Archival Resources
Women's History
Organizations
Clubs
Lineage
Societies
Individuals
Families
Scrapbooks
and Research Collections
ALABAMA
COMMITTEE ON THE OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S YEAR Report
ALABAMA EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Scrapbook, 1914-1918
ALABAMA
FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S CLUBS Records, 1919-1981
ALABAMA WOMEN’S ANTI-RATIFICATION LEAGUE Scrapbook, 1919-1920
ALABAMA
WOMEN’S POLITICAL CAUCUS Records
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, BIRMINGHAM BRANCH Papers, 1907-1982
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WOMEN ACCOUNTANTS, BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER #47 Records
BROTHERHOOD OF FIREMEN, LOCOMOTIVE, AND ENGINEERMEN. LADIES SOCIETY Papers
CITY
BOARD OF MISSIONS Papers, 1903-1985 [Methodist Church affiliated group that sponsored Bible studies, day care,
kindergartens, community houses, and other activities, especially in Birmingham’s ethnic
communities]
THE CIVETTES Scrapbook, 1951-1954
COUNCIL
OF WOMEN’S CLUBS Papers, 1918-1932
DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL COMMITTEE. WOMEN’S COMMITTEE Manuscript: "Thumbnail Sketches of Women You
Hear About in the New Deal," 1934
EXECUTIVE WOMEN INTERNATIONAL, BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER Records
FEDERATION
OF WOMEN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES OF BIRMINGHAM Minutes, 1911-1923
KELLER, MARY E.
"Sketches in Black and White: A History of Inter-Racial Work, Synodical of Alabama, 1916-1944"
 Guide
to Collection
LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN. BIRMINGHAM BRANCH Records, 1936-1980
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Assorted Correspondence, 1921-1932, 1937, 1939, 1946-1950
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Records, 1952-1976
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Handbook and Proceedings
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN Records and Publications, 1932-1946
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER Records, 1970-1981
SALVATION ARMY WOMEN’S AUXILIARY Yearbooks, 1970-1982
WEST
END METHODIST CHURCH. WOMEN’S BIBLE CLASS Records, 1916 [Birmingham]
WOMEN EMPLOYEE’S ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM Records, 1969-1980
WOMEN’S
COMMITTEE OF 100 FOR BIRMINGHAM Records, 1965-1966
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Annual Meeting Minutes, 1874-1934
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Correspondence, 1858-1898 and 1933
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Minute Books
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Miscellaneous Material
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Alice E. Peters Correspondence, 1888-1891
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Scrapbooks, 1857-1898
WOMEN’S
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. CENTRAL PARK UNION Scrapbooks, 1936-1937
WYLAM BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S CLUB Scrapbook, 1950-1951
YOUNG MATRONS CHARITY CLUB Minute Book, 1916-1926
YOUNG
WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YWCA) Records, 1900-1975
YOUNG
WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Mobile, Alabama Scrapbook, 1904-1949
ALABAMA WRITERS' CONCLAVE Records and Publications, 1923-1975
Description
of Collection
AMARANTH CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM Records, 1898-1977
BIRMINGHAM WRITER'S CLUB Programs, 1915-1937
Description
of Collection
CADMEAN CIRCLE Yearbooks
CLEOPHUS CLUB Records, 1940-1971
Description
of Collection
CLINONIAN CLUB Records [literary club]
COSMOS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Records, 1908-1980s
CREPE MYRTLE GARDEN CLUB Records, 1952-1979
FRAZIER, OCTAVIA FLETCHER History of the Study Circle
HIGHLAND BOOK CLUB Records, 1900-1983
HIGHLAND BOOK CLUB Yearbooks, 1896-1942
KENILWORTH CLUB Records, 1907-1917
LETITIA CLUB Records, 1942-1974
MATHEON CLUB Records, 1928-1983
NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM Records, 1895-
NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM Yearbooks, 1896-
NINETY-NINES, INCORPORATED. ALABAMA CHAPTER Records, 1954-1979 [women aircraft pilots]
PETER PAN CLUB Records, 1926-1942
PROGRESSIVE STUDY CLUB Minutes, 1917-1950
THE STUDY CIRCLE Records, 1912-1944
WEST END STUDY CLUB Scrapbooks, 1922-1966
WOMEN’S
CLUBS Yearbooks
COLONIAL DAMES VXII CENTURY. JACOB FLOURNOY CHAPTER Records, 1965-1987
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS. ALABAMA SOCIETY Scrapbooks, 1970-1985
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS. EDWARD WATERS CHAPTER Records
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Yearbooks (Various Chapters)
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Scrapbook on 50th Continental
Congress, 1941
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ALABAMA SOCIETY Programs, 1964-1984
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. NATIONAL SOCIETY Records-Continental Congress, 1949-1961
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. OLD ELYTON CHAPTER Records, 1913-1954
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. WILLIAM SPEER CHAPTER Records
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. GENERAL SUMTER CHAPTER Records
DAUGHTERS OF THE COLONIAL WARS. ALABAMA SOCIETY Records
DAUGHTERS OF FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS OF AMERICA Records
