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Finding-Aid for the Vertical File Folders. (MUM00459)

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Descriptive Summary
PURL:
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00459/
Creator:
University of Mississippi
Title:
Vertical File Folders.
Inclusive Dates:
1900s-2000s
Materials in:
English
Abstract:
Collection contains subject files related to Mississippi.
Quantity:
48 linear feet
Number:
MUM00459
Location:
Mezzanine Cage
Repository :
The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/files/archives/
Cite as:
Vertical File Folders. (MUM00459). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

Scope and Contents Note
Collection contains subject files related to Mississippi.

Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Open.
Use Restriction
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Container List


1925-1959 (General)
1960 (General)
Academy of science
Actors and Actresses
Actors and Actresses (Ruth Ford)
Adoption
Advertising Commission
Aeronautics
African Americans (2 Folders)
A & I Board [Agricultural and Industrial Board]
Agriculture (3 folders)

Livestock

Air Bases

- Keesler

- Meridian (Naval Air)

Anecdotes

Archaeology

Architecture

Archives and History

Art (2 folders)

Art Associations

Artists (12 folders)
General information(2 folders), with separate folders on major Mississippi artists, alphabetically arranged by last name (includes sculptors).

Batson, Blanche
Clark, Kate Freeman
Faulkner, Maud
Hamblett, Theora
Hollingsworth, William
Hull, Marie
Kennon, Sykes
Lester, William Carey
McCrady, John
Sculptors
Tutor, Glenray

Associations (2 folders)
MS Veterinary medical association

Astronauts

Athletics

Authors (5 folders) (Refer to Appendix - 1 @ p. 25)

( William Faulkner not listed in this inventory)

  General information on the state's authors, including their literary awards. (See also Poets)
  Mississippi Authors
  Mississippi Authors - General (2 folders)
  Mississippi Authors - Literary Awards
  Literary Honors
        -A - B
        -misc. C
        -C - K
        -L - O
        -P - S
        -T - Z
        -Extension Department/ Program
        -Planning
        -Juveniles
        -Reprints, Pamphlets, etc.
Major Mississippi authors are listed alphabetically, with a separate folder for each (See appendix).

Awards

Ayers Case

Banks and Banking

B.A.W.I. (Balance Agriculture With Industry)

Beauty Pageant

Bicentennial

Biography (General and alphabetical listing)
General
A - F (2 folders)
G - L (2 folders)
M - R (2 folders)
S - V (2 folders)
W - Z (2 folders)
Bilbo, Theodore G.
Davis, Mr. Jefferson
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson
Farrar, Winifred H.
Fishel, General John G.
Harrison, Pat
Howorth, Lucy Somerville
McGehee, Sarah Isom
Key, Al
Lamar, L. Q. C.
Leflore, Greenwood
Murrell, John A.
Prentiss, Sargent S.
Stone, Phil
Williams, John Sharp
Wilson, William P.


Birds

Blue Cross-Blue Shield

Blind Services

Bridges

Budget

Business (See also: Economic conditions)

Business SBDC

Carter Family Drew MS

Caves

Cemeteries

Census

Chambers of Commerce

Charities

Child Abuse

Churches

Cities and Towns

(Refer to Appendix - 2 @ p. 26 & 27)
Histories and other information on individual cities and towns, alphabetized, with separate folder for each municipality. Some municipalities still have not been added, and any information which would be helpful in setting up a file on any of these municipalities would be welcomed.

Civil Rights (See also Jackson State University [under colleges and universities] and Summer Project 1964)
1964 MS Gubernatorial Election
Citizens' Council
COFO (Council of Federated Organizations)
Neshoba Murders (3)
Medgar Evers
Grenada
William Higgs
Race Relations
Segregation/Desegregation
Edwin Walker
Emmett Till
M.C. Parker's case
University of Mississippi
Blacks (2)
Greenville

Civil Rights Commemoration Foundation: See under University

Civil War (2 folders)

Civil War Centennial (See : History Civil War Centennial)

Civil War Gunboats

Classical Association

Coast
Hurricane Camille

Colleges and Universities (Several folders)

Board of trustees
Delta State University
Jackson State University
Millsaps
Miscellaneous
Mississippi college (2 folders)
Mississippi State University
Piney Woods
Politics
State College for Women
Tougaloo
University of Southern Mississippi
Vocational State College

Four year colleges and universities in the state are listed alphabetically.

Comments and Editorials

Communications

Conference of the Book

Conferences and Institutes

Conservation and Development

Constitution (2 folders)

Cotton (3 folders)

Research
Seed (2 folders)

Council on Aging

Counties (Refer to Appendix - 3 @ p.28)

General
Origins of names of County seats

Counties are listed alphabetically, with a separate folder for each county on which there is sufficient information on hand. Additional information is solicited from readers of this guide. (Several folders)

County employees

Crafts

Craftsmen

Guild of Mississippi

Crime and Criminals

Crime Prevention

D.A.R.

