Creator: Work Projects Administration (RG 60).

Collection Summary: Typed transcriptions of Mississippi Territorial Journals of the House of Representatives (1813-1815) and the Legislative Council (1815). The journals of the Legislative Council are also available on microfilm in the Media Room. Files are arranged chronologically.

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1936-1939.

Volume: 1.00 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in October 2024.

Related Materials: Series 527: Legislative Council Journals. 1804-1816.

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:
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House of Representatives, 1813-181411051
House of Representatives, 1815 and the Legislative Council, 181511052