Inventory of the John Milliken Parker Papers, 1902-1938
Collection Number 1184
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Parker, John Milliken, 1863-1939.
- Title
- John Milliken Parker Papers, 1902-1938
- Call Number
- 1184
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: About 9,200
- Linear Feet: 12.0
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from John M. Parker Jr. in December 1946, June 1954, October 1961, and December 1964.
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Anna Brooke Allan and David C. Knesel, 1962-1971
- Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2007
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the John Milliken Parker Papers #1184, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- African Americans--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Louisiana--Photographs.
- Floods--Mississippi River--History--20th century.
- Floods--Mississippi River--Photographs.
- Governors--Louisiana--History--1865-1950.
- Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935.
- Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Mississippi River--Photographs.
- New Orleans Board of Trade.
- New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
- New Orleans (La.)--Economic conditions.
- New Orleans (La.)--History.
- Parker, John Milliken, 1863-1939.
- Politicians--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- Progressive Party (1912)
- Southern Commercial Congress.
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--Louisiana.
Biographical Note
John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) was born in Mississippi, was in the cotton business at New Orleans from 1880 onwards, was member of the New Orleans Board of Trade, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Southern Commercial Congress, and was president of the Mississippi Valley Trade Association, 1919. He served as governor of Louisiana from 1920 to 1924 and managed flood relief in Louisiana in 1927. The Progressive Party made Parker its candidate for vice president of the United States in 1916, but the party organization came to an end before the election.
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The John Milliken Parker papers, chiefly 1909-1920, pertain to Parker's business activities, including his membership on the New Orleans Board of Trade and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; his association with the Progressive Party; his management of the Federal Food Administration program in Louisiana during World War I; his term as governor of Louisiana, 1920-1924; and his service as relief administrator during the Mississippi River flood of 1927 (including photographs, some of which depict African Americans). Other topics include the Southern Commercial Congress and opposition to Huey P. Long.
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Photograph Album (PA-1184/1-2)
Scrapbooks (S-1184/1-3)
Volume (SV-1184/1)
Detailed Description of the Collection
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