Letter to E. L. Love from G. E. Baxter of Baxter Brothers Contractors and Builders.
subject: Building
subject: Construction
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: This letter states that Baxter Brothers will furnish the material and labor for the construction of the Hutchens' building for $23,000.00.
creator: Baxter, G. E.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder W. T. Hutchens Estate
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1/31/1916
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Text

Letter to W. T. Hutchens from D. S. Brandon.
subject: Building layout
subject: Business enterprises
subject: Plumbing industry
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: Brandon, contractor and builder, writes to Hutchens about a petition to be signed by the people in the neighborhood that will allow a water pipe to stretch to the end of Conley Street. The letter includes an illustration of the proposal.
creator: Brandon, D. S.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Hutchens Business Papers
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 11/19/1924
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Illustrations (layout features)
type: Text

Correspondence between William Thomas Hutchens, W. E. Hodges, and Andrew J. Brittain.
subject: Depressions--1929
subject: Droughts
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
subject: Conway (Ark.)
subject: Vilonia (Ark.)
description: 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.
creator: Brittain, Andrew J.
creator: Hodges, W. E.
creator: Hutchens, William Thomas
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder W. T. Hutchens Estate
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1935
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Text

Photograph of Allan, Mary, and Morton Hutchens.
subject: Family
subject: Photography
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: On back: "Allan, Mary, and Morton Hutchens. Mary and their sister Maud died in childhood. Allan was the first person in Madison County to be killed in an automobile wreck. He was in his 20's."
creator: Buchanan, D. W.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Album
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Photographs
type: Still Image
type: Text

Photograph of Willie Armstrong Hutchens and baby.
subject: Family
subject: Photography
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: The back shows decorative design advertising D. W. Buchanan's studio and handwritten at the botton reads, "Willie Armstrong Hutchens & baby."
creator: Buchanan, D. W.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Album
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Photographs
type: Still Image
type: Text

"Street Assessment Matter."
subject: Business enterprises
subject: Evaluation
subject: Pavement
subject: Payment
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: 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.
creator: City of Huntsville
creator: Hutchens, William Thomas
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Hutchens Business Papers
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Documents
type: Receipts (financial records)
type: Text

Photograph of two babies.
subject: Family
subject: Photography
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: Photograph of two babies. The back of the photo card reads "Ira F. Collins, Photographic Art Studio, East Side Public Square, Huntsville, Ala. Frames and Views for Sale, Copyrighted 1889.
creator: Collins, Ira F.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Album
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1889
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Photographs
type: Still Image
type: Text

Photograph of W. C. Hutchens and his dog at Big Spring.
subject: Nature
subject: Photography
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: On back: "Willard" and "W.C. Hutchens 1896-1951"
creator: Collins, Ira F.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Album
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Photographs
type: Still Image
type: Text

Photograph of William Wyeth Newman.
subject: Photography
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: Taped on back: "William Wyeth Newman, 1872-1956." The back also shows decorative design advertising the wares and services of Ira F. Collins' photography studio.
creator: Collins, Ira F.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Album
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Photographs
type: Still Image
type: Text

Eleanor Newman Hutchens' estate appraisal.
subject: Estate
subject: Personal belongings
subject: Real property--Valuation
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Meridianville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: This appraisal contains the wholesale and retail value of various items in the property at 300 Williams Ave. SE, Huntsville, Alabama in August 1970. Various items belong to Eleanor N. Hutchens, Ellen W. Newman, Margaret H. Henson, Margaret N. Hutchens, Susie N. Hutchens, and William W. Newman. The appraisal also contains images of the rooms appraised in the estate that show the corresponding items within. The appraisal is signed by Susie N. Hutchens and Margaret N. Hutchens along with the appraiser, A. L. Compton.
creator: Compton, A. L.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1970-08
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Appraisals (financial records)
type: Still Image
type: Text

Written receipt of payment.
subject: Payment
subject: Receipts (acknowledgments)
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: This written receipt acknowledges payment by Hutchens & Murdock for a purchase for the plumbing shop from Huntsville Gas Light Company.
creator: Coxe, Robert E.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder W. T. Hutchens Estate
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1890-09-10
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Receipts (financial records)
type: Text

