UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives

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  • loc_noer_000599.pdf

    Hans Albert Silberberg is the last student printed. This is a list of students with the pieces they will be performing for examination.
  • loc_noer_000597_000598.pdf

    This is a concert program for a concert from the Würrt Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart that Hans Albert Silberberg is part of.
  • loc_noer_000596.pdf

    This newspaper clipping printed in Fraktur mentions Hans Albert Silberberg.
  • loc_noer_000594.pdf

    This newspaper clipping printed in Fraktur mentions Hans Albert Silberberg.
  • loc_noer_000593.pdf

    The center of this newspaper clipping printed in Fraktur (starting with "T. Heilbronn") mentions Hans Albert Silberberg.
  • loc_noer_000591_000592.pdf

    This business card is of Hans Albert Silberbeg, a musician in Berlin-Tegel.
  • loc_noer_000590.pdf

    The subject of this photograph is the headstone of Hans Albert Silberberg. It was likely taken by Hildegard Nörenberg circa 1932.
  • loc_noer_000588_000589.pdf

    Hildegard Nörenberg (1904-1977) was a nurse and midwife from Berlin-Tegel, Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to Alabama in 1956, as her sister Maria, the wife of Operation Paperclip engineer Werner Kuers, had moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the early 1950s. From 1924 to 1932, Nörenberg frequently corresponded with Hans Albert Silberberg, her close friend and longtime love. Silberberg was a music student, composer, and pianist. He died in 1932, at the age of 25.
  • loc_noer_000586_000587.pdf

    Hildegard Nörenberg (1904-1977) was a nurse and midwife from Berlin-Tegel, Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to Alabama in 1956, as her sister Maria, the wife of Operation Paperclip engineer Werner Kuers, had moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the early 1950s. From 1924 to 1932, Nörenberg frequently corresponded with Hans Albert Silberberg, her close friend and longtime love. Silberberg was a music student, composer, and pianist. He died in 1932, at the age of 25.
  • loc_noer_000580_000585.pdf

    Hildegard Nörenberg (1904-1977) was a nurse and midwife from Berlin-Tegel, Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to Alabama in 1956, as her sister Maria, the wife of Operation Paperclip engineer Werner Kuers, had moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the early 1950s. From 1924 to 1932, Nörenberg frequently corresponded with Hans Albert Silberberg, her close friend and longtime love. Silberberg was a music student, composer, and pianist. He died in 1932, at the age of 25.
  • loc_noer_000577_000579.pdf

    Hildegard Nörenberg (1904-1977) was a nurse and midwife from Berlin-Tegel, Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to Alabama in 1956, as her sister Maria, the wife of Operation Paperclip engineer Werner Kuers, had moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the early 1950s. From 1924 to 1932, Nörenberg frequently corresponded with Hans Albert Silberberg, her close friend and longtime love. Silberberg was a music student, composer, and pianist. He died in 1932, at the age of 25.
  • loc_noer_000573_000576.pdf

    Hildegard Nörenberg (1904-1977) was a nurse and midwife from Berlin-Tegel, Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to Alabama in 1956, as her sister Maria, the wife of Operation Paperclip engineer Werner Kuers, had moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the early 1950s. From 1924 to 1932, Nörenberg frequently corresponded with Hans Albert Silberberg, her close friend and longtime love. Silberberg was a music student, composer, and pianist. He died in 1932, at the age of 25.
  • loc_noer_000571_000572.pdf

    Hildegard Nörenberg (1904-1977) was a nurse and midwife from Berlin-Tegel, Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to Alabama in 1956, as her sister Maria, the wife of Operation Paperclip engineer Werner Kuers, had moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the early 1950s. From 1924 to 1932, Nörenberg frequently corresponded with Hans Albert Silberberg, her close friend and longtime love. Silberberg was a music student, composer, and pianist. He died in 1932, at the age of 25.
  • loc_noer_000010_000011.pdf

    This postcard was written by Hildegard Nörenberg in Tegel, Berlin, Germany, and sent to her sweetheart Hans-Albert Silberberg in Stuttgart. The reverse of the postcard shows the letterhead of Nörenberg's father's business, Walter Nörenberg Eisenwaren, a hardware store.
  • loc_isco_036_041.pdf

    From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The materials include letters and instructions for handling and delivering the 1930-31 cotton crop to the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. The instructions describe the different pools available for marketing cotton and lists warehouses throughout Alabama to be used for storing cotton. The last item, a letter from N. S. Stewart, discusses low cotton prices since 1926 and lists advantages of marketing cotton through the Association.
  • loc_isco_011_027.pdf

    From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The letters contain lists of farmers whose cotton I. Schiffman & Co. is marketing through the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. The materials include notes from each farmer instructing the Association to hold their cotton in the "regular annual pool [...] subject to lien on same held by I. Schiffman & Company." Each letter indicates the value of the cotton.
  • loc_isco_004_010.pdf

    From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The application for membership was completed by Lawrence B. Goldsmith, a member of the I. Schiffman & Co. firm. The front of the pamphlet notes that this copy is a duplicate.
  • loc_isco_002_003.pdf

    From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. In the first letter, Lawrence B. Goldsmith of I. Schiffman and Co. inquires about selling cotton through the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. In his reply, Northington asserts that "we will be glad to handle any cotton for you that was grown on your farm and make the government advance up to 15.64� Middling basis."
  • loc_isco_0000001.pdf

