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Book or periodical1909-07Huntsville, Alabama (1819 convention); Washington, D.C. (1909 facsimile)

Alabama convention journal - July 5, 1819 opening proceedings, 1909 facsimile

Title, 1909 reprint notice, and the complete July 5 opening entry through its adjournment sentence on printed page 5. Proceedings beginning Tuesday July 6 are not transcribed. All 44 supplied scan pages retained separ...

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Book or periodical1820-11-17General Land Office; Jackson Court House land district; Mobile and Gulf Coast claims

Jackson Court House land claims - Meigs and Barton transmittal letters, 1820

Title leaf and two complete transmittal letters on printed pages 3-4. All 25 received scan pages, including land registers and evidence, are retained; tables and testimony are not included in this checked reading exce...

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Book or periodical1819-12-06Huntsville, Alabama (convention); Washington (printing)

Constitution of the State of Alabama, 1819 - preamble and boundaries

Title leaf and complete opening preamble/boundary paragraph on printed page 3. All 24 received scan pages retained separately; Articles I onward are outside the checked reading excerpt.

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Book or periodical1949-01-08Washington, District of Columbia

Executive Order 10027 - Federal Register, January 8, 1949

Complete Executive Order 10027 from page 107, including signature, date and filing line. Full 12-page issue preserved separately; other rules, notices and tables not transcribed.

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Government recordReporting period: January 1–December 31, 2023; report footer: January 9, 2024United States

FBI FOIA Log Report — January–December 2023

FBI administrative FOIA log with request numbers, case revision numbers, dates opened and request subjects. The report is labeled January 1 through December 31, 2023 and contains 622 numbered pages.

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Historical sourceJanuary Term, 1833

Hutchins v. Childress & Baker (1833)

A dispute over a twenty-five-dollar promissory note led the Alabama Supreme Court to examine trial evidence, partnership admissions, and alleged agency. The judgment was reversed and the case remanded.

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Government record1847 (printed report heading)

Innerarity v. Byrne — U.S. Reports, 1847

A short Supreme Court ruling concerning a citation missing from the record in James Innerarity’s case against Thomas Byrne.

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Photograph or mapSeptember 7, 1967 test; September 8 notation on reverse

Live Oak: investigators recreate a barracks fire

The detailed caption printed on the front describes state fire officials burning a wooden road-prison barracks at Live Oak to recreate conditions of the fatal Jay-area prison fire. It says the test fire was extinguish...

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Photograph or mapJuly 17, 1967 caption; fire occurred July 16

Berrydale: the aftermath of the Road Camp 12 fire

The reverse caption describes blanket-covered prisoners’ bodies outside the barracks awaiting transfer to a morgue after the July 16 fire. It reports 37 deaths, 14 escapes and six severely burned prisoners. It attribu...

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Book or periodicalcirca 1957–1962

State Road Prisons Original Register, 1957–1962

Complete 43-image repository sequence of handwritten prisoner transfers to road prisons, with transfer and discharge information. Predates the 1967 fire and is not its inmate or staff roster.

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Book or periodical1960–1972 (repository description extends to 1973)

Florida State Prison Death Logs, 1960–1972

Complete 14-image repository sequence. Fire-related entries are on scan pages 5 and 12. Page 3 concerns escapees. The manuscript labels the fire deaths RP 32; the relationship to the camp described in newspapers as Ro...

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Book or periodicalJuly 19, 1967

Fiery Death Trap

Contemporary newspaper photograph and caption preserved with source views and a reading transcription.

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