TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Related Material
Administrative Information
Additional Sources
Description of Series
Manuscript Files
Oversized Scrapbooks
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Kate Adele Hill:
An Inventory of Her Papers 1861-1971 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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| Creator | Hill, Kate
Adele |
| Title: | Kate Adele Hill Papers,
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| Dates: | 1861-1971 and undated |
| Abstract: | Records of Kate Adele
Hill, a former home demonstration agent with the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service. |
| Collection # | S 442.1 |
| Quantity: | 2 boxes and 3
scrapbooks (2.3 linear feet) |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
A home demonstration agent with the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, Kate Adele Hill was born November 19, 1900, in Manor, Texas, and was
the author of several books. Her family was engaged in breeding Angus cattle.
She attended Texas Technological College and Texas Women's University,
receiving her Ph.D. from TWU in 1957. Hill was active in the American Texas
Home Economics Association, the Texas Agricultural Workers' Association, and
the Business and Professional Women's Association. She died in a San Angelo
nursing home on October 30, 1982.
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These papers include correspondence, legal documents, literary
productions, photographs, post cards, printed material and scrapbook material
pertaining mainly to the business and civic affairs of Dr. Hill. The literary
publications contain extensive information on cotton industry pioneer A. L.
Ward.
The photos were transferred to Photographs. Of special interest are
family photographs on the Hills' Kerr County ranch, including some from
Christmas seasons from 1905 to 1908 showing mesquite Christmas trees and Kate
Hill as a child with her parents.
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Access Restrictions
Open for research
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| The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed. |
| Subjects (Persons) |
| | Hill, Kate Adele,
1900-1983 |
| | Hill, Kate Adele,
1900-1983--Archives |
| | Hill, Sam
Houston |
| | Hill, William
Hickman |
| | Ward, A. L. (Arland
Langdon), 1885-1965 |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Texas Agricultural
Extension Service |
| | Texas Cottonseed
Crusher's Association |
| | Texas Sheep and Goat
Raisers' Association |
| | Cal Farley's Boys Ranch
(Tascosa, Tex.) |
| Places |
| | Kerr County
(Tex.)--History |
| | Tom Green County
(Tex.)--History |
| Subjects |
| | Aberdeen-Angus
cattle |
| | Agricultural extension
work--Texas |
| | Cattle--Breeding |
| | Home demonstration
work--Texas |
| | Home
economics--Texas |
| | Home economics,
Rural--Texas |
| | Home economics extension
work--Texas |
| | Ranches--Texas--History |
| | Sheep
ranches--Texas--History |
| | Women--Texas--Societies and
clubs--History |
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For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
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- Hill, Kate Adele, 1900-1983. Kate Adele Hill oral history interview
[sound recording], 1977.
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Kate Adele Hill Papers, 1861-1971, Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Gifts, 1960-1968
Lynn Whitfield, July 2000
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The Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online
biography of Kate Adele Hill at
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html
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Manuscript Files
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Address by Dr. Walter Prescott Webb to Arlington State
College,
1960 |
| 2 | | Book Draft: A. L. Ward- Texans,
1967 |
| 3 | | Correspondence,
1920-1971 and undated |
| 4 | | Correspondence,
1952-1959 |
| 5 | | Genealogy: Hill Family,
undated |
| 6 | | Hill, Sam H.,
1909-1933 |
| 7 | | Legal Documents,
1861-1933 |
| 8 | | Literary Publications,
1933-1951 and undated |
| 9 | | Literary Publications by Kate Adele Hill,
1925-1965 |
| 10 | | Literary Publications by Kate Adele Hill,
1927-1963 |
| 11 | | Magazine Clippings,
1951-1957 |
| 12 | | News Clippings: Kate Adele Hill,
1965-1971 and undated |
| 13 | | News Clippings: Literacy and Kate Adele Hill,
1965-1967 and undated |
| 14 | | News Clippings: Will Hill,
1942-1950 |
| 15 | | Newspapers,
1918-1967 |
| 16 | | Printed Materials,
1931-1971 and undated |
| 17 | | Printed Materials: Professional Agricultural Workers of
Texas,
1967-1969 |
| 18 | | Printed Materials: Texas Agricultural Workers
Association,
1964-1966 |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 1 | | Proceedings of the 57th Annual Convention Texas
Cottonseed Crushers' Association, Inc.,
1951 |
| 2 | | Proceedings of Research Conference on Processing as
Related to Cottonseed Meal Nutrition at Southern Regional Research Laboratory,
1950 |
| 3 | | Rolled item: Portrait of W. B. Mitchell of Marfa, Texas,
1940 |
| 4 | | Scrapbook,
1916-1937 |
| 5 | | Scrapbook,
1928-1929 and undated |
| 6 | | Scrapbook: Kate Adele Hill News Clippings,
1939 and undated |
| 7 | | Scrapbook: News Clippings,
1934-1941 |
| 8 | | Speeches by A. L. Ward,
1931-1943 |
| 9 | | Speeches by A. L. Ward,
1940-1947 |
| 10 | | Speeches by A. L. Ward,
1948-1953 |
| 11 | | Speeches by A. L. Ward,
1952-1958 |
| 12 | | Speeches by Kate Adele Hill,
1940-1966 |
| 13 | | Texas Cottonseed Crushers' Association: A. L. Ward
Portrait Presentation to Texas A and M College,
1951 |
| 14 | | Texas County Name Origins,
undated |
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Oversized Scrapbooks
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| scrapbook |
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1 | | | Scrapbook,
1938-1960 |
| scrapbook |
| Item
2 | | | Scrapbook,
1954-1960 |
| scrapbook |
| Item
3 | | | Scrapbook: Boys' Ranch,
1950 |
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