The University of West Alabama

Julia S. Tutwiler Library

Alabama Room

 

Frances Roberts Collection

Some items are located in ArchivesLink to List

 

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Folder 1:  Ads

  • Continental Tailoring Company, 1903
  • Eastern air lines air mail advertisement
  • Falls Auction Company, 1999
  • My calendar and memory jogger for 1948
  • “New talks about Jell-O, America’s most famous desert”, 1918 booklet           
  • Palatine Insurance Company Limited
  • Personal complexion analysis and make up color harmony chart by Max Factor
  • Pinkerton National Detective Agency $500 reward for Harry J. Leon, 1919
  • Regulator almanac for memoranda, 1890

 

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Folder 2: 

·         Alabama SF4. D5, SF4. D5, Great Southern Railroad receipt, 1890’s

 

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Folder 3: 

·         Alexander and Hixon to Derby, Allison, and Smith, 1901

 

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Folder 4:

·         E.F. Allison abstracts of land

 

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Folder 5:

·         E.F. Allison’s private papers

 

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Folder 6:

·         Battle vs. William Fluker, 1844

 

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Folder 7:

·         Frances Roberts’ official bonds

 

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Folder 8:

·         Billups and Swann to Pharris

 

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Folder 9:

·         Bradshaw, 1871

 

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Folder 10:

·         Children’s Whitsuntide Festival, Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, AL, Whitsun Monday, 1869

 

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Folder 11:

·         Crenshaw, 1842

 

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Folder 12:

·         Curl to Allison, 1892

 

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Folder 13:

Robert Foster, 1866

 

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Folder 14:

·         Gaines, Judge of the probate

 

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Folder 15:

·         Gilbert, 1866

 

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Folder 16:

·         Hair et al vs. Allen Rushing, 1844

 

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Folder 17

·         Hair vs. Dial, 1848

 

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Folder 18:

·         Hanes, Ellis, and Barnes, 1850

 

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Folder 19:

·         Harris, 1866

 

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Folder 20:

·         Hinds, 1849

 

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Folder 21:

·         Ivey

 

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Folder 22:

·         Jackson’s tuition receipts for Lucy, 1880’s and 1890’s

 

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Folder 23:

·         Frances Roberts’ journal of books loaned out and returned

 

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Folder 24:

·         Frances Roberts’ Kappa Delta Pi membership letter, 1939

 

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Folder 25:

·         Kinard, Jones, Brown, Tartt, Jenkins, and Boyd, 1871

 

 

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Folder 26:

·         Kinard and Lawhorn, 1871

 

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Folder 27:  Land abstracts

·         Alexander bought from Smith and Allison, 1899

·         Apsey, Warren, and Shows, 1904

·         Land of Apsey bought from Phares, 1856

·         Deed: Lucky to Griffin, 1904

·         McGrath, 1906

·         Land receipts for William Phipps and Joseph Shows

 

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Folder 28:

·         Little vs. Russell, 1853

 

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Folder 29:

·         McCormack, 1849

 

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Folder 30:

·         Frances Roberts’ mercantile receipt, 1904

 

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Folder 31:  Miscellaneous

·         Book of facts compliments of B.L. Roberts of Gainesville

·         Bookmark with verse “When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me” Micah 7:8

·         Broken picture frame with a piece of metal in it that may have been a picture

·         “A Manual of instruction upon the collects, epistles, and gospels for the Christian year” by The Rev. George W. Shinn, circa 1873

·         Webster’s dictionary, 1865

 

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Folder 32:

·         Mobley vs. Carpenter, 1866

 

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Folder 33:

·         Mobley to Jones, 1866

 

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Folder 34:  Frances Roberts’ notes

·         One little black book

·         31 loose pages about Matthew Arnold

 

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Folder 35:

·         Phares’ homestead certificate signed by President Harrison, 1891

 

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Folder 36:

·         Frances Roberts’ phonebook for Eutaw, Boligee, Livingston, and York

 

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·         Folder 37:

