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Manuscript Collections

This page contains names of manuscript collections with brief descriptions of them. Highlighted collection names link to finding aids in PDF format that offer more detailed descriptions of the collections. The highlighted collections do not represent all available finding aids at the W.S. Hoole Library. We will add more to the list as we convert our paper finding aids to electronic aids for web presentation.

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U.S. Army New Testament, ca. 1942
New Testament ("Protestant Version"), issued for U.S. armed services personnel in WWII

U.S. Land Office, St. Stephens, Alabama records, 1846
Correspondence, abstracts and miscellaneous records

U.S. Navy. study guides for gunnery officers, ca. 1941
Study Guide for Computer Mark I (A) & (B) and Study Guide for Gun Director Mark 37. Both published by the Gunnery Officers Ordnance School, U.S. Naval Receiving Station, Washington, D.C. undated. Used by Lt. Commander H. C. Meredith during World War II.

J. C. Underwood ballad, ca. 1863
Written at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Presented by R. S. Hinnett to his wife.

Union Baptist Church, records, 1862-1873
Ledger containing membership lists, lists of pastors and minutes of deacon's meetings of this church in Sweetwater, Alabama

Union Church of Christ records, 1839-1992
Contains membership lists (including black members), regulations, doctrine, minutes, and membership letters for this Sweetwater, Marengo County, Alabama, church

Union soldier letter, ca. 1863
A fragment of a letter of unknown date, probably late 1863, by an unknown Union soldier, describing his feeling about emancipation and experience at Gettysburg.

Union soldier letter, 1865 December 7
A letter from an unknown Union soldier to his mother, 7 December 1865.

Uniontown Methodist Church, Uniontown, Alabama records, 1869-1893
Register of this Methodist church in Uniontown, Alabama, includes marriages, infant baptisms, lists of members, deaths, and dispositions

Uniontown Methodist Church. Women's Missionary Society records, 1880-1940
Ledger including minutes, membership roll, and dues during the early 1880s. Also includes photocopies of an inspirational talk on missions and a history of the Women's Missionary Society.

United Confederate veterans, Camp Rodes, No. 252, Tuscaloosa County records, 1893-1926
Includes organization and membership roll, with units and often, dates of death.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Chapter records, 1942-1960
Includes minutes (1949-1961), a scrapbook (1942), newspaper articles, "A Sketch of the Life of General Josiah Gorgas" and correspondence concerning the chapter.

United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama records, 1857-1859
Copyrights granted

United States District Court. Northern District of Alabama bankruptcy papers, 1868-1874
Documents pertaining to bankruptcy of Thomas B. Strong of Madison County, Alabama.

United States Treasury Department lease, 1864
Blank lease with rules for hiring Freedmen

United States. General Land Office certificates of title, 1834-1898
Arranged alphabetically by county.

United States. General Land Office records, 1738-1903
Correspondence of the land commissioners; applications for land in Mississippi and Alabama territories; copies of land grants from England, France, and Spain to residents in Mobile, Alabama; marriage contracts; wills; and plats of grants (1783-1813). Ledger 17 contains diary entries of James E. Henderson of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry, who was assistant provost marshall in Alabama in 1865. Several ledgers have been indexed by name.

United States. General Land Office. Land certificate, 1925-1987
Certificate acknowledging full payment for land in Tuscaloosa by John M. Fleming in 1825. Also a photocopy of a statement by Tuscaloosa Probate Judge Hardy McCollum, 1987, confirming the authenticity of the document.

University Alumnae Association minutes, 1934-1939
Minutes of this service and social club for women who had graduated from the University of Alabama.

University of Alabama Episcopal Student Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama scrapbooks, ca. 1925-1959
Scrapbooks of the Episcopal Student Club of the University of Alabama, which formed the foundation of this Episcopal Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

University Women's Club records, 1923-1986
Scrapbooks, newspaper articles, yearbooks, minutes, financial records, constitution, photographs.

Up-To-Date Club records, 1901-1979
Minutes, financial records, correspondence, newspaper articles, yearbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, women's club with objective of stimulating intellectual development of its members by encouraging freedom of thought and expression.