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Alabama -- Social life and customs

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Eloise McClendon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0904
Scope and Contents

This collection documents the existence of the Home Demonstration Clubs offered by the Extension Service through one of its agents and past presidents (1949-50). Collection includes home demonstration publications, author's history of home demonstration in Etowah County, Ala., and her study of world-wide practices re: outdoor plumbing. Also includes three issues of The Homemaker of the National Extension Homemakers Council: February, October, December 1984.

Dates: 1947 - 1988
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Lucy Thompson Nix Diary

 Collection
Identifier: 1338
Scope and Contents

This diary was written in a Birmingham School composition notebook. In her diary Nix discusses the weather, letters she received, activities of friends and family, and her health.

Dates: January 1, 1928 - February 5, 1932
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

James Benson Sellers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0362
Scope and Contents The James Benson Sellers collection consists primarily of the research data Sellers, a noted Alabama historian and teacher, accumulated in order to write his books and articles. Research topics include Alabama history, slavery, First Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, history of the University of Alabama, and history of Wilcox County, Alabama.The research...
Dates: 1820 - 1964
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Tait Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0345
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...
Dates: 1798 - 1922
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Welch Family Papers

 Collection — Box Short Collection 5
Identifier: 0087
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...
Dates: 1832 - 1858
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Kathryn Tucker Windham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0716
Scope and Contents Collection contains article and book manuscripts (1944-2009); professional, personal and general correspondence (1955-2010); taped interviews and performances (ca. 1989) for an Alabama Public Television program on Windham; photographs and notes for articles and books, including ghost stories; programs and announcements (1974-2011) for speaking engagements, storytelling festivals, and books; biographical information; clippings (1883-2010), including scrapbooks of Windham's newspaper columns...
Dates: 1883 - 2011
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

John Wych Letter

 Collection
Identifier: 1341
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one letter written in 1857 by John Wych to Daniel Cole regarding the death of a slave and how it was a major monetary loss for him.

Dates: May 26, 1857
Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

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