Creator: Work Projects Administration (RG 60).

Collection Summary: Rosters culled from county records, newspaper articles, and other sources that list the veterans of each county in the state.

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1936-1939. 

Volume: 4.25 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in November 2024.

Related Materials: TBD.

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 by County

Box Number

Adams - Coahoma counties11053
Copiah - Jasper counties11054
Jefferson Davis - Lauderdale counties11055
Lawrence - Noxubee counties11056
Madison county29791
Oktibbeha - Simpson counties11057
Stone - Wayne counties11058
Wayne - Yazoo counties11059
Collection Inventory:
Box Content by Topic

Box Number

Confederate regiments and companies, Adams - Yazoo counties11060
Rosters of the Mexican War (Hinds and Rankin counties)11060
Rosters of the Spanish-American War11060
Rosters of the War of 1812 (Wilkinson County)11060
Union outfits in which Negroes served11060