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Alonzo B. Cox Papers

University of Texas, Center for American History

A Guide to the Alonzo B. Cox Papers



Descriptive Summary

CreatorCox, Alonzo B.
TitleAlonzo B. Papers
Dates: ca. 1920s-1960s
Abstract Papers comprise the professional work of Dr. Alonzo B. Cox and the University of Texas at Austin Natural Fibers Information Center.
Extent32 ft.
Language Materials are in English.
RepositoryCenter for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Professor Alonzo B. Cox was born on April 2, 1884, in Hamilton County, Illinois. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in 1911 and 1914, respectively. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1920.

He served as president of Abilene Christian University in 1911-12. He worked with Texas A&M University, where he was in charge of the Division of Farm and Ranch Economics. He worked with the United States Department of Agriculture, directing cotton marketing research. In 1924-25 he served in Europe as an agricultural economist for the department.

Professor Cox joined the faculty of UT Austin in 1926, and retired in 1957. In 1927 he established the Bureau of Business Research, serving as its director until 1942. In 1947 he created the Natural Fibers Information Center. The center became internationally acclaimed under his leadership for a worldwide program that standardized scientific cotton testing.

In 1927 Professor Cox organized and chaired the Texas Cotton Committee, a policy-making group. In 1939 he worked with the Texas Cotton Research Congress. In 1942 he assisted the Texas Statewide Cotton Committee in preparing the "Charter for Cotton," which established economic principles governing the cotton industry.

Professor Cox served on the State Intercollegiate Schools of Business Administration Committee. He also served on the Texas Postwar Planning Commission and as a consultant on cotton price fixing for the U.S. government.

Professor Cox authored or coauthored An Economic Study of a Typical Ranching Area on the Edwards Plateau of Texas (1922), The Cottonseed Crushing Industry of Texas in its National Setting (1949), and Cotton-Demand-Supply-Merchandising (1952).

[compiled by Theresa Palomo Acosta]

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Scope and Contents

Papers comprise the professional work of Dr. Alonzo B. Cox and the UT Natural Fibers Information Center. Included are chronological correspondence files, alphabetical subject and textile organization files, cotton research files, cotton marketing material, cotton financial data, and biographical files for Dr. Cox. Also includes a large component of cotton, fiber, and textile industry publications, reports, and journals.

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Restrictions

Restriction

Collection stored off-site at Collections Deposit Library. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Alonzo B. Cox Papers, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Alonzo B. Cox Papers

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2007-045/2Land tenure
Correspondence files, 1919-1945
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2007-045/5Correspondence files, 1946-1953
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2007-045/7Correspondence files, 1954-1961
Cotton research files
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2007-045/10Cotton research files
Cotton marketing
Cotton financial information
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2007-045/13Cotton financial information
Cotton marketing
Notes for papers
Notes for speeches
Alonzo B. Cox biographical
Telegram from R.T. Hoover to UT Chancellor James P. Hart applauding the work of the Cotton Research Committee, September 26, 1953
Miscellaneous cotton: financial, research
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2007-045/19Miscellaneous cotton: financial, research
Alphabetical files
Calibration program--Cotton classification
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2007-045/21Cotton course material--Government policy for cotton
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2007-045/26HVI--USDA standards
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2007-045/29Various Texas textile industry publications
Correspondence and articles re. Texas textile industry
Files on textile organizations (alphabetical)
American Textile Manufacturers Institute--Fiber lab at the University of Texas
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2007-045/32Fiber lab at Texas Tech University--Sunset Advisory Commission of 1988
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2007-045/1Publications and reports
Measurement of cotton and fiber properties
Texas Tech University
Plains Cotton Growers
Cotton economic research, Spinner Breeder Conference
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2007-045/3Cotton classing--instrument manufacturers
Cotton, cottonseed, textiles
Research reports--USDA
Data statistics--USDA
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2007-045/6Research--Department of Commerce and other federal agencies
Research--Texas Tech University, Texas Womans University, Texas state agencies, and other state agencies
Research--Texas A&M University experiment/extension
Research--University of Texas at Austin
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2007-045/4Cotton, oilseeds, textiles research--other universities and agencies
Measurement of cotton fiber properties and spinning/manufacturing performance--USDA
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2007-045/8Instrument measurement of cotton fiber properties and merchandising/marketing
Instrument classing of cotton
USDA and Cotton Economic Research (CER)
Instrument classing of cotton
Other than USDA and Cotton Economic Research (CER)
Instrument measurement in aeneral
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2007-045/9Otto Goedecke--including cotton variety maps, annual meetings, buyer conventions, blended cotton
Cotton variety and fiber tests
Cotton merchandising research
Texas Tech University
Texas A&M University
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2007-045/11Cotton economic research
Cotton merchandising clinics and research
Wool--Mohair
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2007-045/12Publications of corporations
Miscellaneous magazine issues
Cotton exchanges
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2007-045/14Cotton exchanges
Census and other non-USDA historical cotton statistics
Miscellaneous
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2007-045/15 Data--Cotton economic research
Research reports--Cotton economic research
Correspondence on fiber quality testing
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2007-045/16Alonzo Cox as author
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2007-045/17Alonzo Cox as author
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2007-045/18Alonzo Cox as author
Texas State Network radio broadcasts
Miscellaneous--addresses, reports, speeches, house bills, handbooks, tariffs
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2007-045/20Assorted public actions and reports
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2007-045/22U.S. Department of Agriculture
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2007-045/23U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Commerce--Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
U.S. Tariff Commission
U.S. Federal Reserve
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
U.S. Department of Commerce--Bureau of the Census
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2007-045/24National Resource Planning Board
Office of National Recovery Administration
Social Sciences Research Council--miscellaneous bulletins
League of Nations
American Tariff League
National Industrial Conference Board
U.S. Treasury Department--Federal Farm Loan Board; IRS
U.S. Department of the Interior
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2007-045/25Miscellaneous state university and agricultural department publications
Texas A&M University
Southern Methodist University
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2007-045/27 University of Texas
Texas as subject
University of Wisconsin
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2007-045/28 Miscellaneous proceedings
Vintage educational materials
Cotton and cottonseed
Wool
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2007-045/30 Wool and mohair
Other
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2007-045/31 B. Hall, University of Texas
Theses and dissertations signed off by Alonzo Cox
Guest book
Photograph
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3Y140Photograph of A.B. Cox (b/w print)
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2007-045/31 Biographical Encyclopedia of the World
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2/FILM DFilms (9) of the cotton industry worldwide
Artifacts
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Artifacts Commemorative wooden plate from Egypt
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2.325/NW corner Framed artwork: Japanese landscape scene made from silk threads

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