Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
A letter dated 5 May 1822, from Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina to Bird's son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa. The letter also includes news of family and friends.
A paper by Birdsong entitled "The Destruction of the University of the State of Alabama," prepared for presentation to the Alabama Historical Association in 1975.
A Birmingham (Alabama) News-Age Herald photo-essay of the University of Alabama's 1931 Rose Bowl game against Washington State University.
Two pages of the 24 August 1930 issue of the Gravure Section of the Birmingham (Alabama) News-Age Herald newspaper, depicting the UA campus as it began its centennial year.
Ledger of shipping records includes destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.
This collection consists of a folder containing part of the program and text of the 1940 annual banquet of the Birmingham Real Estate Board, held on 16 January 1941.
A letter dated 16 December 1864, written to his father in Minnesota, while a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama.
A typescript copy of Black's autobiography, "After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight," which covers Black's youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Luella Black's autograph album is filled with rhymes and well-wishes from her friends, schoolmates and family members in Madison, Indiana. Each entry is dated and signed.
Letter from Andrew Blackman to his wife Launetta Blackman in Michigan. He discusses daily life and faith.
One letter from E. Blair of Crystal Springs, Florida, to his son W. P. Blair of Cleveland, Ohio, regarding crops and infrastructure improvements on E. Blair's farm.
Bound prayer book and related materials dealing with this Lay Reader of the Episcopal Church's healing missions in Anniston and Ensley, Alabama.
This collection consists of six photographs and a letter from Homer Blaine Bledsoe, North Africa, during World War II, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bledsoe, Morehead, Kentucky, December 14, 1943.
This collection consists of three letters to Joel F. Bledsoe, in Soldier, Kentucky, from three of his fellow 'comrades' from the Spanish-American War.
A letter dated 21 June 1865 to Capt. J. M. Cary of Chunnemgger [sic], Alabama. Blelock, a publisher in New York, offered "the most liberal terms" for the future literary productions of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) (1835-1909), an immensely popular sentimental novelist. What connection there was between the letter's recipient and its subject is not clear; possibly Blelock was writing to Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903), a friend of Evans's. See also manuscript 1563.
A Cultural Resources Report by Blitz on the archaeological significance of the proposed site for a poultry processing plant in Cullman County, Alabama.
This collection contains the papers of this Montgomery, Alabama, business leader, during his term as United States Postmaster General (1969-1971).
A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, "My Golden School Days."
A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.