Archival
Collections
Abernathy,
Thomas Smith
Sermons and
Notes, 1856-1864
(AR 1194)
Thomas Smith Abernathy
was born March 26, 1803 in Virginia. A minister,
Abernathy was living in Alabama by 1829 and was one of
five clergymen who organized the First Methodist
Conference in Alabama. He spent much of his career as a
circuit-riding minister. Abernathy died in Dayton,
Alabama in 1882. This collection contains one bound
volume of Abernathy's hand-written notes and outlines
for sermons. Themes addressed by Abernathy include
atheism, compassion, and obedience to law. The volume
includes a brief index.
Size: 1 volume
Alabama
Illustrated Project
Engravings from
19th Century Newspapers, 1853-1895
(AR 1924)
This collection contains
illustrations of Alabama from five 19th century
newspapers: Harper’s
Weekly, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated
Newspaper, Ballou’s Pictorial, Gleason’s
Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion and The
Illustrated London News. The illustrations show scenes from
throughout the state (especially Montgomery, Mobile and
Birmingham) and include cityscapes, landscapes,
industrial development, portraits and Civil War combat.
Size: 43 engravings
Anderson, L. H.
Correspondence,
1851-1859
(AR 613)
L. H. Anderson was a
physician who lived in Sumter County, Alabama. This
collection contains ten letters written by Anderson to
John Quinn, apparently an attorney who lived in
Virginia. The letters deal primarily with business and
legal matters.
Size: 1 box
Antebellum
Collection
Miscellaneous
Documents, 1820-1859
(AR 308)
This collection contains
miscellaneous documents such as slave receipts,
diaries, land sales and other documents collected by
the library staff. The material primarily relates to
Alabama and Jefferson County.
Size: 1 box
Bradley,
Lawrence B.
Papers
(AR 138)
These papers detail the
activities on a cotton plantation in Lowndes County,
Alabama and include financial records, land grants,
receipts for the purchases of slaves and material
relating to cotton prices and other commodities at the
end of the Civil War.
Size: 1 reel microfilm
Cedar Grove
Plantation
Papers,
1833-1964
(AR 390)
This collection contains
personal and business correspondence and other material
relating to the Walker and allied families associated
with Cedar Grove Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama.
Size: 2 reels microfilm
Faunsdale
Plantation
Papers,
1805-1975
(AR 765)
In 1843 Thomas A.
Harrison, a native of Virginia, traveled to Alabama
accompanied by a party of slaves, and purchased the
property in Marengo County that became Faunsdale
Plantation. Harrison later sent for his new wife,
Louisa Collins Harrison, a native of North Carolina. In
1844 the Harrisons had their only child, Louise Collins
Harrison. Thomas A. Harrison died in 1857. Louisa
managed Faunsdale and her late husband's estate until
1863 when she married William A. Stickney, a priest in
the Protestant Episcopal Church and a native of
Alabama. Stickney served in several parishes and
ministered to the slaves and later freedmen at
Faunsdale. Louisa died in 1896, William in 1907. The
plantation remains in the family today. The collection
contains extensive correspondence, diaries,
photographs, financial records, slave records and other
material documenting several generations of the family.
Monterrey
Academy
Day Book,
1856-1859
(AR 540)
This private academy day
book contains rules, course of study and student
attendance records.
Size: 1 volume
