Stanford Brown Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a 1930s photo album containing fifty-three photographic prints of African Americans, a letter from Hannah Walker of Bladon Springs, AL, to Mrs. Walker, February 11, 1873, a broadsheet titled 'To The Voters of Tuscaloosa County,' ca. 1870s-1880s, a program from the Annual Convention of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association, Montgomery, Alabama April 8 - April 9, 1920, and six manuscript ledgers, ca. 1850s-1870s.
Dates
- 1858 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for access.
Biographical / Historical
The group of business records, the six ledgers, are from three businesses that were in Richmond and neighboring Carlowville, Alabama. The businesses were genral merchandise dealers which were A. W. Coleman and Co., Dennis Powe and Co., and Hearst and Dennis.
A. W. Coleman and Company was a mercantile store that was owned and managed by A. W. Coleman in the 1860s in Richmond, Alabama.
Dennis Powe and Company was presumably owned by J. W. Dennis in Carlowvile, Alabama.
Stanford Brown works at Auburn University in the College of Liberal Arts.
Extent
.5 Cubic Feet (One document box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
This collection is in poor to fragile condition. The ledgers have foxing and the spines are heavily worn along with water, light, mold, and insect damage present on the pages within. The other materials in this collection have some fading due to age and wear.
Custodial History
This collection was originally purchased by Stanford Brown in 2016, from Bartlebys Books, before being donated in 2019 to Auburn University's Special Collections and Archives.
This collection was originally associated with accession number 18-011, however, some of the items were distributed to other collections and the treasure room books. The items that remained were given the accession number that exists now, 19-019.
Existence and Location of Copies
The A. W. Coleman and Co. ledger from August 6, 1859 - January 1, 1863 and the photo album from the 1930s have been digitized.
Separated Materials
The documents from the original 18-011 accession are:
Letters from C. M. Hopson (1866) and early publications from Talladega College were separated into 'Collection of Talladega College Materials', Record Group 1259. The early publications were The Southern Sentinel, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1877, Talladega College (school newspaper); Catalogue of the Preparatory and Normal Departments of Talladega College, 1871-1872; Students' Hand-book, Compliments of Y.M.C.A and Y.W.C.A., Talladega College, 1904-1905; and Talladega College, brochure [1885?].
Eight issues of The Halcyon and Tombeckbe Public Advertiser (1818) were added to 'Historical Newspaper Collection', Record Group 1231. Vol V, all labeled 'Secy of State'.
One issue of Niles Weekly Register (March 14, 1818) was added to 'Historical Newspaper Collection', Record Group 1231. New Series No. 3, Vol. II.
The books that are now located in the Treasure Collection of Special Collections and Archvies in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library are:
Alabama. Acts passed at the second session of the first General Assembly of the Alabama Territory : in the forty third year of American independence. St. Stephens, A. T.: Printed by Thomas Eastin, 1818. Call Number KFA 25.2
Jones, Fred, Mrs. Game of Alabama history events, characters. Livingston, AL, 1890. Call Number GV 1243 .J66
Brown, Samuel R. The western gazetteer ; or, emigrant's directory, containing a geographical description of the western states and territories, viz. the states of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi: and the territories of Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, and North-Western; with an appendix, containing sketches of some of the western counties of New-York, Pennsylvania and Virginia; a description of the great northern lakes; Indian annuities, and directions to emigrants. Auburn, N.Y.: H.C. Southwick, 1817. Call Number F 353 .B87
Broadside: 'White Men to Rule Alabama, Take the Representative Organ of the Democratic and Conservative Parties, The Montgomery Mail'. Montgomery, Alabama: G.H. Gibson and Co., 1868. Call Number F 326 .W4445
Processing Information
Accession 19-019 was processed by Tori Buchanan December 12, 2022.
- Title
- Guide to the Stanford Brown Papers
- Subtitle
- Record Group 1270
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
