Inventory of the John Wesley Umstead Papers, 1939-1965
Collection Number 3910
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Umstead, John Wesley, 1889-1968.
- Title
- John Wesley Umstead Papers, 1939-1965.
- Call Number
- 3910
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 1,400 items (2.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Restrictions to Access
- A portion of the collection relating to Umstead's work in the field of mental health is subject to special restrictions until 1 January 2002.
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the John Wesley Umstead Papers, #3910, 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.
- College trustees--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Legislators--North Carolina--Correspondence.
- North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control.
- Psychiatric hospitals--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Umstead, John Wesley, 1889-1968.
- Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--North Carolina.
Biographical Note
Umstead, 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.
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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.