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Collection contains photocopies of minutes of Beech Island Farmers' Club meetings from 1846 to 1883.

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This colection contains 13 items dealing with dairy turned beef cattle. Soecifically, it consists of three livestock journal articles descriptive of the Bermuda Farm, four ledger books and scattered correspondence and announcements.

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Photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the Bolding Farm and family, including a typescript of a letter (1863) from I. J. Rogers to his parents, written from the camp of the 27th Alabama Infantry.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, financial records, photographs, published articles, speeches, autobiographical manuscripts, and printed material relating to agriculture. Papers are primarily personal in nature; material relating to Davis's tenure as Director of the Extension Service is limited. Includes scattered material relating to Davis' work with Southern Railway and his connection with the periodical Progressive Farmer. Also includes limited material on relations between the...

Scope and Contents This collection includes papers that consist principally of the drafts and notes used in preparation of an article published in Agricultural History in April 1966. The title of the article was, "Alexander J. Bondurant: American Agricultural Advisor to Australian Tobacco Growers, 1896." None of the draft materials appear to be the final draft, but interim working copies. They are heavily laden with corrections, lineouts, handwritten notes, etc. The title and source listings were also subject...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials relating to the creation of a museum honoring Ping Su Lu, who was executed by Japanese soldiers in World War II. Dr. Gill is a friend of Lu's daughter, and helped with publicity for the museum.Also included are materials relating to the internment of Japanese war criminals after World War II at Sugamo Prison, such as a retrospective report on the prison, postcards describing exhibits about the prison, and various news reports on the prison...

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This collection contains Bessie Grayson's reminiscences concerning African-American life in rural South Alabama during the 1930s to 1950s. Includes stories of picking and ginning cotton, canning, making syrup and molasses, quilting, school, and religious life, as well as segregation prior to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

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Nine photographic prints of the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland, on June 21, 1919. Seventeen photographs of agricultural and industrial sites throughout Alabama, likely taken for the Alabama Extension Service circa 1920s.

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This small collection, maintained in original order, focuses predominantly on the life and experiences of Isaac J. Rogers during the Civil War and the late nineteenth century. The collection includes his order book/journal, transcriptions of order book/journal entries, and his obituary. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings depicting University of Alabama football player, Isaac J. "Ike" Rogers, potentially a younger relative of Isaac J. Rogers.

Abstract Also known as the James A. Tait Collection. Includes diaries, letters received, financial papers, tax records, and slave records of Charles and James Asbury Tait. Papers of the children of James Asbury include letters received as well as freedman contracts, wills, deeds, clippings, maps, and speeches. The Tait Family were plantation owners in Wilcox County, Alabama; active in politics in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. Family members include Charles Tait (1768-1835), politician and...