Dams

Day Care Centers

Delta
Delta Council

Description and Travel (2 folders)

Development

Displaced persons

Dixie (six verses)

Dogs

Dramatics

Economic Conditions (2 folders)

Economic Council (2 folders)

Economy

Editors

Education (general)

-1949; 1950 - 1969; 1970 -
African American - 1900's
Distributive
Equalization
Franklin Academy History
Kindergartens
Television
Vocational
Women

Educators
Jones, Lawrence (Piney Woods)

Elections

Employment

Employment Securities Commission

Environment

Facts

Fairs

Faulkner, William (Portrait and Bust dedication)

Finance

Fine Arts Festival

Fire Protection (2 folders)

Fish and Game

Fishing Industry

Flag--see Laws

Flags

Folklore

Folklore (Meridian and Alabama)

Folklore and Stories

Forests and Forestry

4-H Clubs

Game and Fish Commission (1 folder) See also: Fish and Game

Gaming

Gardens

Genealogy

Geology

Ghosts

Government

Governors

Governor's Mansion

Governors (Alphabetical listing, Separate folder for each Governor)
  Barnett, Ross
  Coleman, J. P. (6 folders)
  Finch, Cliff
  Fordice, Kirk
  Johnson, Paul
  Maybus, Ray
  Waller, Bill
  Winter, W. M.

Gulf Coast (2 folders)

Gulf Coast Research Academy

Handicapped

Health (2 folders, See also: Public Health)

Highway Department, State

Highways

Historic Buildings (2 folders)

Historic Homes (3 folders, See also: Rowan Oak)

Historical society

History (2 folders)

History, Civil War (2 folders)

History, Civil War Centennial

Hobbies

Holidays

Hospitality, Miss Hospitality

Hospitals

Housing

Ice Storm

Indians (General)
  Chickasaw
  Choctaw (3 folders)
  Natchez


Industrial Education

Industries and Resources (3 folders)

Insurance
  Miss.State Rating Bureau Forms

Inventions

J.P. Courts

Judiciary

Junior Colleges

Juvenile Delinquency

Labor

Lakes

Landcommission

Landmarks

Lawrence, Seymour

Laws

Law Enforcement

Leap (Project)

Legal Services

Legend

Legends
  Sullivan's Hollow

Legislature (4 folders)
  1956 - 1974, 1975 -
  Education
  Strip-mining

Lesbians

Liberty Bell

Librarians

Libraries
  Regional

Library Association

Literature

Liquor Bill, 1966 (See also: Prohibition)

Livestock

Lott, Trent See Mississippi Politicians

Lumber

Lynchings

Mississippi M's

Manufacturers

Maps (See also: Mississippi Geology Maps)

Markers and Monuments

Masons

Medal of Honor

Medicaid Commission (CF)

Medical Science

Medical Services

Mental Health

Mental retardation center

Meredith, James - see also clipping & collection in Univ.
  Archives N2

Methodists

Military

Military Camps

Mines and Mineral Resources

Miss America / Miss Mississippi

Montgomery, Louise Moss - See Poets

Movies

Municipal Government

Museums (2 folders)

Music and Musicians

  Music
  Musicians
  Music and Musicians (2 folders)
  Musicians
    Engel, Lehman (2 folders)
    Gentry, Bobbie (4 folders)
    Hurt, John
    Lomax, John
    Presley, Elvis (2 folders)
    Price, Leontyne (3 folders)
    Pride, Charley
    Rodgers, Jimmie (2 folders)
    Still, William Grant

N.A.S.A.

Names
  Geographical

Natchez Trace (3 folders)

National Defense

National Guard

Newsletters

Newspapers

Nuclear Tests (2 folders)

Nuclear Waste

Nurses and Nursing

Nursing Homes

Oil and Gas (3 folders)

Orphanages

Parks (3 folders)

Pearl River

Periodicals

Petrified forest

Pilgrimages (2 folders)

Piney Woods school

Playwrights (Crowley, Mark)

Poetry
  A - M
  N - Z


Poets (Refer to Appendix-4 @ p.29)

  General information. Also folders for individual
  poets, alphabetically arranged by last name.

Police

Politicians (Refer to Appendix-4 @ p.29)

  (2) General information. Also individual folders. See also: Mississippi Indians, Choctaw.