    From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The certificate was issued to I. Schiffman & Co. on March 19, 1930.
  • loc_hutc_000193_000203.pdf

    This envelope contained various receipts and handwritten calculations and notes pertaining to the building and assessment of the new street proposed by William Thomas Hutchens. Receipts include totals for paving the streets of Monroe and West Clinton, and the assessment notices of the completed streets.
  • loc_hutc_000180_000182.pdf

    This letter from W. E. Hodges discusses his current health stating that the doctor said it would be a "long time" before he is able to work all day again. He asks for any old clothes that Hutchens and his family no longer need and he will be glad to get them.
  • loc_hutc_000159_000162_000165_000166.pdf

    Gleason writes to Newman about the letters from Mrs. Pitcher, asking if she could borrow them. She also mentions her brother, Robert, and his health. Gleason attaches a copy of a notice of land for sale in the letter that was taken from the Washington Intelligencer a few years earlier. The notice of land for sale details a tract of land "being in the whole about one thousand acres," called Benfield located in Charles County, Maryland by private contract. This document gives insight into land value in the area, as well as the neighborhood and house that sits on the land. The end of the document includes the next three owners that the land was sold to in 1817, 1835, and 1935.
  • loc_hutc_000157_000158.pdf

    This envelope has "old family papers" written on the front as well as multiple stamps. The back includes three stamps from Huntsville, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.
  • loc_hutc_000070_000071.pdf

    This invoice outlines the items purchased by William Thomas Hutchens, interest on the items, principal, and total balance. The invoice runs from 1926 to 1933. The back includes various handwritten items.
  • loc_hutc_000065_000066.pdf

    Handwritten calculations of six month rent from October 1, 1938 to April 1, 1939.
  • loc_hutc_000051_000058.pdf

    Hodges writes to Hutchens, his cousin, requesting help as they have hit hard times as a drought wiped out his crops, and he has no money to buy groceries or clothes. Brittain then writes to Hutchens on behalf of Hodges almost two months later requesting Hutchens' help. Brittain writes again in June thanking Hutchens for the package he send Hodges. The final letter is Hodges writing to Hutchens thanking him for the package and detailing his crops success and failure.
  • loc_hutc_000019_000019.pdf

    The holiday card contains a picture of the Bibb house and reads, "Best wishes for a Merry Xmas and a happy New Year / Susan & Morton." On the back Eleanor Hutchens wrote, "I think this was 1937 - ENH."
  • loc_gold_000353_000353.pdf

    Form denoting taxes due to Office of Tax Collector of Garland County for Ella Davis.
  • loc_gold_000120_000121_000133_000134_000141_000141_000145_000153.pdf

    Various documents regarding the bankruptcy of Textile Hardwood Manufacturing Company. The company first filed for bankruptcy in August of 1932. These documents are in chronological order of the bankruptcy case including a petition for bankruptcy debt discharge, the Deed of Trust, a newspaper clipping formally announcing the company bankrupt and its upcoming sale, and the letter announcing the meeting of creditors.
  • loc_gold_000114_000119_000122_000132_000135_000140_000142_000144.pdf

    Various documents regarding the financial state of Textile Hardwood Manufacturing Company from 1931 to 1935, after which the company filed for bankruptcy. The final three documents are from 1942, after bankrupcty was filed, settling final debts and fees due to I. Schiffman & Company.
  • loc_gold_000103_000113.pdf

    Itemized worksheets of reweights of cotton for I. Schiffman & Company. The final two documents are receipts for reweights for West Huntsville Land Co. and Dixie Warehouse & Storage Co.
  • loc_gold_000094_000102.pdf

    Correspondence, receipts, and checks from a transaction of cotton between the Weil Brothers and I. Schiffman & Company, Inc. The final three documents detail a re-weight of the 778 bales of cotton two months later, leading to a reduced price by $5,149.13.
  • loc_gold_000065_000093.pdf

    Various receipts for the purchase of seed from I. Schiffman from multiple farms. These receipts show the weight of the purchase as weighed by N. Eddins.
  • loc_gold_000042_000064.pdf

    Various receipts for cotton from multiple companies and farms including Sulphur Spring, Weil farm, Tibbs farm, Morris farm, Cobb farm, and Pierce farm.
  • loc_gold_000032_000033.pdf

    Receipt of check tendered as a cash advance from Judge Cain for six bales of cotton at 15.64 cents per pound, signed by Judge Cain, and the dray receipt from Planters Warehouse & Storage Co. from Judge Cain for the six bales of cotton. The final document is a draft receipt showing the 6 bales of cotton from the annual pool for Judge Cain.
  • loc_gold_000031_000031.pdf

    This receipt totalling $31.56 has no indication of its origin.
  • loc_gold_000029_000030.pdf

    This is the class and weight report for the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association based on the 1929-1930 cotton season.
  • loc_gold_000028_000028.pdf

    Grade marks as specified for Planters Warehouse & Storage Company in Huntsville, Alabama. Handwritten note: Anderson Clayton Grades.
  • img_00217.pdf

    Front: Tennessee Valley Bank Building, Jefferson Street, Huntsville, Ala.
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