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• Booklet on Fellowships in the United States of America, 1947
  A booklet from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1947 centered on fellowships for research and for creative work in the fine arts including music. The booklet details how fellowships were decided and awarded and lists the trustees of the foundation, memorial fellows in 1946, and post service fellows in October 1945, April 1946, and June 1946.
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Fellowship Application Blank, 1937
  An application blank for a fellowship. The document includes the applicant personal information, professional experience and accomplishments, plans for work, references, and signature. The application was to be submitted no later than November 1936.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Tennyson Suagee
  A 1942 application from Tennyson Suagee, a graduate Student, at the University of Chicago, requesting a grant to examine the use of the grantinaid and other works. Wishes to work under Dr. L. D. White and others at the University of Chicago.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Christiana McFadyen
  A 1942 application from Christiana McFadyen, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, requesting a grant to continue research on the PopulistRepublican period of North Carolina history. Wishes to attend the University of Chicago, working under Professor Avery O. Craven, during the academic year 1942 to 1943.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Roberta Powers Winter
  A 1942 appplication from Roberta Powers WInter, an instructor in speech and assistant to the director of dramatics at Agned Scott College, requesting grant for a study of dramatic activity in the South, to find out what has been done since the earliest theatres in Williamsburg, Charleston, and New Orleans until this present time, what contributions have been made in playwrights, critics, actors, plays. Wishes to spend fifteen months working toward Ph. D. under Professors A. F. Myers and Randolph Somerville at New York University.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from James Bright Wilson.
  A 1942 application from James Bright Wilson, a student at the University of Southern California, requesting a grant for a study of the interrelationships of religious and economic institutions in a rural area. Wishes to do field work for the completion of a doctorate under Dr. Walter G. Muelder of the University of Southern California.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Judson Clements Ward, Jr.
  A 1942 appplication from Judson Clements Ward, Jr., an Instructor, at the Department of History & Political Science at BirminghamSouthern College, requesting grant for a research in collections of materials in libraries, archives, and othe rcollections in various Georgia towns, in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, in Wahington, D. C., and at other points that may develop, on Georgia history and politics, 1870 to 1890.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Jacques Philippe Villere
  A 1942 application from Jacques Philipe Villere, a FrenchEnglish editor, for the Compiled Codes Project at Louisiana State University Law Institute, requesting a grant to study culture patterns of Louisiana Creolespeaking Negroes as shown by their speech and its relationship with their classes, color, and religion. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina under Professor Ralph Steels Boggs.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Phyllis Kathleen Valente (Mrs.)
  A 1942 application from Phyllis Kethleen Valente Mrs., a graduate student in English at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant to study folklore at the University of North Carolina. Wishes to work for an M.A. degree under Professor R. S. Boggs, for nine months beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Wendall Piggott Trumbull
  A 1942 application from Wendell Piggott Trumbull, an associate professor in Accountancy at the University of Mississippi, requesting a grant to make a fifteenmonth survey of educational finance for the State of Mississippi, is divided into two main parts. Would attend the University of Chicago or Michigan, as an auditor only, since coursework for a doctorate had been completed at the University of Michigan.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from James Allen Tower
  A 1942 application from James Allen Tower, an associate professor of Geography at BirminghamSouthern College, requesting grant to spend the good weather months of the academic year 1942 to 1943 doing field work in the 67 counties of Alabama and the bad weather months in the State Archives, the Library of Congress, and my office collecting data for and writing a Geography of Alabama, after which will return to present position.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Willis Anderson Sutton, Jr.
