1. Administrative Subject/Correspondence File, 1927-1949

Scope and content:

This series encompasses the fullest scope of Caldwell's myriad duties as University President, and comprises 75% by bulk of the volume of the collection. Included are extended subseries treating the University building program (Box 8), the "Cocking Affair" (Box 9 and 11), the higher education of blacks in Georgia (Box 20 and 27), the emerging Landscape Architecture program (Box 17), the increasing role of agricultural research in the postwar South (Box 24), the early standardization of Senior Class rings (Box 24), the emergence of the University Center in Georgia (Box 29), the vitality of the newly created University of Georgia Press (Boxes 29-30), and the WPA Georgia Writers Project (Box 33).

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