By Erin Abbott Blanton
Title: Arthur White Collection
Predominant Dates:1960s-1980s
ID: MS/105
Creator: Arthur White, 1923-2001
Extent: 28.0 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 12/31/2009. More info below under Accruals.
The Arthur White Collection includes general memorabilia from Mr. White’s long career with TIME Magazine. The topics and subject matters are varied. This collection provides a wide range of artifacts, including, but not limited to: correspondence, newspaper articles, pamphlets, passports, birth certificates, brochures, and personal and work-related keepsakes. Most of the artifacts were in good to decent condition, few were in fair condition. A large amount of the content in this collection is in the original format.
Accruals: The 25 boxes, 28 linear feet, came to us in batches. The first batch was a bunch of boxes that had been poorly stored. Plastic bins were also sent over with publications and papers in better condition. Also, we have been given scanned images and documents from the Lowndes County Historical Society from the Louie Peeples Collection that relate to the White Collection. We acquired the collection over the course of a year.
Acquisition Source: Lowndes County Historical Society
Acquisition Method: The Arthur White collection is a subset of the Louie Peeples White papers which she left to the Lowndes County Historical Society (LCHS). Because of the international nature of this collection, they have donated it to the VSU Archives where they expect it will be able to be used with classes and other patrons not naturally drawn to LCHS.
Appraisal Information: This is a valuable collection because White was an international correspondent for Time magazine during the late 1950's thru the 1980's. Issues of the times from Johnson's poverty programs to Watergate to the birth of Punk Rock are covered in these ms. There are photographs, copies of Time magazine, interview notes, drafts of stories, edits of stories, and final published versions. There are also personal papers and information about travel. This collection should be of use to students and researchers in journalism, political science, history and international affairs.The condition of the papers is fair, and bad in some cases.
Preferred Citation: Arthur White Collection. Courtesy of Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Odum Library.
Telex
Stories and drafts that White wrote during 1971.
Telex, article drafts, NY Times article
Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Bobby; Shriver, Sargent, Owen, Sam; Shiras, G. Peter; Gordon, Dr. C.G.
Domestic "Peace Corps"/ National Service Corps; Department of Health, Education, & Welfare; Prince Edward Free School; Potomac School; "Greensville Experiment"
File contains telex and article drats on educational topics for TIME, including a national type of "Peace Corps" and integration of public and private schools.
Telex
Kennedy, John F.; Castro, Raul; Jagan, Cedd; Kennedy, Bobby; Lechuga, Carlos
Communism; Cuba; Bolivia; Escambray Guerrillas, OAS; Punta del Esta (Decalaration); Peace Corps
Folder contains information on Latin American issue, particularly concerns regarding communism and trade.
Telex
Kennedy, John F.; Loginov, Anatoly; Moscoso, Ted; Diefenbaker, John; Heeney, Arnold; Cooke, Jack Kent; Keating, Kenneth B.; Pearson, Mike
Canadian trade; Richeliu Waterway; Champlain Cut-off; Columbia River Treaty; Station KRLA; SACLANT; NORAD; Butteroorth Letter; Bomarebaces
This folder contains information on Canadian relations including trade, politics, and defense.
Telex
Abaud, Dr. El Mehdi Ben; Khrushchev, Nikita; King HJussein; Nasser
Morocco Wage Strike; Dutch New Guinea; South African Apartheid; European trains; Russia; Pravda; UN' Yemen
Folder inlcudes information on various world topics including UN issues with Dutch New Guinea, Morocco, and Yemen.
Telex; report
Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Bobby; Eisenhower, Dewight; Unruh, Jesse "Big Daddy" Marvin; Barnett, Russ; Humphrey, George M.; Mansfield, Mike; Shriver, Sargent; Rowan, Carl
Fallout Shelter Program; University of Mississippi; Justice Department; State Department; AEC; Blue Ridge Weather Modification Association; Blue Ridge Hail Suppression Project; Cosmos Club; Peace Corps; racial discrimination
Folder includes information on various topics including cases of racial discrimination, politics, and topics from around the United States.
Telex
Shriver, Sargent; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Bobby; Laing, James; Anderson, William R.; Hoffa, Jimmy
American Bankers Association; Peace Corps; State Department; Justice Department; National Service Corps; ARA; racial discrimination; Silver Bridge collapse; snake handling; Hominy Falls Mine Flood
Folder inlcudes information on various topics including politics and topics around the country.
Telex
Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Bobby; Freeman, Orville; Ball, George, Khruschev, Nikita
Yugoslavia; Russia; Communism; National Farmer's Union; American Farm Bureau Federation; USDA; National Weheat Committee; citizens Wehat Committees; Department of Agriculture; Famine
Folder includes information on issues of US and Canadian wheat sales to Russia and US news articles discuss pending famine.
Telex
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow; Szilard, Leo; Red, Larry
USDA; harvetsting techniques; cancer; baboon heart transplant; Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Folder inlcudes telex and drats on specialty subjects of science, medicine, religion, sports, etc.
Telex, Drafts
JFK; Redford, Robert
Watergate; Koreagate; TV critics
File contains article drafts and info for entertainment actions; including drafts on TV critics, and a journalist's affair to a politician
Telex, Drafts
Gintel, Robert; Brown, Robert
IBM, International Correspondence Schools, US Office of Education
Folder includes info on business section and some life editorials.
Telex, magazine
White, Arthur
Telex, Pamphlet
White, Arthur
Telex, Drafts, Booklets
White, Arthur
TIME Inc.
