Texas Land and Development Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1898-1956, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

Texas Land and Development Company:

An Inventory of Its Records, 1898-1956, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Texas Land and Development Company
	Title:	Texas Land and Development Company Records,
	Dates:	1898-1956
	Abstract:	These are the records detailing the activities of the Texas Land and Development Company in West Texas.
	Collection #	S31.1
	Quantity:	9 boxes and 5 ledgers (10.0 linear feet)
	Language	English.
	Repository:	Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

Biographical Sketch

Founded in 1912 by Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson and Milton Day Henderson, the land development operation was centered in Plainview, Hale County, Texas. The company also included subsidiaries and holding companies (Texas Prairie Land Ltd. and Staked Plains Trust). After four decades of selling land to farmers and ranchers and city developers, the Texas Land and Development Company ceased operations in 1956.

Scope and Contents

The collection bulks in business correspondence, financial documents, such as ledgers and sales records, and legal documents, such as contracts and deeds. Other records consist of printed material, annual reports, and business minutes.


Organization
	The collection is organized into the following series: Correspondence, Finanical Material, and Legal Material.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research


Index Terms
	The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.
	Subjects (Persons)
		Pearson, Frederick Stark
		Henderson, Milton Day
	Subjects (Places)
		Hale County (Tex.)
	Subjects
		West Texas-–Real estate development
		Staked Plains Trust
		Texas Prairie Land Ltd.
		Texas Land and Development Company

Related Material


	For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:
		Yellow House Land Company Records, 1912-1943 Littlefield Lands (Texas) Records, 1912-1918 Arthur P. Duggan, Sr., Papers, 1860-1951

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Texas Land and Development Company Records, 1898-1956, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Collection accession #(s):
None for the record.

Gift, 1963

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, July 2002.

Collection Inventory



Development Files, 1916-1952
box	folder
1	1	Development Files #6-43, 1916-1919
	2	Development Files #63-80, 1916-1952
	3	Development Files, #3-15, 3-18, and 3-23, 1915-1946
	4	Development Files, #2-3, 3-1, 3-5, and 101-102, 1916-1946
	5	Development Files, #3-24, 1915-1932
	6	Development Files, #3-27, 3-33, 3-39, 1916-1946
box	folder
2	1	Warranty Deeds, #1-47, 1912-1927
	2	Warranty Deeds, #48-105, 1912-1937
	3	Warranty Deeds, #106-153, 1912-1937
	4	Contract Files, #410-443, 1946
	5	Contract Files, #444-480, 1947-1952
box	folder
3	1	Contract Files, #224-250, 1916-1928
	2	Contract Files, #251-294, 1929-1943
	3	Contract Files, #295-325, 1943
	4	Contract Files, #326-370, 1943-1946
	5	Contract Files, #371-409, 1944-1945
box	folder
4	1	Sales Files, #1-23, 1952
	2	Sales Files, #25D-47A, 1951-1952
	3	Sales Files, #49-100, 1946-1947
	4	Sales Files, #102-125, 1946-1949
	5	Sales Files, #130-153, 1924-1946



General Files and Subsidiaries, 1913-1956
box	folder
5	1	Staked Plains Trust, Ltd., Miscellaneous Account Sheets, 1919-1939
	2	Baldwin, Slaton and Randolph (Trustees) and Staked Plains Trust, General Ledger, 1913-1918
	3	Staked Plains Trust, Ltd., General Ledger, 1920-1954
	4	Texas Securities Company, Ltd., General Ledger, 1912-1914
	5	Texas Prairie Lands, Ltd., General Ledger, 1913-1915
		Staked Plains Trust, Ltd., 1915-1956
box	folder
6	1		Minute Book, August 1949-May 1956
	2		Minute Book, February 1915-June 1949
	3		Annual Reports, 1920-1955
	4		Cash Book, January 1920-March 1926
	5		Cash Book, April 1926-April, 1932
	6		Cash Book, May 1932-July 1938
	7		Cash Book, August 1938-July 1944
	8		Cash Book, August 1944-November 1949
	9		Cash Book, December 1949-March 1954
	10		Correspondence from Childs, Jeffries and Thorndike, Inc., Including Journal Entries, Disbursements, and Cash Receipts, March 1954
box	folder
7	1		Newspaper Clippings, Miscellaneous Annual Reports, Photos, etc., 1925-1947
	2		Patents on School Lands, 1898-1946
	3		Extensions and Releases, 1914-1949
	4		Inventory (1912) and Minute Book, 1912-1954
	5		Legal Documents, 1907-1953
	6		Miscellaneous, 1928-1947 and undated
	7		Short Logs on Farm Wells, Including Photos, undated
	8		County Surveys, Original Field Book, undated
box	folder
8	1		Final Correspondence, 1950-1955
	2		Correspondence, 1913-1947
	3		Correspondence, 1913-1948
	4		Financial Documents, 1913-1955
	5		Legal Documents, 1912-1916
	6		Miscellaneous, 1912-1949
	7		Printed Material, undated
	8		Charter and By-Laws, Supplemental Trust Deed, etc., 1912-1914
	9	Plainview Trustees Account, Cash Book, April 1913-January 1917
	10	Texas Prairie Lands, Ltd., Journal, December 1912-1918
	11	Texas Land and Development Company, Cash Book, 1913-1917
	12	Texas Land and Development Company, Description Book, 1935-1950

Financial Material

Staked Plains Trust Journals

box

folder

Journal #1, January 1920-August 1927

Journal #2, September 1927-August 1936

Journal #3, September 1936-November 1943

Journal #4, December 1943-May 1946

Journal #5, June 1946-May 1954

Other Financial Ledgers

box

folder

Time and Payroll #1, November 1918-April 1920

Time and Payroll Book #2, May 1920-October 1922

Time and Payroll Book #3, November 1922-December 1926

Time Book #1, January 1927-November 1935

Time Book #2, December 1935-December 1953

ledger

Ledger 1

Accounts Receivable, August-December 1941

ledger

Ledger 2

Cash Book, August 19,1941-November 1943

ledger

Ledger 3

Voucher Entry Book, April 1942-July 1943

ledger

Ledger 4

New York Office, 1915-1918

ledger

Ledger 5

Vouchers, August 1943-August 1945