Barbour County (Ala.)

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A ledger recording the financial transactions of the central Alabama law firm of James Belser and Nathan Harris

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Papers that discuss Barbour County, Alabama, history.

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1 Photographic album (257 photographs) depicting geological trips and rock formations; scenes from Ashville, North Carolina; quarries; Jones and Phelps family photos in Alabama; Tennessee River; photos of Rigs Stephenson and Joe Sewell, University of Alabama baseball players; Stone Mountain Georgia; and scenes from North Carolina and Fort Bragg.

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A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.

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Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.

Scope and Contents note From the File:

1 Photographic album (257 photographs) depicting geological trips and rock formations; scenes from Ashville, North Carolina; quarries; Jones and Phelps family photos in Alabama; Tennessee River; photos of Rigs Stephenson and Joe Sewell, University of Alabama baseball players; Stone Mountain Georgia; and scenes from North Carolina and Fort Bragg.

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This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.

Scope and Contents This collection contains three ledgers (a plantation book, a farm journal, and a letter copybook) and a folder of miscellaneous letters written by John Horry Dent of Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, and Cave Springs, Floyd County, Georgia, from January 1840 to November 1891.The Plantation Book (or Farm Journal v.1) was written by John Horry Dent from January 1840 through December 1842 to record expenditures and income from his estate and to provide information for his future...

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A letter dated 20 March 1973, from Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama, to Joyce Lamont, acquisitions librarian at the University of Alabama Library, asking for prepayment for his forthcoming book, "Alabama Politics--Tell It Like It Is".

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a four-page letter dated October 1, 1866, written by Stephen Gale from Barbour County, Alabama, to his brother Joseph Gale in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The letter offers a deeply personal account of Gale’s post-Civil War experiences as a Northern-born man living in the South. Gale describes the hardships he faced during and after the war, including forced relocation from Pensacola to Alabama due to martial law, economic instability, and the loss of three of his...

Scope and Contents note From the File:

1 Photographic album (257 photographs) depicting geological trips and rock formations; scenes from Ashville, North Carolina; quarries; Jones and Phelps family photos in Alabama; Tennessee River; photos of Rigs Stephenson and Joe Sewell, University of Alabama baseball players; Stone Mountain Georgia; and scenes from North Carolina and Fort Bragg.