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DuBose, John Witherspoon, 1836-1918. Papers, 1857-1917.

Title: Papers, 1857-1917.

Papers, contain scrapbooks, a collection card index, letters, 1857-1917, manuscript drafts, biographical sketches, notes, and envelopes. Included are letters to political figures such as Thomas G. Jones and Joseph F. Johnston, correspondence with the Convict Dept. which includes a discussion of abortion, and discussions of DuBose's historical research and publications, particularly his biography of William Lowndes Yancey. The bulk of the rest of the collection is composed of DuBose's manuscript drafts for "Forty Years of Alabama, 1861-1901," "Chronicles of the Canebrake," "The Military Campaigns of General Joseph Wheeler, CSA," biographical sketches, and other notes.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft. (6 records center boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122562421 View

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

Comer, B. B. (Braxton Bragg), 1848-1927. Printed materials collection, 1905-1911.

Title: Printed materials collection, 1905-1911.

Printed materials collection, containing several speeches by B. B. Comer, an article on his political impact and a sample electoral ballot from 1906. The speeches are those that Comer made to the State Legislature discussing various subjects including railroads, public health, convicts, Afro-Americans, and state government. Also included is an article "Alabama's Political Revolution of 1904", by James F. Doster, published in the Alabama Review (Vol. VII, #2, April, 1954).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122368404 View

McNeel, John D. (John Davidson), 1871-1940. Papers, 1909-1912.

Title: Papers, 1909-1912.

Papers, 1909-1912, including a series of letters, 1909-1910 and n.d., and a series of accounts, clippings, one contract, invitations, etc. Both series are arranged chronologically, and relate to McNeel's service as private secretary to B.B. Comer, and to McNeel's law practice in Talladega, Talladega Co., Ala. The subjects discussed in this correspondence include congratulations on his appointment as Comer's private secretary from amny individuals, including his predecessor William E. Fort, mainly in the months of 1909 Feb. and Mar.; legal matters generally, especially relating to the City Court of Talladega warrants and cases, most from City solicitor Marion H. Sims; and requests for help with appointments to local, state, and national positions. Letters of particular interest include the 1909 Mar. 7 letter to McNeel from his brother Paul in Spartanburg, S.C., in which local S.C. politics are discussed, the 1909 Mar. 13 and 20 letters between McNeel and Frank L. Vance about the suicide of Vance's wife at Bryce Hospital at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Ala. Other items of note are the 1909 Mar. 23 and 25 letters in which is discussed the case of Bob Keith, a black man convicted of second degree murder, the first letter from M.J. Cliett, requesting a pardon, and the second letter, from Talladega City Court Judge G.K. Miller, outlining the facts of the case; the 1909 Apr. 14 letter from the attorney Gardner F. Goodwyn, requesting McNeel's help in getting the Ala. Superintendent of Education to order a special census of Bessemer, Jefferson Co., Ala., due to the recent population increase; the 1909 June 17 and 20 letters between McNeel and Sen. Joseph H. Johnston regarding statistics about Ala. convicts and 1860 Ala. tax assessments on real and personal property, including slaves; and the 1909 Aug. 11 and 23 letters from his wife Adele, urging him to work enthusiastically so that he would advance far. There are also several letters from Joseph H. Johnson about the Talledega School for the Deaf in Talladega Co.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122438438 View

Comer, B. B. (Braxton Bragg), 1848-1927. Braxton Bragg Comer papers, 1905-1940 [manuscript].

Title: Braxton Bragg Comer papers, 1905-1940 [manuscript].

Personal, plantation and other business, and political papers of Comer. Personal papers consist primarily of letters to his family, including his brother E. T. Comer, about family matters, hunting, and social activities, and about Comer's interest in public and higher education in Alabama. Plantation records include correspondence with agents, sharecroppers, and laborers on the Comer plantation; vendors of farm machinery and agricultural supplies; and others. These letters discuss business disputes, Comer's African-American workforce, the sale and purchase of feed and livestock, cultivation techniques, and varieties of plants and animals. Plantation records also contain laborer and sharecropper work reports and financial and legal documents relating to the sale and purchase of farm equipment, including union activities in the mills. Political papers discuss many issues included in the progressive agenda--regulation of public utilities and transportation, especially railroads; Prohibition; and convict leasing. Comer's battle to regulate the cotton futures market is also documented. In the 1910s and 1920s, papers show Comer's involvement in several Alabama political campaigns and in Oscar Underwood's unsuccessful bid for the 1924 Democratic presidential nomination. Many items document the role of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama politics in the 1920s. In 1940, there are items concerning Comer family history. Also included are scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, most dating from Comer's tenure as governor of Alabama. Topics include Comer's administration, railroad regulation, Prohibition, education, election reform, local and national elections, and Democratic Party politics.

ArchivalResource: 16000 items (13.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31908580 View

Glick, Nathan H. (Nathan Harold), 1912-. Pen and ink drawings, [199--]-[1993].

Title: Pen and ink drawings, [199--]-[1993].

This collection contains 143 pen and ink drawings, roughly measuring 8 x 10. The subjects depicted include prominent Alabamians such as Braxton Bragg Comer, William J. Samford, and Dr. Peter Bryce, and important historical events such as the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the running of the first electric street car and the founding of various societies. The drawings run the gamut of Ala. history, beginning with prehistory and coming up to modern times.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122380824 View

Comer, Donald, 1877-1963. Papers, 1921-1952.

Title: Papers, 1921-1952.

