Alabama

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.

Letters, postcards, and telegrams from World War II pen pals to this former Montreat College student and resident of Headland, Henry County, Alabama.

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.

A list of original members and some of the pastors of this Alabama church by an unknown author.

Broadside with wood-engraved and letterpress elements, addressed in ms. on verso to Elijah Fuller, Esq. of Fayetteville, Georgia.

A collection including photos used in Huey's History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.

Primitive diary of a young lady of Gainesville, Alabama.

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.

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.

Writings of James A. Henderson of the Twelveth Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment while stationed at Centre, Alabama, in December 1865.

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.

A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.

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.

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.

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

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.

A letter dated 22 September 1852, from LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama, requesting a subscription to a journal titled the Presbyterian.

Receipt dated 1 February 1963 for poll tax paid by Janet Fuller.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.

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.

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.

Two political broadsides relating to John M. Miller's campaign for the office of mayor of Cordova, Alabama, possibly in 1947.