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[Identification of item], in the Robert Walker Withers Papers, #3235, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Series 2 consists of microfilm of original materials privately owned as of 1958.

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Acquired 1856, 1957; 1958

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Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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• Agriculture--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Alabama--Climate--History--19th century.
• Artesian wells--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Families--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Flour mills--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Greene County (Ala.)--History.
• Hale County (Ala.)--History.
• Horse breeders--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Inland water transportation--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Lumbering--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Practice--Alabama--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Plantation owners--Alabama.
• Plantations--Alabama.
• Scrapbooks--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Slave records--Alabama.
• Steam power plants--Alabama--Design and construction--History--19th century.
• University of Virginia--Curricula--History--19th century.
• University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.
• Withers family.
• Withers, Robert Walker, 1798-1854.
• Withers, Robert Walker, b. 1834.

Robert Walker Withers was a physician, planter, and businessman of Greene and Hale counties, Ala.

Papers of Withers include two volumes contain varied accounts and memoranda pertaining to his medical practice and sale of drugs; his lumber and flour mills; agricultural methods; plantation and household expenditures; costs of river transportation; weather; and birth records of the family, slaves, and race horses. The other volumes include an album, 1837-1839, of Miss Maria Withers, and five notebooks of Robert Walker Withers Junior (born 1834), containing his class notes while a student at the University of Virginia, 1852-1853. Two of the latter volumes have been used as scrapbooks. Also available, on microfilm, are scattered business letters, 1820-1890, pertaining to Robert Withers's various business enterprises and to his research in an effort to construct a steam engine fed by artesian wells to power a cotton factory.

• Microfilm reel (M-3235/1)