama," 1881.

Dates: 1881

Ralph M. Lyons Paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0889
Abstract

A paper written by Ralph M. Lyons documenting the history of the Livingston Presbyterian Church in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama.

Dates: 1977

Robinson Family History

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1201
Abstract

A paper written by Stephanie O. Staten on the history of the Robinshon family from Birmingham, Alabama. Includes a certificate for "Robinson Family Reunion Day"

Dates: 1990

I. Willis Russell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1216
Abstract

Contains the note files on his new words, meanings, and usages. I. Willis Russell was a linguist professor at the University of Alabama.

Dates: Unknown

James M. Salem research materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2494
Abstract

This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, research notes, and documents, all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.

Dates: 1929-2003

Rose Marie Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1295
Abstract

Contains her essay, "Solidarity: A Study in Republican Voter Constancy in South Lamar County Alabama," 1994 at University of Alabama, as well as Along with genealogy papers on various peoples, in chronological order.

Dates: unknown

Septima Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1296
Abstract

Notes (research and school) on Biology, 1926, an address book, telegrams, receipts, notecards/research notes, a catalyst of a bug, photos, postcards, scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photos related to biology, programs and bulletins related to science. Also includes Martha Sue Garr papers and Dr. Robert S. Hodges personal and scientific papers, as well as the Unit Museum Plan file for the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

Dates: circa 1965

Stan Sutton research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1373
Abstract

A bibliography of publications on Southeastern North American Indians, on note cards.

Dates: Unknown

Virginia J. Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Abstract

Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."

Dates: 1912-1937

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Abstract

Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace

Dates: 1947 - 1948

Bernard C. Weber papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1536
Abstract

The personal papers of an University of Alabama history professor.

Dates: circa 1927-1987

William Crawford Gorgas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Dates: 1869-1920

Winston Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1630
Abstract

The collection contains manuscripts, research notes and photographs collected by Winston Smith of Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, relating to the early history of Demopolis and Marengo County, early photographers and his own family heritage. There is also a record book of Henry Tutwiler’s Green Springs Academy from 1852 – 1864.

Dates: 1850-1998

Sterling Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1570
Abstract

Contains notes, photograph albums, scrapbooks, notebooks, research notes, geneaology notes, family records, wills and letters on the Wood family from the 1860's-1972.

Dates: 1860-1972