THE KENNETH ALLISON ROBERTS COLLECTION FINDING AID. 

                           

 

Box 1 (Files 1-32 [File 31 in Box 3])

           

-File 1. Introductory / Extraneous Materials.  Correspondence with Dr. and Mrs.

 Harold S. Sinrod concerning the Roberts Collection.  Inventories of the

 collection, etc.

 

-File 2.  Introductory / Extraneous Materials.  Clippings.  Photocopies of news

 stories concerning the Puerto Rican attack on the House in 1954, which were sent

 to Dr. Harold Sinrod by Congressman Glen Browder.  Includes a letter from

 Browder to Sinrod, October 27, 1989, with enclosures.

 

-File 3.  Introductory / Extraneous Materials. Biographical Information.  Excerpts

 from Gertrude Tyson’s The Colonel’s Star (1972).  Includes a photocopy of a

 clipping about Gertrude Tyson.

 

            -File 4.  Personal Information.  Roberts’s resume, circa late 1960s.

 

            -File 5.  Insurance.  Correspondence.  Insurance and related papers, 1946-1954.

              Two envelopes.

 

-File 6.  Political Materials.  Finances.  Bills, etc., for campaign expenses, 1950,

 1952.  Two envelopes.

 

-File 7.  Political Materials.  Correspondence.  1951.

 

-File 8.  Finances.  Correspondence.  Unpaid bills, miscellaneous financial

  matters, 1952. Includes correspondence, bills, checks, etc.  Three envelopes.

 

-File 9.  Correspondence, etc.  Papers, 1952-1953, relating to the inauguration of

 President Eisenhower.

 

-File 10.  Personal Information.  Correspondence.  Biographical information,

 1953, including the “Statement of Kenneth A. Roberts,” dated April 21, 1953.

 

-File 11.  Correspondence.  One letter, C.C. Horton to Roberts, November 6,

1953.    A thank-you letter from the director of the State Department of Veteran

Affairs.

 

-File 12.  Correspondence.  Telegrams.  1953.  Three envelopes.

 

-File 13.  Finances.  Correspondence.  Telephone and telegraph bills, statements,

 etc., with related correspondences, 1953-1954.

 

-File 14.  Correspondence.  Political Materials.  1954.  Seven envelopes.

 

-File 15.  Correspondence.  Terrorist Attack.  Political Materials.  Letters to and

 from political supporters and contributors, 1954.  Many have to do with

 Roberts’s wound.

 

-File 16.  Correspondence.  Telegrams.  1954.

 

-File 17.  Political Materials.  Regionalism.  Speech.  “Triumph of the South,”

 speech delivered August 28, 1954.

 

-File 18.  Political Materials.  Election returns, 1954, in various forms.

 

-File 19.  Political Materials.  Correspondence.  Thank you letters to his

 supporters, 1954.

 

-File 20.  Finances. Medical.  Terrorist Attack.  Medical expenses, 1954 (one

 document from 1955).

 

-File 21.  Political Materials.  Correspondence.  Clippings, etc.  Campaign

 materials, 1954-1956.  Two envelopes, one loose publication.

 

-File 22.  Political Materials.  Clippings.  1956.

 

-File 23.  Political Materials. Speeches.  Notes for speeches, 1959-1960,

 handwritten and typewritten, kept in a small black notebook.

 

-File 24.  Miscellaneous information.  Clippings.  Correspondence.  Assorted

 documents, mostly from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

 

-File 25.  Political Materials.  Correspondence.  Clippings.  Miscellaneous

 documents, most from 1962.  Also a February 1963 issue of The Progressive

 (loose; not in envelope).

 

-File 26.  Political Materials.  Correspondence.  Clippings, etc.  Miscellaneous

 documents, 1962-1964.  Contains information on politics, George Wallace, and

 desegregation.

 

-File 27.  Architectural Drawings.  Drawings for a “Lake Cottage” for Roberts

 and blueprints for a “Lake Cottage” for Malcolm McMillan.  Both executed by

 Birmingham architect Wilmot C. Douglas.  A letter from Wilmot C. Douglas to

 Roberts, February 14, 1963.

 

-File 28.  Political Materials.  Correspondence, etc.  Letters, most of political

 topics, 1964, including an exchange of correspondence with Hubert H.

 Humphrey.  Also a 1962 program for a presidential award.

 

-File 29.  Memorabilia.  Political Information.  Correspondence, etc.  Documents

 of a 1964 trip to England and Europe.  Roberts was evidently a delegate to the

 17th   World Health Organization conference in Geneva.

 

-File 30.  Automotive Safety.  Clippings.  Photocopy of a 1966 clipping involving

 Roberts and Ralph Nader, and a 1966 Consumer Reports article by Ralph Nader.

 

-File 31.  [located in Box 3]

 

-File 32.  Miscellaneous Information.  Clippings.  Fliers, etc.  Assorted

 documents, fliers, clippings, pamphlets, etc., from the 1960s.

