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Date: 1864-10-11 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: The order was to “increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities…”. The document includes the numbers of slaves that needed to be obtained from each county “in order to make up the twenty-five hundred required for the State”. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1838-12-03 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Document is an 1838 bill of sale for slaves “Judy and her three children” to future Governor of Alabama Geroge S. Houston (1874-1878). The purchase was made at a public auction in Limestone County, Alabama. The names of the slaves listed are Judy and her three children: Surry, Rhoda, and Saphrona. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1851-11-01 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: This document is an 1851 bill of sale for a slave named Lucy. Lucy was purchased by future Alabama Governor George S. Houston (1874-1878). The seller of Lucy was a man by the name of John A. Johnson. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Creator: Oxford, A.C. Date: 1916 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: <p> A. C. Oxford (1835-1925) was an Alabama-based photographer during the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama, Oxford took some of the earliest photographs of Birmingham. Having served in the Confederacy during the Civil War, Oxford remained active in Con... View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1975 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Photograph of James Middleton Sizemore Memorial Chandelier hanging in lobby of Wright Center at Samford University. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Creator: Oxford, A.C. Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Photograph of the Methodist Episcopal church in Marion, Alabama, circa 1870s. Photograph from A. C. Oxford's scrapbook of photographs, 1916. View Full Item at Samford University Library