Correspondence, June 24, 1922-March 28, 1942

The records of Talladega College concentrate in the years 1940 to 1957. Correspondence represents about thirty-six percent of the total and dates from 1922 to 1958. Major correspondents include the presidents, Buell G. Gallagher (1935-1944), Adam Daniel Beittel (1945-1954), and Arthur D. Gray (1952-1956); trustees George W. Crawford (1928-1954), J. F. Drake (1943-1955), Donald P. Cottrell (1944-1957), and Hubert T. Delaney (1945-1953); Dean and Acting President James Tate Cater (1928-1950); Comptrollers Edward C. Myers (1940-1946) and George A. Owens (1949-1955); and Registrar and Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Minuard Bishop Miller (1940-1953). Other less frequent correspondents include Broadus N. Butler, Dean of Guidance (1955), Oliver J. Caldwell, Assistant U.S. Commissioner for International Education (1953), Allan Knight Chalmers, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York City and trustee (1945-1948), Felton G. Clark, president of Southern University in Baton Rouge (1953), Lee DeForest, inventor and financial contributor to Talladega (1955), Eduoard D. Eller, Secretary of the General Education Board (1952), James B. Godwin, architect (1953-1955), Gustave Ichheiser, professor (1948), Walter H. Judd, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1953), Stanton W. Mead, trustee and head of the Mead Paper Company (1953); Captolia T. Dent, community extension worker (1937), Frederik D. Patterson, president of the United Negro College Fund (1945), Loren H. Rockwell, trustee (1952-1957), Eleanor A. Thompson, secretary to Gallagher (1940-1943), William A. Twyman, director of public relations (1954), and Hale Woodruff, painter of the murals in Savery Library (1945).

 

The most numerous items of non-correspondence are records of the trustees, financial records, and copies of The Talladegan. There are also many reports by the administration and faculty to the trustees, reports and minutes of faculty committees and the college council, reports and proposals on the curriculum, and studies of Talladega and other schools. Also included are New York office reports from the AMA, employment applications and contracts, other college and student publications, photographs and collected items. The photographs are mostly by Warren Marr, taken in 1964 and 1965. The records also contain an original ink drawing by Gwendolyn Bennett that was used as an illustration for a 1932 student poetry anthology.