Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, domestic and business expenditures, records of cotton sales, sales receipts for slaves, foodstuffs, tools and other hardware, papers regarding James Boykin's cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid twentieth century.
Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.
Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.
Letter from Private Arthur F. Bradley, written on 18 May 1944, while stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, to his parents in Dubuque, Iowa.
The journals of this Luverne, Alabama, farmer.
Copies of incoming letters dated 1881-1882, from the Alabama state archives.
Lists of members, pastors, marriages, baptisms, and deceased members, as well as church directories of this Methodist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Letter from the Governor of Mississippi to Alabama Governor John Murphy regarding an unsettled financial transaction between the two states.
Documents concerning Alabama governor William Woodward Brandon, including letters, news clippings, postcards, and transcripts of speeches.
Diary, travel journals, and account book of Richard Edwin Branscomb (1902-1980), Methodist Minister from Guin, Alabama, and Condensed Minute Book for Presiding Elders of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church belonging to Branscomb's father, Lewis Capers Branscomb (1865-1930).
Letters to Frank H. Bray, secretary of the Oceanic Exchange Club in Frankton, New Zealand with requests for stamps, pen pals, and applications for membership in the club.
Handwritten letters from Minnie and Lucy Brayton to their cousin Mary.
Miscellaneous papers of several related families in Adair County, Kentucky, and Indiana and Iowa, including World War II photographs, newspapers and map.
Mid nineteenth century cookbook and extracts from scrapbook of Mrs. Alexander (Charity Sophia) Brett. Includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," a "remedy for cholera," etc.
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
This collection contains a 1926 bridal shower booklet created for the bride, Bernice, by the women who attended the party.
A letter dated 24 February 1849, written from the University of Alabama to Sam Houston, advising him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Erosophic Society.
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.
The collection contains one letter from Jessie Bridgman of Woodstown, New Jersey, to Mrs. Emmett Cacle, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in which Bridgman offers condolences for a recent death. The photos are of different residential scenes.
Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.