Politics (Newspaper clippings)

Politics and Government

Pollution

Population

Population (County statistics, 1963-1965, projected)

Postal Service

Pottery

Poultry

Printing

Prisons and Prisoners (3 folders)

Private Schools

Prohibition

Project LEAP - See LEAP

P.T.A (Parents and Teachers)

Public Health (3 folders)

Public service commission

Public schools

Public Utilities (2 folders)

Public Welfare

Publications (2 folders)

Race Relations (3 folders) - See also Civil Rights

Radio History

Railroads

Reapportionment

Recreation (2 folders)

Religion (2 folders)

Religious Education

Republican Party

Research and Development Center--Universities Center See also: Universities Center (2 folders)

Resources (2 folders)

Retirement System

Rewards and Prizes

Rivers (5 folders)

Rivers and Harbors

Roads

Rowan Oak

Rural Life Conferences

Safety

Scholarships and Fellowships

School for the Deaf

School Lands

Schools
  Historic
  Jefferson Military College

Science

Segregation (5 General reports, undated) - See also: Race Relations (7 folders)

Shipbuilding

Sixteenth Section Lands

Social Conditions

Social Security

Social Work

Societies

Soil Conservation (2 folders)

Soldiers
  Bell, Otho G.
  Commiskey, Lt. Henry

South, Industries and Resources (not exclusively Mississippi)

Southern Culture

Southern History (Newspaper clippings)

Southern Literary Festival

Space Age (2 folders)

Special Features

Speeches (2 folders)

Sports (2 folders)

State Agencies

State Boundary (2 folders)

State Building Commission

State Capitol Building (See also: Historic Buildings)

State Employees

State Fair

State Health Board

State Hospital

State Planning Commission

State University (See also: Colleges and Universities)

State University Research

Statistics

Students (2 folders)

Summer Project, 1964 (2 folders)

Taxation

Teachers (2 folders)

Teacher Retirement

Telephone

Television

TENN-TOM

Territory stamp

Tornadoes

Tourism Awards Program

Tourist Information

Tourists Trade

Transportation

Trees

Tung Oil

University

University (General)

  Accountancy Department
  Activities
  Admissions
  Airport
  Alcohol Policy
  Alumni (4 folders [3 general and 1 writings])
  Anniversary, 125th
  Anthropology
  Archaeology
  Archives and Special Collections (3 folders)
  Army Administration School
  Art Department
  Art Exhibits
  Artist Series
  Associated Student Body
  Astronomy Department (2 folders) (See also: Physics)
  Athletes (3 folders [Football Firsts, Webb Burke,
    Eleanor Shan, Chucky Mullins,General])
  Athletics (2 folders [Football {1970 - } and Mascots];
    Women's sports (1))
  Authors
  Awards, Federal Foundations/ Grants
    Awards, Outstanding Teacher
  Awards, Prizes (2 folders)
  Band
  Band, European trip
  Benefactors
  Bilbo, Theodore G.
  Biography
  Biology Department
  Black students
  Black Student Union
  Blind Jim
  Blues Archives
  Board of Trustees
  Boxers


  University, Buildings and Grounds

      General
        Alumni House
        Anderson Hall
        Athletics (Field house, Stadium and Coliseum)
        Band Radio Building
        Bishop hall
        Bondurant (Graduate Building)
        Brown Hall
        Cafeteria and Johnson Commons
        Campus Improvements
        Carrier Hall
        Chemistry building
        Continuation Center
        Conner Hall
        Dead House
        Deaton Hall
        Delta Gamma Window (in Geology Building)
        Dormitories information
        Education Building
        Expansion Program
        Farley Hall
        Faser Hall
        Fine Arts Building
        Fulton Chapel
        Geology Building
        Gordon Hall
        Guess Hall
        Hefley Hall
        Hospital
        Hume Hall (Science Center)
        Isom Hall
        Kincannon Hall
        Lamar Hall (Law School)
        Landscaping and Planting
        Leavell Hall
        Lyceum
        McCain Hall
        Meek Hall
        Miller Hall
        Observatories
        Peabody
        Ricks Hall
        Somerville
        Stewart Hall
        Student Union Building
        Taylor Hall
        Ward Hall
(End of Buildings and Grounds)

  Bureau of Business and Economic Research

  Business

   Business Administration, School of

   Business Research Bureau

   Campus Police (See also: University Public Safety)

   Career Preparation

   Cemetery

   Centennial

   Center for economic education

   Center for Public Service and Continued Studies

   Center for the Study of Southern Culture (2 folders)

   Chancellor's exhibits

   Chancellors
     Barnard, F.A.P.
     Butts, A.B.
     Fortune, Porter L. (3)
     Fulton See also Education, African American
     Hume
     Khayat, Robert
     Mayes
     Powers
     Turner, R. Gerald
     Williams, J.D.

