Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Hampton University Archives
Hampton
University
Hampton, VA 23668
804-727-5374
See A Guide to the Archives of Hampton Institute
(Westport, Conn., and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1985),
compiled by Fritz Malval.
Mainly business ledgers of the office responsible for assisting in
monitoring and conducting the fiscal affairs of the college.
(RG 11.1-11.33)
Correspondence, applications, financial aid data, reports,
evaluations and other documents concerning the offices responsible
for admissions, record maintenance, transcript preparation,
registration, and financial aid.
(RG 17)
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed materials, pictures, a
newspaper clippings regarding alumni. A valuable source on postbellum
black life in Virginia.
(RG 29.1)
Personal, military, and business correspondence of this founder and
first president (titled principal before 1930) of Hampton Institute.
Among the many correspondents are Booker T. Washington, Louisa May
Alcott, and Washington Gladden.
(RG 2.2)
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items.
(RG l.l)
The board of curators was appointed by the state to supervise the
work of Hampton Institute. Included are correspondence, minutes, and
reports.
(RG 1.3)
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items.
(RG 1.4)
Legal documents, publications, reports, and correspondence.
(RG 1.5)
Some correspondence and biographical sketches for 103 trustees.
(RG 1.13)
Minutes and worksheets, which include reports from other departments
to the board.
(RG 1.7)
Consists of the annual principal's and president's reports, financial
statements, and comptroller reports.
(RG 1.8)
Correspondence, minutes, and reports.
(RG 1.9)
Administrative papers of the seventh president of Hampton Institute.
Among the correspondents are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Eddie
Rickenbacker (writing about an aviation program at Hampton), and
Wendell Willkie.
(RG 2.8.1)
Business correspondence of the business manager of Hampton
Institute.
(RG 10.1)
Correspondence, printed materials, pictures, and blueprints
concerning
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items concerning the
office "responsible for the implementation of actions taken by the
faculty regarding matters defined by the president and members of the
Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute."
(RG 15.1)
Correspondence, record books, lists, and miscellaneous items
regarding donors, both individual and organizational.
(RG 8.2)
Correspondence, printed material, and newspaper clippings relating to
military training, including Afro-Americans in national defense,
Afro-American soldiers in France in World War I, and Afro-Americans
in war public relations.
(RG 19.9)
Correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and miscellaneous
Correspondence, reports, photographs, memoranda, and miscellany
concerning programs associated with Africa, including the African
Institute, 1970; African Scholarship Program, 1970; Mandingo,
1915-17; and the papers of Dr. William Henry Sheppard, black American
missionary for the Presbyterian church to Africa, especially the
Belgian Congo.
(RG 20.1)
Includes booklets, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs,
and reports concerning the school founded by Booker T.
Washington.
(RG 20.19)
Biographical material including correspondence and photographs of
many Hampton faculty. Of special note are films and reels concerning
blacks in America.
(RG 16.2)
Minutes and indexes of the meetings.
(RG 16.5)
Included in this catchall category are records for the Oral History
Project.
(RG 16.4)
Personal and business correspondence of this Hampton staff member who
was instrumental in working with Indian students. Among her
correspondents was Booker T. Washington.
(RG 7.1.2)
Personal and business correspondence of the second president of
Hampton. Among the correspondents are W. E. B. DuBois, George Foster
Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard
Taft.
(RG 2.3)
Personal and business correspondence of the third president of
Personal and administrative papers of the ninth president of Hampton
Institute. Included among the correspondents are Stokely Carmichael,
John W. Davis, Thomas Alva Edison, Martin Luther King, Gunnar Myrdal,
Kwame Nkrumah, Adam Clayton Powell, and Richard Wright.
(RG 2.10)
Personal and administrative papers of the fifth president of Hampton
Institute. Included among the correspondents are Mary McLeod Bethune,
James H. Dillard, Mrs. Alfred Du Pont, General John J. Pershing, and
John D. Rockefeller. There is considerable correspondence with St.
Paul's Industrial and Normal School, Tuskegee Institute, and Virginia
State College.
(RG 2.6)
Personal and administrative papers of the tenth president of Hampton
Institute.
(RG 2.11)
Compiled by Fritz J. Malval, curator of manuscripts, this four-volume manuscript is available at the archives.
Personal, administrative, and academic papers of this Hampton faculty
member. Of special interest are the papers of Lewis when he
participated in the Virginia Federal Writers Project, The Negro in
Virginia. Much of this correspondence concerns Lewis's work with the
interviews of former slaves. This collection is part of the larger
group of presidential papers of Arthur Howe.
(RG 2.6.1)
Personal and administrative papers of the sixth president of Hampton
Institute. Much of the material concerns Hampton and other black
institutions of higher learning during World War II. Also of interest
is a significant amount of correspondence concerning the Fair
Administrative papers of the eighth and first black president of
Hampton Institute. Among the correspondents are Ralph Bunche and Dr.
Robert R. Moton.
(RG 2.9)
Personal and business correspondence, biographical information,
photographs, and manuscripts of this 1890 graduate of Hampton
Institute who succeeded Booker T. Washington as principal of Tuskegee
Institute in 1915. Moton served as commandant of the Hampton
students. Of special interest is the extensive correspondence with
Booker T. Washington.
(RG 24.6)
Personal and administrative papers of this fourth president of
Hampton Institute, the first to bear that title. Correspondents
include Jackson Davis, state supervisor of public instruction, Harris
Hart, superintendent of public instruction, James H. Dillard, and
others.
(RG 2.5)
Various sizes and types of photographs depicting life at Hampton
Institute and other general Afro-American scenes including individual
photographs of former slaves.
(RG 33.1)
Albums of members of this club who photographed faculty, students,
campus buildings, and the city of Hampton.
(RG 33.2)
Correspondence, reports, printed materials, and miscellaneous items
of a number of associations including the American Missionary
Association and American Peace Society, as well as YMCA photos.
(RG 5.1)
Correspondence, reports, meetings, memoranda, printed materials, and
miscellaneous items regarding the General Education Board and the
Southern Education Board.
(RG 5.2)
Correspondence, reports, and miscellany concerning various
conferences including the Negro Farmer's Conference, 1906-12; Hampton
Negro Conference, 1897-1909; and the Southern Negro Youth Conference,
1946.
(RG 5.3)
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials from various councils
including the American Council on Race Relations, 1945-48.
(RG 5.4)
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials from various
foundations including the Negro Library Foundation, 1922-24.
(RG 5.5)
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials from various funds
including the Negro Rural School Fund, 1907-33, and the United Negro
College Fund, 1969.
(RG 5.6)
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials concerning various
societies including the Negro Organization Society of Virginia,
1911-44.
(RG 5.8)
Correspondence, reports, lists, and miscellany pertaining to the
various student deans and commandants including a large group of
student records.
(RG 24.1-24.23)
Reports, memoranda, and printed materials of the office responsible
for the financial, business, and physical plant activities of the
college.
(RG 10.1)