·         Photo album: Looks like World War II

·         Adults and boys with a daschaund

·         Big crowd of people possibly at the Palais De Versailles

·         Boys in soldier uniforms

·         Castles possibly in Bavaria

·         Catholic Church

·         Cocktail party

·         Couple having coffee and brownies

·         Couple working behind a bar

·         Crucifix

·         Man at cemetery

·         Man at fountain

·         Man diving into a pool

·         Man floating on an inner tube in a pool

·         Man getting something pinned on his vest

·         Man giving a German salute

·         Man in his underwear shining his shoes

·         Man in lederhosen close up

·         Man in swim trunks about to pull a man in a dress suit in a pool

·         Man looking at tulips

·         Man playing an organ

·         Man standing next to bellows

·         Man standing next to a statue of a woman

·         Man with sailor

·         Mansion

·         Men getting water from a well

·         Men in front of German looking buildings

·         Men with boys in lederhosen

·         People looking at flowers

·         Priest and people

·         Smiling young man in lederhosen

·         Soldier in front of a jeep

·         Soldiers and others standing in front of the Palais De Versailles

·         Statue of Karl Kotzenberg

·         Three guys on a couch

·         Volkswagen

·         Young man at a machine, possibly a sewing machine

·         Young man in jeans leaning on a fence post

·         Young man in a suit

·         Young man drinking a toast

·         Young man leaning on a car

·         Young man and woman wearing sunglasses

·         Young men in an army band

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Folder 38:  Post Cards - AL, Bermuda, CA, FL

Alabama

·         Administration Building, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

·         Huntsville, AL

·         Tuscaloosa, AL

 

Bermuda

·         The Lane, St. George’s, Bermuda

 

California

·         Little Church of Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA

·         Picking Oranges in California

·         Replica of a Danish kitchen, Solvang, CA

·         Times Building, Los Angeles, CA

 

Florida

·         Al Fresco Hotel, Jensen, FL

·         Beautiful Spanish Entrance to a Miami Beach Home, FL

·         Biscayne Boulevard and Hotels, Miami, FL

·         Fishing Pier, Pensacola Beach, FL

·         The Flame Vine, FL

·         Flame vine and bougainvillea, FL

·         Forty passenger clipper ships at Pan American International Airport, Miami, FL

·         Lake Worth Bridge, looking south, Lake Worth, Florida

·         Main Street entrance to beach and ocean, Daytona Beach, FL

·         Picking oranges in Florida

·         The singing tower, Mountain Lake Sanctuary in Florida

·         The singing tower by moonlight, Mountain Lake Sanctuary, Lake Wales, FL

 

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Folder 39:  Postcards, GA and HI

Georgia

·         Bird’s eye view of St. Simon’s Island, GA

·         Dogwood trees in bloom, Atlanta, GA

·         Pink Chapel near Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island, GA

·         Ruins of Fort Frederica, Saint Simons Island, GA

·         St. Simons Light House, St. Simons Island, GA

·         Sea Island Casino, Sea Island, Georgia near Brunswick

·         United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, GA

·         Wesleys Oak, Frederica, near Sea Island Beach, Georgia

 

Hawaii

·         Nuuanu Pali, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

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Folder 40:  Postcards, IL, IN, KY, LA

Illinois

·         Adler Planetarium and Terrazzo Promenade, Chicago, IL

·         Chicago Avenue Water Tower (Palmolive Building in rear), Chicago, IL

·         Congress Hotel, Chicago, IL

·         Greater Chicago

§          Alexander McKinlock Memorial Campus, Northwestern University, Chicago

§          Chicago Arena

§          Chicago Midway Airport

§          Chicago Public Libraries

§          Chicago Temple Building, Chicago

§          Chinatown, Chicago

§          Coliseum, Chicago

§          Conrad Hilton Hotel

§          Entrance Union Stockyards, Chicago

§          Hull House

§          Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive south from the bridge

