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Finding aid for the Grover H. Catt Collection

MUM00695

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Creator
Catt, Grover H.
Title
Grover H. Catt Collection
ID
MUM00695
Date [inclusive]
1939-1987 1940-1945
General Physical Description note
16 boxes (8.5 linear feet)
Location:
General Special Collections
Abstract:
The collection is chiefly a complete set of letters written between Grover H. Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt between 1940-1945. Letters span the period of time the two spent apart because of Grover's military service, including the period before their marriage in 1941 and excluding any time the two were able to live together throughout his military service. Photographs and miscellaneous other materials are also included.

Preferred Citation

Grover H. Catt Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

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Biographical Note

Grover Hickman Catt was born in Monticello, Miss. He attended Hinds Junior College and later joined the military. Catt eventually joined the 509th Bomb Wing of the United States Air Force (the unit formed to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan) as a supply specialist. After World War II ended, Catt was one of a handful of soldiers assigned to fly home on the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb.

Catt married Winnie Bethea in 1941. The two corresponded regularly during the time they were separated by Catt's military service.

Grover Catt graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy in 1948. The Catts eventually operated a drugstore in Pascagoula, Miss.

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Scope and Content Note

The collection includes correspondence of both Winnie and Grover Catt between 1940 and 1945. Boxes 1-6 and Boxes 7-14 are arranged chronologically by date of letter (postmark), as well as by number on letters as marked by the writers themselves. The collection contains code in letters; censored letters; information regarding conditions of the home front during the war; references to movies, music, and radio programs; information regarding women at home and at work, birth control, and pregnancy; Winnie Catt’s contraction/recovery from Bright’s Disease; and information regarding transportation by train, bus, and automobile.

The collection contains three boxes of photographs. The photographs document the Catts' family life in Mississippi; Grover Catt's time spent on Tinian Island in preparation for the Enola Gay's atomic bomb mission to Hiroshima; Catt Pharmacy in Pascagoula, Miss.; the Catt family in Nebraska; and other topics.

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Arrangement

This collection is arranged in four series: two correspondence series (arranged by author, then chronologically within each series), a series of miscellaneous materials, and photographs.

  1. Series I. Correspondence, Winnie Bethea Catt to Grover Catt, 1940-1945
  2. Series II. Correspondence, Grover Catt to Winnie Bethea Catt, 1940-1945
  3. Series III. Miscellaneous, 1939-1987
  4. Series IV. Photographs, 1936-1992

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries November 2011

Access Restrictions

The Grover H. Catt Collection is open for research. The photographs that were removed from this collection are stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection's photographs must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in advance of their planned visit; however, researchers are strongly encouraged to use the digitized photographs rather than originals.

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Acquisition Information

Received from Michael Catt, 2003

Processing Information

Collection processed by Audrey M. Uffner, 2003-2005. Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Michaelis, December 2011.

Alternative Formats

The photographs from this collection have been digitized and made available online: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cattg/

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Related Materials

Resources at the University of Mississippi

The photographs from this collection have been digitized and made available online: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cattg/

Separated Material

Three boxes of photographs have been removed from the collection and transferred to cold storage.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Enola Gay (Bomber)
  • United States. Air Force. Bombardment Wing (M), 509th

Format(s)

  • correspondence
  • photographs

Geographic Name(s)

  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
  • Mississippi -- Pictorial works

Personal Name(s)

  • Catt, Grover H.

Subject(s)

  • Albuminuria -- Personal narratives
  • Childbirth -- Personal narratives
  • Contraception -- United States
  • Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century
  • Pregnancy -- Personal narratives
  • Transportation -- Mississippi
  • Women -- Mississippi -- Social conditions
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans

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Collection Inventory

Series I. Correspondence, Winnie Bethea Catt to Grover Catt, 1940-1945 

Box 1 

1.1 July 1940 

1.2 August 1940 

1.3 September 1940 

1.4 October 1940 

1.5 November 1940 

1.6 December 1940 

1.7 January 1941 

1.8 February 1941 

1.9 March 1941 

1.10 April 1941 

1.11 May 1941 

Box 2 

2.1 June 1941 

2.2 July 1941 

2.3 August 1941 

2.4 September 1941 

2.5 October 1941 

2.6 November 1941 

2.7 December 1941 

Box 3 

3.1 January 1942 

3.2 February 1942 

3.3 June 1942 

3.4 July 1942 

3.5 August 1942 

3.6 September 1942 

3.7 October 1942 

3.8 November 1942 

Box 4 

4.1 November 1943 

4.2 December 1943 

4.3 January 1944 

4.4 September 1944 

4.5 October 1944 

4.6 November 1944 

4.7 December 1944 

4.8 January 1945 

Box 5 

5.1 February 1945 

5.2 March 1945 

5.3 April 1945 

5.4 May 1945 

5.5 June 1945 

5.6 July 1945 

Box 6 

6.1 August 1945 

6.2 September 1945 

6.3 October 1945 

6.4 Undated 

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Series II. Correspondence, Grover Catt to Winnie Bethea Catt, 1940-1945 

Box 7 

7.1 July 1940 

7.2 August 1940 

7.3 September 1940 

7.4 October 1940 

7.5 November 1940 

7.6 December 1940 

7.7 January 1941 

7.8 February 1941 

7.9 March 1941 

7.10 April 1941 

Box 8 

8.1 May 1941 

8.2 June 1941 

8.3 July 1941 

8.4 August 1941 

Box 9 

9.1 September 1941 

9.2 October 1941 

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence related to the Catts' marriage, 20 October 1941

9.3 November 1941 

9.4 December 1941 

9.5 January 1942 

9.6 February 1942 

9.7 March 1942 

9.8 June 1942 

Box 10 

10.1 July 1942 

10.2 August 1942 

10.3 September 1942 

10.4 October 1942 

Box 11 

11.1 November 1942 

11.2 January 1943 

11.3 November 1943 

11.4 December 1943 

11.5 January 1944 

11.6 September 1944 

Box 12 

12.1 October 1944 

12.2 November 1944 

12.3 December 1944 

12.4 January 1945 

12.5 February 1945 

Box 13 

13.1 March 1945 

13.2 April 1945 

13.3 May 1945 

13.4 June 1945 

Scope and Contents note

Contains censored letters

13.5 July 1945 

Box 14 

14.1 August 1945 

14.2 September 1945 

14.3 October 1945 

14.4 November 1945 

14.5 Undated 

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Series III. Miscellaneous, 1939-1987 

Box 14 

14.6 Correspondence between Catt family and friends 

Box 15 

15.1 Winnie Catt's diary, 1942-1944 

15.2 Handwritten by Grover Catt: "Itinerary of Service Bases; Letters I Wrote to Winnie; Letters Winnie Wrote to Me; US Service of Grover Catt"  

15.3 Baptist Certificate of Awards, made out to E.V. Catt 

15.4 Baptist Seals, made out to Mr. E.V. Catt and Mrs. E.V. Catt 

15.5 Agreement of sale for two-bedroom home in Pascagoula, Miss., 1952 

Scope and Contents note

Grover Hickman Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt listed as the buyers

15.6 Employer's Affidavit (Pharmacy) 

15.7 First Baptist Church (Wiggins, Mississippi) Bulletin, 12 March 1981 

15.8 Mississippi Termite Control, Inc. reports 

Scope and Contents note

Property owner E.V. Catt

15.9 Post-World War II Catt family correspondence, 1948; 1957; 1967; 1987 

15.10 Poll tax receipts, Winnie and Grover Catt, 1946-1953 

15.11 Calvary Baptist Church material, 1962-1973 

15.12 Broadsheet: "Eddie Martin Crusade Songs"  

15.13 Veterans material 

Scope and Contents note

Regarding subsistence allowance to Grover H. Catt

15.14 Hinds Jr. College materials, 1939-1940 

15.15 University of Mississippi material, 1947-1948 

15.16 Service orders, 1942-1945 

15.17 Fairmont Army Air Field News, 25 February 1944 

15.18 The Nots News, 15 March 1945 

15.19 House blueprint 

15.20 Maps of Mississippi geographical features: Biloxi Bay; Horn Island Pass Sound; Mississippi City Harbor; Pascagoula River 

15.21 "The United States of Dixie" placemat 

15.22 Enola Gay clippings 

15.23 Miscellaneous clippings 

15.24 Grover Catt’s notecards to organize letters 

15.25 United States of America War Ration Book One, 20 April 1942 

Scope and Contents note

Filled out to Grover Hickman Catt; contains within a Certificate of Book Holder card signed by Winnie Catt

