Hanson, Bette Lee

Oral History Tapes and Photographic Slides

(AR 929)

The interviews in this collection were conducted by Bette Hanson. The interview subjects are Vera Foster, whose husband Dr. Luther Foster served as President of Tuskegee Institute beginning in 1941; Ida Kohlmeyer, a prominent New Orleans painter; and Dorah Sterne,a Birmingham resident and social activist.

Size: 1 box

Harmon, Kate

Recipe Book, 1873

(AR 678)

This book contains handwritten recipes and recipes clipped from newspapers.

Size: 1 volume

Herndon, Charlotte

Diary, 1947-1948

(AR 630)

This diary records the activities and interests of a teenaged girl writing about school, friends and family.

Size: 1 volume

Hirsch, Florette Cohn

Papers

(AR 1788)

Florette Cohn Hirsch was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and moved to Birmingham with her family at the age of three. She attended Phillips High School, joined Camp Mary Munger as a music counselor in 1928 and then attended Birmingham-Southern College. She received a teaching certificate and taught music at Birmingham city schools for seventeen years, where she was instrumental in raising money for the music departments. During World War II, Hirsch aided and raised money for the war effort and after the war she raised relief funds for Jewish survivors. Hirsch was a member of the Birmingham Music Club, served as Children's Choir Director at Temple Emanuel, worked on behalf of the Birmingham Civic Opera, the Birmingham Civic Symphony, and the Alabama Symphony, as well as supported Birmingham-Southern College's Fine Arts department. This collection contains a paper, newspaper articles, letters, and awards.

Size: 1 box

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

Hollingsworth Family

Papers, 1920-1923

(AR 152)

This collection includes correspondence to Carey and Mrs. William Hollingsworth, much of it from the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs. The collection also contains a manuscript and pamphlet concerning movie censorship.

Size: 1 box

Howe, Katherine Thweatt

Debutante Club Scrapbook, 1949

(AR 1369)

Size: 1 volume

Huggins, Mary Fairfax

Scrapbook, 1870s-1880s

(AR 232)

Mary Huggins was a resident of Shelby County, Alabama. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings.

Size: 1 volume

Hundley, Bossie O’Brien

Scrapbook, 1915

(AR 100)

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to the women’s suffrage movement in Alabama. Of special interest are letters from Alabama legislators responding to a questionnaire sent by the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association.

Size: 1 volume

Jemison, Marie Stokes

Papers

(AR 15)

Size: 62 boxes

Jeter, Sarah Matilda Clayton

Diary and Correspondence, 1860-1864

(AR 281)

Sarah Jeter was a 30-year-old woman, married to Richard Cone Jeter and living near Opelika, Alabama when she began this diary on January 1, 1860. Her daily entries continued through April 29, 1863 and provide a glimpse of life in eastern Alabama at the beginning of the Civil War. The collection also includes five letters, dated July to September 1864, written by John W. Bradshaw to members of his family while serving as a lieutenant in an Alabama cavalry unit.

Size: 1 box

Johnston, Caryl

Papers, 1930-1949, 1960-1999

(AR 1626)

Size: 17 linear feet

Jolly, Jeanne Waters

Alabama Citizens for the Equal Rights Amendment Papers, 1981-1987 and undated

(AR 1518)

This collection includes by-laws, correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records and other material documenting the activities of this women’s rights group.

Size: 2 boxes

Keller, Helen

Scrapbook, 1902-1968

(AR 1204)

Newspaper clippings compiled by the staff of the Birmingham Public Library’s Southern History Department.

Size: 1 volume

Kettig, Laura Moody

“Her Diary and Impressions,” circa 1938

(AR 1568)

This travel diary of Laura Kettig was compiled by her daughter Dorothy.

Size: 1 volume

Kidd, Virginia A.

Scrapbook

(AR 922)

This scrapbook was compiled by a young Alabama woman who lived in Marengo County. The scrapbook is typical of the kind created by young women in the mid to late 19th century and includes romantic prose and poetry clipped from newspapers and magazines, engravings and etchings, lithographs, announcements of weddings and other material.

Size: 1 volume

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

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