Yellow House Land Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1912-1943, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

Yellow House Land Company:

An Inventory of Its Records, 1912-1943, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Yellow House Land Company
	Title:	Yellow House Land Company Records,
	Dates:	1912-1943
	Abstract:	These are the records detailing the real estate activities of the Yellow House Land Company of West Texas.
	Collection #	S1226.1
	Quantity:	16 boxes and 47 ledgers (26.0 linear feet)
	Language	English.
	Repository:	Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

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.

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 (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

Related Material


	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

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

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

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

Gift, 1958-1965

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, April 2004

Additional Sources



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

Collection Inventory



Financial Material, 1912-1943
box	folder
1	1	Plains Investment Company Records, 1929-1942
box	folder
2	1	Certificates, Surrendered and Cancelled, April 1923-May 1941
	2	Base Abstracts #5 for Labors 9 and 25, League 723, undated
	3	Base Abstracts, Yellow House Land Company’s Subdivision, Capitol Leagues, undated
	4	Newspaper Advertisement, 1923
	5	Minutes Book, 1923-1941
	6	Assorted Papers, 1940-1941 and undated
box	folder
3	1	Ledger, General Ledger II, 1925-1943
	2	Ledger, Index to Records of Sales, 1913-1943
box	folder
4	1	Record of Sales, #1, #3-6, 1912-1923
	2	Record of Sales, #7-10, #13-14, #16, 1912-1923
	3	Record of Sales, #17-23, 1912-1918
	4	Record of Sales, #24-27, #29, #31, 1912-1922
	5	Record of Sales, #32-39, 1912-1925
	6	Record of Sales, #42-45, #47-49, 1913-1917
box	folder
5	1	Record of Sales, #57-63, 1913-1923
	2	Record of Sales, #64-69, 1913-1925
	3	Record of Sales, #71, #73, #75, #80, #82, 1913-1924
	4	Record of Sales, #83, #85-87, 1913-1925
	5	Record of Sales, #88-91, #93-96, 1913-1925
box	folder
6	1	Record of Sales, #104-105, #107-111, #114-115, 1913-1917
	2	Record of Sales, #116, #119, #121-123, #125, #127, 1913-1924
	3	Record of Sales, #132-140, 1913-1917
	4	Record of Sales, #141-142, #146-151, 1913-1923
	5	Record of Sales, #153-157, 1913-1924
	6	Record of Sales, #158-159, #161-165, 1914-1923
box	folder
7	1	Record of Sales, #166-173, 1914-1923
	2	Record of Sales, #174-180, 1914-1925
	3	Record of Sales, #181-182, #184, #186, #189-192, 1914-1923
	4	Record of Sales, #193, #194, #197-200, 1914-1923
	5	Record of Sales, #201-204, #206-208, #210-211, 1914-1925
	6	Record of Sales, #212-219, 1914-1925
box	folder
8	1	Record of Sales, #220-226, 1914-1923
	2	Record of Sales, #227-233, #236, 1916-1927
	3	Record of Sales, #237-244, 1915-1923
	4	Record of Sales, #245-254, 1915-1926
	5	Record of Sales, #255-262, 1915-1925
	6	Record of Sales, #263-270, 1915-1924
box	folder
9	1	Record of Sales, #271-274, #278-282, 1915-1923
	2	Record of Sales, #283-289, 1916-1924
	3	Record of Sales, #291-293, #296-300, 1915-1924
	4	Record of Sales, #301-305, #307-309, 1916-1926
	5	Record of Sales, #310-317, 1916-1926
	6	Record of Sales, #319-328, 1916-1924
box	folder
10	1	Record of Sales, #330-339, 1916-1925
	2	Record of Sales, #340-348, 1916-1924
	3	Record of Sales, #349-352, #354, #356, #358-361, 1916-1925
	4	Record of Sales, #362-370, 1917-1927
	5	Record of Sales, #372-381, 1917-1925
	6	Record of Sales, #383-389, #391-393, 1917-1925
box	folder
11	1	Record of Sales, #394-398, #400, #402-404, 1917-1925
	2	Record of Sales, #405-415, 1917-1924
	3	Record of Sales, #416-417, #419-422, #424 (a/b), #426-427, 1917-1925
	4	Record of Sales, #429-439, 1917-1926
	5	Record of Sales, #440-442, #444-448, 1921-1925
	6	Record of Sales, #449-450, #452-453, #455-460, 1922-1928
box	folder
12	1	Record of Sales, #461-463, #465-471, 1923-1934
	2	Record of Sales, #472-484, 1923-1929
	3	Record of Sales, #485-494, #496-497, 1923-1928
	4	Record of Sales, #498-508, 1923-1929
	5	Record of Sales, #509-519, #521, 1925-1929
	6	Record of Sales, #522, #524-534, 1924-1929
box	folder
13	1	Record of Sales, #535-544, 1924-1929
	2	Record of Sales, #545-549, #551-559, 1924-1926
	3	Record of Sales, #560-572, 1924-1929
	4	Record of Sales, #573-578, #580-587, 1924-1926
	5	Record of Sales, #588-592, #594-602, 1924-1929
	6	Record of Sales, #603-611, #613-615, 1924-1928
box	folder
14	1	Record of Sales, #616-617, #620-633, 1924-1926
	2	Record of Sales, #634-650, 1924-1928
	3	Record of Sales, #652-658, #660-671, 1924-1926
	4	Record of Sales, #672-691, 1924-1926
	5	Record of Sales, #692-708, #710-717, 1924-1926
	6	Record of Sales, #719-721, 1924-1925