15.26 Catt Christmas card 

Box 16 

Diploma awarded to Mrs. E.V. Catt from the Convention Normal Course Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, declaring Mrs. Catt to be a King’s Teacher 

BYPU Study Course Diploma awarded to E.V. Catt from the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for completion of the Senior BYPU Manual 

Box containing Baptist Second Year Wreath Pin (white) and Baptist wreath pin (blue), undated 

Scrapbook of Winnie and Grover Catt 

Pamphlet: Monticello and Lawrence County 

Pamphlet: "Oxford: A Warning for Americans," published and distributed by the Mississippi State Junior Chamber of Commerce, October 1962 

Smaller Communities Program, published by Mississippi Employment Security Commission, November 1967 

Monticello, MS Celebrates 175 Years: 1811-1986, History through 175 Years, 1986 

Mississippi Descendants of Solomon Lee, Sr. (175?-1818) of New Hanover County, North Carolina. Compiled and written by Marilyn Lane Sirmon, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1981 

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Photographs, 1936-1992 

Scope and Contents note

These photographs have been digitized and made available online:

Photograph Box 1 

1.P1 Monticello, Mississippi football team, 1936 

1.P2 Monticello, Mississippi football team, undated 

1.P3 Monticello, Mississippi basketball team, 1936 

1.P4 Monticello, Mississippi basketball team, 1938 

1.P5 Monticello, Mississippi football team, 1937 

1.P6 Annie Merle Catt Lee and Freida Lee, undated 

1.P7 Winnie Bethea, Frances Longino, Mary Emily Greenway at Caves Hill, undated 

1.P8 1.Paul Catt, undated 

1.P9 Enola Gay plane, 1945 

1.P10 Monticello, Mississippi women's basketball team, undated 

1.P11 Will Hickman, undated 

1.P12 Grover Catt and James Earl Drane playing basketball, undated 

1.P13 Tinian Island, Headquarters 509th Composite Group, 1945 

1.P14 Grover Catt, CMT C, Fort Barrancus, Florida, 1938 

1.P15 Grover Catt, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P16 Winnie Bethea Catt, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P17 Congregational Church, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P18 Court House in Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P19 Main Street looking west, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P20 Christmas photo of Elmer, Goldie, and Beverly (the people the Catts lived with in Geneva, Nebraska), 1944 

1.P21 Court House in Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P22 1.Paul Catt and Frances Longino, undated 

1.P23 Earl Berry and A.D. Stewart, 7 March 1942 

1.P24 Winnie Bethea Catt at the University of Mississippi, 1947 

1.P25 Will Hickman and Mary Emily Greenway, undated 

1.P26 Nancy Bethea, Silver Creek, Mississippi School Days photo, 1952 

1.P27 Gas station in New Hebron, Mississippi, undated 

1.P28 Alice Byrd, undated 

1.P29 Granddaughter of Mr. Beneke, undated 

1.P30 Grover Catt and M.L. Mallette, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P31 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1961 

1.P32 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1962 

1.P33 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1963 

1.P34 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1964 

1.P35 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1965 

1.P36 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1966 

1.P37 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1967 

1.P38 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1968 

1.P39 Catt Pharmacy, Pascagoula, Mississippi, November 1969 

1.P40 Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P41 Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P42 Grover Catt and Thomas Butler, undated 

1.P43 Annie Merle Catt, October 1939 

1.P44 Enola Gay, after returning from atomic bomb run, August 1945 

1.P45 Unidentifed women and children, undated 

1.P46 Grover Catt, Leroy Catt, Frances Longino, Earl Low, Winnie Bethea Catt on Pearl River Bridge, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P47 Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, 1948 

1.P48 Moorehead family, undated 

1.P49 Winnie Bethea Catt on the Pearl River Bridge, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P50 Winnie Bethea Catt, undated 

1.P51 Grover Catt and Harry Smith on Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P52 Beverly Moorehead, Goldie Moorehead, and LaVerne Sattersfield Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P53 Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt in Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1942 

1.P54 Unidentified couple, undated 

1.P55 Julius Fredd with a calf, undated 

1.P56 Julius Fredd with a calf, undated 

1.P57 Julius Fredd with a dog, undated 

1.P58 Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt on the Pearl River, undated 

1.P59 Unidentified women, undated 

1.P60 Winnie Bethea Catt and Grover Catt and Beverly Moorehead, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P61 Grover Catt, Nebraska, undated 

