Alabama

Correspondence and other business materials of this Brooklyn, New York, resident with business interests in Mobile, Alabama. Aside from extensive business correspondence, it includes detailed descriptions of Mobile's antebellum social life, and accounts of yellow fever epidemics and fires.

The signatures of the members of this Methodist Church in Newbern, Perry County, Alabama, in 1950

A register of members of several churches in this Perry County, Alabama, circuit and minutes of quarterly conferences. The collection includes records pertaining to Newbern, Craig's Chapel, Flatwoods, Hamburg, Mt. Carmel, Wesley's Chapel, and Scott's Station churches.

A small scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings, ca. 1937

Essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 by progressive educator Marietta Johnson in Fairhope, Alabama.

Letters from family members

A collection letters from O. Jack Kaneft to his girlfriend, Teddy Love, who later became his wife. Many of the letters were written while Kaneft was a flight instructor for WWII fighter pilots at the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Five reports to the biennial sessions of the Supreme Court of the Order of Calanthe and one annual report for the Grand Court of the Order of Calanthe of the states of Alabama. Mattie B. Rowe of Alabama was the Supreme Juvenile Matron between 1943 and 1952.

A ledger containing lists of dues collected, minutes of meetings held, and other information related to the Order of the Eastern Star Equity Lodge Number 29, of Elba, Coffee County, Alabama

Register of visitors at the 33rd annual session of the Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star of Alabama, October 17-19, 1933. It includes the names of visitors, grand officers, 1932-1933, past grand matrons, section chairs, pages, and the general membership, plus chapter names, numbers, and locations.

Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman

This collection contains a photocopy of the text of a speech titled "Growing Old Gracefully," delivered by P.C. Rogers to the Alabama Retired Teachers Association, Summer Conference, June 24, 1959.

Document signed by Alabama territorial governor William W. Bibb appointing Page Windham as the constable for Monroe County.

Twenty photographs of Partlow house restoration.

Includes letters written by a World War II bomber pilot and his wife from training facilities in Tennessee and Alabama to his family in New Jersey.

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

A collection of Thomas Minott Peters' notes on the study of Alabama's lichens, a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanbacteria living among fungus. The notes are handwritten by Thomas in the scientific form of Latin. Also includes his original typed paper titled, "Cataloge of Lichens in Alabama," 1881.

An account ledger for a general store in Fairfield, Alabama, possibly owned by Phil E. Hill

Contains the records of this clothing company including: papers on the correct measurement styles and clothing type for menswear, safety manual, audit records, and transaction booklet.

Unidentified store accounts 1908-13; documents pertaining to county taxes and funding 1935-36, a hotel register, and labor records from Pickens County, Alabama.

Ballots, voting lists, city council minutes, oaths of office, and correspondence related to elections in the town of Pickett Springs, Alabama, and a map of the area.

A single letterbook containing copies of Gurley, Alabama businessman Walter H. Powers's outgoing correspondence, March-October 1938

Photocopy of a typescript paper titled "Private Rosser's Colt" on the history of a Colt pistol carried by Henry Preston Rosser in the Civil War as a member of Shockley’s Independent Escort Company, from Alabama.

May 1858 letter from a student at Green Springs School, Havana, Alabama, describing school life.

Seventeen photographs taken by Raymond Hunt of the C.S.S. Alabama model constructed by him. Images are showing the finished model, various stages of construction, and close-up showing details on the model.

Postcards and photographs documenting the travels of the Marshall and Reid families of Alabama.

Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.

A legal contract in which J.J. Ricks and William Hines rent Martha Jones' plantation in Lawrence County, Alabama.

List of 1907 Alabama state rifle team.

Contains two reports: survey of Sixmile Creek Easement, Lauderdale County, Alabama, and survey of the Page Steam Plant in Bell County, Kentucky

A copy of a letter dated 23 June 1848, from Pickens County, Alabama, to his uncle Matthew Biggert Kirk, Lancaster Court House, South Carolina in which he tells of setting up his medical practice and recounts family news.

Letter, dated November 18, 1879 written by Rufus W. Cobb, Governor of Alabama, to General A. McD. McCook, declining an invitation to attend the 11th reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and the unveiling of the memorial statue of General George H. Thomas.

The collection consists of recital programs and worship bulletins, sheet music, photographs, audiocassettes, reel-to-reel audio tapes, and one LP record featuring the music and performance of Dr. Harald Rohlig.

Letters between Ralph Cowert and U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall about Saltonstall's family for the Tuscaloosa Historical Society

Diary (and photocopies) and other documents written by Samuel Richmond Caffee, physician and founding member of Avondale Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. There are also documents written by others about Dr. Caffee.

A letter written by Samuel W. Mardis of Montevallo, Shelby County, Alabama, on March 13, 1834, in reply to a letter published in the Charleston Mercury. The letter also asks F. P. Blair, editor of the Globe, to print it.

Two letters written by Samuel Williams Inge during his term in the United States House of Representatives requesting services to constituents and self.

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.

This collection contains records, 1846-1951, including lists of members, pastors, dismissals, and minutes of monthly meetings, as well as a short history of the church. Baptist church in Heiberger, Perry County, Alabama, established 1846.

Papers of two prominent mixed-race families in north Alabama.

Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.

Final inspection report and blueprints for Segco Mine Number One

Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.

Contains account records, letters of correspondence, and contracts.

Contains customers' names, goods and services provided, and amount paid at this Courtland, Alabama, blacksmith shop.

Copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials, including approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.

A copy of vol. 1, no 5 (December 17, 1925) of the Oracle News, a newspaper published by the students of Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, Alabama.