Seadler, Ruth

Papers

(AR 1736)

Ruth Seadler, a native of Ohio, worked for many years for Avis car rental in Birmingham and with the Jefferson County Red Cross Motor Service. Upon retirement Seadler worked as volunteer archivist at South Highlands Presbyterian Church. This collection contains some of Ruth Seadler's personal Red Cross service records, newspaper clipping files and Red Cross newsletters for the years 1955, 1956, and 1958 through 1962. Reports consist of general news, blood collection status, awards, member listings, meetings and successes. Other clippings, photos and programs cover a wide range of local issues and events including the Woman's Civic Club of Birmingham, Avis Rent-a-Car, Mothers of Twins, Birmingham Beautification Board, and local soapbox racing.

Size: 2 boxes

Shores, Janie L.

Papers, 1972-1974 and 1987

(AR 964)

Shores served as an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and other material relating to Shores' unsuccessful 1972 campaign and successful 1974 campaign for the court.

Size: 2 boxes

Sizemore, Margaret Davidson

Papers, 1975-1980

(AR 184)

Margaret Sizemore served as Dean of Women at Samford University and was active in numerous organizations. This collection contains correspondence, brochures, minutes of meetings and newspaper clippings relating to a variety of local organizations including the Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society, Alabama Women’s Commission, Arlington Historical Society and the Tannehill Furnace and Foundry Commission.

Size: 5 boxes

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

Smith, Kate Duncan

Biography

(AR 683)

Size: 1 box

Smith, Mary L.

Philopena Album, 1863-1874

(AR 1569)

Size: 1 volume

Smith, Carolyn Cortner

Papers, 1894-1987

(AR 912)

Carolyn Cortner Smith was the first registered Architect in Alabama (1939). She was born in 1894 in Normandy, Tennessee, and grew up in Cortland, Alabama. She graduated from Belmont College, Nashville, Tennessee and died in 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama. According to her notes, she began practicing architecture in 1919, though she built a house in 1914 in Overbrook (now Mountain Brook), Alabama. Smith traveled extensively around the world, often leading tours. The collection contains personal papers relating to her work, travel, interest in writing and memberships in various groups, short stories and architectural drawings.

Size: 4 boxes

Smith, Kate Duncan

Biography

(AR 683)

Size: 1 box

Smith, Mary L.

Philopena Album, 1863-1874

(AR 1569)

Size: 1 volume

Steele, Fannie A.

Scrapbooks, 1896-1924

(AR 1737)

Fannie A. Steele moved to Birmingham, Alabama in 1882. These two scrapbooks are typical of the kind kept by American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The scrapbooks contain primarily newspaper and magazine clippings of poetry, sermons, artwork, news stories relating to history and the Bible, and health and beauty tips. Several of the clippings illustrate the racial attitudes of the time, and other clippings illustrate attitudes toward women and the concerns and interests of women.

Size: 3 boxes

Tynes, Hazel

Papers, 1900s

(AR 755)

This collection contains correspondence, yearbooks and family photographs. Much of the material relates to 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

Van der Veer, Elizabeth

Papers, 1932-1947

(AR 1050)

These papers document the work of Birmingham author Elizabeth Van der Veer during the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes correspondence with publishers, newspaper articles written by and about Van der Veer, magazines in which her stories appear and photographs.

Size: 1 box

Walker, Alice Billings

Papers, 1944-1982

(AR 350)

Alyce Billings Walker was born in Ensley, Alabama in 1907. She earned an A.B. at Judson College in Marion, Alabama, in 1928, and took a job teaching in the public schools of Birmingham the next year. In 1930 she left teaching to become the society editor for the Birmingham Post; in 1943 she moved to the Birmingham News where she was a feature writer then the director of the women's department. In 1960 she became an associate editor of the paper. Walker authored two books, Hot Sands of Hate (1954) and It's Nice to Live in Birmingham (1963), and edited Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South (1975). She died in Birmingham in 1996. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of Walker's career with the Birmingham News. As the editor of the women's page Walker supported issues facing women in addition to covering fashion shows and society functions. Also included are her rough drafts and letters concerning the rewriting of Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South.

Size: 3 boxes

Wallace, Lurleen B.

Scrapbooks, 1966-1968

(AR 1211)

Newspaper clippings compiled by the staff of the Birmingham Public Library’s Southern History Department on the career of Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace.

Size: 3 volumes

Walpole, Julia

United Service Organization (USO) Photographs

(AR 875)

Photographs showing World War II era servicemen enjoying the amenities provided by the United Service Organization (USO) in Birmingham.

Size: 51 photographs

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