Creator: Work Projects Administration (RG 60).

Collection Summary: Small bound books (approximately 8” x 10 ½”) of typed and handwritten pages listing Mississippi veterans of World War I. There are separate books for the separate branches of service:  Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. For each soldier, listings include name, serial number, race, form number, and county. Arrangement is alphabetical by last name.

Access Restrictions: Due to their fragility, these items are not available to the public. Researchers are directed to use Series 1730: Miss. World War One Veterans Index Books (RG 44), which contains the same sort of information.

Date(s): 1936-1941.

Volume: 2.50 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in November 2024.

Related Materials: Series 1731: Miss. World War One Statement of Service Cards. 1917-1919.

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

Army: A-D11063
Army: E-J11064
Army: K-Q10110
Army: R-V11065
Army: W-Z11062
Navy (Blacks): A-Z11062
USMC (Whites): A-Z11062