Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 495 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Haughey letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0648
Overview
Letter written by Thomas Haughey of Alabama, dated December 28, 1868 and written from Washington, DC, to Ben Perley Poone providing a short biographical sketch. Mentions having to live in the north during the Civil War due to his anti-secessionist ideals.
Dates:
1868 December 28
Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract
The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.
Dates:
1840-1862
Mrs. Dupont Thompson biography
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0135
Abstract
This collection contains an unpublished biography of Mrs. Dupont Thompson, a board member of Partlow State School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1951
George H. Thompson plantation records
Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Overview
Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
Dates:
1855-1874
To the People of Alabama: anti-secession document signed by Robert Jemison Jr. and thirty-two other members of Alabama's 1861 secession convention
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3788
Overview
Document to the people of Alabama from thirty-three men at the 1861 secession convention explaining why they did not sign the Ordinance of Secession
Dates:
1861
Tom S. Birdsong paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0159
Abstract
A paper by Birdsong entitled "The Destruction of the University of the State of Alabama," prepared for presentation to the Alabama Historical Association in 1975.
Dates:
1975
C. L. Townsend letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1419
Abstract
Letters to his wife and family sent from Kentucky and Corinth, Mississippi in 1862. The letters give instructions for handling his business affairs and express discontent with the war.
Dates:
1862
Louis W. Turpin plantation store ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1431
Overview
Two sales ledgers for a plantation store belonging to Louis W. Turpin of New Berne, Alabama. Contains daily listings by person, listing what they purchased and how much each item cost. One book is from April 21-July 17 1879, and the other is January 1 - March 9, 1880.
Dates:
1879-1880
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Service Men's Center Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1604
Abstract
A scrapbook containing photographs, letters, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, activity programs, and other items relating to the Tuscaloosa Service Men's Center for soldiers during World War Two.
Dates:
1943-1946
Tuskaloosa Female College commencement programme, 1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3726
Overview
Program for the 1890 Tuskaloosa Female College commencement exercises.
Dates:
1890 June 10
Tuscumbia, Courtland, and Decatur Railroad records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1444
Overview
Legal papers from the Mississippi Circuit Court and an Annual Report for the company from 1836
Dates:
1836-1845
Henry Tutwiler Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2044
Abstract
A letter from Tutwiler recommending a student for a teaching position at an unidentified school in Cahaba, Alabama
Dates:
1834 June 17
Twentieth Century Study Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1453
Overview
Minutes and yearbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's study club.
Dates:
1923-1993
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee Chapter, letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1470
Overview
This collection contains a letter about a meeting and the business of the chapter.
Dates:
1900
United States Civil Works Administration records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1480
Overview
Contains the surveys of business records in Alabama from 1931-1936.
Dates:
1931-1936
United States General Land Office records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1481
Abstract
This collection consists of ledgers containing: Land Commission correspondence; applications for land in Mississippi and Alabama territories; copies of land grants from England, France and Spain to residents in Mobile; marriage contracts; wills; and plats of grants, 1783-1813. Ledger 17 contains diary entries by James E. Henderson of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry, who was assistant provost marshall in Alabama in 1865. Several ledgers have been indexed by names.
Dates:
1738-1903
University of Alabama Women's Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1491
Abstract
This collection contains scrapbooks, newspaper articles, yearbooks, minutes, financial records, and photographs pertaining to, along with the constitution of, this Tuscaloosa women's civic organization.
Dates:
1923-1986
Up-To-Date Study Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1492
Overview
Minutes, financial records, correspondence, newspaper articles about, and yearbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club.
Dates:
1901-2019
U.S. Land Office at Montgomery, Alabama, July 1884, Commissioners' Land Selection Descriptions for the University of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4015
Overview
Ledger page describing the land selected for the University of Alabama in 1884
Dates:
1884
Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4273
Overview
A variety of materials related to the United States Civil War
Dates:
1861 - 1932
T. A. Walthall and Sons records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1814
Overview
This collection contains management records from the business ventures of the Thomas Arthur Walthall, Jr. family in Newbern, Hale County, Alabama. These include records from the family’s cotton gins, dairy farm and warehouse. A small number of miscellaneous items are also included in the collection.