§          Michigan Avenue looking north

§          Michigan Boulevard north from the bridge

§          Newberry Library

§          Outer Drive Link Bridge and skyline

§          State Street looking north, Chicago

§          University of Chicago

§          WGN Studios

·         London Guarantee & Accident Company Building, Chicago, IL

·         Post Office and Federal Building, Chicago, IL

·         Public Library, Chicago, IL

·         Skyline from Chicago Harbor, IL

·         State and Madison Streets, the busiest corner in the world, Chicago, IL

 

Indiana

·         Vocational and Physical Education building, Muncie, IN

 

Kentucky

·         Big Trees in Cherokee Park, Louisville, KY

·         Federal Hill, where Stephen Collins, Foster wrote his immortal song “My old Kentucky home” KY

·         Fire Place in Lincoln Cabin on Lincoln Farm, near Hodgenville, KY

·         “A Kentucky Welcome” by G. Allison Holland

·         Looking up the Kentucky River from High Bridge, KY, Shaker town in distance

·         My old Kentucky home, Bardstown, KY

·         St. Joseph’s Proto-Cathedral, Bardstown, KY

§          The Annunciation

§          Church and Convent, Nazareth

§          The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin

§          The Crucifixion

§          Descent of the Holy Ghost

§          Flaying of St. Bartholomew

§          Immaculate Conception

§          Interior

§          The Old Stone Inn, now the Talbott Tavern

§          St. Aloysius teaching the youths

§          St. John the Baptist

§          St. Joseph’s College

§          St. Joseph’s Rectory

§          St. Peter in chains

§          Winged St. Mark

·         Spring on Lincoln Farm, Hodgenville, KY

 

Louisiana

·         Courtyard, Patio Royal, New Orleans, LA

·         Famous Avenue of Oak Trees (1,000 years old), Audubon Park, New Orleans, LA

·         Municipal auditorium, New Orleans, LA

·         New Charity Hospital and Nurses Home, New Orleans, LA

·         Oak Grown ruins of old Pakenham House, New Orleans, LA

·         Old French Courtyard, New Orleans, LA

 

Mexico

·         Roof Garden, Hotel Ontario, Mexico City, Mexico

 

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Folder 41:  Miscellaneous Postcards

·         Always after new business, rooster chasing hen

·         Best Easter Wishes

·         Best Easter Wishes with yellow chick

·         Birthplace of Will Rogers

·         Cut out the monkey business and write a line to me

·         Evergreens and berries…Christmas postcard

·         Gran Hotel Patio Espanol

·         A Happy Easter to you

·         Henry W. Grady Monument

·         Ike’s Café [Eisenhower]

·         La Gare du Chemin e Fer de Banlieue – Le C.B.R.

·         Partially open doors, Goodyear Zeppelin Corp.’s factory and dock

·         A Peaceful Easter

 

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Folder 42:  Postcards, MA, MS, MD, NB, NY

Massachusetts

·         Minute Man, Concord, MA     

 

Missouri

·         Hannibal, Missouri

·         Panoramic view of St. Charles, Mo from the Wabash Railroad Bridge

·         Tomb of Mother Duchesne, Sacred Heart Academy, St. Charles, MO

 

·         Mississippi

·         Columbia High School, Columbia, MS

·         Observation Tower on Jackson Road, National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS

·         The Sunken Garden, Residence H.L. White, Columbia, MS

·         West Beach Sea Wall, Gulfport, MS

 

Nebraska

·         United Benefit Life Insurance Company, New Home Office, Omaha, Nebraska

 

New York

·         Empire State Building at night, New York City

·         Peace Bridge crossing Niagara River between Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ontario

 

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Folder 43:  Postcards, NC, OH, PA, SC

North Carolina

·         Battle Vance Pettigrew, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

·         Bottomless Pools, Western NC, near Chimney Rock, NC

·         Brevard College, Brevard, NC

·         Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

·         Mountain Roadway, Ashville, NC

·         Panoramic view from the Blue Ridge Parkway, NC

·         The Pool, Rockbrook Camp, Brevard, NC

·         Winding Highway cut through solid rock, in the heart of the mountains, between Highlands and Franklin, NC

 

