Guide to the William Shaw Letter

Correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Shaw about William's travels in Florida and life at home.

Guide to the Shelby Iron Company Records

Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth and growth of the Birmingham iron industry. These records provide the most detailed accounts of Confederate iron making in the west, as well as a good deal of information about the rise (and fall) of industry in the South before and after the Civil War.

Guide to the Asa Shelton and J.R. Love General Store Daybook

1845-46 daybook of a Whitesburg, Madison County, Alabama general store, which contains a record of purchases by customers.

Guide to the Mary M. Shepard Letter

Mary M. Shepard writes to her friend, Dora E. Durkee of Conneaut, Ohio, about the weather in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, and the activities of their mutual friends.

Guide to the Harvey Sheppard Letter

This collection contains one letter from Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Sheppard in Sheffield, Alabama, to Colonel John Pohl in Newport News, Virginia, regarding their mutual interest in Confederate stamps.

Guide to the Edward Sherlock Letter

Letter to Edward Sherlock from C. Bowen, written in Waterford on 28 June 1858, about a shortage in the wool Sherlock had sent to be sold.

Guide to the Sherman Family Letters

Letters regarding family news, moving from Oregon to Canada, and other topics between members of this family in New York, Maryland, and Oregon.

Guide to the Mary L. Sherrill Postcard

Mary L. Sherrill of South Hadley, Massachusetts sends a Christmas postcard to Mr. and Mrs. C. Caldwell Sherrill of Cincinnati, Ohio. Wedding congratulations are written on a postcard with a picture of a snowy street.

Guide to the Peggy Sherrill Letters

Letters to and from Peggy Sherrill discussing the birth of her son and the will of a family member.

Guide to the John A. Simpson Letter

Short letter written by John A. Simpson on Cavalier Hotel (Washington, D.C.) stationery, mentioning a pending meeting in Lima on 22 January.

Guide to the 66th Infantry Training Regiment, Chapel #23, Worship Bulletin

Easter Sunday worship bulletin for the 66th Infantry Training Regiment, Chapel #23.

Guide to the Willis Skillman Letter

A letter from Willis Skillman to his mother, Mrs. W. B. Skillman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on her birthday.

Guide to the Captain Slick Collection

Numerous legal papers pertaining to the slander case of John Berry versus James Latham, in Jackson and Madison Counties, Alabama, 1830-34, and that of Alanson Huff versus Cowart et al., Madison County, 1831-1833. These appear to have been collected by James W. Bragg for a paper delivered to the Alabama Historical Association in 1957. A photocopy of Bragg's paper, "Captain Slick, Arbiter of Early Alabama Morals," and another by Jack K. Williams, "Crime and Punishment in Alabama, 1819-1940" are included in the collection.

Guide to the Smith Letter

Smith, a photographer, writes from Port Tampa, Florida to "all at home" about his travels in Florida and plans to visit Cuba.

Guide to the Charles Smith Letter

A letter from Charles Smith to his friend Will in which Smith discusses his recent move to Lexington, Massachusetts, to attend business school.

Guide to the D. S. Smith Survey

D. S. Smith surveys land for the G. B. & M. Railroad. He provides two sketches of section 32, township 24 including the proposed path of the railroad track.