A guide to archives and manuscripts in the United States / compiled for the National Historical Publications Commission ; Philip M. Hamer, ed.
- United States. National Historical Publications Commission
- Date:
- 1961
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A guide to archives and manuscripts in the United States / compiled for the National Historical Publications Commission ; Philip M. Hamer, ed. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Army officer), 1862-65; Arthur Fort , Harman (Ala.; educator), 1902-46 (4 drawers); Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins (Ala.; administrator of Confed. hos- pitals), 1861-67 (425 pieces); James Marion Jones (Ala.; City Commission- er of Birmingham), 1913-40 (3 draw- ers); Thomas C. McClellan (Ala.; State supreme court justice), 1903-23 (25 folders); Robert McKee (Ky., Ala.; journalist), 1860-99 (538 items); Colin J. McRae (Ala., Honduras; merchant, Confed. financial agent in Europe), 1837-66 (200 items); Basil Manly, Sr. (S.C. , Ala.; Baptist minister, Univ. of Ala. pres.), 1827-1930 (22 folders); Alexander B. Meek (Ala.; author, State attorney gen., promoter of public school system) and his family, 1814-1903 (1/2 drawer); John Turner Milner (Ga., Ala.; civil engineer, industrialist) and his family, 1776-1936 (175 items); Thomas M. Owen (Ala.; historian, archivist), 1901-21 (42 file boxes); Albert J. Pick- ett (Ala.; planter, historian), 1800-66 (1,000 pieces), including notes and let- ters relating to the history of Alabama; Reuben Saffold (Ala.; State supreme court justice), 1854-57 (4 folders); and Earl Van Dorn (Miss.; U.S. and Confed. Army officer), 1842-1915 (200 pieces). Records of organizations include those of the Alabama Anthropological Society, 1908-19, and of the Alabama Historical Society, 1824-1919 (10 drawers). The Department has on de- posit and administers a quantity of re- cords collected by the Alabama Con- ference Historical Society and relating chiefly to the Methodist Church in cen- tral and southern Alabama; included are record books of districts and cir- cuits and records of several local churches. The Department also has other records of the Methodist Church, dating from 1836; extensive records of Baptist, Episcopal, and Presbyterian churches in Alabama; and typed copies of birth, marriage, and other records of the [Catholic] Cathedral of the Im- maculate Conception, Mobile, dating from 1704. There are also numer- ous diaries, scrapbooks, and maps and a collection of autograph letters of U.S. Presidents. TALLADEGA Savery Library, Talladega College. Margaret H. Scott, Librarian. Holdings: 22 linear ft., 1867- 1954, consisting chiefly of the ar- chives of the College. There are also minutes of the Alabama State Teachers’ Association, 1882-1912; and reports of the Congregational Conference of Alabama Churches, 1871-1920. TUSKEGEE Department of Records and Research, Tuskegee Institute. (Mrs.) Jessie P. Guzman, Director. Holdings: Over 150 file drawers of manuscripts, 1887-1959, relating chiefly to the progress and education of the American Negro. There are extensive records of the administra- tion of Tuskegee Institute and the na- tional and regional activities of Rob- ert Russa Moton (Va., Ala.; comman- dant at Hampton Institute, pres. of Tuskegee), 1916-35 (111 file draw- ers). Included also are papers of George Washington Carver (Iowa, Ala.; botanist, agricultural scientist at Tuskegee), 1887-1943 (16 file drawers); Clinton J. Calloway (Tenn., Ala.; director of extension dept., Tus- kegee), 1916-30 (3 file drawers), re- lating to the rural school program in Alabama financed in part by the Julius Rosenwald Fund; Albon L. Holsey (Ga., Ala.; asst. to the pres. of lus- kegee, and sec. of National Negro Business League), 1904-47 (16 file drawers), relating chiefly to the work of the league; and William](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3217097x_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
