Louise Brigance Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-614

Staff Only

Dates

1860 - 2005

Creator

Brigance, Louise Oliver (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

None.

Biographical Note

Effie Louise Oliver Brigance was born in Kosciusko, MS to Felton Owen Oliver (1901-1983) and Ruby Dendy Oliver (1902-1988). She had four siblings, William Owen "Billy" Oliver (1925-1998), Mary Frances "Tannie" Lawshe (1928-2015), Alice Maude "Monkey" Callicutt (1930-2017), and James Dendy "Buster" Oliver (1932-2019). She attended Kosciusko High School.

Louise Brigance graduated from Blue Mountain College in 1948. She married Roy Shelby Brigance (1927-2014) and they had a daughter named Helen Dendy Brigance. In 1970, they moved to Birmingham, AL where Roy served as chairman in the Sociology Department at Samford College.

Extent

2 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into nine distinct series. These are listed below along with their general organizational schemas:

1. Correspondence: organized by the letter receiver and then in ascending chronological order. 2. Genealogy Papers: arranged in ascending chronological order. 3. Historical Documents: organized in ascending chronological order. 4. Land Deeds: organized by document type. 5. Printed Materials: assembled into five sub-series- Booklets and Pamphlets, Travel Brochures, Catalogues, Books, and Newspapers. 6. Scrapbooks: organized by the person that the material is about. 7. Sheet Music: alphabetized by song title. 8. Photographs: organized by subject. 9. Oversized Materials: Organized by document type and then in ascending chronological order.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was donated by Mrs. Louise Brigance in 2004.

Accruals

No further accruals are expected.

Preservation Note

Papers have been stored in acid-free folders inside acid-free boxes. Newspaper clippings were photocopied on acid-free paper with the originals discarded and any newspaper clippings that remain were stored in separate folders and interleaved with acid-free paper. Full size newspapers that could not be photocopied as well as other oversize items were stored separately in oversize boxes. Photographs were interleaved between acid-free paper. Vellum photographs and negatives were interleaved with buffered, acid-free paper. Rusted paper clips and staples were removed, except in the case of an original binding which was instead stored in a separate folder. Envelopes were plasticlipped to their letters.

Processing Note

This collection was worked on in 2021 and then again in 2022. It was finished in June 2022 by Erin Cain, a graduate assistant in the Manuscripts Department.