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Alabama

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 696 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Francis Hobbs papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0682
Abstract Correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets, government publications and other materials concerning Samuel Francis Hobbs's career as the U.S. Congressman (1934-1951) from the 4th district of Alabama.
Dates: 1921-1952; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1950
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Samuel Francis Hobbs papers

W. E. Hobson, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0684
Abstract A large collection of scrapbooks, containing twenty-nine volumes of information on the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area, one volume on historic Tuscaloosa homes, one volume of political information and two volumes on local history.
Dates: 1938-1966
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / W. E. Hobson, Jr. papers

Ann Hollis letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1789
Abstract Letters, postcards, and telegrams from World War II pen pals to this former Montreat College student and resident of Headland, Henry County, Alabama.
Dates: 1943-1946
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Ann Hollis letters

John L. Hollis papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4003
Overview Autobiography of John Lawrence Hollis who was a superintendent at Mitchell Dam on the Coosa River near Verbena, Alabama, in the early and mid- twentieth century.
Dates: 1940-1960
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John L. Hollis papers

Hopewell Baptist Church Historical Information

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0702
Abstract A list of original members and some of the pastors of this Alabama church by an unknown author.
Dates: 1822 - 1913
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Hopewell Baptist Church Historical Information

Hotchkiss' Premium Vertical Waterwheel and Appendages broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3731
Overview Broadside with wood-engraved and letterpress elements, addressed in ms. on verso to Elijah Fuller, Esq. of Fayetteville, Georgia.
Dates: 1846 February 20
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Hotchkiss' Premium Vertical Waterwheel and Appendages broadside

Mattie McAdory Huey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0713
Overview A collection including photos used in Huey's History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates: Unknown
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Mattie McAdory Huey papers

Hugh Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1611
Abstract Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.
Dates: 1820 - 1898
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Hugh Davis Papers

Hunting preserve at Swanscott in Alabama, photo 1, 1956 August 29

 Item — Box 19: [1006235742], Folder: 2011.004.001988
Identifier: 2011.004.001988
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Jones's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; camp at Elk River, Alabama; drilling pump in the woods; Raymond W. Jones's gravestone; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; and George Walter Jones's grave at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1956 August 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 19

Hunting preserve at Swanscott in Alabama, photo 2, 1956 August 29

 Item — Box 19: [1006235742], Folder: 2011.004.001989
Identifier: 2011.004.001989
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Jones's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; camp at Elk River, Alabama; drilling pump in the woods; Raymond W. Jones's gravestone; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; and George Walter Jones's grave at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1956 August 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 19

Hunting preserve at Swanscott in Alabama, photo 3, 1956 August 29

 Item — Box 19: [1006235742], Folder: 2011.004.001990
Identifier: 2011.004.001990
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Jones's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; camp at Elk River, Alabama; drilling pump in the woods; Raymond W. Jones's gravestone; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; and George Walter Jones's grave at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1956 August 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 19

Hunting preserve at Swanscott in Alabama, photo 4, 1956 August 29

 Item — Box 19: [1006235742], Folder: 2011.004.001991
Identifier: 2011.004.001991
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Jones's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; camp at Elk River, Alabama; drilling pump in the woods; Raymond W. Jones's gravestone; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; and George Walter Jones's grave at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1956 August 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 19

Hunting preserve at Swanscott in Alabama, photo 5, 1956 August 29

 Item — Box 19: [1006235742], Folder: 2011.004.001992
Identifier: 2011.004.001992
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Jones's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; camp at Elk River, Alabama; drilling pump in the woods; Raymond W. Jones's gravestone; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; and George Walter Jones's grave at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1956 August 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 19

Hunting preserve at Swanscott in Alabama, photo 6, 1956 August 29

 Item — Box 19: [1006235742], Folder: 2011.004.001993
Identifier: 2011.004.001993
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Jones's house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; camp at Elk River, Alabama; drilling pump in the woods; Raymond W. Jones's gravestone; Walter Jones’s pipe collection; and George Walter Jones's grave at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1956 August 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 19

Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama, paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0432
Abstract A paper containing a list of trades and professions in Huntsville, Alabama, and describing the geography of Huntsville and Madison County. Includes original, typewritten copy, and photocopy.
Dates: circa 1809
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama, paper

Hurtel Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0721
Abstract The collection relating to this Mobile, Alabama, family consists of a family history by Caroline Garrett and newspaper clippings on Mobile Mardi Gras celebrations, dedication of the Confederate war memorial, and various other items of general Mobile interest.
Dates: 1877 - 1948
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Hurtel Family Papers

Huston Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0724
Abstract This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials created by the Huston family in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, and extended family in Mobile, Alabama. Most materials center around George Waring Huston, who was killed in World War One.
Dates: 1831-1937
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Huston Family papers

George B. Inge papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0728
Overview Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.
Dates: 1862 - 1975
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / George B. Inge papers

Ira Stark Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-023
Abstract Sixteen black and white photographs of University of Alabama scenes, including students, football parade, ROTC functions and Governor Bibb Graves. Photographs were probably taken by Ira Stark, a University of Alabama student and graduate of 1940.
Dates: 1930 - 1947
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Ira Stark Photographs

Italian Agricultural Community, Lambert, Alabama, Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0734
Abstract Biographical sketches of the Italian settlers of Lambert, Mobile County, Alabama, a photocopy of Sadie Hattenstein's obituary, and a compilation of information on Italians in Alabama from 1890 to 1920.
Dates: 1907 - 1983
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Italian Agricultural Community, Lambert, Alabama, Collection