1.P62 Unidentified couple, undated 

1.P63 Blondy Jones, Grover Catt, Giles Crisler, Lamar "Bully" Puryear, Slip McKee, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

1.P64 Slip McKee and Grover Catt, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

1.P65 Lamar "Bully" Puryear, Grover Catt, and Slip McKee, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

1.P66 1.Paul Catt, Billy Gibson, Grover Catt, Will Hickman, and Thomas Bulter, Monticello, Mississippi House, undated 

1.P67 Winnie Bethea Catt and Grover Catt, Darroch Ranch near Zepher, Texas, 1942 

1.P68 Grover Catt, Jacksonville, Florida, 1942 

Scope and Contents note

"155th Infantry were moved to Jacksonville after Japan attached Pearl Harbor. We were guarding bridges and water works."

1.P69 Grover Catt, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 155th Infantry Company C., 31st Division, 1942 

1.P70 Unidentifed man, Company C, 155th Infantry, 31st Division, undated 

1.P71 Unidentified soldiers and woman, undated 

1.P72 Sheep, Darroch Ranch, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

1.P73 Winnie Bethea Catt and Grover Catt, Darroch Ranch, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

1.P74 Winnie Bethea Catt and Grover Catt, Darroch Ranch, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

1.P75 Katherine Gore, Darroch Ranch, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

1.P76 Katherine Gore, Darroch Ranch, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

1.P77 Grover Catt, Will Hickman and his wife at Sardis Dam, Mississippi, undated 

1.P78 Grover Catt, Will Hickman and his wife at Sardis Dam, Mississippi, undated 

1.P79 Sardis Lake, Mississippi, undated 

1.P80 Sardis Lake, Mississippi, undated 

1.P81 Mr. And Mrs. E.V. Catt, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P82 Grover Catt, University of Mississippi, undated 

1.P83 Carl L. Catt, undated 

1.P84 University of Mississippi? (House), undated 

1.P85 Nancy Bethea, Nancy at the University of Mississippi, undated 

1.P86 Hazel Berry, sister of Winnie Bethea Catt, visiting the University of Mississippi, circa 1947 

1.P87 1.Paul Catt and Grover Catt at our house on the hill in Monticello, undated 

1.P88 1.Paul Catt at our house on the hill in Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P89 Friends, Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P90 Friends, Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P91 Mountains (Japan?), undated 

1.P92 1.Prehistoric Ruins, Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P93 Camp Churo, Tinian Island, 1945 

1.P94 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P95 Enola Gay, Interviews of Colonel Paul Tibbetts, pilot of the plane after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P96 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P97 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P98 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P99 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P100 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P101 Enola Gay, Interviews of the crew after the atomic bomb dropped, 1945 

1.P102 Robert A. Cameron, II, 1964 

1.P103 Winnie Bethea Catt in from of Mrs. Darrock's house in Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

1.P104 Grover Catt, York, Nebraska, undated 

1.P105 Unidentified snow scene, undated 

1.P106 Unidentified snow scene, undated 

1.P107 Unidentified snow scene, undated 

1.P108 Chikasha, Oklahoma, snow, undated 

1.P109 Winnie Bethea Catt, 1942 

1.P110 Unidentified women, undated 

1.P111 "Somewhere West, WWII," undated 

1.P112 Unidentified children, undated 

1.P113 Unidentified women, 1942 

1.P114 Unidentified soldiers, undated 

1.P115 Unidentified man, undated 

1.P116 Mr. C.E. Gibson and his children Charles, Dena Kendall, and Dit, undated 

1.P117 "My Grandma Lambert, George Lambert, my mamas brother at my grandpa and grandmas house," undated 

1.P118 Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, undated 

1.P119 Blance Catt and Billy Gibson, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

1.P120 Mary Frances Burkett ( "My High School sweetheart at Catacombs Monticello" ), undated 

1.P121 Mary Frances Burkett Robinson, 1959 

1.P122 Monticello, Mississippi basketball team, undated 

1.P123 Miscellaneous school portraits and other small portraits pasted on paper, undated 

1.P124 Carl L. Catt and Grover Catt playing tennis at the University of Mississippi, undated 

1.P125 Carl L. Catt and Grover Catt playing tennis at the University of Mississippi, undated 

1.P126 Carl L. Catt and Grover Catt playing tennis at the University of Mississippi, undated 

