Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 696 Collections and/or Records:
Alex Van Hoose Davies family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0402
Overview
Photocopies of the family history of an early northwest Alabama family, one of whom became mayor of Birmingham in the 1890s. There are also some personal recollections of the Union Army raid on Tuscaloosa led by John T. Croxton in April 1865, augmented with notes by grandson Alexander Van Hoose Davies, as well as copies of memorials of various Van Hoose men, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1925-1980
Jerry A. Davis, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0405
Abstract
Letters, newspaper clippings, event programs, photographs, and other items reflecting the personal interests of their compiler during his high school and undergraduate years.
Dates:
1973-1988; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1988
John Davis mortgage
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0406
Abstract
A mortgage dated 20 June 1835 on slaves made out to Whitman Brane company in Montgomery County, Alabama.
Dates:
1835 June 20
Dayton Female Institute announcement
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0415
Abstract
An 1867 announcement containing information for students of this Dayton, Alabama girls school overseen by the Rev. J.F. Tarrant and his wife.
Dates:
1867
Elbert Deains deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0416
Abstract
A document dated 26 July 1849, recording the gift of one acre of land to the town of Pine Grove in Pike County, Alabama.
Dates:
1849 July 26
W.E. Dearman paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0418
Abstract
Typescript copy of Judge W.E. Dearman's "The Town of Gaston, Alabama," a history of Gaston, an abandoned town in Sumter County, Alabama.
Dates:
undated
John C. Deason papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0420
Abstract
A collection of copies of Civil War muster rolls including those of the Forty-fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. B (15 March 1862), the Twentieth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. H (16 September 1861), the Thirty-sixth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. F (13 May 1862), and the First Alabama Infantry Regiment, Co. A (nd).
Dates:
1861-1862
DeKalb Land and Mining Company minute book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0422
Abstract
This collection contains the company's record and minute book for the period 1911-1920.
Dates:
1911-1920
Delta Kappa Gamma, Beta Chapter, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0424
Abstact
Documentation of the annual activities of the Tuscaloosa chapter of this international education society. The records include minutes, annual reports, financial reports and records, histories, yearbooks, correspondence, directories, and other materials.
Dates:
1939-1999
Jere Clemens Dennis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0428
Overview
Personal, family, and business papers of a Tallapoosa County attorney, including legal case files as well as Sons of Confederate Veterans, Alabama National Guard, and Masonic materials.
Dates:
1841-1935
J. W. Dennis journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0427
Abstract
The accounts for a drug store in Carlowville, Dallas County, Alabama, 1867-68, including records of customers' purchases and amounts paid and owed.
Dates:
1867-1868
Dexter and Abbot letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0434
Abstract
A letter dated 6 May 1848 to Mssrs. Mason and Lawrence, Boston, regarding cotton sales.
Dates:
1848 May 6
Diary of an Alabama Presbyterian Minister, 1832
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2646
Overview
Diary of an unidentified Presbyterian minister from Alabama, recording his travel from Alabama to New York to attend the Presbyterian Church's Assembly in Philadelphia in 1832.
Dates:
1832
Dimon, Fay, and Beers records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0436
Abstract
A collection containing business correspondence and receipts of this Mobile, Alabama, partnership which included the city's Chief of Police, C. A. R. Dimon.
Dates:
1866
Dixie Art Colony newsletters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0438
Abstract
Newsletters of the Dixie Art Colony, 1940-1942, which was located between Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1940-1942
Frank Murray Dixon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0439
Abstract
Family correspondence, newsclippings, financial records, and photos of this Alabama governor and his family.
Dates:
1938-1981
Donoho family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3704
Overview
Letters between members of a close Tuscaloosa family written primarily during the Civil War.
