Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 696 Collections and/or Records:
Esbon C. Lambert Diary and Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3924
Abstract
Diary and letters from Lambert, a United States Navy landsman aboard the USS Itasca from 1863-1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Dates:
1863-1864
Esslinger, Carl Jones, Ed Jones, Amo Love, Bill Vaughn, Ray Jones, 1919 August
Item
Identifier: 2011.004.005223
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:
1919 August
Estes Embroidery Circle records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0491
Overview
Letters, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, photos, scrapbooks, and diaries of members of this social club in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
1928-1996
Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, account book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0495
Overview
A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.
Dates:
1922-1924
Eugene Allen Smith Glass Negatives
Collection
Identifier: 2007-005
Overview
This collection consists of glass plate negatives depicting Eugene Allen Smith's geological survey trips; various scenes from the University of Alabama campus, building the Smith Hall, Central Iron & Coal in Holt, Alabama, and mining sites, museum artifacts, maps, pages from books, and his family.
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Ezell Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0498
Abstract
Record book for store located in either Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama, or Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1879-1910
F. H. Petrie letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1620
Abstract
Letters written from Colbert Shoals and Florence, Alabama, to a business partner about digging canals around shoals on the Tennessee River. Petrie discusses sickness, heavy rains, high water, and lack of funding.
Dates:
1831 - 1833
John Henry Faber papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0499
Overview
Photocopies of reports and biographical sketches written by John Henry Faber after his retirement from the Eastman Kodak Company, as well as a section on early Alabama television.
Dates:
1933 - 1988
James M. Faircloth papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0500
Overview
Includes student papers and personal papers of J. M. Faircloth, a professor of civil engineering at The University of Alabama during the years 1961 through 1969.
Dates:
1961-1969
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0501
Overview
Documents related to this single tax colony settled in 1894 in Baldwin County, Alabama, by reformers from Des Moines, Iowa.
Dates:
1950-1960
Fairview Presbyterian Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1613
Overview
This collection consists of five record books. The first two are Union Parish Records, and they contain the history of the Union Parish in Alabama and records from 1888 through 1952. The last three are ledgers of the First Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, Perry County, Alabama, from 1848 through 1989. The ledgers include meeting minutes of the church and a variety of bulletins. Church located in Uniontown, Perry County, Alabama.
Dates:
1848-1989
John Falconer deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0502
Overview
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, from John Falconer to Jonathan Mayhew, in 1823
Dates:
1823 May 3
Hallie Farmer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0503
Overview
Newspaper clippings and other published material by and about Dr. Farmer, including bibliographies, offprints of articles, book reviews, and other materials.
Dates:
1924-1960
Albert John Farrah manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0505
Overview
Typescript manuscripts of two textbooks (two copies of each) created by Albert John Farrah, Dean of the University of Alabama Law School from 1912 until shortly before his death in June of 1944.
Dates:
1934
City of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0509
Overview
Letters created and received by the city of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, mainly relating to routine matters in this small town, including city maintenance concerns.
Dates:
1927-1933
Zachariah Fields deed
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0512
Overview
A conveyance of land in Montgomery, Alabama, dated 3 March 1833, to Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitman.
Dates:
1833 March 2
Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3607
Overview
Papers from the fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature
Dates:
after 1930
Margaret Gillis Figh papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0513
Abstract
This collection consists mainly of folklore and tales contributed by students in Figh's folklore and English classes at Huntingdon College, plus miscellaneous contributions from family and friends.
Dates:
1940-1975
Finances
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains financial information such as reports, budgets, banking documents, expenditure invoices and tax information.
Dates:
1928-2002
First Baptist Church of Chalkville Postcard
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3465
Overview
Postcard showing the First Baptist Church of Chalkville, Alabama, in 1884 and again one hundred years later in 1984
Dates:
1984
First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0517
Overview
List of pastors, rules of decorum, the church covenant, and baptism lists, 1838-1904. It also includes an article, "Chronicles of the First Baptist Church," by Tom Garner, clerk.