  A 1942 application from Willis Anderson Sutton, Jr., a graduate Student at the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, requesting a grant for a sociological analysis of the Negro and white consolidated schools located in the Chael Hill district within the subregional laboratory of the Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina. Wishes to work toward a Ph.D. under Dr. Howard W. Odum, Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell, and Dr. W. Carson Ryan.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from William Benjamin Stubbs
  A 1942 appplication from Wiliam Benjamin Stubbs, a professor of Political Science and Bible at Emory University, requesting grant beginning August for a study of needs in Georgia for prelegal, legal, prepublic service, and public service training, and of methods and plans used in the United States in meeting such needs, with a view to improving applicants usefulness as a faculty.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Arnold John Stafford
  A 1942 appplication from Arnold John Stafford, a tutor in English, requesting grant for one year beginning September for an investigation of the Agrarian Movement in the South c. 1930 to 1940 with the purpose of clarifying the principles of the movement by placing it in its historical tradition and by showing that effect it had had on popular thought and actual social program, Wishes to work for Ph. D. at the University of Texas Dr. Theodore Horberger.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Howard R. Smith
  A 1942 application from Howard R. Smith, an instructor in Economics, requesting a grant for a study of the economic function of transportation in a dynamic society, with reference to the development of the American Southwest. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at Louisiana State University under Dr. H. L. McCracken for one year beginning June 1.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Marian McCamy Sims
  A 1942 application from Marian McCamy Sims, a Novelist, requesting a oneyear grant for a novel of the Reconstruction period in South Carolina, with emphasis on social and economic aspects rather than political conflict. A year of research has convinced me that the era is badly in need of a modern reappraisal.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from James Wesley Silver
  A 1942 application from James Wesley Silver, associate professor of History at the University of Mississippi, requesting a grant for the study of the Control of Public Opinion in the Confederacy, A study in Civilian Morale, beginning in June.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from San Schiller
  A 1942 application from Sam Schiller, professor of the Social Science Division at Marion Institute, requesting a grant, to translate into curriculum form for the public schools the principal research and discussion on the important problem of planning for peace in the southeastern states. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. under Dr. Brunner or Dr. Hopkins at Teachers College, Columbia University, for one year.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Joseph Rice Saylor
  A 1942 application from Joseph Rice Saylor, professor of Government and History at Weatherford College, requesting a grant, to show the effects of discriminatory freight rates as are now existing in the United States upon different types of industry in the Southwest. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of Texas under Dr. C. F. Patterson for eighteen months beginning June 1.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Gilbert Avery Sanford
  A 1942 application from Gilbert Avery Sanford, an assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi, requesting a grant for the study of the present distributions of medical services in Mississippi and their relationships to socioeconomic factors, the present distribution of professional incomes, and trends in the composition of professional medical groups. Wishes to work under the supervision of Drs. Robert C. Angell, Amos H. Hawley, and Clark Tribbitts of the University of Michigan seek a Ph.D. in Sociology.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Cy Wilson Record
  A 1942 application from Cy Wilson Record, a Field representative for the Fair Employment Practices Committee in Alabama, requesting a oneyear grant beginning in September, for the study of three possible situations involving efforts to organize Negro and white workers into unions, involving surveys of situations each exhibiting a number of variables. Wishes to work at the University of Chicago for an M.A. in Philosophy and Economics under T. V. Smith.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Willard Edgar Allan Range
  A 1942 application from Willard Edgar Allan Range, a professor of Social Science at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, requesting a grant for completion of work for a Ph.D. degree in history, rural economics, and sociology, and the completion of a dissertation on The Agricultural Development of Georgia Since 1860. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina under Dr. Fletcher M. Green for the period of one year beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from George Irving Quimby, Jr.
  A 1942 application from Irving Quimby, Jr., requesting a grant to complete graduate study already begun toward a doctorate in anthropology with a special emphasis upon Southeastern archaeology. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago under Dr. FayCooper Cole for one year beginning in June.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Richard Harold Preece
  A 1942 application from Richard Harold Preece, a staff writer of Federated Press, requesting a grant for research at the Institute of Social Research, University of North Carolina, field trips to southern industrial centers, personal interviews, and examination of racial attitudes in southern labor unions.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Louise Sublette Perry
  A 1942 application from Louise Sublette Perry, an Instructor in speech at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant to investigate mountain speech in the Highlands of North Carolina through phonograph recordings and linguistic transportation.