Colvin, Lessie Beatrice White

Papers, 1934-1964

(AR 1334)

Lessie Colvin was a 1934 graduate of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School and a 1950 graduate of Alabama State College for Negroes. She taught in the Birmingham city schools. This small collection includes her diplomas, material relating to Council and Western and Olin schools and genealogical material.

Size: 1 box

Dupuy Elementary School

Class Photographs, 1958-1963

(AR 1958)

Anna Stuart Dupuy Elementary School was a Birmingham public school located at 4500 14th Avenue North. This collection contains group photos of classes taken in the classrooms. The teachers are identified but the students are not.

Size: 4 photograph albums

Emond, Burgin and Hill Families

Papers

(AR 112)

These papers contain correspondence, diaries, memorabilia and photographs relating to three Birmingham families. Included are courtship letters from Lee Merrill of Chicago to Dolly Burgin of Birmingham dated 1896; courtship letters between Ernest Hill and Neat Burgin dated 1899 to 1900; a diary of Janie Hill kept while she was a student at the University of Alabama in 1923; and a sketchbook, European travel diary and newspaper clippings relating to artist Carrie Lillian Hill.

Size: 5 boxes

Ensley High School Parent-Teacher Association

Scrapbook, 1942-1943 and 1992

(AR 1658)

Size: 1 volume

Fairview School

Original Poems by Students, 1942

(AR 957)

These poems relating to World War II were written by students at Fairview Elementary School in the western section of Birmingham in April 1942.

Size: 1 box

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.

Size: 56 boxes

Friel, Mildred

Woodlawn High School Scrapbook, 1928-1930

(AR 883)

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence and other material relating to Woodlawn High School and student activities.

Size: 1 volume

Hanson, Roger and Bette Lee

Papers, 1955-1981

(AR 1619)

This collection includes material relating to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, radio and film, and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

Size: 1 box

Harper, James Albert

Papers and Scrapbooks, 1926-1947

(AR 1694)

James Albert Harper worked as a teacher at Brighton School (now a part of Bessemer, Alabama) and later served as principal of Sandusky School. He was also active in the Jefferson County Teachers Association. This collection contains one scrapbook of photographs (primarily photos of students), clippings, and other material relating to Brighton School for the period 1926 to 1937 and two similar scrapbooks relating to Sandusky school for the period 1937 to 1947. The collection also includes loose photographs, a typed history of Brighton School and a handwritten (apparently a student’s project) history of the Brighton community.

Size: 3 boxes

Hayes High School R.O.T.C

Scrapbooks, 1970-1972, 1976-1977, 1980-1983, 1985-1988

(AR 1937)

Hayes High School was a Birmingham city school located in the eastern section of the city. The school closed in 2008 and the building was later demolished. These ten scrapbooks contain primarily photographs documenting the activities of the Hayes High School R.O.T.C

Size: 5 boxes

Holcombe, Ruth

Scrapbook: "My School-Day Memory Book," 1927-1928

Ruth Holcombe was the daughter of William J. and Adelphine Holcombe. The family lived on Almeda Avenue in Birmingham and Ruth attended Jones Valley High School. This scrapbook contains material relating to Ruth’s senior year of high school and material relating to other young people, probably her friends. The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, photographs, greeting cards, programs and other material.

Size: 1 volume

Jefferson County, Ala. Board of Education

Faculty Integration Papers, 1965-1973

(AR 747)

This collection contains correspondence, reports and court papers relating to the racial integration of faculty in the Jefferson County public school system.

Size: 1 box

Jefferson County, Ala. Board of Education

Directory: Jefferson County Public Schools, 1950-1976

(AR 1812)

This collection contains directories published by the Jefferson County, Alabama Board of Education for the years 1950 to 1976. The directories list teachers by name, giving addresses and schools where each teacher is employed; names of officers and department heads in the school system; principals and department heads at each school; and school calendars. For the years 1950 through 1964 white and Negro schools are listed separately.

Size: 2 boxes

King, Vera Garlington

Papers, circa 1905-1909

(AR 766)

This collection contains high school examination papers of King while she was a student at the Southern Industrial Institute in Camp Hill, Alabama and a small amount of correspondence and other material.

Size: 1 box

Lackey, Leila

Scrapbook, 1914-1916

(AR 1923)

A resident of the Avondale neighborhood, Leila Lackey was a 1916 graduate of Birmingham’s Central High School. This “School Friendship Book” contains notes from classmates, invitations and other correspondence, photographs and memorabilia relating to Lackey’s time in high school.

Size: 1 volume

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