 

Box 2 (Files 33-47):

 

            -File 33.  Clippings.  1960s-1970s.

 

-File 34.  Obituaries.  Terrorist Attack.  Clippings.  Photographs, obituaries, and

 clippings, most of the latter dealing with the 1954 terrorist attack on the House,

 all stored in a notebook.

 

-File 35.  Diaries.  Appointment books or pocket diaries, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956,

 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968.  Also a “bridge pad” used for

 similar purposes.

 

-File 36.  Miscellaneous Information.  Government Documents.  Fliers, etc.

 Various pamphlets and other documents collected by Roberts.

 

-File 37.  River Development Projects.  Clippings.  Concerning the Howell Mills

 Shoals Dam, 1951-1952.

 

-File 38.  River Development Projects.  Speeches.  Clippings, etc.  Material on the

 development of the Alabama-Coosa Rovers system, 1951-1958.  Two envelopes.

 

-File 39.  River Development Projects.  Correspondence, Speeches, etc.  Materials

 on water power, inland waterways, and dams, mostly from 1952.  Two envelopes

 and two loose publications.

 

-File 40.  River Development Projects.  Correspondence.  Pamphlets, etc.

 Alabama Power Company/Alabama-Coosa Rivers project.  Two envelopes.

 

-File 41.  River Development Projects.  Correspondence.  Government

 Documents, etc.  Alabama Power Company/Alabama-Coosa Rivers project.

 Miscellaneous documents, most from 1954-1957.  Some government documents

 from the 1940s.

 

-File 42.  River Development Projects.  Correspondence, etc.  Letters and other

 documents, most pertaining to various dam projects along the Coosa River.

 

-File 43.  River Development Projects.  Correspondence.  Materials dealing with

 the Coosa-Alabama Rivers Improvement Association.  Two envelopes.

 

-File 44.  River Development Projects.  Miscellaneous Documents.  Two

 mimeographed documents concerning Roberts’s statement before a House

 Subcommittee, May 20, 1957.  One is evidently a press release.

 

-File 45.  River Development Projects.  Correspondence.  Clippings. etc.  Papers

 having to do with Coosa-Alabama Rivers development.  Six envelopes.

 

-File 46.  River Development Projects.  Map.  Alabama Power Company map of a

 portion of the Coosa River specifying property owners.  No date.

 

-File 47.  River Development Projects.  Miscellaneous Documents.  Two copies

 of Know Your Waterways (1955), and the mimeographed record of a May 20,

 1957 hearing before a House Subcommittee.

 

Box 3 (Files 31, 48-94):

 

-File 31.  Photographs.  Miscellaneous photographs, taken mostly in the 1950s

 and 1960s.  (folder includes negatives)

 

            -File 48. Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Photograph of warship. Brittle.

 

            -File 49.  Clippings.  Two newspaper clippings from Roberts’s briefcase.

             Undated.

 

-File 50.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts in Naval uniform.

 

-File 51.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts’s commission as Ensign, Naval

 Reserve, April 18, 1942.

 

-File 52.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts’s commission as Lieutenant,

 Naval Reserve, September 7, 1949.

 

-File 53.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts’s commission as Lieutenant

 Commander, Naval Reserve, November 5, 1964.

 

-File 54.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Three prints of a portrait photograph of

 Roberts with invoice.

 

-File 55.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Small photograph of Roberts.  Damaged.

 

-File 56.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Portrait photograph of Roberts.

 Damaged.

 

-File 57.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Portrait photographs of one of Roberts’s

 daughters, c. 1950s.

 

-File 58.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Portrait photograph of one of Roberts’s

 daughters, c. 1950s.

 

-File 59.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Portrait photograph of one of  Roberts’s

 daughters, c. 1950s.

 

-File 60.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Portrait photograph of one of Roberts’s

 daughters, c. 1950s.

 

-File 61.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Portrait photograph of Roberts, inscribed

 to his mother, c. 1940s-1950s.

 

-File 62.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Groundbreaking, 1940s-1950s.  Roberts

 in center.

 

-File 63.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Group photograph.  Talladega, c. 1940s

 to1950s.  Roberts second from left.

 

-File 64.  Photographs, Certificates, etc. Roberts on telephone, probably during

 congressional campaign, c. 1950s.

 

-File 65.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Inscribed photograph of Dwight D.

 Eisenhower. 1953.

 

-File 66.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Group photograph with Dwight D.

 Eisenhower, members of Congress, March 23, 1953.  Roberts is on second row at

 right.

 

-File 67.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts with Congressmen Albert Rains

 (left) and Carl Elliott (center), c. 1950s.

 

-File 68.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts between Carl Elliott (left) and

 Albert Rains (right), c, 1950s.

