State institutions files, 1959-1979.

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State institutions files, 1959-1979.

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This series consists of correspondence, reports, telegrams, agendas, newspaper clippings, photographs and various publications regarding universities, colleges, reform schools, state schools, state hospitals and other institutions funded by the State of Alabama. The state institutions files include larger and smaller four year institutions, junior colleges, trade schools, special training institutions, and minority junior high, high, and training schools. Among the universities and colleges contained in this series are: University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; Auburn University; the state maintained Alabama College in Montevallo; Tuskegee Institute; University of South Alabama, and the state teacher colleges at Florence, Jacksonville, Livingston, Montgomery, and Troy. Also documented in these records is the state medical school in Birmingham, maintained by the University of Alabama. Some of the junior colleges contained in this series are as follows: Alexander City Junior College, Andalusia Junior College, Jefferson Davis Junior College, Mobile Junior College, Pinson Junior College, George C. Wallace Junior College at Hanceville, and Lurleen B. Wallace State Junior College. These records also contain information on the state hospitals for patients with mental illness. The files include letters from patients and relatives regarding hospital conditions and patients' need for future hospitalization. Other state institutions documented in this series include the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Alabama Boys Industrial School at East Lake, the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs, the Alabama School of Trades at Gadsden, the Alabama Vocational School for Girls at Birmingham, and various minority junior high, high, and training schools.

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State Normal School (Livingston, Ala.)

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Bryce Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

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Corinne (Corine) Peteet was born in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama in November 1866. She attended the Livingston Female Academy from 1879 through 1884 . She married Benjamin F. Eborn on 21 March 1885 from her parents’ home in Livingston, Alabama. The couple lived in the Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama area and had four daughters: Edith C. (1887–); Mary L. (1890–); Estelle (1893–); and Lela M. (1894–). Benjamin, born in 1859, died on 20 December 1945. From the guide to the E...

Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children (Mt. Meigs, Ala.)

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Alabama Polytechnic Institute

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Andalusia Junior College (Andalusia, Ala.)

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State Normal School (Jacksonville, Ala.)

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State Normal School (Troy, Ala.)

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Authorities: Alabama Government Manual, 1982. 1819 Alabama Constitution, Art. IV, Sec. 1-15, 16, 18. Acts 1933, No. 177, p. 189. Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1979. Code of Alabama 1876. Code of Alabama 1975. 1901 Alabama Constitution, Art. V, Sec. 116, 126-128, Amendment 282. The Governor is the chief executive of the State. He sees that laws are faithfully and equitably exe...

State Normal School (Montgomery, Ala.)

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Alabama School of Trades. (Gadsden, Ala.)

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Alexander City State Junior College

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Auburn university

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East Alabama Male College, sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered in May 1856. Classes opened in 1859 in Auburn, Alabama, but the college closed during the Civil War. Reopening in 1866, the college became a land-grant institution in 1872 and changed its name to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The college was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1899 to 1960, when it became Auburn University. From the description of Founders Day collec...

Mobile Junior College (Mobile, Ala.)

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Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee, Ala.)

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Jefferson Davis Junior College. (Brewton, Ala.)

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George C. Wallace Junior College. (Dothan, Ala.)

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Alabama Training School for Girls (Birmingham, Ala.)

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Pinson Junior College (Pinson, Ala.)

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University of South Alabama

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Lurleen B. Wallace State Junior College (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

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State Normal School (Florence, Ala.)

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Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

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Authorities: Acts of Ala. 1859/60, No. 253, pp. 344-347. Acts of Ala. 1866/67, No. 490, p. 550. Acts of Ala. 1869/70, No. 107, pp. 95-97. Acts of Ala. 1886/87, No. 16, pp. 56-58. Acts of Ala. 1886/87, No. 30, p. 70. Acts of Ala. 1890/91, No. 209, pp. 458-459. Acts of Ala. 1900/01, No. 15, pp. 24-30. Acts of Ala. 1919, No. 442, Art. 35-37, pp. 661-666. Acts of Ala. 1927, No. 61...