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Parker, O.H. Letter, 1913.

Title: Letter, 1913.

Letter, 1913 May 30, Anniston, Ala., from O.H. Parker to C.W. Brown. O.H. Parker makes reference to a letter that was published in the Birmingham News in which he supported the Hon. Thomas E. Kilby for Lieutenant Governor.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Alabama. Governor (1919-1923 : Kilby). Proclamations, commendations and appreciations, 1919-1922.

Title: Proclamations, commendations and appreciations, 1919-1922.

This series consists of proclamations made by the governor. The proclamations concern declarations of special days, commendations for meritorious or special services and congratulatory statements. All of the proclamations are attested by the Secretary of State and embossed with the state seal. This series also contains two different forms of proclamations: commendations and appreciations. These are more specialized forms of proclamations which are filed separately.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498715 View

Bankhead, William Brockman, 1874-1940. Papers, 1875-1952 and n.d.

Title: Papers, 1875-1952 and n.d.

Papers, 1875-1952 and n.d., consisting of genealogical materials, correspondence, letters, telegrams, cards, invitations, clippings, reports, speeches, campaign records, bills and resolutions proposed by the U.S. Congress, subject files, pamphlets, diagrams, scrapbooks, and other materials. This collection documents the life of Bankhead, particularly his career as a U.S. Representative, with extensive coverage of his tenure as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Included in his records as a U.S. Representative is a great amount of information on U.S. and Ala. politics, agriculture, military conscription, unemployment, roads and highways, prohibition, drainage and reclamation, vocational education, and Tallulah Bankhead. Clippings and scrapbooks also contain information on the lives and careers of John H. Bankhead, Sr., John H. Bankhead, Jr., and Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968). Photographs include numerous members of Congress, officials in the administrations of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and foreign heads of state. Of significant interest is correspondence between Bankhead and Democratic party and Congressional leaders concerning political campaigns, Democratic organization of the House of Representatives, and New Deal legislation.

ArchivalResource: 33 cubic ft. (41 archives containers, 2 records center containers, 4 oversized containers, and 27 oversized scrapbooks).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498578 View

Sparks, Chauncey, 1884-1968. Papers, [190-?]-[196-?].

Title: Papers, [190-?]-[196-?].

The Chauncey Sparks papers contain a variety of materials relating primarily to Chauncey Sparks' legal career, banking interests, and political activities from the 1920s to the 1950s. Newspaper clippings, speeches, and scrapbooks in the collection relate mostly to his one term as governor and to his two failed campaigns for that office in 1938 and 1950. Assorted printed materials such as magazines and pamphlets collected over his long life are also in the collection. Additionally included is correspondence with prominent political figures in Alabama and the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 41 cubic ft. (32 records center cartons and 28 scrapbooks).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122388466 View

Capitol research negatives, 1861-1987

Title: Capitol research negatives, 1861-1987

This series consists of photographic negatives of persons and places throughout the historic state capitol. Included are a 1906 photograph of Alabama Dept. of Archives and History Director Thomas M. Owen in the basement with a mountain of records and a photograph of Jefferson Davis' body lying in state in the Supreme Court library. There are many exterior views of the capitol building. Also present are images of the following individuals: John H. Bankhead, Braxton Bragg Comer, Lucien Gardener, Thomas E. Kilby, Horace King, Benjamin Meek Miller, and Emmet O'Neal.

ArchivalResource: 317 items.

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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965. Papers, 1924-1965.

Title: Papers, 1924-1965.

Papers, 1924-1965, consisting of correspondence, letters, telegrams, memoranda, advertisements, speeches, clippings, photographs, minutes, platforms, resolutions, lists, reports, receipts, budgets, scrapbooks, maps, and published materials. These papers center on the political life, and to a lesser extent, the personal life of Dixon. The political life of Dixon is particularly well documented, including his two campaigns for the governor's office of Ala. in 1934 and 1938, and his involvement in the Dixiecrat movement from 1948 into the 1950's. Correspondence and letters, numerous speeches, and campaign materials, all describe Dixon's and many others activities in great detail. His personal life, particularly his membership in various clubs and organizations, is also well documented, especially his activities in the American Bar Association and the Redstone Club of Birmingham, Ala. There are also several speeches and some campaign literature that document Bibb Graves' campaign for governor in 1934. Among the prominent correspondents with a significant amount of material in the Dixon papers are: Governors Homer M. Adkins of Ark.; Ellis Arnall of Ga.; Ross B. Barrett of Miss.; J. Melville Broughton of N.C.; James E. Folsom of Ala.; Spessard L. Holland of Fla.; Paul B. Johnson of Miss.; Sam H. Jones of La.; Robert S. Kerr of Okla.; Thomas E. Kilby of Ala.; Ben Laney of Ark.; John Patterson and Gordon Persons of Ala.; Leverett Saltonstall of Mass.; Chauncey Sparks of Ala.; J. Strom Thurmond of S.C.; William M. Tuck of Va.; George C. Wallace of Ala., and Fielding Wright of Miss.; U. S. Senators include: John H. Bankhead, Owen Brewster, Harry F. Byrd, James O. Eastland, Walter F. George, Lister Hill, Spessard L. Holland, and John Sparkman. U.S. Representatives include: George W. Andrews, Laurie C. Battle, Frank W. Boykin, George Grant, Sam Hobbs, George Huddleston, Robert E. Jones, and Albert Rains. Ala. politicians include: G. Claiborne Blanton, Albert Boutwell, Frank R. Broadway, C.J. Coley, Eugene "Bull" Connor, Sam Englehardt, Walter Givhan, Walter B. Jones, Thomas S. Lawson, Norvelle R. Leigh, Jr.; Gessner T. McCorvey, Ed Leigh McMillan, Albert Patterson, Marion Rushton, and Horace C. Wilkinson. Prominent newspapermen include: Tom Abernethy of the Talladega Daily Home; Harry M. Ayers of The Anniston Star; Virginius Dabney of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; John Temple Graves of the Birmingham Age-Herald; Grover C. Hall, Jr., of the Montgomery Advertiser; Horace Hall of The Dothan Eagle; Clarence and Victor Hanson of The Birmingham News; Barrett C. Shelton of the Decatur Daily News; Cash M. Stanley of the Montgomery Advertiser; and Earl L. Tucker of the Thomasville Times. There are many other prominent correspondents as well.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft. (5 records center cartons; 1 card index box for 3x5 cards; one oversized box; and 3 oversized folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122387780 View

