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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,400 items) |
Abstract | J. W. (John Wesley) Umstead (1889-1968), University of North Carolina trustee, 1939-1963, and state legislator from Orange County, 1940-1963, was an advocate of prison reform, public education, mental health programs, and improved hospital facilities. The collection contains correspondence and other materials, chiefly 1957-1960, concerning Umstead's activities on behalf of the University of North Carolina, as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, and with the North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control, which supervised mental hospitals throughout the state. |
Creator | Umstead, J. W. (John Wesley), 1889-1968. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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J. W. (John Wesley) Umstead (1889-1968), University of North Carolina trustee, 1939-1963, and state legislator from Orange County, 1940-1963, was an advocate of prison reform, public education, mental health programs, and improved hospital facilities. He was appointed by Governor R. Gregg Cherry in 1945 to the Hospitals Board of Control and served as its chairman in the 1950s.
Back to TopThe collection includes correspondence and other materials, chiefly 1957-1960, concerning J. W. Umstead's activities on behalf of the University of North Carolina, as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, and with the North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control, which supervised mental hospitals throughout the state.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological, in two runs. See processing note.
Processing Note: Folders 40-53 were previously restricted and have not been integrated with the rest of the collection.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1939-1940 |
Folder 2-3
Folder 2Folder 3 |
1941 |
Folder 4-7
Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7 |
1942 |
Folder 8 |
1943 |
Folder 9 |
1944 |
Folder 10 |
1945-1951 |
Folder 11 |
1952 |
Folder 12 |
1953 |
Folder 13 |
1954-1956 |
Folder 14-26
Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26 |
1957 |
Folder 27-29
Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29 |
1958 |
Folder 30-31
Folder 30Folder 31 |
1959 |
Folder 32 |
1960 |
Folder 33-37
Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37 |
1961 |
Folder 37 |
1962-1965 |
Folder 38 |
Clippings |
Folder 39 |
PhotographsIncludes photographs of J. W. Umstead chiefly at public functions. |
Folder 40 |
1951-1956 |
Folder 41 |
1957 |
Folder 42-44
Folder 42Folder 43Folder 44 |
1958 |
Folder 45 |
1959 |
Folder 46-48
Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48 |
1960 |
Folder 49-52
Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52 |
1961 |
Folder 52 |
1962 |
Folder 53 |
Clipping and photographsIncludes photographs of patients and residents at North Carolina mental health facilities and clippings of articles related to persons with mental disabilities. |