State institutions files, 1954-1959.

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State institutions files, 1954-1959.

This series consists of correspondence, reports, telegrams, agendas, and various publications regarding colleges, universities, 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 and Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, the files include the state-maintained Alabama College in Montevallo; A ? Tuskegee Institute; and the State Teacher colleges at Florence, Jacksonville, Livingston, and Troy. These records also contain information on the state hospitals for patients with mental illness. The files include letters from patients and relatives of patients regarding conditions at the hospitals or whether or not an individual needed to be a patient in one of the hospitals. Other state institutions documented in this series include Alabama Medical College, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama State College for Negroes, Alabama School of Trades, Partlow State School for Girls.

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University of Alabama

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Alabama. Governor (1955-1959 : Folsom).

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Alabama College

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A. W. Vaughan, Head, Department of English, Alabama College. Gordon McCloskey, Professor, Department of Economics. From the description of Letters, 1938-1943, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877669 ...

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...

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College

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Medical College of Alabama

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Tuskegee Institute

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Alabama Vocational School for Girls.

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Alabama Polytechnic Institute

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Alabama. Boys Industrial School.

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Folsom, James Elisha

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James E. Folsom was born 1908 Oct. 9 to Joshua Marion and Eulala Cornelia Dunnavant Folsom in Farmer's Academy, Coffee County, Ala. When he was two the Folsom family moved to Elba. James E. was the sixth of seven children. Folsom attended public schools and attended both the University of Ala. and Howard College for short stints in the years 1927-1929. During the Depression Folsom worked in the Civil Works Administration, heading up the Marshall Co. office until 1934. He...

Alabama State Teachers College

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