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Hardwood Manufacturers Institute – Southern Hardwood Producers, Inc. Collection/Lumber Archives
MUM00218
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Biographical Note
- Arrangement
- Administrative Information
- Related Materials
- PURL
- Access Restrictions
- Bibliography.
- Collection Inventory
- Series 1: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Numerical Files.
- Series 2: Hardwood Manuacturers Institure Miscellaneous Papers.
- Series 3: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Alphabetical Files.
- Series 4: Southern Hardwood Defense Committee.
- Series 5: Southern Hardwood Industry War Committee
- Series 6: Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated and Government Regulations.
- Series 7: Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Publications.
- Series 8: Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Miscellaneous.
PURL
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00218/
Access Restrictions
Open for research. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection must
contact Archives and Special Collections at least five business days in advance of their planned visit.
Summary Information
- Repository
- University of Mississippi Libraries
- Date
- unknown
- Extent
- 23 boxes
- Language of Materials
- English
- Abstract
- The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute (1922-1935) and the Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. (1935-?) were hardwood industry
associations that provided trade promotion, public relations, research, and statistics.
Preferred Citation
Hardwood Manufacturers Institute – Southern Hardwood Producers, Inc. Collection/Lumber Archives (MUM00218). The Department
of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
Biographical Note
The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and the Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. are lineal descendants of a long line of hardwood
manufacturers associations dating back to the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association founded in1897. Formed in 1902, the
Hardwood Manufacturers Association of the United States merged in 1919 with the American Hardwood Manufacturers Association.
The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute (HMI) was established in Chicago in 1922 with Clarence H. Sherrell as president. This
organization moved to Memphis in 1924 and became the administrative agency for the hardwood industry under the National Recovery
Act in 1933. In 1935, the Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Act unconstitutional and HMI was abandoned. Soon after
in September 1935, the Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. (SHPI) was created and C.C. Sheppard chosen as the organizations’
first president.
SHPI embraced the largest hardwood lumber producing area in the nation, serving all or part of sixteen southern states including
Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Delaware, and the lowland counties of Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The principal service provided by SHPI included
trade promotion, public relations, research, and statistics. Subscription cards in 1935 reveal that SHPI members agreed to
pay ten cents per thousand feet on log scale production, not less than seven cents of which was to be spent on trade promotion.
SHPI began with thirty-seven charter members growing to a membership of 115 companies by the end of 1956.
The Southern Hardwood Defense Committee (SHDC) formed as a subdivision of SHPI with responsibility for keeping the hardwood
industry abreast of governmental needs in the war effort and federal regulations issued to further those needs. The Southern
Hardwood Industry War Committee superseded the SHDC in March 1942 but its purpose remained the same. It subsequently issued
a series of 700 plus
Arrangement
Series 1: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Numerical Files
Series 2: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute Miscellaneous Papers
Series 3: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Alphabetical Files
Series 4: Southern Hardwood Defense Committee
Series 5: Southern Hardwood Industry War Committee
Series 6: Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. and Government Regulations
Series 7: Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Publications
Series 8: Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Miscellaneous
Administrative Information
Publication Information
University of Mississippi Libraries 2005
Access Restrictions
Open
Use Restriction
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.
Accruals
No further additions are anticipated.
Processing Information
Processed by University of Mississippi Department Special Collections Staff. EAD encoded finding-aid begun September 2005.
Updated September 2016.
Processing Information
A grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in 1979 provided funds for the Archives & Special
Collections to process, inventory, and make accessible the records of several lumber concerns, including the Hardwood Manufacturers
Institute/ Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Collection. Dr. Thomas M. Verich directed the project with the assistance of departmental
staff Franklin Walker, Phillip Hall, Elise Winter, and Naomi Levell as well as help from student workers Suzanne Steel, David
Robinson, David Sansing, Perry Sansing, Freda Stanford, and Katherine Ditto. Dr. Linda Matthews of Emory University, Dr. Ellen
Garrison of Georgia State University, and Dr. Dale Flesher of the University of Mississippi served as consultants.
Related Materials
Related Materials at the University of Mississippi
Other Mississippi lumber company records in the Archives & Special Collections include the following:
Batson & Hatten Lumber Company Collection (14 boxes + ledgers).