1.P127 University of Mississippi campus, winter, undated 

1.P128 Winnie Bethea Catt, University of Mississippi campus, undated 

1.P129 Club House, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

1.P130 Group, Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1952 

Photograph Box 2 

Folder

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pitts, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1942 

2.P1

Unidentified people in front of the railroad, 1942 

2.P2

Unidentified soldiers, undated 

2.P3

Jack Butler and Wife, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1942 

2.P4

Lamar "Bully" Puryear and Grover H. Catt, Silver Springs Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P5

Winnie Bethea Catt in front of the house in York, Nebraska, undated 

2.P6

R.C. Bethea Home, Grange, MS, undated 

2.P7

Grover Catt in front of tents Company C, 155th Infantry, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

2.P8

Beverly Moorehead, Laverne Satterfield, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

2.P9

Winnie Bethea Catt at the house in Grange, MS, undated 

2.P10

Hazel and Earl Berry, Grange, MS, undated 

2.P11

Hazel and Earl Berry, Grange, MS, undated 

2.P12

Geneva, Nebraska House, undated 

2.P13

Jasper David Bethea and his daughter Nancy Bethea, New Hebron / Prentiss, MS, undated 

2.P14

Jasper David Bethea and his daughter Nancy Bethea, undated 

2.P15

Snowman, Moorehead's house, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

2.P16

Moorehead's house, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

2.P17

Entrance to Silver Springs, Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P18

Grover Catt, Camp Blanding, Florida, 155th Infantry, Company C, 31st Division, 1941 

2.P19

Grover Catt and Blondy Jones, Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P20

Lamar "Bully" Puryear, Grover H. Catt, and Blondy Jones Silver Springs Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P21

Winnie Bethea Catt, 1941 

2.P22

Katherine Berson, 1947 

2.P23

Harry Smith, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P24

Winnie Bethea Catt, New Hebron, Mississippi, undated 

2.P25

Frances Longino, Mary Emily Greenway, Winnie Bethea Catt at Cave Hill, Lawrence County, Mississippi, undated 

2.P26

Grover Catt, undated 

2.P27

Grover Catt, undated 

2.P28

Julius Freddie Harmon, Fairmont Air Base, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

2.P29

Julius Freddie Harmon, Fairmont Air Base, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

2.P30

Billy Gibson, Winnie Bethea Catt, Mary Emily, Green Way, Jones Walker, Katherina Benson, Mrs. Miller, Elma Seay Bethea, undated 

Scope and Contents note

Eight small photographs pasted on a note card on both sides

2.P31

Hazle Bethea Berry, 1938 

2.P32

Hazle Bethea Berry, 1940 

2.P33

Unidentified woman with a baby, undated 

2.P34

Frieda Lee, 16 months, the big park in Savannah, undated 

2.P35

Winnie Bethea Catt, Agnes Jobran, Mary Emily Greenway, Mary Lou Rawls, Florence Bethea, Nancy Bethea, Winnie Bethea Catt, undated 

Scope and Contents note

Four different photographs pasted on a note card

2.P36

Unidentified portraits, undated 

Scope and Contents note

Four different photographs pasted on a note card on both sides

2.P37

Winnie Bethea Catt in Silver Creek, undated 

2.P38

Grover Catt and Carl Catt on Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P39

Grover Catt and Carl Catt when they were children, undated 

2.P40

"My Great Grandma Hickman," undated 

2.P41

Paul Catt, undated 

2.P42

Paul Catt, Frances Longino, Mary Ellen Greenway, Will Hickman, Burns Hill, near Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

2.P43

Grover Catt, undated 

2.P44

Hazle Bethea Berry and Earl Berry, undated 

2.P45

Earl Berry, undated 

2.P46

Unidentified man, undated 

2.P47

Unidentified soldiers, undated 

2.P48

The ocean, undated 

2.P49

Bowen's Clip Joint, undated 

2.P50

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P51

Prehistoric Ruins, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P52

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P53

Grover Catt, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P54

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P55

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P56

Harry Smith, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P57

Unidentified men, undated 

2.P58

Unidentified view, 1942 

2.P59

Unidentified men standing on a jeep, undated 

2.P60

Slip McKee, Grover Catt, and Lamar "Bully" Puryear, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

2.P61

Lamar "Bully" Puryear, Giles Crisler, Blondie Javes, Grover Catt, and Slip McKee, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

