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Mobile (Ala.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Naf

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Portrait of Carrie McLester Snow, 1880s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 1006235649], item: 2008.026.000029
Identifier: 2008.026.000029
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1880s

Portrait of J. A. Van Hoose , 1880s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 1006235649], item: 2008.026.000007
Identifier: 2008.026.000007
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1880s

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

Walter Jones and other members of the Board of Conservation, photo 1, 1940 September 8

 Item — Box 5941: [Barcode: 1006235674], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.005252
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 107 photographs depicting ships and boats in the Gulf of Mexico; birds and dolphins; Walter Jones and other members of the Board of Conservation; Alabama State Port Authority patrol boats; ducks; Governor Frank M. Dixon; fishing; Fort Morgan, Alabama; World War I; Walter Jones and others in France; Prince's yacht on the water in Monaco; Gallery of Henry II in the Palace of Fountainebleau; fountain in Versailles; Camp Mills, New York; military camp in France; ships in the New York Harbor;...
Dates: 1940 September 8

Walter Jones and other members of the Board of Conservation, photo 2, 1940 September 8

 Item — Box 5941: [Barcode: 1006235674], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.005256
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 107 photographs depicting ships and boats in the Gulf of Mexico; birds and dolphins; Walter Jones and other members of the Board of Conservation; Alabama State Port Authority patrol boats; ducks; Governor Frank M. Dixon; fishing; Fort Morgan, Alabama; World War I; Walter Jones and others in France; Prince's yacht on the water in Monaco; Gallery of Henry II in the Palace of Fountainebleau; fountain in Versailles; Camp Mills, New York; military camp in France; ships in the New York Harbor;...
Dates: 1940 September 8

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