Alabama -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
David Hubbard Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0131
Abstract
This collection consists of several documents written by or pertaining to Alabama Congressman David Hubbard. There are two letters written by Hubbard in the collection. There is also a letter written on the page of a published address by David Hubbard and other Democrats in Alabama supporting Martin Van Buren in the upcoming presidential election. Also included is a legal document pertaining to Hubbard's success as a Congressional candidate in the polls. The collection also contains one...
Dates:
1830-1854
Josiah Meigs Letter
Collection
Identifier: MS-2091
Abstract
Josiah Meigs, then acting as the United States Surveyor General, wrote this letter to the General Land Office of the State of Alabama on 24 February 1820. In it, he instructs Alabama and Mississippi to continue surveying the boundary between their two states.
Dates:
1820 February 24
Ralph E. W. Earl Letters
Collection
Identifier: MS-0856
Abstract
In the first of these letters, W. B. Lewis tells Earl that the orders Earl sent were not the orders that he wanted. He goes on to explain that he needs copies of the orders that the Secretary of War sent to General Gaines. In the second letter, A. J. Donelson describes his and Andrew Jackson's movements, relates military news, expresses his distaste for Blakely, Alabama (from whence he is writing), apologizes for leaving before his portrait was completed, and sends his respects to Earl and...
Dates:
1818 November 2-1821 May 6
Tennessee Valley Authority Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MS-1980
Abstract
This collection houses 23 photographs documenting the Tennessee Valley Authority between 1933 and 1957. These images depict such subjects as TVA facilities (including Norris Dam and the phosphorus plant at Wilson Dam in Alabama), signs, and TVA employees.
Dates:
1933-1957, undated