Dates:
1838-1914
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
Doug Jones and another man by an entrance at Jacobs Mine, photo 1, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003813
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Doug Jones and another man by an entrance at Jacobs Mine, photo 2, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003814
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Douglas Jones by a sheltered area underneath a bluff, photo 1, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003808
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Douglas Jones by a sheltered area underneath a bluff, photo 2, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003809
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Douglas Jones by a sheltered area underneath a bluff, photo 3, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003810
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Douglas Jones by a sheltered area underneath a bluff, photo 4, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003811
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Douglas Jones by a sheltered area underneath a bluff, photo 5, circa 1960
Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003812
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
110 photographs depicting work scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; bluffs and other rural areas; Dr. Douglas E. Jones at the Jacob's Coal Mine entrance and at Pollard Field; fields at Blackwell Run; farm fields; quarry; and portrait of Walter B. Jones. Photograph album with 96 photographs, 1900-1920, depicting ships on the Long Island sound; road trip; Big Cove Pike quarry; iron bridges in Madison County, Alabama; 4th of July parade in Huntsville, Alabama; Hales Bar Dam on Tennessee River; Dixie...
Dates:
circa 1960
Douthitt scrapbook materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0399
Overview
Material, mostly photocopies, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama.
Dates:
1865 - 1877
Dr. Harper at Big Mussel Shoals below Walker's Island, 1922 October
Item
Identifier: 2011.004.004153
Scope and Contents note
From the File:
1 Photographic album (257 photographs) depicting geological trips and rock formations; scenes from Ashville, North Carolina; quarries; Jones and Phelps family photos in Alabama; Tennessee River; photos of Rigs Stephenson and Joe Sewell, University of Alabama baseball players; Stone Mountain Georgia; and scenes from North Carolina and Fort Bragg.
Dates:
1922 October
Dr. Truman H. Aldrich Sr. at Woods Bluff near the Tombigbee River, 1930 August 13
Item — Box 6195: [1006235746], Folder: 13
Identifier: 2011.004.005618
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
180 photographs depicting World War II; Walter Jones and others in New Guinea; limestone in New Guinea; Tannehill State Park Bicentennial event; Representative Walter Flowers at Tannehill; diagrams of types of shells; Jones family; Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama; ships and boats in New Guinea; landscapes and vegetation in New Guinea; view from Cameron Plateau near Milne Bay in New Guinea; Dobodura Airfield in Papua New Guinea; Spring Cave and other caves in Madison County, Alabama; scenes...
Dates:
1930 August 13
Charles M. Dragoo Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4115
Overview
Letters from Dragoo to his wife Lois and daughter Sandra Sue in Muncie, Indiana, telling of his arrival and attempts to find housing for the three of them at Fort McClellan Infantry Replacement Training Center in Alabama.
Dates:
1944 March 12-26
Ducks on the water at a lime sink, 1922 October
Item
Identifier: 2011.004.004155
Scope and Contents note
From the File:
1 Photographic album (257 photographs) depicting geological trips and rock formations; scenes from Ashville, North Carolina; quarries; Jones and Phelps family photos in Alabama; Tennessee River; photos of Rigs Stephenson and Joe Sewell, University of Alabama baseball players; Stone Mountain Georgia; and scenes from North Carolina and Fort Bragg.
Dates:
1922 October
H.B. Dugger scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0453
Overview
A scrapbook of essays and poems clipped from Civil War era newspapers.
Dates:
1865-1869
J. M. Duncan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0456
Abstract
A collection of correspondence, financial papers, and artifacts belonging to this Blocton, Alabama, resident.
Dates:
1894-1932
Thomas Duncan ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0457
Overview
Five ledgers covering the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Ft. Deposit Institution Reading Club (1889-1893), lecture notes, patient's accounts, and what appears to be an accountant's or executor's ledger of payments from at least one estate (1943-1956)
Dates:
1889-1926
Dunn's Creek Baptist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0458
Overview
Records of members, deeds to church land, enrollments and dismissals, deaths, and expenses of this Baptist church in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
Dates:
1834-1979
E. Irby Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0732
Abstract
A letter dated 16 August 1821, from Huntsville, Alabama to Haynie Hatchett, McFarland store, Lunenburg County, Virginia, concerning his recollection of a debt owed to Hatchett, news of family, friends and business. It notes the burning of the newly built theatre in town, the construction of a canal, and the state of local crops.
