Name	Toole Family Papers
Dates	1834-2000
Extent	6 cubic feet
Historical Note	The material in this collection documents a multi-generational family originally from eastern Tennessee that settled in Talladega, Alabama, in 1865.  The Toole family provided four generations of physicians who practiced medicine in Alabama.  The collection is composed chiefly of the papers of Dr. Barckley Wallace Toole (1835-1898), but it also includes material of his wife, Virginia Fulkerson Toole (1839-1877), material of their son and daughter-in-law Dr. Arthur Fulkerson Toole, Sr. (1877-1929) and Kate McAlpine Toole (1878-1975), material of their grandson, Dr. Arthur Fulkerson Toole, Jr. (1911-2015), and material of their great-grandson, Dr. Arthur F. Toole, III, who donated most of the collection to UAB.  But this major collection also includes material by a wide range of Toole family members and by several of those who were related by birth or marriage to the Toole family, including the Storey, Johnson, Wallace, McAlpine, and Clisby families. Dr. Barckley Wallace Toole was a surgeon during the American Civil War and a general practitioner in Talladega for three decades.  Dr. Arthur F. Toole, Sr., began his practice in his hometown of Talladega, but moved to Birmingham and became one of the leading urologists in the state; he also held a faculty appointment at the Birmingham Medical College.  Dr. Arthur F. Toole, Jr., a Birmingham-native, practiced medicine in Talladega for almost five decades.  Dr. Arthur F. Toole, III, graduated from the medical school at UAB and maintained an otolaryngology practice in Anniston until his retirement; he was also a member of the clinical faculty of the surgery department at UAB. The Toole Family collection was featured -- complete with photographs -- in the winter 2017 issue of the Watermark (Vol. 40, No. 1), the newsletter of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences. The summer 2018 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine also includes a feature on the Toole Collection at UAB.  See the magazine's website at https://www.alabamaheritage.com/
Scope and Contents	This collection contains correspondence, real estate and financial records, diaries, scrapbooks and ledgers, pamphlets, news clippings, ephemera, and artifacts.
Arrangement	Arranged into twelve series by individual and then subseries by format/material type.
Accession Number	M2016-02 (chiefly) and M2017-12
Provenance	Much of the material in this collection was donated to the UAB Archives in 2016 by Dr. Arthur F. Toole, III.  Additional material was donated in 2017 by Dr. Toole's brother, Barckley W. Toole.
Copyright	The UAB Archives owns the copyright to some of the material and maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection.
Fnding Aid	Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff and Jennifer L. Beck available in repository.
Access Points	Clisby family. Johnson family. McAlpine family. Storey family. Talladega (Ala.). Toole family. Toole, Arthur F.,  b  Arthur Fulkerson,  d  1877-1929. Toole, Arthur F.,  b  Arthur Fulkerson,  d  1911-2015. Toole, Arthur F.,  b  Arthur Fulkerson. Toole, Barckley Wallace,  d  1835-1898. Toole, Elizabeth Wallace,  d  1799-1875. Toole, Kate McAlpine,  b  Kate Chapman McAlpine,  d  1878-1975. Toole, Virginia Fulkerson,  d  Margaret Virginia Fulkerson,  d  1839-1877. Wallace family.
Document Types	Letters, Postal Cards, Diaries, Ledgers, Financial and Estate Records, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Scrapbooks, News clippings, Artifacts, etc.
Location	Manuscript Stacks
Related Series	PMC126, Toole Family Photographs.
Physical Condition	Acid free folder, acid free box