Andrew Brown and Son/R.F. Learned Lumber Company Collection (117 boxes and 150 ledgers).
Fernwood Industries Lumber Company Collection (94 boxes + ledgers).
J.J. Newman Lumber Company Collection (6 boxes).
Ernest W. Pettis Collection (1 box).
Lamont Rowlands Collection (30 boxes).
H. Weston Lumber Company Collection (116 boxes and over 300 ledgers).
Other material in the Archives & Special Collections related to forestry and the lumber industry may be discovered in the
Agriculture & Forestry Subject Guide.
Bibliography.
Jim Cortese, “Memphis: The Hardwood Capital” Southern Lumberman (15 December 1956), pp. 137-139.
L.J. Heatherly, “History of the Southern Hardwood Producers Inc.” Southern Lumberman (15 December 1956), pp. 131.
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Numerical Files.Scope and ContentHardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Numerical Files contains five boxes dating from 1929 |
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Box 1: (40-1900) |
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Box 2: (2020-2460) |
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Box 3: (2640-3790) |
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Box 4: (4180-5460) |
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Box 5: (5543-7460) |
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Series 2: Hardwood Manuacturers Institure Miscellaneous Papers.Scope and ContentMiscellaneous papers associated with HMI appear in Series 2 (1 box) and date from 1933 to 1934. |
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Box 6: Lumber Code Bulletins, Hardwood Manufacturers Institute Bulletins, Miscellaneous Hardwood Manufacturers Institute Bulletins,
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Series 3: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute and Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Alphabetical Files.Scope and ContentHardwood Manufacturers Institute Miscellaneous Papers Alphabetical Files consists of three boxes arranged alphabetically by |
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Box 7: (A-E) |
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Box 8: (F-M) |
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Box 9: (N-Y) |
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Series 4: Southern Hardwood Defense Committee.Scope and ContentSeries 4 and 5 contain bulletins and other material related to the Southern Hardwood Defense Committee (1 box) and the Southern |
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Box 10 October 1940 – March 1942; 1951 |
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Series 5: Southern Hardwood Industry War CommitteeScope and ContentSeries 4 and 5 contain bulletins and other material related to the Southern Hardwood Defense Committee (1 box) and the Southern |
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Box 11: Bulletins (1-149) March 1942 – October 1942 |
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Box 12: Bulletins (150-189) and (345-512) October 1942 – January 1944 |
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Box 13: Bulletins (317-728) April 1943 – August 1945 |
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Box 14: Bulletins (650-730) February 1942 and December 1944 – November 1945 |
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Series 6: Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated and Government Regulations.Scope and ContentOther material related to governmental regulations having an impact on the hardwood lumber industry during and after World |
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Box 15: Office of Price Administration Ceiling Price Regulations, War Production Board Orders, and Controlled Materials Plan
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Box 16: Office of Price Stabilization Bulletins, Ceiling Price Regulations, Advisory Committee Files, and Correspondence regarding
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Box 17: Office of Price Stabilization Ceiling Price regulations, Defense Mobilization Organization Charts, Defense Production
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Box 18: Salary Stabilization Board, and Economic Stabilization Agency. 1951-1953 |
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Series 7: Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Publications.Scope and ContentSeries 7 contains SHPI publications including reports on past sales, the hardwood market, and hardwood stock. Reports generally |
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Box 19: Past Sales Reports. 1949-1951 |
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Box 20: Past Sales Reports, Hardwood Market Reports, Hardwood Stock Reports. 1952-1956Scope and ContentPast Sales Reports, January – May 1952, November – December 1955; January – February 1956; Hardwood Market Reports, 1949-1952, |
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Series 8: Southern Hardwood Producers Incorporated: Miscellaneous.Scope and ContentMiscellaneous papers, printed material, and photographs related to SHPI occupy Series 8 (3 boxes). |
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Box 21: Printed Material. |
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Box 22: Box 22. Printed Material. 1928-1951Scope and ContentNational Lumber Trade Barometer, 1950-1951; Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Membership Papers, 1935-1942; Southern Hardwood |
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Box 23: Papers regarding Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. Model House. 1936-1937 |
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