Dates:
1818-1927
First Presbyterian Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0518
Overview
Contains record books, 1820-1948; list of baptisms, 1845-1894; Board of Trustees record books, 1838-1911; Board of Deacons minute book, 1886-1888; and miscellaneous other documents for this Tuscaloosa, Alabama church.
Dates:
1820-1948
Fish hanging from a docked boat, photo 1, circa 1940
Item — Box 5941: [1006235674], Folder: 2
Identifier: 2011.004.005271
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; Statue...
Dates:
circa 1940
Folder 1, 1898 - 1904, 1965 October 14, 1960
File — Box 6247: [1006235561], Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Overview
Photographs of Alma Bishop as a young woman and at her older age, and her friends; one of Alma Bishop Williams and President of the University of Alabama Frank Rose, October 14 1965.
Dates:
1898 - 1904, 1965 October 14, 1960
Folder 26, 1925
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 26
Identifier: Folder 26
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1925
Folder 27, 1926
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 27
Identifier: FOlder 27
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1926
Folder 35, 1920s
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 35
Identifier: Folder 35
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1920s
Folder 4, 1919 - 1920
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1919 - 1920
Folder 5, 1919 - 1920
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1919 - 1920
Folder 6, 1919 - 1920
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1919 - 1920
Folder 7, 1919 - 1920
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1919 - 1920
Folder 8, 1919 - 1920
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1919 - 1920
Folder 9, 1919 - 1920
File — Box 1: [1006235666], Folder: folder 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A collection of genealogical records.
Dates:
1919 - 1920
"Origin of Fort Toulouse" essay
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0528
Overview
An essay on the history of Fort Toulouse, constructed in 1717 near Wetumpka, Alabama
Dates:
after 1900
Forty-fifth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, Worship Bulletins and other Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4060
Overview
Archive of programs for a variety of programs related to the 45th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1949 to 1979
Dates:
1949-1978
Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Overview
Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Dates:
1959-1984
Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0539
Overview
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Francis Johnson Keene Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0798
Abstract
Ledger sheets of accounts recording the sale of lumber, flour, corn, and other commodities. The collection also contains poems written by and arithmetic exercises done by Frances Johnson Keene.
Dates:
1843 - 1855
Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book
Collection
Identifier: W-0045
Overview
Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings
Dates:
1866-1889
William Fulton letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0547
Overview
Typescript copy of a letter dated 12 April 1865, written by Fulton to his sister, Mrs. Theodora Fulton Pettus, describing the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, to Union forces.
Dates:
1865 April 12
G. W. Hewitt Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0668
Abstract
A 1876 letter to the editor of the Congressional directory.
Dates:
1876
Geological Survey of Alabama papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-3511
Overview
Geological Survey of Alabama and the State Oil and Gas Board materials
Dates:
1975-2000
Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-002
Overview
This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates:
1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
George and Eleanor Bridges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0210
Overview
Letters written to George and Eleanor Bridges, of Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama, and others written by George. There are also newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items and four journals.
Dates:
1932-1965
George Burke Johnston Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0763
Abstract
This collection contains the text of a speech delivered to the Alabama Press Association in 1898, a 1922 letter from Carl L. Larmer (?) to Thomas McCorvey, copies of Johnston's works "What the University of Alabama Has Meant to My Life," and "A Book for General Lee," and an advertisement for an 1889 British production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
Dates:
1889 - 1922
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
Louis Gerstman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0567
Overview
Papers of this Selma, Dallas County, Alabama insurance agent and manager of the Edwards Opera House and the Academy of Music, 1879-1896.
Dates:
1879-1896
Willis H. Gibson letter of appointment
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0568
Overview
Letter dated 28 June 1850 from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, appointing Gibson as a U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama
Dates:
1850 June 28
Guy Gilliland papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0570
Overview
Letters between Gilliland and his sweetheart (later wife) Josie, church materials from Trinity United Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, greeting cards, and photographs
Dates:
1909-1981
Ruth Bealle Glass Memory Book and UA Athletic Association membership ticket
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3868
Overview
The Ruth Bealle Glass Memory Book is from Glass's senior year at Tuscaloosa High School and includes notes from classmates and faculty, photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, invitations, programs, and other mementos.
Dates:
1926 - 1927