J. G. Lewis Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0856
Abstract Ledger containing accounts relating to the settlement of Lewis' estate, including accounts of customers at his Forkland, Alabama store. Previously misidentified as Thornhill Commissary ledger.
Dates: 1891 - 1898
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / J. G. Lewis Account Book

J. R. John Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0756
Abstract Typescript copies of 1863 letters, written from Selma to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, concerning John's efforts to stop cadets from leaving the University to fight in the Civil War, and on preparations for the defense of Tuscaloosa.
Dates: 1863
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / J. R. John Letters

J. R. Odom store ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Overview Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.
Dates: 1920-1937
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / J. R. Odom store ledger

Jefferson Franklin Jackson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0736
Overview This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.
Dates: 1847 - 1921
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Jefferson Franklin Jackson Family Papers

Miss T. Jackson Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4068
Overview Primitive diary of a young lady of Gainesville, Alabama.
Dates: circa 1860
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Miss T. Jackson Diary

Jacob Faser letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0506
Overview Letters written from Mobile, Alabama, where Faser was working as a sword maker, to his wife in Macon, Mississippi, dealing mainly with personal news and information on the prices of available goods.
Dates: 1861 - 1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Jacob Faser letters

Jacobs Mine entrance in Alabama, photo 1, circa 1960

 Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003817
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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 34

Jacobs Mine entrance in Alabama, photo 2, circa 1960

 Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003818
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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 34

Jacobs Mine entrance in Alabama, photo 3, circa 1960

 Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003819
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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 34

Jacobs Mine entrance in Alabama, photo 4, circa 1960

 Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003820
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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 34

Jacobs Mine entrance in Alabama, photo 5, circa 1960

 Item — Box 34: [1006063579], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011.004.003821
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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2011-004, Walter Bryan Jones photographs / Box 34

James A. Goble diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Overview Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Dates: 1862-1863
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James A. Goble diary

James A. Henderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0662
Overview Writings of James A. Henderson of the Twelveth Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment while stationed at Centre, Alabama, in December 1865.
Dates: 1865-12-1 - 1865-12-4
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James A. Henderson Papers

James Abercrombie Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2005
Abstract Letter of recommendation written on March 8, 1849 by James Abercrombie, then serving as Senator in the Alabama Senate, to the Honorable William B Preston, Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor.
Dates: 1849-10-08
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Abercrombie Letter

James Austin Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates: 1898-1941
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Austin Anderson papers

James Bowron papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.
Dates: 1861-1928
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Bowron papers

James Boykin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Boykin papers

James Strother Caller Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0263
Overview Letter written by Caller, dated 2 August 1852, from Gosport, Clarke County, Alabama, to Messrs. Jno. A. Winston &c, commission merchants of Mobile, Alabama, asking for a correction on the account of W. McConnell
Dates: 1852-08-02
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Strother Caller Letter

James Thomas Heflin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0659
Abstract Correspondence, speeches, press releases, biographical notes, campaign literature, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia of this member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator from Alabama.
Dates: 1895 - 1951
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Thomas Heflin Papers

James Woodrow Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1572
Abstract A letter dated 22 September 1852, from LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama, requesting a subscription to a journal titled the Presbyterian.
Dates: 1852-09-22
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James Woodrow Letter

Janet Fuller Poll Tax Receipt

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0752
Abstract Receipt dated 1 February 1963 for poll tax paid by Janet Fuller.
Dates: 1963-02-01
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Janet Fuller Poll Tax Receipt

Jeff Sessions Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1744
Overview A letter from Jeff Sessions, US Senator for Alabama, to Earl Hinson, mayor of Union Springs, Alabama, thanking him for securing a copy of Wade hall's Conecuh People, 5 September 2003.
Dates: 2003-09-05
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Jeff Sessions Letter

Jesse Griffin letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Overview A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.
Dates: 1813 September 5
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Jesse Griffin letter

John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0326
Abstract Three bound volumes of this Alabama attorney and politician and his wife: John Cochran's diary; Mary Wellborn Cochran's journal; and a miscellany of copies of some of John Cochran's outgoing correspondence, journal entries of his, and copies of some freedman contracts to which he was party. Also includes two unidentified photographs that appear to be from the early twentieth century.
Dates: 1839-1915
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs

John Cecil Persons Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1128
Abstract This collection consists of papers pertaining to banking, Person's World War II military service,and civic activities, along with correspondence, reports, speeches, scrapbooks, and other materials.
Dates: 1917 - 1970
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John Cecil Persons Papers

John Cocke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates: 1810-1899
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John Cocke Papers

John Collier Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0536
Overview A sizeable collection of church correspondence, sermons, and other religious materials, and family correspondence and other personal items of this farmer and Southern Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates: 1841 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1892
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John Collier Foster papers

John H. Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0009
Abstract The correspondence of a Birmingham, Alabama, mining engineer, businessman, poet, and public servant. The collection also includes a small group of papers of Adams' son, John R. Adams, an attorney and realtor.
Dates: 1889 - 1943; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1936
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John H. Adams papers

John Horry Dent papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0430
Overview There are four typescript documents in the folder also: (1) Commodore John Herbert Dent, U.S. Navy, 1782–1823; (2) Charles I. Graves in Egypt (1875–1878); (3) Cape Guardafui by Lt. Col. Graves (the proceedings of the meeting of October 1880); and (4) Report of Lt. Col. Graves, 4th July 1878.The Plantation Book (or Farm Journal v.1) was written by John Horry Dent from January 1840 through December 1842 to record actual expenditures and incomes from his estate and to provide...
Dates: 1840-1891
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John Horry Dent papers

John M. Miller Broadsides

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0990
Abstract Two political broadsides relating to John M. Miller's campaign for the office of mayor of Cordova, Alabama, possibly in 1947.
Dates: 1947
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John M. Miller Broadsides