Topic: alabama

Plan du Fort Condé de la Mobille, marqué en rouge dans l'Etat quil est...

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Shows Mobile and Fort Condé (later renamed Fort Charlotte), Alabama. "Echelle de cent cinquante toises." Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, brown, red, yellow). "This Fr... more

Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivi...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. This incomplete map without title covers only the east portion showing in the map entitled "Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisian... more

Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivi...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. Prime meridian: [Paris]. "This map of the Mississippi River Valley from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Mobile includes inter... more

Carte d'une partie du cours de la riviere de la Mobille et de celle de...

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A plan of part of the rivers Tombecbe, Alabama, Tensa, Perdido, & Scam...

Scale ca. 1:126,720. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Cadastral map. Drawn from the original map in British archives "Col. Off. 5. Vol. 73, pp. 103-104. (Old A.W.I. 276)." Inclu... more

Virginia Colonial Safety Committee; Edmund Pendleton, et al to Thomas ...

Printed Commission as Commander of the Albemarle County, Virginia, Militia

Plano del Puerto de la Mobila Situado en latd. No. de 30⁰ 10ʹ m. tomad...

Plano del Pto. de la Movila situado en la latd. N. de 30⁰ 10ʹ tomado á...

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Zoonen. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the entrance to Mobile Bay. Mounted on cloth backing. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower ... more

A plan of Mobile Bar,

Scale ca. 1:95,000. "The soundings are in feet." Shows "Isle Dauphine," "Mobile Point," "Pelican Id.," and other islands. Plate no. "33." From Thomas Jefferys' The West-India atlas. 1794. LC Maps of North Ameri... more

Costa desde la Mobila asta la Bahía de Sn. Josef.

Also shows fort and settlements. Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: J. Whatman. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 824 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... more

[Map of Mobile Bay] /

Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink "You are hereby request to summon the ..." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Prospectus for publishing by subscription A map of the state of Louisi...

The state of Mississippi and Alabama territory.

Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. "Shallus Sc." From: Samuel Lewis atlas, 1817. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map of an area of Spanish West Florida from Lake Maurepas to Pensacola...

Depths shown by soundings. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General o... more

Plan of the fortification at Mobile Point

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Indexed. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 466" on verso. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of... more

Survey from the bay of Perdido to Mobile Point made by order of Genl. ...

Pen-and-ink. "April 1813." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan of Bend and breast works of Tohopeka, the battle of the 27th Marc...

Does not show troops or details of battle. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backed paper. Title from verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Sketch map of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend of Tallapoosa River, 27th ...

Andrew Jackson to Huntsville Alabama Citizens, May 10, 1814

[Plat of land along the Rio de la Movila near its juncture with Bayou ...

[Unfinished map of a portion of land along Perdido Bay, Spanish West F...

Rough sketches of the Creek Country : [Alabama].

Shows unspecified Creek Indian territory in Alabama. Title from verso. Pen-and-ink. On verso in pencil at upper left: Catalogued W. Imperfect: Fold-lined, mounted on paper, mounted on cloth, edged with cloth ta... more

Map by which the Creek Indians gave their statement at Fort Strother o...

A map of Mexico, Louisiana, and the Missouri Territory : including als...

Map of Alabama /

Relief shown by contours and hachures. Prime meridian: Washington and London. "Entered according to Act of Congress the 29 day of Octor. 1818 by John Melish." Includes statistical and geographical notes. Availa... more

Plano borrador de la parte de la Florida Occidental contenida entre el...

Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. Watermark: 1808 J Whatman. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West ... more

To the friends of our country. [Alabama 1824?]

Regarding Andrew Jackson's land speculation.; Jackson, Andrew.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Epheme... more

Alabama /

Report of the committee appointed to examine the state bank. Jan. 8th,...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 4.

An abstract of the census of Alabama, taken in 1827.

Census; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 5.

To the public ... July 30, 1829.

Statements by the citizens of Tuscaloosa regarding the defence of Seth Barton.; Campaign.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full t... more

[Campaign document.]

Campaign.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 8.

Georgia, from the latest authorities

Covers the southeast United States from northern Georgia south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. Shows general locations of Native American tribes. Relief shown pictorially. In lower margin... more

Survey for a projected canal between Mobile and Pensacola Bays in Alab...

Annotated and signed on verso: Survey for a canal between Mobile and Pensacola Bays in Alabama & Florida. 1833. M. Fillmore. "Surveyed under direction of Lieut W.C. Williams 7th Infantry ; Assisted by T.F Drayt... more

Andrew Jackson, with the Tennessee forces, on the Hickory Grounds (Ala...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting on a horse, facing right, with military troops in the background on the lower right. Includes quotes by and about Jackson. Title from item. (DLC/PP-1903:41860).

U.S. Reports: Tarver v. Tarver and Others, 34 U.S. (9 Pet.) 174 (1835)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 34; Peters Volume 9; January Term, 1835; Benjamin J. Tarver, Appellant v. Samuel B. Tarver, Charlotte Tarver and Patience Gibson

A map of part of Alabama & Florida, showing the route of the proposed ...

