Scope and Contents This collection contains news clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, broadsides, and pamphlets. Half of the material concerns William Bismarck Bowling and his interest in Alabama politics, mainly Alabama's prohibition campaign of 1909 and the ratification of the 1901 State Constitution. The other half of the collection concerns George R. Bowling, Sr.'s time as a...

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...