Sizemore, Margaret Davidson

Scrapbook: Sizemore Chronicles, 1961

(AR 1063)

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings relating to members of the Sizemore family and includes material on the 1961 Birmingham Festival of Arts.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Tichenor, Issac Taylor

Diary, 1850-1903

(AR 140)

Issac Tichenor was a prominent Alabama Baptist minister who served as president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn (now Auburn University) from 1872 to 1882 and as corresponding secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board from 1882 to 1900.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Tynes, Hazel

Papers, 1900s

(AR 755)

This collection contains correspondence, yearbooks and unidentified family photographs. A large portion of the collection deals with Tynes’ life at Belmont College.

Size: 3 boxes

Ulen, Loretta Claudine

Scrapbook and Programs, 1912-1954

(AR 1851)

At the time the scrapbook in this collection was created (1912-1916) Loretta Claudine Ulen was a student at Central High School in Birmingham, Alabama. She was most likely the daughter of Cora C. Ulen, a widow who worked as a dental assistant. The Ulens lived at 3601 Twelfth Avenue, North. This collection contains one scrapbook, three theater programs, and one advertisement for Cable-Burton Piano Company. The scrapbook contains material relating to Loretta ("Lola") Ulen's school days, including photographs of classmates, clippings, notes from classmates, invitations, calling cards, and swatches from dresses worn on special occasions. This scrapbook is a good example of the type often kept by young women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Size: 1 box

Waters, Newman H., Sr.

Papers

(AR 1519)

Newman Waters was a Birmingham real estate developer who built a number of drive-in movie theaters and theater houses in the Birmingham area in the 1930's and 1940's. He was a director of Southern Electric Steel Company, developer of Office Park, constructed numerous major office buildings in downtown Birmingham, and developed Eastwood Mall, the area's first indoor shopping mall, in 1960. Waters was first president of the Downtown Club (1947), and chaired several Cerebral Palsy Telethons, the organization's project. He was active in the Downtown Improvement Association, serving as president in 1958. These papers, mainly newspaper clippings, relate to Waters’ various interests and activities.

Size: 1 box

Wise, Evelyn

Papers, 1955-1959

(AR 1747)

This collection contains correspondence, grade reports, commencement programs, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Evelyn Wise's study at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama. The papers cover the period 1955 to 1959.

Size: 1 box

Wolford, Charles Robert

Diaries, 1916-1949

(AR 753)

Charles Robert "Bob" Wolford was born January 16, 1898. He attended Birmingham-Southern College and married Mary Garner in 1921. The couple had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Wolford worked at various establishments selling clothing, and in 1940 became manager of Bond Clothing Company on Third Avenue, North in Birmingham. Wolford retired in the 1960s. This collection contains 24 handwritten diaries, clippings, photographs and other miscellaneous documents. The diaries begin in 1916 and provide insight into the life of a white middle-class family in the 20th century American South. In the diaries Wolford discusses school and work, family, his reading, and events of the day including the Great Depression and World War II. The last diary entry is dated September 12, 1949.

Size: 24 volumes

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