Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts

ca. 1,000 items, 1867-1970
Mainly business ledgers of the office responsible for assisting in monitoring and conducting the fiscal affairs of the college.
(RG 11.1-11.33)

90. ADMISSIONS AND REGISTRAR

ca. 79,200 items, 1909-70
Correspondence, applications, financial aid data, reports, evaluations and other documents concerning the offices responsible for admissions, record maintenance, transcript preparation, registration, and financial aid.
(RG 17)

91. ALUMNI AFFAIRS RECORDS

ca. 30,000 items, 1869-1970
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed materials, pictures, a newspaper clippings regarding alumni. A valuable source on postbellum black life in Virginia.
(RG 29.1)

92. SAMUEL CHAPMAN ARMSTRONG PAPERS

ca. 23,000 items, 1860-93
Personal, military, and business correspondence of this founder and first president (titled principal before 1930) of Hampton Institute. Among the many correspondents are Booker T. Washington, Louisa May Alcott, and Washington Gladden.
(RG 2.2)

93. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ASSISTANT TREASURER PAPER

ca. 100 items, 1868-1970
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items.
(RG l.l)

94. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, BOARD OF CURATOR PAPERS

1 item, 1873-1921
The board of curators was appointed by the state to supervise the work of Hampton Institute. Included are correspondence, minutes, and reports.
(RG 1.3)

95. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CHAIRMEN'S PAPERS

ca. 300 items, 1868-1970
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items.
(RG 1.4)

96. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CHARTER, ETC.

ca. 500 items, 1868-1970
Legal documents, publications, reports, and correspondence.
(RG 1.5)

97. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, MEMBERS

ca. 3,500 items, 1870-1973
Some correspondence and biographical sketches for 103 trustees.
(RG 1.13)

98. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, MINUTES

ca. 3,500 items, 1868-1970
Minutes and worksheets, which include reports from other departments to the board.
(RG 1.7)

99. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, REPORTS

ca. 18,000 items, 1868-1970
Consists of the annual principal's and president's reports, financial statements, and comptroller reports.
(RG 1.8)

100. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SECRETARY

ca. 500 items, 1868-1970
Correspondence, minutes, and reports.
(RG 1.9)

101. RALPH PARKHURST BRIDGMAN PAPERS

ca. 72,000 items, 1944-48
Administrative papers of the seventh president of Hampton Institute. Among the correspondents are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Eddie Rickenbacker (writing about an aviation program at Hampton), and Wendell Willkie.
(RG 2.8.1)

102. FRANCIS CHICKERING BRIGGS PAPERS

ca. 16,000 items, 1879-1908
Business correspondence of the business manager of Hampton Institute.
(RG 10.1)

103. CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND GROUNDS

ca. 39,600 items, 1868-1970
Correspondence, printed materials, pictures, and blueprints concerning the construction and maintenance of the institution's buildings.
(RG 13.1-13.3)

104. DEAN OF FACULTY

ca. 31,200 items, 1870-1970
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items concerning the office "responsible for the implementation of actions taken by the faculty regarding matters defined by the president and members of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute."
(RG 15.1)

105. DEVELOPMENT, DONOR RECORDS

ca. 116,400 items, 1868-1970
Correspondence, record books, lists, and miscellaneous items regarding donors, both individual and organizational.
(RG 8.2)

106. EDUCATION, MILITARY SCIENCE

ca. 18,000 items, 1872-1970
Correspondence, printed material, and newspaper clippings relating to military training, including Afro-Americans in national defense, Afro-American soldiers in France in World War I, and Afro-Americans in war public relations.
(RG 19.9)

107. EDUCATION, NURSING EDUCATION

ca. 10,800 items, 1891-1970
Correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and miscellaneous items concerning the Department of Nursing. Of special interest is the material concerning the establishment of Dixie Hospital, opened in 1891 for the care of aged and infirm former slaves.
(RG 19.10)

108. EXTENSION, AFRICAN AFFAIRS

ca. 55,000 items, 1890-1973
Correspondence, reports, photographs, memoranda, and miscellany concerning programs associated with Africa, including the African Institute, 1970; African Scholarship Program, 1970; Mandingo, 1915-17; and the papers of Dr. William Henry Sheppard, black American missionary for the Presbyterian church to Africa, especially the Belgian Congo.
(RG 20.1)

109. EXTENSION, TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE

6,667 items, 1882-1975
Includes booklets, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and reports concerning the school founded by Booker T. Washington.
(RG 20.19)

110. FACULTY, BIOGRAPHICAL FILES

ca. 27,000 items, 1868-1978
Biographical material including correspondence and photographs of many Hampton faculty. Of special note are films and reels concerning blacks in America.
(RG 16.2)

111. FACULTY, MEETINGS

21 items, 1887-1921
Minutes and indexes of the meetings.
(RG 16.5)

112. FACULTY, MISCELLANEOUS

ca. 8,000 items, 1891-1967
Included in this catchall category are records for the Oral History Project.
(RG 16.4)

113. CORA FOLSOM PAPERS

ca. 6,000 items, 1855-1943
Personal and business correspondence of this Hampton staff member who was instrumental in working with Indian students. Among her correspondents was Booker T. Washington.
(RG 7.1.2)

114. HOLLIS BURKE FRISSELL PAPERS

ca. 95,000 items, 1882-1917
Personal and business correspondence of the second president of Hampton. Among the correspondents are W. E. B. DuBois, George Foster Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft.
(RG 2.3)