Map of southern Alabama and part of western Florida showing roads, cities, and drainage. Scale ca. 1:800,000. At head of title: No. 1. From Letter from the Secretary of War. LC Railroad maps, 388 Description de... more

Alabama Legislature, January 2, 1836

New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... more

Map of Georgia & Alabama exhibiting the post offices, post roads, cana...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads.

U.S. Reports: Suydam et al. vs. Broadnax et al., 39 U.S. (14 Pet.) 67 ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 39; Peters Volume 14; January Term, 1840; Henry A. Suydam and William Boyd vs. Robert Broadnax and Isaac Newton, Administrators of David Newton, deceased

Clar de kitchen

Another Whig campaign satire, picturing incumbent Martin Van Buren and his Democratic advisers or "Kitchen Cabinet" routed by Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. In a domestic kitchen Harrison, dressed as a ... more

Expansion & contraction

A ludicrous contrast of two influential Democrats, the obese Alabama Representative Dixon Hall Lewis and gaunt "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair. The artist comments upon the unlikely alliance established in... more

William R. King, Senator from Alabama

U.S. Reports: City of Mobile v. Hallett, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 261 (1842)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 41; Peters Volume 16; January Term, 1842; The Mayor and Alderman of the City of Mobile, Plaintiffs in error, v. William E. Hallett, Executor of Joshua Kennedy, deceased, Defenda... more

U.S. Reports: Brander and McKenna v. Phillips and Company, 41 U.S. (16...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 41; Peters Volume 16; January Term, 1842; James S. Brander, and Hugh L. McKenna, Plaintiffs in error, v. William E. Phillips, and Henry Bell, trading under the firm of William P... more

U.S. Reports: City of Mobile v. Eslava, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 234 (1842)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 41; Peters Volume 16; January Term, 1842; The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Mobile, Plaintiffs in error, v. Miguel D. Eslava, Defendant in error

U.S. Reports: Taylor v. Savage, 42 U.S. (1 How.) 282 (1843)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 42; Howard Volume 1; January Term, 1843; William Taylor and others, Appellants, v. George M. Savage, executor of Samuel Savage, deceased, Defendant

U.S. Reports: Ellis et al. v. Adm. of Taylor, 42 U.S. (1 How.) 197 (18...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 42; Howard Volume 1; January Term, 1843; Thomas E. Ellis, Jonathan M. Hill, Daniel Roper, and T. B. Bethea, Plaintiffs in error, v. Thomas Jones, Administrator of Montraville D.... more

Jackson quelling the mutiny

Print shows Andrew Jackson, on horseback, raising a rifle to take aim at mutinous soldiers. Title from item. Facsimile of letter from Jackson to F.P. Blair dated Hermitage, April 9th, 1845, on verso of mount. P... more

U.S. Reports: City of Mobile v. Emanuel et al, 42 U.S. (1 How.) 95 (18...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 42; Howard Volume 1; January Term, 1843; Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Mobile, Plaintiffs, v. J. Emanuel and G. S. Gaines, Defendants

U.S. Reports: Pollard's Lessee v. Files, 43 U.S. (2 How) 591 (1844)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 43; Howard Volume 2; January Term, 1844; Lessee of John Pollard, William Pollard, John Fowler and Harriet his wife, Henry P. Ensign and Phebe his wife, George Huggins and Louisa... more

[Jeremiah Clemens, half-length portrait, facing front]

Democratic Senator from Alabama, 1849-1853.

U.S. Reports: Matheson's Admin. v. Grant's Admin., 43 U.S. (2 How) 263...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 43; Howard Volume 2; January Term, 1844; John Murphy and John Darrington, Administrators of William Matheson, deceased, Plaintiffs in error, v. Angus Stewart, Administrator of A... more

U.S. Reports: Ladiga v. Roland et al., 43 U.S. (2 How) 581 (1844)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 43; Howard Volume 2; January Term, 1844; Sally Ladiga, Plaintiff in error, v. Ricard De Marcus Roland, and Peter Hiefner, Defendants

Funeral obsequies of free-trade

A gloomy view of the effects of the Polk administration's Tariff of 1846. The artist echoes Whig condemnation of the measure as adverse to American trade. A funeral cortege, composed of administration supporter... more

Fantasia and variations on the Ethiopian air The rose of Alabama, op. ...

cover page only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyri... more

U.S. Reports: Kennedy's Executors et al., v. Hunt's Lessees et al., 48...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 48; Howard Volume 7; January Term, 1849; Joshua Kennedy's Executors et al., Plaintiffs in error, v. Lessee of Jonathan Hunt, John Hagan et al., Defendants in error.

U.S. Reports: Smith et al. v. Kernochen., 48 U.S. (7 How.) 198 (1849)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 48; Howard Volume 7; January Term, 1849; Jennet Smith, Calvin S. Powe, and Thomas A. Powe, Plaintiffs in error, v. Joseph Kernochen.

