Bridgman, Ralph Parkhurst - Papers

1944-1948. (Administrative)
Included are the following categories: Accounting and Budgets (1944-1947); Accreditation of Hampton Institute (1945); Auxiliary Enterprises (1944-1948); Bulletins ; Business Manager (1944-1948); College and Community Relations (1944-1948); Commencement (1944-1947); Committees (1944-1945); Construction Supervisor and Clerk of Works (1944-1948); Convocation (1944-1947); Dean of Faculty (1944-1947); Department of The Interior, U.S. (1944-1947); Faculty (1944-1947); Form Letters (1944-1947), Gifts and Grants (1944); Founder's Day (1944-1948); Health Services (1944-1947); Leaves of Absence (1944-1946); Miscellaneous (1944-1947); Placement Service (1944-1947); Public Relations (1945-1947); Registrar and Admissions (1944-1947); Religious Activities (1944-1947); Research (1945-1947); Students Disciplinary and Scholarship Cases (1945); Testing Bureau (1944-1945); Travel (1944-1948); Trustees (1944-1948).

1944-1948 (Associations)
Typewritten correspondence and mimeographed material concerning the following associations: All-Campus Union (1946-1947); American Association of School Administrators (1943-1948); American Association of Teachers Colleges (1944); American Association of University Professors (1944) American Council on Education (1944-1946); American Friends Service Committee (19944-1948); American Teachers Association (1944-1945); Association for Study of Negro Life and History (1944-1945); Association of American Colleges (1944-1948); Association of Virginia Colleges (1946); Athletic Association (1946-1948); Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1944-); Cooperative Education Association (1944-1945); Nation Association for the Advancement for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) (1942-1947); National Hampton Alumni Association (1944-1947); Negro History Society (1944-1947); Quarter-Century Club (1944-1947); Virginia Association for Education (1944-1946); Virginia Colleges in regards to Curriculum (1944); Virginia Peninsula Teachers Union (1944-1945); and Virginia Planned Parenthood League (1946).

1945-1947 (Conferences)
Correspondence, printed brochures, programs and typewritten material concerning the following conferences: Adult Education Conference (1946); Agricultural Conference (1946); Business Conference (1946); Community Educational Conference(1945); Curriculum Evaluation Conference (1944); General Education Board (1947); Long Term Planning Conference (1945-1947); Southern Students Conference (1946); Teachers Education Conference (1946-1947); and Trade School Conference (1945).

1944-1948 (Correspondence)
Administrative-correspondence and materials pertaining to the Offices of the Dean of Faculty and the Dean of Women; general: A-Z arranged alphabetically and chronologically and V-Z concerned with the day-to-day operation of Hampton Institute; miscellaneous: inter-office memos and mineographed memoranda, letters of which several are signed by Eddie Rickenbacker concerning an aviation program at Hampton Institute, and typewritten correspondence from the following correspondents: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, United States Public Health Service, United Engineers and Constructors, Veterans, World War II, and Wendell L. Willkie; personal.

1944-1948
Typewritten correspondence, inter-office memos, mimeographed material and other information concerning the Adult Education Project; Agricultural Division ; Agriculture, United States Department of; Aviation; Broadcasting; Board of Education, State of Virginia; Business, Division of; Communication Center; Education, Division of ; Exchange Student Program; Fellowship and Scholarship; General Studies; Home Economics; Military Science and Tactics; Music; Nursing; Public Instruction; Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; Social Studies; Staff Orientation; Summer School; Teacher Education Experiment; Testing Laboratory; Trades and Industry; trade School; and Veterans Specialized Training Program.

1944-1948 (Educational Institutions)
Correspondence on various educational institutions among which are the Agricultural and Technical College, Greensboro, North Carolina; Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York; Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee; Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tallahassee, Florida; Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, Georgia; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; North Carolina College at Durham, Durham, North Carolina; Penn School, St. Helena Island, South Carolina; Phenix School, Hampton, Virginia; Richmond Area University Center, Richmond, Virginia; St. Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Virginia; Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama; Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama; Virginia State College, Petersburg, Virginia; University of Virginia ,
Charlottesville, Virginia; Voorhees College Denmark, South Carolina; West Virginia State College, Institute, West Virginia; College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

1944-1948 (Grants, Foundations,and Funds)
Typewritten material concerning the following: Arthur Curtiss James Foundation; Commonwealth Fund; Julius Rosenwald Fund; R.O. Lanier Grant; Southern Education Board; and United Negro College Fund.

1944-1947 (Special)
Correspondence, inter-office memos and mineographed material concerning the Columbia Broadcasting System; Inter-American Affairs; National Folk Festival; P.B. Young- President and Publisher; Phenix School; Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Incorporated; Summer Farm Camp and Questionnaires.