115. JAMES EDGAR GREGG PAPERS

ca. 1,000 items, 1918-29
Personal and business correspondence of the third president of Hampton Institute. Of special interest is a group of materials, 1925- 26, regarding the Massenburg bill which required the separation of races at public halls. Passage of the bill was directed specifically at a meeting attended by all races at Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute. Among the correspondents is Mary McLeod Bethune.
(RG 2.4)

116. JEROME HEARTWELL HOLLAND PAPERS

ca. 570,000 items, 1960-70
Personal and administrative papers of the ninth president of Hampton Institute. Included among the correspondents are Stokely Carmichael, John W. Davis, Thomas Alva Edison, Martin Luther King, Gunnar Myrdal, Kwame Nkrumah, Adam Clayton Powell, and Richard Wright .
(RG 2.10)

117. ARTHUR HOWE PAPERS

ca. 7,000 items, 1930-40
Personal and administrative papers of the fifth president of Hampton Institute. Included among the correspondents are Mary McLeod Bethune, James H. Dillard, Mrs. Alfred Du Pont, General John J. Pershing, and John D. Rockefeller. There is considerable correspondence with St. Paul's Industrial and Normal School, Tuskegee Institute, and Virginia State College.
(RG 2.6)

118. ROY DAVAGE HUDSON PAPERS

ca. 138,000 items, 1970-76
Personal and administrative papers of the tenth president of Hampton Institute.
(RG 2.11)

119. INDEX TO BLACK WORKERS OF HAMPTON UNIVERSITY,

1874-1961
Compiled by Fritz J. Malval, curator of manuscripts, this four-volume manuscript is available at the archives.

120. ROSCOE EDWIN LEWIS PAPERS

ca. 300 items, 1936-57
Personal, administrative, and academic papers of this Hampton faculty member. Of special interest are the papers of Lewis when he participated in the Virginia Federal Writers Project, The Negro in Virginia. Much of this correspondence concerns Lewis's work with the interviews of former slaves. This collection is part of the larger group of presidential papers of Arthur Howe.
(RG 2.6.1)

121. MALCOLM SHAW MacLEAN PAPERS

ca. 51,500 items, 1940-43
Personal and administrative papers of the sixth president of Hampton Institute. Much of the material concerns Hampton and other black institutions of higher learning during World War II. Also of interest is a significant amount of correspondence concerning the Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC), of which MacLean was appointed director by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(RG 2.7)

122. ALONZO GRASEANO MORON PAPERS

ca. 210,000 items, 1949-59
Administrative papers of the eighth and first black president of Hampton Institute. Among the correspondents are Ralph Bunche and Dr. Robert R. Moton.
(RG 2.9)

123. ROBERT RUSSA MOTON PAPERS

ca. 36,000 items, 1890-1916
Personal and business correspondence, biographical information, photographs, and manuscripts of this 1890 graduate of Hampton Institute who succeeded Booker T. Washington as principal of Tuskegee Institute in 1915. Moton served as commandant of the Hampton students. Of special interest is the extensive correspondence with Booker T. Washington.
(RG 24.6)

124. GEORGE PERLEY PHENIX PAPERS

403 items, 1900-1930
Personal and administrative papers of this fourth president of Hampton Institute, the first to bear that title. Correspondents include Jackson Davis, state supervisor of public instruction, Harris Hart, superintendent of public instruction, James H. Dillard, and others.
(RG 2.5)

125. PICTORIAL RECORDS

ca. 40,000 items, 1868-1970
Various sizes and types of photographs depicting life at Hampton Institute and other general Afro-American scenes including individual photographs of former slaves.
(RG 33.1)

126. PICTORIAL RECORDS, THE CAMERA CLUB

10 items, 1893
Albums of members of this club who photographed faculty, students, campus buildings, and the city of Hampton.
(RG 33.2)

127. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS

ca. 86,400 items, 1868-1973
Correspondence, reports, printed materials, and miscellaneous items of a number of associations including the American Missionary Association and American Peace Society, as well as YMCA photos.
(RG 5.1)

128. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BOARDS

ca. 62,400 items, 1897-1962
Correspondence, reports, meetings, memoranda, printed materials, and miscellaneous items regarding the General Education Board and the Southern Education Board.
(RG 5.2)

129. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, CONFERENCES

ca. 24,000 items, 1893-1967
Correspondence, reports, and miscellany concerning various conferences including the Negro Farmer's Conference, 1906-12; Hampton Negro Conference, 1897-1909; and the Southern Negro Youth Conference, 1946.
(RG 5.3)

130. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, COUNCILS

ca. 6,000 items, 1939-76
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials from various councils including the American Council on Race Relations, 1945-48.
(RG 5.4)

131. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, FOUNDATIONS

ca. 180,000 items, 1884-1972
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials from various foundations including the Negro Library Foundation, 1922-24.
(RG 5.5)

132. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, FUNDS

ca. 84,000 items, 1885-1977
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials from various funds including the Negro Rural School Fund, 1907-33, and the United Negro College Fund, 1969.
(RG 5.6)

133. STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIETIES

ca. 14,400 items, 1913-47
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials concerning various societies including the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, 1911-44.
(RG 5.8)

134. STUDENT CONDUCT AND ACTIVITIES

ca. 2,400,000 items, 1868-1970
Correspondence, reports, lists, and miscellany pertaining to the various student deans and commandants including a large group of student records.
(RG 24.1-24.23)

135. TREASURERS AND BUSINESS MANAGERS

ca. 106,800 items, 1872-1970
Reports, memoranda, and printed materials of the office responsible for the financial, business, and physical plant activities of the college.
(RG 10.1)

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