2.P62

Grover Catt and Slip McKee, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1941 

Scope and Contents note

Same image as B1F64

2.P63

Tent, undated 

2.P64

Unidentified man sitting in a chair outside, undated 

2.P65

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P66

Quanset huts, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P67

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P68

"Shanghai Lil" painting on B-29 Bomber, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P69

Landing strip, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P70

Roadway, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P71

Living area, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P72

Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P73

Servicedrome theatre, Tinian Island, 1945 

2.P74

Indian Village at Silver Springs, Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P75

Hall in Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P76

Fish through the bottom of a glass bottom boat, Silver Springs, Ocala, Florida, 1941 

2.P77

393rd Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group, Wendover, Utah, undated 

2.P78

Grover Catt, York, Nebraska, undated 

2.P79

Katherine Gore, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P80

Winnie Bethea Catt, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P81

Winnie Bethea Catt, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P82

Katherine Gore, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P83

Katherine Gore, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P84

Winnie Bethea Catt, 1942 

2.P85

Mrs. Darroch, 1942 

2.P86

Unidentified man, undated 

2.P87

Unidentiifed men, undated 

2.P88

Unidentified men, undated 

2.P89

Winnie Bethea Catt, USO, Geneva, Nebraska, undated 

2.P90

Grover Catt, Nebraska, undated 

2.P91

Grover Catt, Nebraska, undated 

2.P92

Grover Catt, Nebraska, undated 

2.P93

Grover Catt, Nebraska, undated 

2.P94

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, Darroch Ranch, Brownwood Texas, 1942 

2.P95

Paul Catt and Grover Catt, undated 

2.P96

Unidentified girl sitting on a car, undated 

2.P97

Winnie Bethea Catt and Mary Francis Bird, undated 

2.P98

Grover Catt, undated 

2.P99

Unidentified group in the woods, undated 

2.P100

Unidentified woman, undated 

2.P101

Unidentified woman and man with child, undated 

2.P102

Unidentified men in the woods near Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

2.P103

Katherine Gore, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P104

Unidentified man, undated 

2.P105

Unidentified woman, undated 

2.P106

Unidentified man, undated 

2.P107

Florence Bethea at her home in Grange, Mississippi, undated 

2.P108

Unidentified man and child, undated 

2.P109

Unidentified woman with children, undated 

2.P110

Winnie Bethea Catt posed with children, 1942 

2.P111

Winnie Bethea Catt posed with children, 1942 

2.P112

Katherine Gore, 1942 

2.P113

Winnie Bethea Catt, undated 

2.P114

Winnie Bethea Catt, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P115

Winnie Bethea Catt, undated 

2.P116

Winnie Bethea Catt, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P117

Winnie Bethea Catt, Brownwood, Texas (on stairs of house the Catts lived in Brownwood, Texas), 1942 

2.P118

Winnie Bethea Catt, 1942 

2.P119

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 1942 

2.P120

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 1942 

2.P121

Grover Catt, undated 

2.P122

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 1942 

2.P123

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 1942 

2.P124

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt at Burns Hill, Lawerence County, 1940 

2.P125

Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 1942 

2.P126

Katherine Gore, Brownwood, Texas, 1942 

2.P127

Photograph Box 3 

Folder

Unidentified women, undated 

3.P1

Unidentified girl, undated 

3.P2

Annie Merle Catt and daughter Freida, undated 

3.P3

Unidentified couple posed in front of a car, undated 

3.P4

Unidentified man, undated 

3.P5

Unidentified couple, undated 

3.P6

Unidentified woman, undated 

3.P7

Unidentified house, undated 

3.P8

Grover Catt at the Bethea home in Grange, Mississippi, undated 

3.P9

Men picking cotton in the fields, Jeff Davis County, 1942 

3.P10

Woman picking cotton in the field, undated 

3.P11

Robert Lee Bethea and Hazel Bethea, New Hebron, Mississippi, 1920s 

3.P12

Unidentified women, Lawrence County, Mississippi, undated 

3.P13

Frieda Lee, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

3.P14

Frieda Lee, undated 

3.P15

Paul Catt, Pearl River Bridge, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

3.P16

Unidentified women hugging, undated 

3.P17

Will Hickman, Winnie Bethea Catt, and Paul Catt, Pearl River Bridge, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