Ohio

·         Airport terminal, Akron, OH

·         Detroit Superior High Level Bridge and Terminal Tower, Cleveland, OH

·         Municipal Stadium and East 9th St. Pier, Cleveland, OH

·         Pioneer Pavilion and Horseshoe Curve, Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, OH

 

Pennsylvania

·         Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia, PA

·         Devil’s Den Ledge, Gettysburg, PA

·         East Cemetery Hill, PA

·         General Lee’s Headquarters, Gettysburg, PA

·         General Robert E. Lee and staff

·         Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA

·         Independence Hall and Commodore Barry Monument, Philadelphia, PA

·         Jennie Wade, House and Monument, PA

·         John Burns statue, PA

·         Little Round Top and General Warren Statue, PA

·         Major General George G. Meade and staff, Gettysburg, PA

·         On Culp’s Hill, looking west, Gettysburg, PA

·         Pennsylvania State Memorial

·         Spangler’s Spring, PA

·         Summit of Little Round Top, PA

·         Statues of General Buford, General Reynolds, and Hall’s 2nd Maine Battery

·         Valley of Death and Little Round Top, PA

·         View of Independence Hall, “Cradle of Liberty”, 6th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA

·         West Confederate Avenue showing Whitworth guns, Gettysburg, PA

·         The Wheatfield, showing Round Tops in distance, PA

 

South Carolina

·         Greetings from Spartanburg, SC

 

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Folder 44:  Postcards, TN, TX, UT, VT

Tennessee

·         Alladin’s Palace, Wonder Cave, Monteagle, TN

·         Cavern Castle, entrance to Lookout Mountain Cave, Chattanooga, TN

·         Entrance to the National Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN

·         Post Office, Chattanooga, TN  

 

Texas

·         Business District from West Dallas, TX

·         Cliff Towers Hotel from Lake Cliffs, Dallas, TX

·         Magnolia Building, Adolphus Hotel, and Baker Hotel, Dallas, TX

·         Sullivan Park, Dallas, TX

           

Utah

·         Corridor and Main Stairways, Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City, UT

·         Pioneer Monument, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Vermont

·         Green Mountain Diner & Pine Room, Arlington, VT

 

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Postcards,  VA, Washington DC, Wisconsin

Virginia

·         The Banquet Hall, Mount Vernon, VA

·         Beautiful Arlington, VA

§          Confederate memorial

§          Custis family lot

§          Custis Lee mansion

§          Field of the dead

§          General Sheridan’s grave

§          General Wheeler monument

§          General Wheeler monument and officers’ section

§          Grave of Robert E. Peary

§          Interior of memorial amphitheater

§          Kearny statue

§          Main entrance

§          Map of Arlington National Cemetery

§          Mast of the Maine and graves of her dead

§          McClellan gate

§          Memorial amphitheater

§          Old amphitheater

§          Ord and Weitzel gate

§          Rough Riders Monument

§          Sheridan gate

§          Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument

§          Spanish American War section, soldiers’ and sailors’ monument

§          The Temple of Fame

§          Tomb of the unknown dead

§          Tomb of Unknown Soldier of the World War

§          View of Washington from Arlington, VA

§          World War section and Arlington wireless towers

·         General Washington’s Bed Chamber, Mount Vernon, VA

·         Greetings from Mount Vernon, VA

§          Banquet Hall

§          Bowling green

§          Christ Church, Alexandria, VA, where Washington worshipped

§          Custis Lee Mansion, Arlington, VA

§          The Family Dining Room

§          The Garden’s, Home of Washington

§          George Washington’s bedroom

§          George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria, VA

§          Green Room

§          Interior Christ Church, Alexandria, VA

§          Main Hall, Mount Vernon Mansion

§          Martha Washington’s bedroom

§          Martha Washington’s kitchen

§          Martha Washington’s spinning room

§          Mrs. Washington’s sitting room

§          Music Room

§          Nellie Custis’ room

§          New Jersey Room

§          Old Tomb

§          River room

§          Texas Gate

§          Washington from across the Potomac

§          Washington’s barn

§          Washington’s home from an aeroplane

§          Washington’ library

§          Washington Mansion

§          Washington’s Tomb

§          West Parlor

·         Hawk’s Bill from Crescent Rock, Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, VA

