Women’s
History
Individuals and
Families, page 2
Culbreth, Jane
Papers
(AR 366)
Jane Culbreth served as
a member of the Leeds, Alabama City Council, the
Jefferson County Historical Commission and other
organizations. These papers include material relating
to the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
and to International Women’s Year.
Size: 12 boxes
Cullom, Edna
Kingsley Johnson
Papers,
1894-1968
(AR 206)
This collection contains
correspondence, wills, photographs and other material
relating to Cullom and members of her family.
Size: 2 boxes
Cullom, Harriet
Louise White
Scrapbook,
1880s-1890s
(AR 920)
This scrapbook is
typical of the kind kept by many American women in the
late 19th century, and includes picture cards,
popularly used as advertising, and cut-outs often sold
in bookstores.
Size: 1 volume
Duffee, Mary
Gordon
Manuscripts,
circa mid-1880s and 1920
(AR 657)
Mary Gordon Duffee's
father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and
immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In
Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later
bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee
was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with
her family at the resort. It was the journey to and
from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known
work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as
fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age
in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to
several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books,
advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This
collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon
Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of
Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems,
a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and
Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.
Size: 1 box
England, Peggy
Scrapbooks,
1940-1957
(AR 1954)
Peggy England and her
husband Edmund lived in the suburbs south of
Birmingham, Alabama. Peggy was active in the Civettes
Club and other organizations. Edmund worked as an
accountant for Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company. They were members of Highlands Methodist
Church. Peggy England died in November 2007. The
scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, maps and other
travel literature and souvenirs relating to New York
City and the New York World’s Fair; Virginia;
Washington, D.C.; Florida; the Great Smokey Mountains;
and Gatlinburg, Tennessee; greeting cards; a small
amount of material relating to World War II; material
relating to Highlands Methodist Church and material
relating to the construction of St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, Birmingham.
Size: 1 box (2
scrapbooks)
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. Much of the
correspondence was generated by the women of the
family.
Finch, Lucine
Gordon
Manuscripts
(AR 1575)
Lucine Finch was a poet,
dramatist, graphic artist, and magazine storywriter
born in Alabama in 1875. Finch published a number of
books, articles, and poems including "The
Butterfly" and "A Sermon in Patchwork."
Her last known published writings date from 1917.
This collection contains two short stories, The Darkey
and the Deed and Mammy's Past Crust, the first written
by Lucine Finch and the second written by her mother,
Julia Neely Finch in the early twentieth century.
Both stories illustrate stereotypes of African
Americans common in the United States during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Size: 1 box
Forman,
Elizabeth
Papers,
1823-1961
(AR 58)
Mary Elizabeth Forman
was born in Gadsden, Alabama, in 1915 and was educated
in the Birmingham public schools. She attended Agnes
Scott College (1932-1936), received her M.A. in
mathematics for the University of Alabama in 1940 and
enrolled in Teachers College, Columbia University, and
earned an M.A. in personnel and guidance. Forman
briefly taught at the University of Alabama and at
Florida State College for Women before joining the
faculty at Howard College (now Samford University) in
Birmingham in 1944 as an associate professor in the
College of Education and Psychology. She remained at
Samford until her death in 1977. She sat on the
Mountain Brook Board of Education, on several other
school boards and was a teacher and deacon at the South
Highland Presbyterian Church. This collection spans the
years 1823-1961, but the bulk of the material falls
into the period of Forman's education and career,
namely 1932-1961. Papers pertaining specifically to
family and friends are largely those of Elizabeth
Forman's father, James R. Forman. They include
personal, business, and legal correspondence, legal
documents, licenses, promissory notes, tax receipts,
and an insurance policy. Other materials relating to
family and friends include photographs; church
bulletins; family military records dating as far back
as the Civil War; pamphlets and material pertaining to
Mary Forman's social activities; newspaper clippings;
and an autograph book. The files relating to Forman's
formal education contain correspondence (primarily from
her mother), information on her 25th class reunion at
Agnes Scott, church bulletins, photographs,
commencement programs, report cards, and New York City
playbills and brochures. Forman's teaching career is
documented by correspondence, financial reports,
pamphlets, bulletins, notes, and newspaper clippings.
Her personal life and travels in the United States and
abroad are reflected in photographs, postcards, and
correspondence. The collection also contains material
relating to the American Association of University
Women.
Size: 3 boxes
Foster, Vera
Chandler
Papers,
1958-1971
(AR 234)
This collection contains
letters to and from Foster concerning her participation
in the Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom. There is also a small amount of material
relating to racial relations in Alabama during the
early 1960s.
Size: 1 box
Gregory,
Virginia Howell
Diary, 1913-1919
(AR 1917)
Virginia Motest Howell
(Gregory) was born in 1899 in Becker, Mississippi. From
1924 to 1964 Gregory served as secretary to the
superintendent of the Fairfield, Alabama public
schools. She died in Aberdeen, Mississippi on October
28, 1971. This published version of Gregory's diaries
date from her high school and college years.
Size: 1 volume
Guy, Marie
Louise
Diary, undated
(AR 954)
This undated diary was
kept by a 12 and 13-year-old girl from Bessemer,
Alabama and contains accounts of her daily activities,
including references to friends, family and events.
Size: 1 volume
Hannas, Ruth
Papers
(AR 3)
Ruth Hannas served as
Professor of Music and Head of the Department of Music
Theory at the Women’s College of the University
of North Carolina. The papers include correspondence
with musicians, composer and teachers; published and
unpublished articles written by Hannas; recital and
lecture programs; and other documents.
Size: 1 box
