urn:taro:ttu.sw.00211 Yellow House Land Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1912-1943, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806)-742-3749 Fax: (806)-742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu/ Contact Person: Reference Archivist
July 23, 2002 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided Abel Ramirez, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, May 4, 2004. Finding aid written in English. Inventory for the Yellow House Land Company Records, 1912-1943 Abel Ramirez Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, April 2004 Descriptive Summary Yellow House Land Company Yellow House Land Company Records, 1912-1943 These are the records detailing the real estate activities of the Yellow House Land Company of West Texas. S1226.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 16 boxes and 47 ledgers (26.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

This trust estate, an agency of Malcolm Hiram Reed, organized in 1923 to purchase 300,000 acres of land in Hockley and Lamb counties of Texas from the heirs of George W. Littlefield. The land was then resold in small plots to farmers. It is the successor of the Littlefield Lands Company. Like other land developers their company helped to settle the West Texas region, which eventually prospered through the decades.

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains legal materials, financial materials, business correspondence, and minutes of the Yellow House Land Company. The bulk of the collection is records of closed sales from property sold in Hockley and Lamb counties.

 Organization

The collection is organized into the following series: legal materials, finanical material, correspondence and minutes.

 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 (Organizations) Yellow House Land Company Plains Investment Company Subjects (Places) Hockley County (Tex.) Littlefield (Tex.) Lamb County (Tex.) Subjects Land development--Texas--History Land titles--Registration and transfer--Texas--History Hockley County (Tex.)--History Lamb County (Tex.)--History

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

Gift, 1958-1965

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, April 2004

 Preferred Citation

Yellow House Land Company Records, 1912-1943, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Conger, Darius John. Yellow House Land Company: A Business History. Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Technological College, 1969.