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Name	Loeb Family Papers
Dates	1892-1982
Extent	5.5 cubic feet
Historical Note	The Loeb Family Papers provide an insight into a Birmingham family involved in the local arts, business, and Jewish communities.  While the collection contains material by several of the nine Loeb siblings, it is chiefly the papers of three sisters:  Josephine (1886-1982), Stella (1889-1980), and Frances (1895-1981), all of whom were early supporters of UAB.  The nine Loeb siblings were born in Mississippi and were raised in Jackson.  Soon after the death of their mother in 1919, the Loeb siblings relocated from Jackson, Miss., to the growing industrial city of Birmingham, Alabama.  At times over the next few decades, members of the Loeb family lived in Birmingham, in Atlanta, Georgia, and in New York City.  Eight of the siblings lived in Birmingham at some point in time and several retired to Birmingham following careers conducted elsewhere.  The six youngest of the Loeb siblings are buried in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery and the three eldest are buried with their mother in Jackson, Miss.  Stella Loeb worked in the insurance industry and died in Birmingham in 1980.  Frances Loeb taught in the public schools in Birmingham, worked in the office of the Georgia Agricultural and Industrial Development Board in Atlanta, and operated two art galleries in Birmingham's Five Points neighborhood, the Cobb Lane Gallery and Gallery 31.  She died in Birmingham in 1981.  Josephine Loeb worked in the insurance industry her entire career and was the last survivor of the nine Loeb siblings.  Upon Josephine's death in Birmingham in April 1982, the Loeb estate, including financial interests and the home the three sisters had shared in Mountain Brook -- including all of its contents -- were bequeathed to UAB.  Household furnishings, works of art, decorative items, books, clothing and personal items, etc., were disbursed to various UAB entities, including the Woodward House, the Smolian International House, the Visual Arts Gallery, the theatre and dance department, Town and Gown Theatre, and the Mervyn H. Sterne Library.  A bronze plaque honoring Josephine, Stella, and Frances and their support of UAB was placed in the Hill University Center in August 1988. The Loeb Memorial Fund was established for the continued development of the UAB medical center from the proceeds of the Loeb estate.  In 1992 UAB established the Loeb Eminent Scholar Chair in Pediatrics.
Scope and Contents	This collection contains correspondence, real estate records, last wills and testaments, financial records, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Arrangement	See finding aid.
Accession Number	M2014-19
Provenance	Acquired by UAB in 1982 as part of the bequest of Josephine Loeb (1886-1982) and originally housed in the Mervyn H. Sterne Library.  Upon the administrative merger of Sterne and Lister Hill libraries in 2014, the collection was transferred to the UAB Archives where it was processed for the first time.
Copyright	The UAB Archives owns the copyright to some of the material and maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection.
Fnding Aid	Printed descriptive guide by Jennifer L. Beck and Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository.
Access Points	Art galleries  z  Alabama  z  Birmingham. Artists. Engel, Lehman,  d  1910-1982. Loeb family. Loeb, Frances,  q  Frances Lucille,  d  1895-1981. Loeb, Josephine D.,  d  1886-1982. Loeb, Stella,  q  Stella Mabel,  d  1889-1980. University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Document Types	Correspondence, Real Estate Records, Scrapbooks
Location	Manuscript Stacks
Related Series	PMC125, Loeb Family Photographs
Physical Condition	Materials have been placed in acid free folders and acid free boxes.

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Name	Ernest A. Forssgren Papers
Dates	1922-1965
Extent	.33 cubic foot
Historical Note	Ernest Albin Forssgren was born in northern Sweden on June 9, 1894, the sixth of twelve children born to Jonas Petter Forssgren and Karin Kristina Lundin.  He eventually immigrated to France and there briefly served as a valet to the French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922).  In 1915 Forssgren left war-torn Europe and traveled to the United States, arriving in New York in April.  He obtained positions similar to those he had held in Europe and remained in New York City until 1923 when he moved west to Los Angeles, California.  In 1928 Forssgren petitioned for naturalization as an American citizen and this was granted soon afterward.  Eventually, Forssgren became a real estate broker in Los Angeles.  In the mid- to late-1960s, Forssgren composed a memoir of his early life and his time working in the Proust household.  Ernest Albin Forssgren, Proust's Swedish valet, died in Santa Cruz, California, on November 28, 1970.  He never married. In 2006 Dr. William C. Carter, a long-time member of the UAB faculty and a recognized expert on Marcel Proust, published Forssgren's life story as The Memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren, Proust's Swedish Valet.
Scope and Contents	Nine items including a typescript memoir, a telegram, photographs, several documents, and two published monographs
Arrangement	None
Accession Number	M2014-17
Provenance	Donated to UAB in 2001 by Marilyn M. Gordon and originally housed in the Mervyn Sterne Library with the Proust letters (MC123).  Upon administrative merger of Sterne and Lister Hill Library in 2014, the collection was transferred to the UAB Archives.
Copyright	The UAB Archives maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection; the current holder of the copyrights is unknown.
Fnding Aid	Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository.
Access Points	Forssgren, Ernest A.,  d  1894-1970. Proust, Marcel,  d  1871-1922. Proust, Marcel,  d  1871-1922  x  Friends and associates.
Document Types	Correspondence, typescript, monographs, photographs
Location	Manuscript Stacks
Related Series	PMC124, Forssgren Photographs. MC122, William C. Carter Papers. MC123, Marcel Proust Letters.
Physical Condition	Acid free folder, acid free box

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