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Mobile (Ala.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79105708

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Cultivation Promotional Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-025
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1911-07-22 - 1911-07-24

Alabama hotels and resorts of the past collection

 Collection
Identifier: W-0041
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1830-1836

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

A. M. Blair letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0169
Abstract

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

Dates: 1843 November 30

Brewster and Conley sales records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Abstract

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

Dates: 1838 - 1846

C. I. B. DeLage letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1865

Charles Carter Langdon Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1623
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1860-03-06

Cowbellion de Rakin Society initiation ceremony script

 Collection
Identifier: W-0035
Abstract

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

Dates: 1847

H. Cox Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4126
Abstract

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

Dates: 1839 October 17

Daniel Geary scrapbook on the history of the Mobile Volunteer Fire Companies

 Collection
Identifier: W-0024
Abstract

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

Dates: 1830-1924

Dorman and Noel family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0443
Abstract

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

Dates: 1831-1866

Elizabeth Herndon Inge Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0727
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1864-02-01

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1849-1861

Gaillard and Hurtel families papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Abstract

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

Dates: 1838-1885

Edward Hall letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0609
Abstract

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

Dates: 1837, 1840

Henry Major Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4217
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1816-1841

Henry Peter Loding Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0872
Abstract

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

Dates: 1888 - 1947

Hurtel Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0721
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1877 - 1948

J. T. Wiswall papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0011
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1860

J. Zelinski Camp O'Neal sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0038
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1883 June

Jarvis Turner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3477
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1849 - 1856

John Bragg Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2007
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1835-11-28 - 1857-12-22

John Forbes and Company land records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0074
Abstract

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

Dates: 1799 - 1849

Joseph Murrell letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Abstract

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

Dates: 1861

Josiah and Sarah Deas Nott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1061
Abstract

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

Dates: 1855 - 1882

L. N. Hitchcock Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0677
Abstract

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

Dates: 1838-08

James Maxwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2317
Abstract

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

Dates: 1907

Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1000
Abstract

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

Dates: 1836 - 1876

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0050
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1861-1862

Mobile, Alabama, Police Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1005
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1865 - 1869

Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1821-1838

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

Pettigrew Family Carte de Visite

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract

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

Dates: 1866

Photographs by Sandoz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-015
Abstract

Photographs were taken by Sandoz Photographer.

Dates: 1905

Cameron McRae Plummer book list

 Collection
Identifier: W-0087
Abstract

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

Dates: 1950-1961

Robert H. Smith legal notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Abstract

Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.

Dates: circa 1870

Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Abstract

Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1897

St. John family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1330
Abstract

Legal papers related to property, as well as personal and business letters

Dates: 1852-1907

St. Matthew's Holy Name Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2310
Abstract

Minute book for St. Matthew's Holy Name Society in Mobile, Alabama

Dates: 1928-1941

Aurulia Taylor autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1385
Abstract

Commercially published autograph book entitled "Leaves of Affection", containing handwritten notes and poems by Taylor's friends and acquaintances. Most of the signers were from Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1862-1873

Daniel Thomas papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1398
Abstract

Contains the records of Judge Daniel Thomas, including the Birdie Davis vs. School Board, Mobile, Alabama records, which was one of his most important civil rights cases based on desegregation, as well as other case records, certificates, and other notes.

Dates: 1940-1960

Albert J. Tully letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1425
Abstract

A series of typed letters sent to family and friends by this Mobile, Alabama, resident describing his and his immediate family's experiences during and following Hurricane Frederick, which hit Mobile September 12-13, 1979.

Dates: 1979-1980

W. P. A. Federal Writers Project

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1503
Abstract

Photocopies of records compiled in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Federal Writers' Project, District 6, Mobile, Ala., I.D. # OI49-5073, concerning with historically significant individuals, geographical areas, monuments, parks, buildings, ceremonies, forts, squares, social customs, theatres, folklore, and art.

Dates: unknown

Yuille Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1601
Abstract

A collection of correspondence, 1861-1865, and other personal papers, as well as bills, receipts, and orders of this bakery in Mobile, Alabama, operated by Gavin Yuille (?-1849) and his sons John C. and Robert Lang Yuille (1822-?). Includes the loyalty oath taken by John C. Yuille in 1865.

Dates: 1827 - 1871