Alabama

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, cost estimates, brochures, plans, notes, and various other documents regarding the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection and the University of Alabama Libraries' acquisition of the collection from Mr. A.S. Williams III. Correspondence is primarily between the University of Alabama's Dean of Libraries, Louis A. Pitschmann, and various university offices and personnel, Mr. Williams, and Stephen Rowe (curator and archivist of the Eufaula Athenaeum). Also included are...

Overview Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.

Overview Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916

Overview Holt's correspondence between May and June 1908, relating to his duties as quartermaster general in securing hotels accommodations and horses for Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and members of his staff who participated in the veteran's parade and other reunion events.

Overview Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.

Overview Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings

Overview Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.

Overview Ledger documenting the sale of materials such as molasses, coffee, and sugar, as well as the sale of slaves.

Overview Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.

Overview Typescript of Susan Hunt Ingram Ray's master's thesis on Harwell G. Davis.

Overview Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman of Athens, Alabama, from her husband and sisters between 1834 and 1843.

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

Overview Ballots, voting lists, city council minutes, oaths of office, and correspondence related to elections in the town of Pickett Springs, Alabama, and a map of the area.

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.

Overview Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.

Overview Correspondence, financial and legal records, annual reports, and employee newsletters produced by the Woodward Iron Company and members of the Woodward Voting Trust, from 1945-1977.