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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
Photographs were taken by Sandoz Photographer.
Dates:
1905
Cameron McRae Plummer book list
Collection
Identifier: W-0087
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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