Ross A. Collins papers, 1906-1967 (bulk 1920-1963).

Open to research.

Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, notes, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Collins's service in the U.S. Congress, especially to his introduction of the bill authorizing the Library of Congress acquisition of the Otto Vollbehr Collection of incunabula. Also documents Collins's work pertaining to the mechanization of the U.S. Army and the development of the B-17 bomber, Mississippi government and politics, the career of Mississippi politician Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, and citizenship in the Choctaw Indian tribe.

U.S. congressman, public official, and lawyer from Mississippi.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011093