NATIONAL SOCIETY. DAUGHTERS OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA Records, 1959-1981
NATIONAL SOCIETY. U.S. DAUGHTERS OF 1812. ALABAMA CHARTER CHAPTER Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY Yearbooks (Various Chapters)
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. ALABAMA DIVISION Records, 1952-1987
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. NATIONAL DIVISION Records, 1922-1987
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. FATHER RYAN CHAPTER #338 Papers, 1899-1908 [Greenville, Alabama chapter]
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. JEFFERSON GUARDS DISTRICT Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. JOHN HERBERT KELLY CHAPTER Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. SIDNEY LANIER CHAPTER #531. CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY Papers
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. PELHAM CHAPTER #67 Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. PETTUS-RODIN CHAPTER Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. SELMA CHAPTER #53 Scrapbook
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. SOUTHERN
CROSS CHAPTER Records
UNITED
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS CHAPTER #854 Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. STONEWALL CHAPTER #724 Records
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. WILLIAM L. YANCEY CHAPTER #722 Records
ALLEN,
BEFFIE, MARY AND RUTH Papers [the Allen sisters operated the
Misses Allen School]
ANSELMO-ANTONIO, CARMELLA Papers [born in Sicily,
Anselmo-Antonio immigrated
to Birmingham in 1921, taught citizenship classes, and worked
in a defense plant during World War II]
BASS, HELEN
Papers, 1937-1942, 1967-1971
BISHOP, DOROTHY Scrapbooks and Other Material [includes scrapbooks relating
to the Twentieth Century Study Club, a Birmingham women's club]
BOWRON,
LILLIAN RODEN Scrapbook, 1919-1920 [includes material relating to women’s suffrage]
BRIDGES, ELEANOR MASSEY, GEORGES BRIDGES, AND FAMILY Papers [the Bridges were Birmingham artists, she a painter and he a sculptor]
CAMP, MAE WILSON Papers, 1935-1936 [relates to American Legion Auxiliary]
CATT,
CARRIE CHAPMAN Papers, 1848-1950 [Catt was active in the women’s suffrage movement and other social and
political causes]
COLVIN, LESSIE W. Papers [black teacher who attended Tuskegee Institute
and Alabama State College]
CULBRETH, JANE
Papers
CULLOM, HARRIET LOUISE WHITE Picture Scrapbook, 1880s-1890s
DOMINICK, CHARLOTTE LANE Papers [Dominick served as Treasurer for Jefferson
County and is also involved in local arts and theater programs]
DUFFEE, MARY GORDON Manuscripts
Description
of Collection
FINCH, LUCINE Manuscripts [Birmingham author]
FORMAN, ELIZABETH Papers,
1823-1961
Description
of Collection
FOSTER, VERA CHANDLER Papers, 1958-1971 [includes correspondence relating to the Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom]
GUY, MARIE LOUISE Personal Diary, undated [kept by a 12-13 year old girl
from Bessemer, Alabama]
HAMILTON, VIRGINIA VAN DER VEER Papers [Hamilton worked as a reporter for
the Birmingham News and later served as professor of history
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham]
HANNAS, RUTH Papers [professor of music at the University of North Carolina]
HARMON, KATE Recipe Book, 1873
HERNDON, CHARLOTTE Diary, 1947-1948 [writings of a teenage girl about
school, friends, family]
HOWE, KATHERINE THWEATT Debutante Club Scrapbook, 1949
HUGGINS, MARY FAIRFAX Scrapbook, 1870s-1880s [newspaper clippings kept
by an Alabama woman]
HUNDLEY, BOSSIE O’BRIEN Scrapbook, 1915 [relates to the women’s suffrage
movement in Alabama]
JETER, SARAH MATILDA CLAYTON Diary and Correspondence, 1860-1864 [Opelika, Alabama woman]
JOHNSTON, CARYL
Papers, 1930-1949, 1960-1999
JOLLY, JEANNE WATERS Alabama Citizens for the Equal Rights Amendment Papers, 1981-1987 and undated
KETTIG, LAURA MOODY "Her Notes and Impressions" [turn of the century travel
diary]
KIDD, VIRGINIA A. Scrapbook [circa later 19th century; compiled by Marengo
County, Alabama native]
KROMAN, EDNA Literary Manuscripts, circa 1920s
Description
of Collection
LACKMOND,
CATHERINE M. Papers, 1922-1986
LIZZIE Autograph Album, 1886-1890 [unidentified young woman, perhaps Birmingham
resident]
LONDON, EDITH WARD AND FAMILY Papers, 1881-1961 [born in Birmingham,
London was a writer, poet and diarist]
MARSHALL,
DAISY E. Autograph Album, 1884-1885
Guide to Collection
MAY, ELIZABETH ANN Papers [May was president of the Birmingham Business and Professional Women’s Club]
MCCORVEY, NETTA TUTWILER Papers [contains material on the life and work
of Julia Tutwiler]
MERCER, GENEVA Papers [Mercer was an artist and assistant to sculptor
Giuseppe Moretti]
MIGLIONICO,
NINA Scrapbook on Women’s Issues, 1949-1955
NICKEL, KATHRINE Scrapbook [primarily relates to racial incidents in
the Girl Scouts of America]
OWEN, EVELYN WOOD Scrapbook [clippings relating to Alabama writers and
works by Alabama women poets]
PLANT, AGNES My Memories of School Days, 1926 [relates experiences surrounding
graduation from Barker School, East Lake neighborhood, Birmingham, Alabama]
RATLIFF, MARY Diaries, 1935-1947 [Ratliff lived in Raymond, Mississippi]
RAY, LOUISE CRENSHAW Scrapbook
Description
of Collection
RIDDLE, HALLIE REED Diary, 1887-1906 [a middle class woman in turn of
the century Birmingham]
ROBERSON, SUSIE CUNNINGHAM Papers, 1883-1967
Description
of Collection
ROBINSON, LILLIAN Diary, 1917 [Birmingham resident’s chronicle of a trip to
Washington, D.C.]
