Peter Brannon papers
Identifier: W-0009
This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as pharmacist, anthropologist, and archivist. Included are Brannon's incoming and outgoing correspondence; family documents; legal and financial documents; two diaries; manuscripts on a variety of subjects, including banking in Alabama, the spelling of "Tuscaloosa", the history of pharmacy, and "John Bascom," a racehorse from Alabama; a typed manuscript of an untitled novel; a handwritten journal documenting his archeological collections and expeditions between 1905 and 1907; a handwritten list of selected ordinances from Lowndesboro, Alabama in 1866; correspondence between Alabama archivist Peter Brannon and researchers J. Edward Smoot and William Henry Holt relating to Pasqual Luciani and Marshal Ney, French soldiers who reportedly immigrated to America after Napoleon's defeat in 1814; and legal documents, correspondence, receipts, and newspaper clippings created by or related to the institutions and residents of Russell County, Alabama.
Brannon, Peter A. (Peter Alexander) (Author, Person)
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Peter A. Brannon (1882-1967) was a pharmacist and archivist. He received his PhD from Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1900 and worked as a pharmacist in Alabama and Georgia from 1900-1910. After 1910, he began a career at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, working as a curator, archivist, and finally serving as the third director of the institution from 1955-1967. Brannon was a member of the national and state Anthropological Society, the Alabama Library Association, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Source: Alabama Author Database.
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010
Brannon's papers are also held by the Alabama Department of Archives and History. See Peter A. Brannon Papers, 1860-1964, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
Titles on phase box spines: Peter Brannon's Medical Formula Book; Peter Brannon's "Lan-Uska Record, 1924"; Diary of an Archaeological Trip to Georgia - Brannon; Personal File of Peter Brannon; Peter Brannon's Ancestors: The Bass and Perry Families of the Chattahoochee Valley Collection; Miscellaneous Alabama Source Material from the Brannon Collection; Miscellaneous Writings of Peter Brannon; Peter Brannon's Catalog of his Indian Relic Collection; Lowndesboro, Alabama, Manuscript Ordinances, 1866; Correspondence Regarding Marshall Ney and ''Peter Ney"; Russell County, Alabama: Manuscripts and Documents from the Brannon Collection
Processed by
Haley Aaron and Martha Bace, 2013
Archaeology -- Alabama
Baldwin County (Ala.)
Bass, Allen G.
Bass, Elizabeth
Bass, Mattie
Bass, Sterling, Sr.
Brannon, Carolyn E.
Brannon, George Thomas
Brannon, John M.
Brannon, Thomas A. (Thomas Aloysius)
Bullock County (Ala.)
Collectors and Collecting
Convict labor
Daily Life and Family
DeKalb County (Ala.)
Family papers
Government, Law and Politics
Labor contract -- United States
Lowndes County (Ala.)
Luciani, Pasqual
Manuscripts for publication
Mobile (Ala.)
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery Glass Collectors
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Ney, Michel, duc d'Elchingen
Ney, Peter Stuart
Ordinances, Municipal
Perry, George A.
Perry, Hartwell Bass
Perry, Joseph
Perry, Lizzie
Perry, Patrick H.
Raiford, J. C.
Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
Washington County (Ala.)
Wilcox County (Ala.)
Williams, A. S., III (Donor, Person)
Brannon, Frances Frazier (Person)
Smoot, J. Edward (Author, Person)
Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
Hoyt, William Henry (Author, Person)
Greene, Peter Alexander (Person)
Guide to the Peter Brannon papers
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository
https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0266
archives@ua.edu
Peter Brannon papers, The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections. http://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/resources/4572 Accessed January 27, 2023.