Series 453: American Imprint Index Cards. 1939, undated.
Creator: Work Projects Administration (RG 60).
Collection Summary: Bibliographic index cards for works held by Mississippi public, school and private libraries that were printed in the United States between 1639 and 1876, created as part of the nationwide Early American Imprints survey. Many of the state’s larger, more prominent and/or institutional libraries were assigned codes beginning with MS for Mississippi to aid in their identification in the union catalogue of American imprints that was the project’s end goal. Unfortunately, because the only accessible legend to the codes appears to be incomplete, not all codes are accompanied by their corresponding library. Cards are organized alphabetically by library and/or library location, but the cards for each library are in no particular order.
Access Restrictions: None.
Date(s): 1939, undated.
Volume: 5.25 Cubic Feet.
Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in September 2024.
Related Materials: Series 448: Inventory of American Imprints. 1936-1939.
Record Group History: The Works Projects Administration (WPA) was a federal program established on May 6th, 1935, in order to increase employment during the Great Depression. While the WPA was a federal program, it was implemented and managed on the state level with each state having their own director and office to guide the operation of the WPA for each state. The WPA was primarily focused on employing individuals for the purpose of creating public works and infrastructure, but a small portion of its funding was devoted to cultural and artistic endeavors which the files in this collection are primarily concerned with. Two of the major cultural projects the WPA undertook were the Federal Writers’ Project and the Historical Records Survey. The Federal Writers Project employed writers to create guides, histories, and chronicles for each state and the Historical Records Survey sought to catalogue the historical records of each state.
- Collection Inventory
Box Content Box Number Abbeville 10940 Aberdeen 10933 Ackerman 10940 Baldwyn 10940 10940 Black Hawk 10940 Booneville 10933 Brookhaven 10933 Brookhaven 10940 10940 10933 10933 10933 10933 10933 10933 10933 10940 Cockrum 10933 10933 10933 10934 10934 Cruger 10934 Durant 10934 Durant 10940 Ebenezer 10934 10940 Ellisville 10940 Eupora 10934 Farrell 10934 French Camp 10940 Gloster 10934 Goodman 10934 Goodman 10940 10934 10934 10941 10940 Guntown 10941 Handsboro 10940 10934 Harriston 10941 Hazlehurst 10934 Hernando 10934 10935 10935 10941 10941 10935 10941 10935 10941 10941 10941 10935 10935 10941 MS (Mississippi State Library) 10942 MSAb (Aberdeen Public Library) 10935 MSB (Biloxi Public Library) 10942 MSBrW (Whitworth College Library, Brookhaven) 10942 MSCLiH (Hillman College Library, Clinton) 10935 MSCLiM (Mississippi College Library) 10935 MSColS (Mississippi State College for Women) 10935 MSEj (Jones Co. Agricultural H.S. and Junior College Library, Ellisville) 10942 MSFM (Freemason's Library) 10943 MSGu (Gulfport Carnegie Library) 10943 MSGw (Greenwood Public Library) 10943 MSH (State Board of Health?) 10943 MSJMC (Millsaps College Library) 10943 MSJMC (Millsaps College Library) 10936 MSJPED (Jackson Protestant Episcopal Diocese) 10944 MSJPED (Jackson Protestant Episcopal Diocese) 10936 MSJPED (Jackson Protestant Episcopal Diocese) 10943 MSJS (Mississippi Dept of Archives and History) 10936 MSLB 10944 MSLe (Eastment Memorial Foundation Library, Laurel) 10944 MSMer (Meridian Public Library) 10944 MSMerN (Meridian Public Library, Negro) 10944 MSMerN (Meridian Public Library, Negro) 10937 MSMerSta 10944 MSNC (Agnes Z. Carpenter Library, Natchez) 10937 MSOk (Carnegie Public Library, Okolona) 10942 MSPc (Pass Christian Public Library) 10944 MSPog (Claiborne County Library, Port Gibson) 10945 MSSC (Mississippi State College Library) 10937 MSU (University of Mississippi Library) 10937 MSWJ 10937 MSY (Ricks Memorial Library, Yazoo City) 10945 Magnolia 10935 McComb 10935 McGaudy 10935 Meridian 10935 Meridian 10942 Muldon 10937 10937 10937 10938 10945 Osyka 10938 10938 10946 10945 Pass Christian 10946 Pickens 10946 Pickens 10938 Pine Ridge 10938 Pineville 10946 Port Gibson 10946 Port Gibson 10938 Prairie 10938 Smithdale 10938 10938 State Board of Health Library 10938 Strong 10938 10938 10938 10946 Tunica 10938 10946 Unidentified 10939 Vaiden 10946 10946 10939 Walthall 10939 10946 Weir 10946 West 10939 10939 10946