·         The Library at Mount Vernon, VA

·         Martha Washington’s sitting room, VA

·         Monument Avenue and Lee Monument, Richmond, VA

·         The Mosque, Richmond Civic Center, Richmond, VA

·         Mount Vernon, VA

·         Mount Vernon mansion from the north, VA

·         The North Lane at Mount Vernon, VA

·         Old Oaks, Petersburg, VA

·         Penn-Daw Hotel, Alexandria, VA

·         The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, VA

·         Trinity Episcopal Church, Court Street, corner High Street, Portsmouth, VA

·         View from Stony Mountain, Shenandoah National Park, VA

·         Views of beautiful Arlington, VA

§          Arlington Memorial Bridge, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument

§          Butt Memorial, Hero of the Titanic

§          Confederate Memorial

§          Field of the Dead

§          Fort Meyer Gate

§          General Crook Monument

§          Graves of George Washington Parke Custis and wife

§          Interior of Memorial Amphitheater

§          Kearny Statue

§          The Maine anchor

§          Mast of the Main

§          McClellan Gate

§          Memorial Amphitheatre

§          Officer’s Section

§          Old Amphitheater

§          Ord and Weitzel Gate

§          Robert E. Peary Memorial, discoverer of the North Pole

§          Rough Riders Monument

§          Sheridan Monument

§          Soldier’s and Sailor’s monument of the Spanish War

§          Spanish War Nurses Monument

§          The Temple of Fame, VA

§          Tomb of General Nelson A. Miles

§          Tomb of the Unknown Dead

§          Tomb of Unknown Soldier

§          Washington from Arlington

§          World War Section and Arlington Wireless Towers

  • Washington Monument and Hotel, Richmond, VA
  • West Front, Mount Vernon, VA

 

Washington, DC

  • Arlington Memorial Bridge, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, Washington, DC
  • Beautiful Washington, DC, the nation’s capitol

§          Arlington Memorial Bridge, Lincoln Memorial, and Washington Monument

§          Department of Commerce

§          Japanese cherry blossoms, riverside drive, Potomac River

§          Library of Congress

§          Lincoln Memorial

§          Lincoln memorial from across the Potomac

§          The new Bureau of Printing and Engraving on Potomac Park and Basin

§          New National Museum

§          Old National Museum

§          Pennsylvania Avenue

§          Smithsonian Institution

§          Union Station

§          The U.S. capitol

§          United States Supreme Court

§          United States Treasury

§          Washington’s mansion, Mount Vernon, VA

§          Washington Monument

§          Washington Monument and Cherry Blossoms

§          White House

·         Hotel Martinique, Washington, DC

·         The Shoreham Hotel, Connecticut Avenue at Washington St., Washington, DC

·         The Shoreham Hotel, Connecticut Avenue at Calvert St., Washington, DC

·         United States Capitol by night, Washington, DC

 

Wisconsin

·         Allis Chalmers All Crop Harvester, Milwaukee, WS

 

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Folder 46:

·         Frances Roberts’ pottery receipt, 1907

 

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Folder 47:

·         Frances Roberts’ promissory note, 1939

 

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Folder 48:

·         Redmon vs. Colgin, 1845

 

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Folder 49:

·         Letter to George B. Sanders, Chancery, 1849

 

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Folder 50:

·         Letter to George B. Sanders, 1866

 

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Folder 51:

·         George B. Saunders

 

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Folder 52:

·         Scrapbook contents:

§          Program of a musical festival by the Euterpean Club of Birmingham High School, June 3, 1903

§          Picture of nine teachers in Birmingham High School, all women, no names

§          Dreka’s word book

§          Miscellaneous diary like writing

 

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Folder 53:

·         Stokley vs. Haughton, 1847

 

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Folder 54:

·         Sturdivant to White, 1869