As of 10/07/2010

Series 424: Planning Commission-WPA Subject Files. 1935-1942.
Planning Commission (RG 15).

      Subject files maintained by the State Planning Commission concerning WPA projects in Mississippi. Many of the files relate to the Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands Survey, but other topics include the Mississippi Parkway Project, the Natchez Trace, and folk tales. General WPA items such as bulletins and memoranda, employee manuals and procedural manuals are also found in this series. For more information, please see the folder title list on the following page. The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

County maps – WPA correspondence (16th Section Survey)00644
WPA employment manual – WPA workers’ rating sheets00645
Oversize items29410

Series 424: Planning Commission–WPA Subject Files Folder Title List

Box 644

  1. County Maps – Beat Districts: 1939-1940
  2. County Maps – Township/Range
    Not included: Counties in Chickasaw Cession & Lien Lands marked
  3. Informative Maps – Agricultural & Industrial Production, Fishing Camps, Parks, etc.
  4. DeSoto National Forest (Speech)
  5. Investigation of Class Rates – ICC
  6. Mississippi Parkway Project, Great Lakes to the Gulf
  7. Natchez Trace Parkway
  8. Planning Technicians’ Conference, Fall 1938: Problems of Reporting to the Public
  9. Public Buildings, Pontotoc County
  10. Guide for Local Planning Commissions for Subdivision of Land
  11. WPA Bulletins & Memoranda: Dec. 6, 1935 – May 31, 1940
  12. WPA Bulletins & Memoranda: June 8, 1940 – March 3, 1942
  13. WPA Manual of Compensation Procedure: May 1939
  14. WPA Correspondence: June, 19, 1941 – March 9, 1942; and Organizational Chart of 16th Section Survey

Box 645

  1. WPA Employment Manual for Mississippi
  2. WPA Field Progress Sheets for Humphreys, Jasper, Jefferson, Pike, Quitman, and Pearl Counties: 1940-1941; n.d.
  3. Folk Tales
  4. Howard O. Hunter, Commissioner of Work Projects, speech to 1942 Conference of Mayors
  5. Supplementary Information to Support... A Study of Mississippi Population: 1938
  6. Outline for the Development of a Personnel Training Program for the WPA: 1940
  7. WPA Salaries for State
  8. WPA Manual of Rules and Regulations, Vol. 4, Chap. 1: Timekeeping
  9. Time Reports of Workers on 16th Section Survey: Feb. 3, 1940 – Aug. 17, 1940

Box 29410

Various oversize items relocated to this box