The Donald Comer papers consist of letters to Comer from business associates, programs for dedication ceremories for buildings in honor of Braxton Bragg Comer, and materials concerning Donald Comer's speech over Birmingham radio station, WAPI, as a "Voice of Alabama". Also included are biographical sketches about Braxton Bragg Comer, and a letter from Governor Comer to Marie Bankhead Owen about his family.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439309 View

Braxton Bragg Comer Papers, 1905-1940

Title: Braxton Bragg Comer Papers, 1905-1940

Braxton Bragg Comer of Birmingham and Comer, Barbour County, Ala., was president of Avondale Cotton Mills, planter, merchant, and prominent politician, who served as president of the Alabama Railroad Commission, 1904-1907; governor of Alabama, 1908-1911; and U.S. senator, 1920. Personal, plantation and other business, and political papers of Comer. Personal papers consist primarily of letters to his family, including his brother E. T. Comer, about family matters, hunting, and social activities, and about Comer's interest in public and higher education in Alabama. Plantation records include correspondence with agents, sharecroppers, and laborers on the Comer plantation; vendors of farm machinery and agricultural supplies; and others. These letters discuss business disputes, Comer's African-American workforce, the sale and purchase of feed and livestock, cultivation techniques, and varieties of plants and animals. Plantation records also contain laborer and sharecropper work reports and financial and legal documents relating to the sale and purchase of farm equipment, including union activities in the mills.Political papers discuss many issues included in the progressive agenda--regulation of public utilities and transportation, especially railroads; Prohibition; and convict leasing. Comer's battle to regulate the cotton futures market is also documented. In the 1910s and 1920s, papers show Comer's involvement in several Alabama political campaigns and in Oscar Underwood's unsuccessful bid for the 1924 Democratic presidential nomination. Many items document the role of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama politics in the 1920s. In 1940, there are items concerning Comer family history. Also included are scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, most dating from Comer's tenure as governor of Alabama. Topics include Comer's administration, railroad regulation, Prohibition, education, election reform, local and national elections, and Democratic Party politics.

ArchivalResource: 16000; 13.0

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Underwood, Oscar W. (Oscar Wilder), 1862-1929. Papers, 1876-1962.

Title: Papers, 1876-1962.

NOTE: Unfortunately Underwood did not save copies of his letters until he was elected to the U.S. Senate; thus the papers in the House of Representatives series consist almost entirely of letters addressed to him. The first series, Personal Life, 1876-1962, includes biographical and genealogical material. The second series, which is mostly letters written to Underwood while he was in the U.S. House of Representatives (1895-1914), are extensive, and reflect a meticulous attention to his constituents' requests. A major topic of concern is the postal service. Other topics include Ala. banks and banking, the oleomargarine bill, the Philippine Islands, Ala. politics, labor legislation, railroad legislation, immigration and alien labor, the sale of public lands, patronage, good roads legislation, federal aid for agricultural schools in Ala. colleges, and the Panama Canal. Additional topics include the 1904 Democratic National Convention and presidential election, freight rates, the 1906 Senate election, the rivers and harbors bill, cotton trade, Negro disfranchisement, dams on Ala. rivers, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and prohibition, as well as the tariff issue and free trade listings, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Esch-White Phosphorus Match Act, the Canadian reciprocity treaty, customs collection, pure food and drug legislation, the merchant marine, and currency issues. Correspondents prominent in this series include lawyers, bankers, politicans, businessmen, editors, and journalists, as well as corporate entities. Specifically, they are listed as added entries. The third series includes the correspondence and letters that document Underwood's years in the U.S. Senate, 1915-1927. NOTE: There is, however, a gap between 1915 Nov. and 1918 Apr. where there are no papers. Among the topics discussed are immigration and alien labor, prohibition, equal suffrage, good roads, Ala. banking, the Panama Canal, Lycurgus Breckinridge Musgrove, judgeships, labor legislation, the merchant marine, Ala. politics, the League of Nations, political campaigns, the Muscle Shoals dam, Woodrow Wilson, the Ku Klux Klan, tariff issues, railroad regulation, the federal income tax bill, Ala. Power Company, the Interestate Commerce Commission, and the 1928 presidential election. The final group of records in this series concerns the Muscle Shoals Project, 1921-1928, which was an unsuccessful attempt by the government to dispose of the Muscle Shoals hydroelectric power plant on the Tenn. River to private interests. Prominent correspondents in this series are listed in the added entries below. The fourth series, Speeches, 1907-1925, is a collection of Underwood's speeches, most of which are in pamphlet form. The fifth series, Political Campaigns, 1894-1924, contains correspondence, letters, photographs, financial records, scrapbooks, clippings, and, in the case of the 1924 presidential nomination campaign, lists of delegates, county chairpersons, and state Democratic Executive Committees. The material for the 1924 campaign is copious, and reflects the Underwood campaign throughout the country. Prominent correspondents are listed in the added entries below. Both presidential nomination campaigns have substantial publicity material. The sixth series is Retirement, 1927-1929, and it includes correspondence and letters, the Drifting Sands of Party Politics manuscript, clippings, scrapbooks, and printed ephemera. There are letters, reports, printed material and photographs documenting the Sixth International Conference of American States in Havana, 1928, to which Underwood was a delegate. The seventh and final series is a book entitled The Story of the Democratic Party (1928) by Henry Minor who inscribed it to Underwood.

ArchivalResource: 65 cubic ft. (88 archives boxes, 26 records center cartons, 11 oversize boxes, and 6 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122547857 View