Contract between Hutchens & Murdock and the Huntsville Gas Light Company.
subject: Agreement
subject: Debt
subject: Inventory loans
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: This agreement outlines the debt of Hutchens & Murdock for personal property as described in Schedule A of the document for $1,750.00. Hutchens & Murdock agrees to pay $500.00 in cash and the rest of the debt in "five equal half yearly installments, with interest." Following the written agreement there are pages of inventory of the personal property sold to Hutchens & Murdock.
creator: Coxe, Robert E.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder W. T. Hutchens Estate
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1890-09-10
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Contracts
type: Text

Letter to William P. Newman from William W. Garth.
subject: Confidential communications
subject: Elections
subject: Nominations for office
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
subject: Washington (D.C.)
description: This letter marked "confidential read and burn," this letter is in response to a telegram sent earlier by William P. Newman. Garth states that he promised to appoint "Jno". He further writes that when "Jno" is notified of this, Newman is to say nothing as Garth does not with anyone to know he had anything to do with it. He writes that the only chance he has of defeating Moore in the convention is a "solid vote of Madison, Jackson, and Morgan." He concludes by stating that he wanted "simply to ask you" to help him obtain this "solid vote in Madison" and to put in a good word for him in Jackson as well. He reitterates that the letter is confidential and should be burned.
creator: Garth, William W.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Newman Family Papers
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1878-05-23
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Text

"Steps to the Moon."
subject: Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
subject: Project Apollo (U.S.)
subject: Saturn Project (U.S.)
subject: Space flight to the moon
subject: Space vehicles--Landing--Moon
description: This flier highlights Marshall Space Flight Center's role in the lunar landing and illustrates each step of a successful mission, from liftoff at Kennedy Space Center to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
creator: George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 5
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1967
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relation: loc_hutc_2019_02
language: en
type: Fliers

Letter to Mr. Newman from Corinne Legier Gleason.
subject: Advertising
subject: Letter writing
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: 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.
creator: Gleason, Corinne Legier
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Old Family Papers
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Documents
type: Text

Reproduction of an 1838 fifty cent note issued by R. J. Manning in Huntsville, Alabama.
subject: Alabama Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1969
subject: Paper money
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: The note was reproduced by Henderson National Bank in Huntsville as part of Alabama's sesquicentennial celebration in 1969. The reverse of the bill shows the sesquicentennial logo and an ad for the Huntsville Coin Show.
creator: Henderson National Bank (Huntsville, Ala.)
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 5
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1969
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relation: loc_hutc_2019_02
language: en
type: Ephemera

Reproduction of a two dollar note issued by the Huntsville Hotel Company in Huntsville, Alabama.
subject: Alabama Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1969
subject: Paper money
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: The note was reproduced by Henderson National Bank in Huntsville as part of Alabama's sesquicentennial celebration in 1969. The reverse of the bill shows the sesquicentennial logo and an ad for the Huntsville Coin Show.
creator: Henderson National Bank (Huntsville, Ala.)
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 5
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1969
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relation: loc_hutc_2019_02
language: en
type: Ephemera

Letter to W. T. Hutchens from W. E. Hodges.
subject: Family
subject: Letter writing
subject: Beebe (Ark.)
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: This letter from W. E. Hodges details current happenings in cousin Hodges life. He requests coats and pants and writes that he "will glad get them." Hodges ends by stating he will be 70 years old the next year.
creator: Hodges, W. E.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Hutchens Business Papers
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1941-12
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Text

Letter to W. T. Hutchens from W. E. Hodges.
subject: Family
subject: Letter writing
subject: Beebe (Ark.)
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: 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.
creator: Hodges, W. E.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder Hutchens Business Papers
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1939-12
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Correspondence
type: Text

Contract between Hutchens & Murdock and the Huntsville Ware-House Co.
subject: Agreement
subject: Plumbing industry
subject: Purchasing
subject: Huntsville (Ala.)
subject: Madison County (Ala.)
description: This contract outlines the purchase and installation of automatic sprinklers for the sum of $1,674.00. The contract outlines the agreement of how the Huntsville Ware-House Co. will pay after the installation and the promises made by Hutchens & Murdock of products and techniques used. These scans include the handwritten notes on the backs of each page.
creator: Huntsville Warehouse Co.
creator: Hutchens, William Thomas
creator: Murdock, Andrew J.
source: Eleanor Hutchens Collection
source: Box 3, Folder W. T. Hutchens Estate
source: University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
date: 1895
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relation: loc_hutc_2021_04
language: en
type: Contracts
type: Text