Guide to the Bettie Lawson Scrapbook MSS.3192
Lawson, Bettie
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
April 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Bettie Lawson Scrapbook
- Unit ID:
MSS.3192
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.2 Linear feet
- Dates:
Bulk, 1860-1874
- Dates:
1837-1877
- Abstract:
Contains a scrapbook begun in 1867 (with material from before that date) by Bettie A. Lawson of Wytheville, Virginia. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of speeches, poems, stories, devotions, and marriage and death announcements, as well as some handwritten material and pressed flowers..
- creator
Lawson, Betty A.
Scope and Contents note
Contains one scrapbook kept by Bettie A. Lawson of Wytheville, Virginia. The scrapbook consists mostly of newspaper clippings, including speeches, news related to the Confederacy, poems, stories, devotions, and marriage announcements. There are also some handwritten material and pressed flowers.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Bettie Lawson Scrapbook, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
none
Biographical/Historical note
Bettie Lawson lived in Wytheville, Virginia.
- Processing Information:
Processing Information note
Processed by Kendal Spires, 2010
Bettie Lawson Scrapbook Box MSS.3192