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Alice Duggan Gracy Papers, 1845-1951 Arthur P. Duggan, Sr., Papers, 1860-1951 Littlefield Lands (Texas) Records, 1912-1918 Malcom Hiram Reed Papers, 1928-1940 Texas Land and Development Company Records, 1898-1956 Collection Inventory Financial Material, 1912-1943 1 1 Plains Investment Company Records, 1929-1942 2 1 Certificates, Surrendered and Cancelled, April 1923-May 1941 2 2 Base Abstracts #5 for Labors 9 and 25, League 723, undated 2 3 Base Abstracts, Yellow House Land Company’s Subdivision, Capitol Leagues, undated 2 4 Newspaper Advertisement, 1923 2 5 Minutes Book, 1923-1941 2 6 Assorted Papers, 1940-1941 and undated 3 1 Ledger, General Ledger II, 1925-1943 3 2 Ledger, Index to Records of Sales, 1913-1943 4 1 Record of Sales, #1, #3-6, 1912-1923 4 2 Record of Sales, #7-10, #13-14, #16, 1912-1923 4 3 Record of Sales, #17-23, 1912-1918 4 4 Record of Sales, #24-27, #29, #31, 1912-1922 4 5 Record of Sales, #32-39, 1912-1925 4 6 Record of Sales, #42-45, #47-49, 1913-1917 5 1 Record of Sales, #57-63, 1913-1923 5 2 Record of Sales, #64-69, 1913-1925 5 3 Record of Sales, #71, #73, #75, #80, #82, 1913-1924 5 4 Record of Sales, #83, #85-87, 1913-1925 5 5 Record of Sales, #88-91, #93-96, 1913-1925 6 1 Record of Sales, #104-105, #107-111, #114-115, 1913-1917 6 2 Record of Sales, #116, #119, #121-123, #125, #127, 1913-1924 6 3 Record of Sales, #132-140, 1913-1917 6 4 Record of Sales, #141-142, #146-151, 1913-1923 6 5 Record of Sales, #153-157, 1913-1924 6 6 Record of Sales, #158-159, #161-165, 1914-1923 7 1 Record of Sales, #166-173, 1914-1923 7 2 Record of Sales, #174-180, 1914-1925 7 3 Record of Sales, #181-182, #184, #186, #189-192, 1914-1923 7 4 Record of Sales, #193, #194, #197-200, 1914-1923 7 5 Record of Sales, #201-204, #206-208, #210-211, 1914-1925 7 6 Record of Sales, #212-219, 1914-1925 8 1 Record of Sales, #220-226, 1914-1923 8 2 Record of Sales, #227-233, #236, 1916-1927 8 3 Record of Sales, #237-244, 1915-1923 8 4 Record of Sales, #245-254, 1915-1926 8 5 Record of Sales, #255-262, 1915-1925 8 6 Record of Sales, #263-270, 1915-1924 9 1 Record of Sales, #271-274, #278-282, 1915-1923 9 2 Record of Sales, #283-289, 1916-1924 9 3 Record of Sales, #291-293, #296-300, 1915-1924 9 4 Record of Sales, #301-305, #307-309, 1916-1926 9 5 Record of Sales, #310-317, 1916-1926 9 6 Record of Sales, #319-328, 1916-1924 10 1 Record of Sales, #330-339, 1916-1925 10 2 Record of Sales, #340-348, 1916-1924 10 3 Record of Sales, #349-352, #354, #356, #358-361, 1916-1925 10 4 Record of Sales, #362-370, 1917-1927 10 5 Record of Sales, #372-381, 1917-1925 10 6 Record of Sales, #383-389, #391-393, 1917-1925 11 1 Record of Sales, #394-398, #400, #402-404, 1917-1925 11 2 Record of Sales, #405-415, 1917-1924 11 3 Record of Sales, #416-417, #419-422, #424 (a/b), #426-427, 1917-1925 11 4 Record of Sales, #429-439, 1917-1926 11 5 Record of Sales, #440-442, #444-448, 1921-1925 11 6 Record of Sales, #449-450, #452-453, #455-460, 1922-1928 12 1 Record of Sales, #461-463, #465-471, 1923-1934 12 2 Record of Sales, #472-484, 1923-1929 12 3 Record of Sales, #485-494, #496-497, 1923-1928 12 4 Record of Sales, #498-508, 1923-1929 12 5 Record of Sales, #509-519, #521, 1925-1929 12 6 Record of Sales, #522, #524-534, 1924-1929 13 1 Record of Sales, #535-544, 1924-1929 13 2 Record of Sales, #545-549, #551-559, 1924-1926 13 3 Record of Sales, #560-572, 1924-1929 13 4 Record of Sales, #573-578, #580-587, 1924-1926 13 5 Record of Sales, #588-592, #594-602, 1924-1929 13 6 Record of Sales, #603-611, #613-615, 1924-1928 14 1 Record of Sales, #616-617, #620-633, 1924-1926 14 2 Record of Sales, #634-650, 1924-1928 14 3 Record of Sales, #652-658, #660-671, 1924-1926 14 4 Record of Sales, #672-691, 1924-1926 14 5 Record of Sales, #692-708, #710-717, 1924-1926 14 6 Record of Sales, #719-721, 1924-1925 Correspondence, 1923-1924 15 1 Texas Agencies: Abilene—Cameron, 1923-1924 15 2 Texas Agencies: Childress—Floydada, 1923-1924 15 3 Texas Agencies: Fort Worth—Hillsboro, 1923-1924 15 4 Texas Agencies: Hubbard—Littlefield, 1923-1924 15 5 Texas Agencies: Littlefield (continued)—Mexia, 1923-1924 16 1 Texas Agencies, Mount Pleasant—Taylor, 1923-1924 16 2 Texas Agencies: Temple—Yorktown, 1923-1924 16 3 Oklahoma Agencies: Altas—Enid, 1923-1924 16 4 Oklahoma Agencies, Erick—Walters; Arkansas Agency: Fayetteville, 1923-1924 16 5 Home Seekers, Moline Plow Company, Including Fragments, Legal Documents, Financial Documents, and Printed Material, 1923-1924 Financial Materials - Ledgers, 1917-1942 Ledger #1 Minute Book, 1925-1942 Ledger #2 Accounts, 1936-1941 Ledger #3 Accounts, 1925-1941 Ledger #4 Accounts, 1939 Ledger #5 Yellow Land Sales (10 loose ledger sheets), 1925-1942 Ledger #6 Land Sales 14 loose ledger sheets), 1924-1936 Ledger #7 Land Sales (3 loose ledger sheets), 1924-1926 Ledger #8 Townsite Purchase and Yellow House Sales (8 loose ledger sheets), 1925-1932 Ledger #9 Journal, April 1923-December 1924 Ledger #10 Journal, December 1924-June 1925 Ledger #11 Journal, July 1925-April 1927 Ledger #12 Journal, April 1927-December 1929 Ledger #13 Journal, January 1930-April 1932 Ledger #14 Journal, May 1932-January 1937 Ledger #15 Journal, January 1937-January 1941 Ledger #16 Journal, January 1941-December 1942 Ledger #17 Journal, March 1925-December 1932 Ledger #18 Journal, January 1933-April 1942 Ledger #19 Journal, May 1942-December 1942 Ledger #20 Bills Receivable, November 1917-November 1941 Ledger #21 Bills Receivable, May 1923-July 1925 Ledger #22 Cotton Plan Sale, Vol. 28, November 1933-April 1939 Ledger #23 Receipts, Vol. 30 (May 1928-December 1930) and Disbursements, May 1928-October 1931 Ledger #24 Receipts and Disbursements, Vol. 31, November 1931-April 1935 Ledger #25 Receipts and Disbursements, Vol. 32, May 1935-December 1942 Ledger #26 Receipts and Disbursements, Vol. 33, January-May 1943 Ledger #27 Register of Bonds, Vol. 34, May 1925-August 1934 Ledger #28 Accounts, Vol. 40, 1940-1942 Ledger #29 Yellow House General Ledger I, 1924-1926 Ledger #30 Disbursements, June 1925-September 1927 Ledger #31 Disbursements, October 1927-December 1931 Ledger #32 Disbursements, December 1932-November 1938 Ledger #33 Disbursements, December 1938-December 1942 Ledger #34 Receipts, June 1925-September 1927 Ledger #35 Receipts, October 1927-November 1929 Ledger #36 Receipts, December 1929-December 1932 Ledger #37 Receipts, January 1933-Febraury 1935 Ledger #38 Receipts, March 1935-November 1936 Ledger #39 Receipts, November 1936-January 1939 Ledger #40 Receipts, February 1938-May 1939 Ledger #41 Receipts, October 1939-December 1940 Ledger #42 Receipts, December 1940-October 1942 Ledger #43 Receipts, November-December 1942 Ledger #44 Register of Bonds, Vol. 35, August 1934-May 1941 Ledger #45 Accounts, Vol. 36, 1923-1926 Ledger #46 Accounts, Vol. 37, 1926-1937 Ledger #47 Stock Certificate Book, August 1936-December 1942