Correspondence, 1923-1924
box	folder
15	1	Texas Agencies: Abilene—Cameron, 1923-1924
	2	Texas Agencies: Childress—Floydada, 1923-1924
	3	Texas Agencies: Fort Worth—Hillsboro, 1923-1924
	4	Texas Agencies: Hubbard—Littlefield, 1923-1924
	5	Texas Agencies: Littlefield (continued)—Mexia, 1923-1924
box	folder
16	1	Texas Agencies, Mount Pleasant—Taylor, 1923-1924
	2	Texas Agencies: Temple—Yorktown, 1923-1924
	3	Oklahoma Agencies: Altas—Enid, 1923-1924
	4	Oklahoma Agencies, Erick—Walters; Arkansas Agency: Fayetteville, 1923-1924
	5	Home Seekers, Moline Plow Company, Including Fragments, Legal Documents, Financial Documents, and Printed Material, 1923-1924

Financial Materials - Ledgers, 1917-1942

ledger

Ledger #1

Minute Book, 1925-1942

ledger

Ledger #2

Accounts, 1936-1941

ledger

Ledger #3

Accounts, 1925-1941

ledger

Ledger #4

Accounts, 1939

ledger

Ledger #5

Yellow Land Sales (10 loose ledger sheets), 1925-1942

ledger

Ledger #6

Land Sales 14 loose ledger sheets), 1924-1936

ledger

Ledger #7

Land Sales (3 loose ledger sheets), 1924-1926

ledger

Ledger #8

Townsite Purchase and Yellow House Sales (8 loose ledger sheets), 1925-1932

ledger

Ledger #9

Journal, April 1923-December 1924

ledger

Ledger #10

Journal, December 1924-June 1925

ledger

Ledger #11

Journal, July 1925-April 1927

ledger

Ledger #12

Journal, April 1927-December 1929

ledger

Ledger #13

Journal, January 1930-April 1932

ledger

Ledger #14

Journal, May 1932-January 1937

ledger

Ledger #15

Journal, January 1937-January 1941

ledger

Ledger #16

Journal, January 1941-December 1942

ledger

Ledger #17

Journal, March 1925-December 1932

ledger

Ledger #18

Journal, January 1933-April 1942

ledger

Ledger #19

Journal, May 1942-December 1942

ledger

Ledger #20

Bills Receivable, November 1917-November 1941

ledger

Ledger #21

Bills Receivable, May 1923-July 1925

ledger

Ledger #22

Cotton Plan Sale, Vol. 28, November 1933-April 1939

ledger

Ledger #23

Receipts, Vol. 30 (May 1928-December 1930) and Disbursements, May 1928-October 1931

ledger

Ledger #24

Receipts and Disbursements, Vol. 31, November 1931-April 1935

ledger

Ledger #25

Receipts and Disbursements, Vol. 32, May 1935-December 1942

ledger

Ledger #26

Receipts and Disbursements, Vol. 33, January-May 1943

ledger

Ledger #27

ledger

Ledger #28

Accounts, Vol. 40, 1940-1942

ledger

Ledger #29

Yellow House General Ledger I, 1924-1926

ledger

Ledger #30

Disbursements, June 1925-September 1927

ledger

Ledger #31

Disbursements, October 1927-December 1931

ledger

Ledger #32

Disbursements, December 1932-November 1938

ledger

Ledger #33

Disbursements, December 1938-December 1942

ledger

Ledger #34

Receipts, June 1925-September 1927

ledger

Ledger #35

Receipts, October 1927-November 1929

ledger

Ledger #36

Receipts, December 1929-December 1932

ledger

Ledger #37

Receipts, January 1933-Febraury 1935

ledger

Ledger #38

Receipts, March 1935-November 1936

ledger

Ledger #39

Receipts, November 1936-January 1939

ledger

Ledger #40

Receipts, February 1938-May 1939

ledger

Ledger #41

Receipts, October 1939-December 1940

ledger

Ledger #42

Receipts, December 1940-October 1942

ledger

Ledger #43

Receipts, November-December 1942

ledger

Ledger #44

ledger

Ledger #45

Accounts, Vol. 36, 1923-1926

ledger

Ledger #46

Accounts, Vol. 37, 1926-1937

ledger

Ledger #47

Stock Certificate Book, August 1936-December 1942