ROGERS, LYDIA EUSTIS File on American Red Cross Work, Camp Sheridan, World
War I
ROOSEVELT,
ELEANOR Scrapbook, 1937 [clippings relating to Roosevelt’s visit to Birmingham]
ROSS,
DOROTHEA Papers, 1928-1930 [relate to Ross’ work as a teacher in the TCI
welfare department]
ROWE, MATTIE B. Papers, 1918-1953 [Rowe wrote a column for the Birmingham
News entitled "What Negroes Are Doing]
RUSSELL, CAROL MITCHELL Papers, 1923-1925
SAMPLE, LILLIAN Papers, 1943-1978 [Sample worked for the Bureau of Foreign
Commerce]
SHORES, JANIE L. Papers, 1972-1974 and 1987 [Shores served on the Alabama
Supreme Court]
SIZEMORE, MARGARET DAVIDSON Papers, 1975-1980 [Samford University Dean
of Women]
SMITH, KATE DUNCAN Biography
SMITH, MARY L. Philopena Album, 1863-1874 [autograph album including
notes and poems from friends]
STEELE,
FANNIE A. Scrapbooks, 1896-1924
Guide to Collection
TARDY, ANNE SOUTHERNE Scrapbook, 1936-1937
Description
of Collection
TYNES,
HAZEL Papers, 1900s [much of this collection relates to Tynes’ life at Belmont
College]
ULEN, LORETTA
CLAUDINE Scrapbook and Programs, 1912-1954
Description
of Collection
VAN DER VEER, ELIZABETH Papers, 1932-1947
Description
of Collection
WALKER, ALICE BILLINGS Papers, 1944-1982
Description
of Collection
WALPOLE, JULIA United Service Organization (USO) Photographs [depict USO
activities for servicemen in Birmingham]
WHEELER, ANNIE EARLY Scrapbook, 1896-1949 [Alabama woman; contains poems, speeches, and reminiscences]
WOOSTER, LOUISE C. Scrapbook, circa late 19th/early 20th century [Lou Wooster
was Birmingham’s most famous madam]
CALLIUS,
GODBEY, AND DOBBS FAMILIES
Histories and Reminiscences, 1977
Description
of Collection
EMOND, BURGIN, HILL FAMILIES Papers
Description
of Collection
FAUNSDALE PLANTATION Papers [the papers of this Marengo County, Alabama
plantation include material relating to four generations of 19th and 20th
century Southern women]
HENLEY FAMILY Papers
HOLLINGSWORTH
FAMILY Papers, 1920-1923 [includes material relating to the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs]
PENNEY FAMILY Papers, 1891-1947
Description
of Collection
Scrapbooks and Research
Collections 
Helen Keller Scrapbook, 1902-1968
Lurleen B. Wallace Scrapbooks, 1966-1968
J. CUNNIFF PUBLIC RELATIONS Clipping Files Relating to Women, Children
and Other Social Issues
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT Scrapbook, 1980-1982
FELL, CHARLES A. Memoirs, 1889-1969
Description
of Collection
HANSON, BETTE LEE Oral History Tapes and Photographic Slides [interviews
with Vera Foster, Ida Kohlmeyer, and Dorah Sterne]
MOORE, EOLINE WALLACE Typescript: "A Survey of Some Phases of the Education
of Women in Early Alabama," 1937-1938
SOUTHERN WOMEN’S ARCHIVES Office Records [include biographical files on a
number of Southern women]
WINDHAM, KATHRYN
TUCKER Research Files on Julia Tutwiler
WOMEN LEADERS IN BIRMINGHAM Scrapbook, 1935
WORKING: THE CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN Records [interviews examine the
changing role
of working women]
See also listings for collections
relating to:
ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY
LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
SOCIAL SERVICES AND HEALTH CARE
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