U.S. Reports: United States v. Boisdore's Heirs, 49 U.S. (8 How.) 113 ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 49; Howard Volume 8; January Term, 1850; The United States, Appellants, v. The Heirs of Boisdore. Same, Appellants, v. The Heirs of Powers. Same, Appellants, v. The Heirs of Turner.

Map showing the N.E. & S.W. Alabama R.R. with its connections also the...

Outline map of the eastern United states including Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. Shows the railroad network and steamship routes. Indicates the railroad land grant and the coal and iron deposits in Alabama. Dist... more

U.S. Reports: The United States v. Reynes., 50 U.S. (9 How.) 127 (1850...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 50; Howard Volume 9; January Term, 1850; The United States, Plaintiffs in error, v. Joseph Reynes.

Auburn College, Ala. / T.B.

Print shows a front view of the main building; includes list of members of the "Executive Committee", "Agents", and "Building Committee", with "Revd. A. A. Lipscomb D.D. Chairman, Montgomery, Ala." as chairman ... more

U.S. Reports: Maxwell v. Kennedy et al., 49 U.S. (8 How.) 210 (1850)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 49; Howard Volume 8; January Term, 1850; John Maxwell, Administrator de bonis non of Robert Maxwell, deceased, Appellant, v. Joseph S. Kennedy, Jesse Carter, Mary L. Carter, his... more

[Poster offering fifty dollars reward for the capture of a runaway sla...

The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House

The artist parodies recent outbreaks of violence in Congress, and offers a pointed comparison between the elevated rhetorical sparring in the Senate and a more physical brand of combat in the House of Represent... more

U.S. Reports: Pulliam v. Osborne, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 471 (1855)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 58; Howard Volume 17; December Term, 1854; Zachary Pulliam, Executor of Amos Albritton, Plaintiff in Error, v. Alexander Osborne, Administrator of Samuel Woodward

H. V. Poor's rail road map showing particularly the location and conne...

Covers the United States from the Mississippi River east, and from Maine to northern Florida. Includes drainage, relief by hachures, place names, state boundaries, canals, and the railroad network.

U.S. Reports: Williams v. Hill et al, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 246 (1857)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 60; Howard Volume 19; December Term, 1856; Wesley Williams, Garnishee of Edward F. Mahone, Plaintiff in Error, v. Hill, McLane, and Co.

Snedecor's map of Greene County, Alabama, 1858.

Includes two inset maps, one indexed: Greensboro. LC Land ownership maps, 2 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Design drawing for stained glass window "In the Temple," American sty...

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Hannah presenting Samuel...

The Alabama State Fair - the Amphitheatre

Horses and carriages parading around track; judges and band in center gazebo.

De Soto crossing the Tombigbee River / J.W. Orr, N.Y.

De Soto and men crossing the Tombigbee River on rafts, probably in Marengo County, Alabama. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. P... more

[Jabez L.M. Curry, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo

Tobacco label showing bales of tobacco carried by several laborers from tobacco plantation to a sailboat moored below the plantation.

[Williamson R.W. Cobb, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congr...

[Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Senator from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, ha...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 168. Each item includes subject's orig... more

[James F. Dowdell, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

U.S. Reports: State of Alabama v. State of Georgia, 64 U.S. (23 How.) ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 64; Howard Volume 23; December Term, 1859; The State of Alabama, Complainant, v. the State of Georgia

[Eli S. Shorter, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...

U.S. Reports: Sinnot et al. v. Davenport et al., 63 U.S. (22 How.) 227...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 63; Howard Volume 22; December Term, 1859; John C. Sinnot, Samuel Wolf, and James Sands, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Gorham Davenport and others, Commissioners of Pilotage of the Ba... more

U.S. Reports: Foster et al. v. Davenport et al., 63 U.S. (22 How.) 244...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 63; Howard Volume 22; December Term, 1859; Phineas O. Foster, Roger A. Heirne, and George J. Blakeslee, Owners of the Steamboat Swan, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Gorham Davenport an... more

[Sydenham Moore, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...

[James A. Stallworth, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congre...

[Clement C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-le...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 169. Each item includes subject's orig... more

[George S. Houston, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 174. Each item includes subject's orig... more

Hon. Charles Hays of ALA

Hon. Charles Hays of Ala

Andrew B. Moore, war governor of Ala.

Title from item. Notation on recto: B8161-10033.

Anonymous. “Alabama” to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, December 22, 1860 ...

Hon. Peter Myrident Dox of ALA

Hon. George Eliphaz Spencer of ALA.

Hon. Peter M. Dox of ALA

Gen. John W. Frazer, Col. of 28th Ala Inf. CSA

Hon. Alfred Eliab Buck of Ala

Hon. Alfred Eliab Buck of Ala.

Hon. Joseph Humphrey Sloss of Ala.

Gen. John W. Frazer, Col. of 28th Ala Inf. CSA

Mr. W. H. Crisp, Lessee and manager of Crisp's gaiety, New Orleans; Sa...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 175, Folder 17.