Mobile (Ala.)

One photographic album created in July 1911 of 18 black and white photographs promoting land cultivation in Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama. Photographs are of different types of fruit that can grow in Alabama and examples of orchards in bloom. The photographs measure 3 3/8" x 5 1/2" and are adhesive mounted to 16 paper leaves.

Letters, receipts, and transcribed copies of newspaper articles pertaining to notable Alabama hotels, including the Exchange Hotel (Montgomery), the Morris Hotel (Birmingham), the Battle House (Mobile), the DeKalb Hotel (Fort Payne), Fruithurst Inn (Fruithurst), the Alabama Inn (Livingston), Mansion House (Mobile), the Green Bottom Inn (Huntsville), and the Point Clear Hotel (Point Clear).

Photographs of steamboats on Alabama rivers and street scenes from Selma and Mobile, Alabama.

A letter dated 30 November 1843, to Blair's brother Edwin in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing a sea voyage from New York, to Mobile, Alabama.

Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.

A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.

A letter dated 6 March 1860 from Mobile to Langdon's brother, that discusses his work in the nursery business, selling fruit trees, expanding his vineyard acreage, and his winery. Langdon also addresses the slavery issue at length.

Handwritten script outlining an 1847 initiation ceremony conducted by Mobile, Alabama's earliest mystic society, the Cowbellian de Rakin Society.

Letter from uncle in Mt. Vernon, Alabama, to niece in Brooklyn, New York, telling her about the yellow fever outbreak in Mobile.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, illustrations, and handwritten notes related to the history of volunteer firefighter companies in Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Daniel Geary.

A genealogical record of the ancestors of Lily Dorman Ramsey, plus family correspondence of the Dormans and Noels of Greensboro and Mobile, Alabama.

A letter dated 1 February 1864, written from Inge's home near Forkland, Greene County, Alabama to her sister, A. Tremlet Herndon, in Mobile, asking her to purchase cloth, discussing the paucity of salt, and giving news of family and friends.

Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.

100 photographs depicting students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; Walter, Hazel, and Nelson Jones; Dismals Canyon, Franklin County, Alabama; scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; Jessie Gorgas's grave at Evergreen Cemetery; Colonel Butler's war table, ROTC, The University of Alabama; other Jones family members; plants in Mobile County, Alabama; houses at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama; and fraternity pin and other items.

Images of family Christmas in Mobile, Alabama; Mac and Zell in Tallahassee, Florida; unidentified wedding.

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

Business letters to Addin Lewis in New Haven, Connecticut, from Hall in Mobile, Alabama, 10 March and 15 April 1837 and 17 August 1840.

Collection mostly consists of incoming business correspondence written to Henry Major from various business associates in the United Kingdom and America. Henry Major was a New York merchant around the years 1802-1836. The correspondence allows a look into the mercantile world of overseas trading of cotton and other goods, prices, and other related issues.

A collection containing correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, and writings.

The collection relating to this Mobile, Alabama, family consists of a family history by Caroline Garrett and newspaper clippings on Mobile Mardi Gras celebrations, dedication of the Confederate war memorial, and various other items of general Mobile interest.

Two notebooks, containing mathematical equations and scientific essays, as well as the handwritten manuscripts of J. T. Wiswall's works "The African" and "Iliad of the Family," neither of which were ever published.

This sketchbook contains nineteen pen and ink drawings that depict training drills, camp life, and social events held at Camp O'Neal, a training base located in Frascati Park in Mobile, Alabama.

This collection contains 3 invoices from 1849, 1850, and 1856 from the Mobile Marble Works.

Letters written by John Bragg of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama to the editor of the “Daily Globe” from November 1853 to December 1857 requesting subscriptions to the “globe” during the sessions of Congress.

Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memoranda and notes concerning the partners of this mercantile firm.

Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

Documents and letters of a Mobile, Alabama, physician and his wife, dealing with property and her family's estate.

Letter written from Mobile, Alabama, to Gideon Luger, discussing government problems

Letterbook about the 1907 proposed extension of the Warrior Branch for the M&O Railroad

Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists

Scrapbook of newspaper articles from Confederate newspapers (probably in Mobile, Alabama) documenting Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Lexington, and the Battle of Leesburg.

This collection consists of alphabetically arranged employment applications from discharged soldiers, other applications for positions on the police force, bills and receiptsc correspondence with city officers, and other items. It includes the correspondence of chiefs of police Stephen Charpentier and A. A. R. Dimon.

Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.

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

Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy. Acc # 015-008

Photographs were taken by Sandoz Photographer.

Contains a list of books compiled by Haunted House Book Shop owner Cameron McRae Plummer.

This collection consists of three albums containing 184 photographs of the Snow family of Tuscaloosa. Images include scenes of Snow family members, their Tuscaloosa home, friends, and family vacations. Albums include a Carte de Visite of family friends, F. A. P. Barnard, University of Alabama professor of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Astronomy. Of interest are photographs of a vertical lift bridge possibly spanning the Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

This collection consists of three albums containing 184 photographs of the Snow family of Tuscaloosa. Images include scenes of Snow family members, their Tuscaloosa home, friends, and family vacations. Albums include a Carte de Visite of family friends, F. A. P. Barnard, University of Alabama professor of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Astronomy. Of interest are photographs of a vertical lift bridge possibly spanning the Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

This collection consists of three albums containing 184 photographs of the Snow family of Tuscaloosa. Images include scenes of Snow family members, their Tuscaloosa home, friends, and family vacations. Albums include a Carte de Visite of family friends, F. A. P. Barnard, University of Alabama professor of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Astronomy. Of interest are photographs of a vertical lift bridge possibly spanning the Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

This collection consists of three albums containing 184 photographs of the Snow family of Tuscaloosa. Images include scenes of Snow family members, their Tuscaloosa home, friends, and family vacations. Albums include a Carte de Visite of family friends, F. A. P. Barnard, University of Alabama professor of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Astronomy. Of interest are photographs of a vertical lift bridge possibly spanning the Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

This collection consists of three albums containing 184 photographs of the Snow family of Tuscaloosa. Images include scenes of Snow family members, their Tuscaloosa home, friends, and family vacations. Albums include a Carte de Visite of family friends, F. A. P. Barnard, University of Alabama professor of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Astronomy. Of interest are photographs of a vertical lift bridge possibly spanning the Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

This collection consists of three albums containing 184 photographs of the Snow family of Tuscaloosa. Images include scenes of Snow family members, their Tuscaloosa home, friends, and family vacations. Albums include a Carte de Visite of family friends, F. A. P. Barnard, University of Alabama professor of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Astronomy. Of interest are photographs of a vertical lift bridge possibly spanning the Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.