Thomas Hall was President of the Nacogdoches Tobacco Growers Association. Materials on progressive agriculture in East Texas, with a focus on tobacco. The collection has a minute and account book, correspondence, land records, loan documents, and other materials. Thomas Hall was the secretary-treasurer of the Nacogdoches National Farm Loan Association.
Congress passed legislation establishing the Farm Credit System in 1916 and created a Federal Land Bank in Houston. Local farm loan association mushroomed after the U. Thomas Hall’s correspondence as the Superintendent of the Indian school at Crow Creek (1902-1903) and his collection of photographs from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation (circa 1903). The bulk of the letters are from the 1910s through the 1940s and actively refer to the social, economic and global events that shaped that consequential period of modern history. The correspondence is predominantly about family and daily life, but also frequently touch on business, current events, and travel. Thousands of letters minutely illustrate the lives of three generations of the Hall family. These were completely transcribed by Andrena Hall Brunotte into a 16-volume that is 3,300 pages long. Letters from the Attic, which consists of more than 5,000 documents written by Hall family members between the 1880s and the early 2000s. Materials that researchers might find noteworthy include: Most of the materials in the Hall Family Collection range in date from the 1880s to the early 2000s. Other formats researchers may find include artwork, books, maps, and stamps. Awards (certificates, medallions and plaques), breed standards, magazine articles, and photographs constitute most of the items in the collection that pertain to judging and showing dogs.
Leisure and travel are most often documented with booklets, brochures, contact sheets, negatives, postcards, postcard books, photographs, photo albums, programs, or scrapbooks. The business records in the collection often consist of accounts, bills, ledger books, letters, memos, minutes, notes, promissory notes, receipts, and reports. In the personal and family correspondence there are court records, diary entries, holiday cards, letters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, poetry, postcards, sympathy cards, and telegrams. There are a wide range of materials in the Hall Family Collection.
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