Alabama. Dept. of Archives and History. Woman's suffrage files, 1915-1920.

Title: Woman's suffrage files, 1915-1920.

This series consists of correspondence, broadsides, handbills, and publications pertaining to women's suffrage. Much of the correspondence was directed to legislators and to Governor Thomas E. Kilby. Correspondents include: H. H. Snell, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Mrs. James S. Pinckard, and Alex C. Walker. Copies of Senator Oscar W. Underwood's speech to Congress opposing suffrage for women are also among the records. In addition, the series contains copies of the Suffragist, published by the National Woman's Party, and the The Remonstrance Against Woman Suffrage, published by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts. Other organizations represented in the records include: Alabama Association of Business and Professional Women, Alabama Equal Suffrage Association, American Constitution League, Men's League for Woman's Suffrage, National American Woman Suffrage Association, the Alabama Branch of the National Woman's Party, State Democratic Executive Committee, Tennessee Constitutional League, and the Woman's Anti-Ratification League of Alabama.

ArchivalResource: .33 cubic ft. (1 archives box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568491 View

Alabama. Governor (1935-1939 : Graves). State institutions files, 1919-1939.

Title: State institutions files, 1919-1939.

The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the administering of executive decisions and actions. This series consists of correspondence, reports, telegrams, agendas, invoices, newspaper clippings, and various publications regarding colleges, universities, reform schools, hospitals, and other institutions funded by the state of Alabama. The majority of the files provide information on the colleges and universities in the state. In addition to the two largest institutions, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, the state maintained Alabama College in Montevallo; A ? the State Agricultural Schools; the State Normal Schools at Daphne, Florence, Jacksonville, Livingston, Montgomery, and Troy; and Tuskegee Institute. Events of special note include the resignation of Alabama College President O. C. Carmichael and the appointment of A. F. Harman as Carmichael's successor. The University of Alabama also underwent a change of leadership. President George H. Denny retired in 1937 and was replaced by Richard C. Foster. The records also contain correspondence to the Governor regarding the 1938 Rose Bowl in which the University of Alabama football team was defeated by the University of Washington. This file also contains a publicity publication for the film, Wells Fargo, that was autographed to Bibb Graves from Johnny Mack Brown (a former University of Alabama football player turned actor) expressing regret that Graves was unable to attend the Rose Bowl. The Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) also experienced a change in leadership during the Graves' administration. Dr. Luther N. Duncan was elected president of the land-grant college by the Board of Trustees in 1935 Feb. The files for API reveal that the school lobbied to be chosen as a site for the Regional Research Laboratory as designated in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. A detailed report compiled to promote the school as a suitable laboratory site is included in the records. A booklet of photographs is also included among the Regional Research Laboratory promotional material. These images of the school and the town of Auburn provide an excellent ca. 1938 pictorial history of the community. This series also contains reports and correspondence on the Alabama Insane Hospitals. W. D. Partlow was superintendent of the entire system which included Partlow State School and Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa and Searcy Hospital in Mt. Vernon. Other state institutions documented in this series include the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind at Talladega, the Alabama Boys Industrial School at East Lake, the Alabama Reform School for Negro Boys, the Alabama Vocational School for Girls, the Southern Industrial Institute, and the Confederate Soldiers' Home at Mountain Creek. The records in this series were created and maintained during Governor Graves' 1935 to 1939 term of office with the exception of the files on the Confederate Soldiers' Home. The correspondence in this file begins in 1919 with Governor Thomas Kilby and continues through Graves' second administration.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft. (3 records center cartons).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498754 View