TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Organization
Restrictions
Index Terms
Related Material
Administrative Information
Description of Series
I. Manuscripts
II. Photographs
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Flora Dee Goforth:
An Inventory of Her Papers, 1906-2000, at the Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library
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| Creator | Goforth, Flora
Dee |
| Title: | Flora Goforth Papers,
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| Dates: | 1906-2000 |
| Abstract: | Papers of the Texas
Technological College graduate Flora Goforth, who went on to teach for the
Indian Service at the Sioux Reservation. |
| Collection # | U 242.3 |
| Quantity: | 3 Boxes (2.5 linear
feet) |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
Born in 1907 in Granger, Texas, Flora Goforth spent her childhood in
Texas and New Mexico. Relatives on both sides of her family had been weavers,
spurring her desire to make a career out of designing surface patterns. She
attended Texas Technological College in the late 1920s-early 1930s. Texas
Technological College was the only school west of the Mississippi to have a
textile school.
A sociable person, Goforth became the first freshmen to be elected
president of the Home Economics Club. Music also occupied her time as Flora
played the saxophone in the Girl's Orchestra and the trombone in the Tech Band.
While teaching for the Indian Service at the Sioux Reservation, Goforth sought
to impart to her students the perfection in the straight edges of weaving.
Under her direction, students learned to create their own designs, build looms,
weave the textiles, and finally turn them into a useable product such as a
scarf or jacket that was marketable. Her book,
Weave It Yourself, showed the reader how
to build a loom and the steps required to produce the depicted blanket. This
book included photographs of her students at work.
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The collection includes correspondence, financial records, printed
materials, hand notes, diaries, and appointment calendars by Flora Goforth,
some Texas Technological College memorabilia, a stick loom project, and class
notes.
Also included are 115 negatives and 175 prints of the Goforth family
and friends, and images taken by Flora Goforth on an archaeological expedition
at Jemez, New Mexico, under the direction of Dr. Hewitt of the University of
New Mexico. These expedition images are all undated but likely circa the late
1920s or early 1930s.
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Organization
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| The collection is divided into two sections: manuscripts and
photographic materials. |
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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) |
| | Goforth, Flora
Dee |
| | Goforth, Flora
Dee--Correspondence |
| | Goforth, Flora
Dee--Diaries |
| | Goforth, Flora
Dee--Friends and associates--Photographs |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Texas Technological
College |
| Subjects |
| | Archaeological
expeditions--New Mexico--Photographs |
| | Weavers--Photographs |
| | Weaving--Study and
teaching |
| | Handlooms--Design and
construction |
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Flora Goforth oral history interview [sound recording], 1999
Drama (Lubbock, Tex.), Papers, 1960-1966
Flora Goforth Photographs, undated
Flora Goforth Papers, 1927-1934 and undated
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Flora Goforth Papers, 1906-2000, Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Collection accession #(s):
2001-0123-B, 2001-0324-B, 2002-0165-B
Gifts, 2001-2002
Abel Ramirez and Lynn Whitfield, December 2002
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I. Manuscripts
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Correspondence: Personal and Business,
1935-1940 |
| 2 | | Financial Material: Miscellaneous Expenses,
1935-1965 |
| | | Literary Production |
| box | folder |
| 1 | 3 | | | Address Booklets,
undated |
| 4 | | | Diaries,
1929 |
| 5 | | | Diaries, Auto Log Book, and Appointment Calendars,
1935-1939 |
| 6 | | | Diaries, Auto Log Books and Expenses, and Appointment
Calendars,
1940-1949 |
| 7 | | | Diaries, Expenses, and Appointment Calendars,
1950-1957 |
| 8 | | | Diaries, Expenses, and Appointment Calendars,
1960-1970 |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 1 | | | Diaries, Expenses, and Appointment Calendars,
1969-1979 |
| 2 | | | Diaries, Expenses, and Appointment Calendars,
1980-1989 |
| 3 | | | Diaries and Appointment Calendars,
1990-1997 |
| 4 | | | Hand Notes on Weaving,
undated |
| 5 | | | Hand Notes, Poems, and Agenda,
1938 and undated |
| | | Printed Materials |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 6 | | | Articles about Flora Goforth,
1936-1972 |
| 7 | | | Bulletins of Archaeological Institute of University of
New Mexico,
1929-1930 |
| 8 | | | Denver Art Museum,
1950 |
| 9 | | | Hand Crafts of Sioux Spinning and Weaving, Vol. 1,
1942 |
| 10 | | | Miscellaneous Publications,
1938-1954 and undated |
| 11 | | | Rocky Mountains Weavers' Guild, 40th Anniversary,
1993 |
| 12 | | | Texas Sesquicentennial, Read and Remember,
1986 |
| | | Scrapbook Material |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 13 | | | Calendars,
1933-2000 |
| 14 | | | Kate Douglas Wiggins' artwork,
1933 |
| 15 | | | National Wool Growers Association,
1956 |
| 16 | | | Miscellaneous and Texas Tech,
1929-1983 and undated |
| | | Texas Tech |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 17 | | | Class Notes,
1930 |
| 18 | | | Goforth's School Records,
1930 |
| 19 | | | Stick Loom Project,
undated |
| box | folder |
| 3 | 1 | | Memorabilia,
1930-1940s |
| | | | Red yo-yo |
| | | | Texas Technological College pendent on chain, still in
original box |
| | | | Red and black "Tech" armband |
| | | | Texas Tech Engineer's Show miniature rolling
pin |
| | | | Silver gear with
""Tech 1930"" on one side and
""Engineers" "on the
other |
| | | | Silver
""Texas Tech Engineers""
seal |
| | | | Beaded bookmarker |
| | | | Matchbook with three matches, from Pinson Drug
Co. |
| | | | Miniature bell with pink ribbon tie |
| | | | Texas Tech belt buckle |
| | | | Leap the Frogs red ribbon |
| | | | 3 silver keys, unidentified |
| | | | Silver item, possibly a weight? |
| | | | City Bus coin with heart-shape stamped out of
center |
| | | | One penny,
1930 |
| | | | One mill tax token, New Mexico Bureau of Revenue,
1935 |
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II. Photographs
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Rolled, oversized group portrait, unidentified and not
dated |
| 2 | | Family and friends (14 negatives), undated |
| 3 | | Family and friends (124 prints), 1906-2000 |
| 4 | | New Mexico and Native American Images (6 prints),
undated |
| 5 | | New Mexico Expedition (101 negatives), undated |
| 6 | | New Mexico Expedition (45 prints, 3
postcards), undated |
| 7 | | Scrapbook, 1923-1924 |
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