Cotton
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033302
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Allen Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Overview
The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.
Dates:
1848-1906
C. L. Clawson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4135
Overview
Letter with family news and talk of growing cotton in Alabama versus in South Carolina, as well as some genealogical information.
Dates:
1850 August 5
Nelson Clayton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0315
Abstract
Papers reflecting the activities of a cotton planter in Lee County, Alabama, 1808-1868.
Dates:
1808-1868; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1860
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
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
Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0531
Overview
Primarily receipts and statements but the collection also includes Robert S. Foster’s will and a deed for 1,274 acres of land from the heirs of Robert S. Foster to Edmond L. Prince in 1859 for the sum of $19,110.00. Most of the statements are for the freight, wharfage, drayage, weighing and storage of cotton shipped by steamboats, and are listed for either Mrs. Ann Foster or the Estate of Robert S. Foster. Other receipts are for the purchase of clothing, books and magazine subscriptions.
Dates:
1833-1859
Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards
Collection
Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract
Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Dates:
1874 - 1950
Henry Major Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4217
Overview
Collection mostly consists of incoming business correspondence written to Henry Major from various business associates in the United Kingdom and America. Henry Major was a New York merchant around the years 1802-1836. The correspondence allows a look into the mercantile world of overseas trading of cotton and other goods, prices, and other related issues.
Dates:
1816-1841
James Hogan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0687
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.
Dates:
Unknown
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
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
Joseph H. Bradford Accounts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0199
Abstract
Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.
Dates:
1836-1841
Joshua Hill Foster Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0535
Overview
Papers of a University of Alabama graduate, Baptist minister, planter, teacher (University of Alabama, 1873-1892) and president of Alabama Central Female College, 1869-1873.
Dates:
1839 - 1904
Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview
Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates:
1849-1861
Emmett N. McCall papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0943
Abstract
Financial records and ledgers of McCall's Dixonville Racket Store, a general store in the Brewton, Escambia County, Alabama, area. Also includes correspondence, Mormon church records, mortgage deeds, and cotton acreage allotments.
Dates:
1874-1944
Melton's Bluff Receipts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4150
Overview
Six receipts concerning Andrew Jackson's farm, Melton's Bluff, on the Tennessee River in Alabama.
Dates:
1817-1818
Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4289
Overview
This collection contains a diary and scrapbook kept by Ernestine Jones in 1951 when she went on a national tour as winner of the "Spirit of Cotton" competition held by the Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee, an annual African American festival in Memphis, Tennessee. It also contains four program books from the festival for the years 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1955.
Dates:
1951-1955
Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence
Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Overview
Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
Dates:
1821-1838
Joseph Murrell letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Overview
Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.
Dates:
1861
George and James Skinner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1280
Overview
Material concerning the business and plantation activities of George (1812-1879) and James Skinner (1801-1883) of Marengo County.
Dates:
1829-1950
G. A. Tompkins letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1414
Abstract
A letter from Tompkins to his brother, Charles Tompkins, Jr. in King William County, Virginia, discussing family news, personal health, and cotton farming.
Dates:
1842 November 20
Toulmin, Hazard, and Company Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1416
Overview
Correspondence from the Toulmin, Hazard and Company commission firm of Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1834 - 1837
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.017: [1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract
This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
Dates:
1941
J. W. Young Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4134
Overview
Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina
Dates:
1835 May 18