Dates:
1821-08-16
E. Sears Letters and Account
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1238
Abstract
Two letters, dated 25 January and 23 June 1859, to C. E. Hull, M.D., New York, the latter of which includes details of mileage, expenses, and accounts settled, 13-23 June 1859, while selling patent medicine in Alabama.
Dates:
1859
Early Alabama documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0464
Overview
Documents from the mid nineteenth century, including store and tax receipts, court orders, letters, property appraisals, etc., from Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, mainly pertaining to West Alabama
Dates:
1844-1887
Early Alabama Land Grants and Applications for Purchase
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0465
Overview
Applications for grants and for the purchase of land, mainly in Marengo and Washington counties in Alabama. There are also a few other legal documents pertaining to disputed applications.
Dates:
1812 - 1846
Early Educational Institutions in the South
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0466
Overview
Tuition receipts, a printed announcement, and a clipping, from several schools, primarily in Alabama.
Dates:
1844-1879
Johnnie M. Edwards paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0477
Overview
Paper titled "Inventory of Public Records in the Cherokee County Courthouse" containing an inventory of public records in the Cherokee County, Alabama, courthouse, 1882-1930.
Dates:
1980
Edwin W. Jones in uniform near a house, circa 1919
Item
Identifier: 2011.004.005154
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Photograph album with 248 photographs depicting World War I scenes in France; photograph of German Army with Kaiser Bill, Crown Prince, and General Von Kluck; cross grave maker of Quentin Roosevelt; tanks, weapons, and prisoners of war; Walter Jones and others at camp; volcanic plug in Italy; Loire River; Mediterranean Sea near the France-Italy border; bridges in New York City; landscape and city views in France; boats in the New York Harbor; USS Lancaster; Cathedral of St. Etienne of Bourges,...
Dates:
circa 1919
Elise Ayers Sanguinetti Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0098
Abstract
This collection consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, and galley proofs, as well as reviews and notices of Elise Ayers Sanguinetti, the Alabama author of The Last of the Whitfields (1962), The New Girl (1964), The Dowager (1968), and McBee's Station (1972).
Dates:
1929 - 2003
Elisha Wolsey Peck papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1120
Overview
Correspondence and financial papers of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, attorney, as well as material relating to the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1867, of which Peck was chairman.
Dates:
1837 - 1887
Elliott and Carl Mill time book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Overview
A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
Dates:
1886 - 1891
John K. and William M. Elliott daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0482
Overview
Photocopies of the daybooks of John K. Elliott and his son, William M. Elliott, of the Payneville, Sumter County, Alabama area, spanning the years from 1870 through 1911.
Dates:
1870-1911
Charles Ellis diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2819
Overview
Diary written by First Sergeant Charles Ellis of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The diary contains daily notes concerning regimental duty in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1865.
Dates:
1865
Elmore County, Alabama, Jury Board ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0483
Overview
Ledger kept by the Elmore County, Alabama Jury Board from 1931 to 1935.
Dates:
1931-1935
Elvalena Jones, Mrs. Okes, and Aunt Clara by a house, circa 1917
Item
Identifier: 2011.004.005214
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Photograph album with 248 photographs depicting World War I scenes in France; photograph of German Army with Kaiser Bill, Crown Prince, and General Von Kluck; cross grave maker of Quentin Roosevelt; tanks, weapons, and prisoners of war; Walter Jones and others at camp; volcanic plug in Italy; Loire River; Mediterranean Sea near the France-Italy border; bridges in New York City; landscape and city views in France; boats in the New York Harbor; USS Lancaster; Cathedral of St. Etienne of Bourges,...
Dates:
circa 1917
Ensley Merchants Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0487
Overview
Minutes, bank statements, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, area organization
Dates:
1929-1944
Janie May Eppes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0489
Overview
Teaching materials and clippings gathered by a Birmingham, Alabama, school teacher for use in her classroom, and in the course of her own education
Dates:
1907-1957