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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...

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Contains Grayson's reminiscences concern African-American life in rural south Alabama. Includes stories of picking cotton, canning, school and religious life.

Content Description From the Collection:

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...

Scope and Contents Consists of records of the Alpine Baptist Church, a diary of Oliver Welch, and the scrapbooks of Samuel W. Welch on microfilm. The remainder of collection includes photocopied genealogies (1958) of the Darby, Welch and Mallory families, compiled by H. A. Darby; a paper (1942) on the Walker Reynolds' home, Mount Ida, by Margaret Reynolds Smith; a diary (1850-1860) of Rev. Oliver Welch; memorial tributes (1874) to Welch; and two scrapbooks (1900-1951) with clippings of poetry, obituaries and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence (1860-1891) and financial records (1836-1891) of John Horry Dent; plantation journals (1876-1891) in which Dent recorded weather conditions and daily activities; biographical information on Wellborn's maternal great-grandfather, Commodore John Herbert Dent, who served aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. Correspondence...