 

-File 69.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts and an unidentified man

 (congressman?), c. 1950s.  Damaged.

 

-File 70.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Banquet, Roberts in center.

 

-File 71.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Cartoon (“Woofus Birds”) concerning

 Roberts’s hospital treatment following the 1954 terrorist attack on the House of

 Representatives.  By Brooks Hays.  Fragile.

 

-File 72.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts shaking hands with unidentified

 man.

 

-File 73.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts’s certification to practice before

 General Courts Martial.  February 11, 1957.

 

-File 74.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Inscribed, mounted photograph of John

 C. Watts.

 

-File 75.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Inscribed photograph of Sam Rayburn.

 

-File 76.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts with Werner Von Braun.

 

-File 77.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Photograph of Roberts with one of his

 daughters,   Probably a safety campaign publicity photograph, c. 1960s.

 Damaged.

 

-File 78.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts with other members of a

 congressional committee or subcommittee.

 

-File 79.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Group photograph with John F.

 Kennedy.  September 12, 1961.  Roberts in third from right.

 

-File 80.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  White House ceremony.  John F.

 Kennedy at center right, Roberts in background to Kennedy’s left.

 

-File 81.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Group photograph with John F. Kennedy

 in Oval Office.  Roberts is third from right, front row.  Lister Hill is immediately

 to J.F.K.’s right.  Claude Pepper is second from left, front row.

 

-File 82.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Group photograph with John F.

 Kennedy.  October 31, 1963.  Roberts is not fully visible.

 

-File 83.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Birthday letter to Roberts, November 1,

 1963.  White House stationery, possibly from John F. Kennedy.

 

-File 84.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Two photographs of Lyndon B, Johnson

 with congressmen.  August 18, 1964.  Roberts to the left of L.B.J. in each. 

 

-File 85.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts’s certificate of good standing

 before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama.  November 30,

 1964.

 

-File 86.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts’s certificate of membership in

 the American Bar Association.  1965-1966.

 

-File 87.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Diploma.  Roberts’s Juris Doctor Degree

 (1969), replacing his LLB.

 

-File 88.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Certificate of Membership in Alpha Tau

 Omega Fraternity.  Dated January 7, 1934.  Brittle.  Certificate from the

 Talladega Lions Club honoring Roberts, c. 1939.  Brittle.

 

-File 89.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Certificate of Membership in The Bar

 Association of the District of Columbia.  March 3, 1967.

 

-File 90.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Photograph of Julia C. Thompson

 presenting Roberts with the Alabama State Nurses Association Plaque.  Undated.

 

-File 91.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Roberts with Congressional

 Subcommittee.  Undated.

 

-File 92.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Certificate of Appreciation from the

 Animal Health Institute.  July 22, 1968.

 

-File 93.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Northern District of Alabama Practice

 Certificate.  February 2, 1939.

 

-File 94.  Photographs, Certificates, etc.  Unidentified man, unidentified medium,

 undated photographic negative.

 

Box 4 (oversized):

 

            -Alabama State Flag.

 

            -Confederate Battle Flag.

 

-Puerto Rican Flag with 1954 Police Comments.

 

-United States Flag.

 

-Alabama State Nurses Association Plaque, undated.

 

-District of Columbia District Court Practice Certificate, 1965.

 

-American Association for Automotive Medicine, 1965.

 

-Eisenhower’s Pen with the Refrigerator Bill of 1956.

 

-Johnson’s Pen with the Nurse Training Act of 1964.

 

-Johnson’s Pen with the Public Health Service Act of 1964.

 

Box 5:

           

-Badge and Ribbon from the National Democratic Convention, 1960.

 

            -Badge and Ribbon from the American Legion 27th Department Convention,

             1946.

 

            -Congressional Country Club Baseball Cap.

 

            -House of Representatives Pen Stand.

 

            - “LBJ” cufflinks.

 

            - “LBJ” Felt-Tipped Pen.

 

            -Puerto Rican Ammunition Clip.

 

            -Telstar Desk Ornament, c. 1962.

 

            -Assorted Gavels (7).

 

            -Personal Letterheads: Congressional and Attorney.

 

Box 6 (oversized):

 

            -County of Los Angeles Certificate of Recognition.

 

            -United States House of Representatives Certificate of Service.

 

Room 220:

 

            -University of Alabama Bachelor of Laws Diploma, May 1935.

 

            -Certificate from the Alabama Legion Department of the American Legion,

              October30, 1958.

 

            -Farrah Law Society Membership Plaque, October 1969.

 

            -Alabama Supreme Court License to Practice Law in Alabama Certificate,

             February 18, 1936.

 

           

-International Health Bill, July 12, 1960, signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

              Framed bill includes the signing pen.

 

            -United States Supreme Court Practice Certificate, October 7, 1963.

 

            -Framed oil portrait of Roberts, 1952.