   Chancellors trust

  Charter

  Charter's Day

  Chemistry Department

  City Planning

  Civil Rights Commemoration Foundation

  Civilian Pilot Training

  Claiborne Historical Society

  Classics

  Colonel Rebs, Ole Miss

  Commencement

  Commerce and Business, School of

  Committees

  Communication and resource center

  Communicative Disorders, Department of

  Community Planning

  Computer Center

  Computer Science, Department of

  Conferences, including Elvis conference

  Conferences reported by Marvin M. Black

  Continuing education

  Cotton Week

  Cultural Center

  Debating

  Dental school

  Development

  Dixie Week

  Dramatics

  Economic conditions

  Economics, Department of

  Education (General)

  Education, School of

  Educational Conferences

  Elections (See also: Miss. Univ. Assoc. Student Body)

  Employment Bureau

  Engineering, School of

  English Department

  Enrollment

  Entertainment, Cultural and Social (3 folders)

  Examinations

  Extension Division

  Faculty (includes faculty and staff)

    General: 4 folders, Folders on individual faculties also section on women (Refer to Appendix-5 @ p.30 & 31)

  Federal foundation awards

  Fellowships
  
  Finances

  Fine Arts Festival
  
  Flags

  Food Service

  Foreign Students

  Forestry

  Forum Programs

  Fraternities

  Freshman

  Friends of the Library (2 folders)

  Geology

  Gifts (2 folders)

  Graduate council

  Graduate School

  Grants

  "Greys"

  Growth and Development

  Hall of Fame

  Hazing of Freshmen

  Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

  High School (2 folders)

  History (7 folders)

  History Department

  Home Economics Department (2 folders)

  Homecoming Day (2 folders)

  Honor Roll

  Honor System

  Honors Day

  Housing

  Integration (3 folders)

  International Students' Day

  Journalism

  Language Department

  Laundry

  Law, School of (3 folders)

  Law Enforcement Program

  Law Research Center

  Lecturers

  Liberal Arts (College of)

  Librarians

  Libraries

  Library (6 folders)
     Gifts
     Garner Memorial

  Literary Festival

  Literary Societies

  Lumber Archives

  Maps

  Markers and Monuments (2 folders)

  Mathematics Department

  Media Services Center

  Medical Library

  Medical School (2 folders)
  
  Military Department (2 folders)

  Millsaps Center

  Miscellaneous (2 folders)

  Miss America (2 folders)

  Masonic Club

  Mothers' Day

  Movies

  Museums (2 folders)
     Mary Buie Museaum

  Music (2 folders)

  Music Department (2 folders)

  National Food Institute

  National Physical Acoustics Center

  Navy

  News Bureau

  Newspapers

  Nursing

  Ole Miss (origin of name)

  Orchestra

  Organizations

  Parents' Day

  Periodicals

  Personnel

  Pharmacy

  Pharmacy school

  Physical Plant

  Physics Department (See also: Astronomy)

  Plans and Progress

  Political Science Department

  Politics
  
  Postal service

  Portraits, Information

  Prizes and Medals

  Program Planning and Library Service

  Professional Programs

  Psychology Department

  Public Administration Bureau

  Public Information, Office of

  Public Relations

  Publications

  Public Safety
  
  Publicity

  R.O.T.C.
  
  Relations (Street)

  Religion

  Research

  Rhodes Scholars

  Sarah Isom Center for Women's Studies (2 folders)

  Savage Lecture Series

  Schedules

  Scholarships

  Science

  Science day

  Self-study

  Sesquicentennial Celebration

  Sesquicentennial Postcard

  Societies

  Society

  Sociology Department

  Songs

  Sons of the South

  Sororities

  Southern culture

  Southern Literary Festival

  Special Activities

  Special Education

  Speech Department

  Speeches (2 folders)

  Statistics

  Student Health Center

  Student Publications

  Students
     1931-1959
     1960-1970
     Miss America (Linda Lee Mead)
     Miss America (Mary Ann Mobley) (2 folders)

  Students-World War II

  Summer School

  Symbols

  Theater (2 folders)

  Tupelo Campus

  Universities Center

  University Greys (2 folders)

  University House

  University Press of Mississippi

  University Utilities

  Urban and Regional Planning

  Vice Chancellor

     Academic affairs
     Beasley, Thad
    DeRosier
     Hoops, Ray
     Lewis, Harvey
     McCall
     Williams

  Visitation

  Women (3 folders)

  Workshops (2 folders)

  "Y"

  Universities

  Universities Center (Jackson)

  Universities-Mississippi university for women

  Utilities

  Veterans (3 folders)

  Vital Statistics

  Water and Fish commission

  Water Supply

  Waterways (2 folders)
     Tennessee--Tombigbee

  Waterways Experiment Station

  Wildlife

  Women (2 folders)

  Women voters

  Y.M.C.A.

  Young, George Henry

  Youth

  Zoo