3.P18

Unidentified women hugging in front of a car, undated 

3.P19

Unidentified group of teenagers, undated 

3.P20

Three men, University of Mississippi(?), undated 

3.P21

Unidentified woman, undated 

3.P22

Unidentified group of women, undated 

3.P23

Unidentified woman posed on a car, undated 

3.P24

Winnie Bethea Catt and Grover Catt posed with an unidentified girl, undated 

3.P25

Unidentified couple, undated 

3.P26

Unidentified woman, undated 

3.P27

Mr. And Mrs. E.V. Catt, Monticello, Mississippi, undated 

3.P28

Grover Catt with a puppy, undated 

3.P29

Grover Catt and Frieda Lee, undated 

3.P30

Tinian Island, coastline, 1945 

3.P31

Aviation cadets - William S. Houts, Luther P. Cooley, Jr., and Grover Catt, undated 

3.P32

Tinian Island, landing strip, Saipan in the background, 1945 

3.P33

American cemetary on Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P34

Ground Echelon 509th preparing to board trains on the way to Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P35

Planes, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P36

Plane nose art - "Ready Betty," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P37

Landing strip, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P38

Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P39

Plane nose art - "Goin Jessie," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P40

Plane nose art - "The Herd of Bald Goats," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P41

Plane nose art - "Full House," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P42

Unidentified man posed with the Tinian Tavern sign, 1945 

3.P43

Planes flying overhead, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P44

Plane salvage, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P45

Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P46

Ocean seen from Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P47

Bombs, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P48

Unidentified General awaiting the return of the Enola Gay from atomic bomb mission, 1945 

3.P49

Enola Gay crew and ground crew, 1945 

3.P50

Greeting Colonel Paul Tibbetts on the return of the Enola Gay, 1945 

3.P51

Landing strip, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P52

Living area, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P53

Landing strip, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P54

Plane, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P55

Plane, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P56

Plane, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P57

Plane, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P58

Plane nose art - "Raidin Maiden II," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P59

Plane nose art - "The U.S.S. Comfort's Revenge," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P60

Plane nose art - "Easy Maid," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P61

Plane nose art - "Miss Judy," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P62

Plane nose art - "Chow Down," by J.D. Farley, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P63

Plane nose art - "Miss Pandemonium," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P64

Plane nose art - "Draggin Lady," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P65

Plane nose art - "Lady Be Good," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P66

Plane nose art - "Hore-zontal Dream," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P67

Plane nose art - "I'll Get By," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P68

Plane nose art - "Fu-Kemmal-Th," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P69

Plane nose art - "Taint What Cha' Do Hits The Way That Do It," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P70

Plane nose art - "The Organ Annie," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P71

Plane nose art - "Long John Silver," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P72

Plane nose art - "Lady Marge," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P73

Plane nose art - "Ramp Tramp II," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P74

Plane nose art - "Miss Lotta Toil," Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P75

Plane nose art - woman, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P76

Plane nose art - woman, Tinian Island, 1945 

3.P77

Color print - Mary Frances Burkas Robinson ( "My High School Sweetheart" ), 1959 

3.P78

Color print - Winnie Bethea Catt, undated 

3.P79

Color print - Grover Catt and Winnie Bethea Catt, 1972 

3.P80

Color print - Grover Catt in front of the Lyceum Building, University of Mississippi, 1970s, undated 

3.P81

Color print - Winnie Bethea Catt in front of the Lyceum Building, University of Mississippi, 1970s, undated 

3.P82

Polaroid - Grover Catt and Carl Catt, undated 

3.P83

Color print - Winnie Bethea Catt in Catt Pharmacy, undated 

3.P84

Color print - Catt Pharmacy after Hurricane Camille, undated 

3.P85

Color print - Catt Pharmacy after Hurricane Camille, undated 

3.P86

Color print - Grover Catt, Carl Catt, and Paul Catt, undated 

3.P87

Color print - Grover Catt throwing away his slippers from World War II, 1991 

3.P88

Color print - Catt Family Reunion, 1990 

3.P89

Color print - Catt Family Reunion, 1990 

3.P90

Color print - Jasper and Winnie Lee family reunion, New Hebron, Mississippi, 1992 

3.P91

Color print - Jasper and Winnie Lee family reunion, New Hebron, Mississippi, 1992 

3.P92

Color print - Jasper and Winnie Lee family reunion, New Hebron, Mississippi, 1992 

3.P93

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