Dates:
1912-1971
Carrie Watkins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1531
Overview
Letters, recipes, and love poems, as well as her diary, written between 1857 and 1864 in Huntsville, Alabama, with her daily thoughts, favorite excerpts from literature and history, math problems, drawings of architecture, and problem solving.
Dates:
1857-1864
Watkins Mercantile and Banking Company, Faunsdale, Alabama, statements
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3729
Overview
Statements from the Watkins Mercantile and Banking Company of Faunsdale, Alabama, detailing items purchased by Miss Winnie Walker in the last quarter of 1892.
Dates:
1892
West Blocton, Alabama, Centennial Committee records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1542
Overview
A miscellany of materials evidently amassed for the West Blocton, Alabama's centennial.
Dates:
circa 1980s
Annie Early Wheeler scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2890
Overview
Extensive scrapbook concerning the life and home of Annie Wheeler, daughter of "Fighting" Joe Wheeler.
Dates:
1950
Whitfield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1628
Overview
Papers of this Marengo County, Alabama, plantation family including correspondence, financial papers and business receipts, land sale documents, and Nathan Bryan Whitfield's presidential pardon.
Dates:
1820-1920
Whitley and Handley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2286
Overview
Photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and church programs
Dates:
1930-1980
William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Overview
Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)
Dates:
1948-1964
William H. Ely letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Overview
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.
Dates:
1820-1821
William Jesse Robinett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1624
Abstract
This collection consists of a handwritten original paper and typescript copy containing the names of family members and stories about the family's experience during Rousseau's Raid, July 10-22, 1864, in which a Union Army force raided from Decatur, Alabama, to the southward.
Dates:
1957
William P. Abrams diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0005
Abstract
Diaries of travels from New Hampshire to Alabama; to Havana, Cuba; and to the midwestern United States. The majority of entries were written in Gainesville, Alabama, where this New Hampshire native settled.
Dates:
1839 - 1848
William Strong Comstock papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0348
Overview
Business correspondence, account sheets, contracts, miscellaneous receipts, etc., of a Montgomery, Alabama, merchant, 1843-1867.
Dates:
1842-1867
Bedford H. Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3683
Overview
Legal documents, financial records, correspondence, and other personal papers of this Tuscaloosa County probate judge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1830-1945
Willie T. White papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract
Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1860-1970
J. E. Windham ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1565
Overview
Ledgers of J. E. Windham of Gainesville, Alabama, and photocopies of two volumes of the Gainesville Presbyterian Church records.
Dates:
between 1820 and 1900
Mathew Winston Alabama Shakespeare Festival papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2499
Overview
Papers, grant proposals, program guides, brochures, postcards, photographs and other materials from 1984 to 1986, concerning the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, originally based in Anniston, Alabama, and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1985.
Dates:
1984-1986
Sterling Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1570
Overview
Contains notes, photograph albums, scrapbooks, notebooks, research notes, geneaology notes, family records, wills and letters on the Wood family from the 1860's-1972.
Dates:
1860-1972
Woodward Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Overview
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.
Dates:
1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950
Woodward Iron Company records
Collection
Identifier: W-0061
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.
Dates:
1945-1977
Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.
Dates:
1798-1990
Frances Virginia McLin Wright Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4191
Overview
Papers of a Sheffield, Alabama, elementary school teacher, her family, and allied families.
Dates:
1879-1974
W. McK. Wright papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2315
Overview
Bound manuscript titled "Alabama and the NYA," a history of the National Youth Administration organization
Dates:
1943
William S. Wright letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2210
Abstract
A letter from William S. Wright of Pittsford, Vermont, to Emerson R. Wright in Greenville, Alabama. The letter discusses education, family matters, and the evils of slavery.
Dates:
1840 February 24
Wynn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1590
Abstract
An extensive collection of correspondence, diaries and legal and financial papers relating to John Henry Irby Wynn (1787-1854), teacher and farmer in Limestone County, Alabama, and his son Alexander Montgomery (1823-1897), daughter-in-law Martha (Curtis) Wynn (1826-1907), and grandson John Robert Wynn (ca. 1860-1896). The diaries include accounts of Alexander Wynn's trip to Arkansas in the 1850s.
Dates:
1845-1913
Young-White Mercantile Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1600
Abstract
Records of this Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama, general store which operated 1905 to 1933.
Dates:
1905-1933