Fort Worth-based Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. developed and sold tracts of land planted in paper shell pecan trees to investors as a "promised land" that would provide a lifetime income greater than oil. The property was located on Davis Farm on Kimball Bend of the Brazos River in southern Johnson County. The company also maintained, cultivated, harvested, and sold the pecans grown at Kimball Bend on behalf of the buyers. The company operated from the 1930s through the early 1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired the land for the Whitney Dam and Reservoir Project. Corporate leadership included Arthur W. Glazier, secretary-treasurer; J. D. Berry, sales manager; and J. W. Soape, general superintendent.
Correspondence, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed materials. The Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc., Records are comprised of promotional materials including sales brochures, photograph albums, newspaper advertisements, newspaper clippings, and maps. A letter from J. Frank Norris approving Kimball Bend advertising in his
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Gift of Glenna L. Odom, relative of Arthur and Doris Glazier,
Gift,
Accessioned as number 2010-77.
Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. Records, 1928-1953, AR553, Box Number, Folder Number, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.
This collection was processed and finding aid created by Ann Hoang in May 2011. Brenda McClurkin revised the finding aid in September 2012 and completed its encoding in December 2012.
Scrapbook and photograph album covers, duplicate publications, and map fragments were removed from the collection. Duplicate Southern Pecan Co. (Celina, Texas) brochure was transferred to the print collection.
The materials comprising the Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc., Records are arranged alphabetically by document type, then chronologically thereunder.
Loose clippings from the scrapbook were photocopied on to acid- paper and annotated with the page number they are thought to have been adhered to.
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Primarily 1951-1953 correspondence to the Glazier family from U.S. Senators Tom Connally, Price Daniel, and Harry Byrd, and various other politicians discussing the acquisition of this property by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Whitney Dam project. The 1932 letter is from J. Frank Norris approving Kimball Bend advertising in his
Plat map of Kimball Bend lots indicating sold parcels. Parcel is identified as Lester B. Subdivision, Davis Farm, Thomas Russell Survey, Johnson County, Texas, February, 1931.
Whitney Reservoir proposed recreational area, created by Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Full page advertisements from
Promotional album for distribution to prospective investors. Includes a panoramic view of the Davis Farm, maps, and thirteen photographs of the pecan orchard, trees, and pecans. Two albums are included as they are adhered to one another.
Photographs 3 through 9, disbound from album.
Photographs 10 through 15, disbound from album.
Contains photograph of Glazier family (Arthur, Doris, and Arthur, Jr.); and snapshots of the farm, orchard, and livestock.
Snapshots of the farm, orchard, and livestock; as well as photographs of J. D. Berry and unidentified people.
Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. promotional brochures, two Southern Pecan Co. publications, and a Whitney Dam and Reservoir brochure (poor condition).
Contains numbered references noting size, shape, quantity, and grade of pecans.
Disbound scrapbook pages of newspaper clippings on the pecan industry and photographs of the farm and orchard.
Disbound scrapbook pages of newspaper clippings on the pecan industry and photographs of the farm and orchard.