Thomas Hottel Gist Plantation and Business Records
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Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ledgers, journals, daybooks, receipts, invoices, statements of account, certificates and other records, 1897-1959, created or received by cotton planter Thomas Hottel Gist; by planter, realtor, and merchant John Petty Moore; by attorney Jesse Boomer Daggett; or by attorney Charles Ebenezer Daggett, and pertaining to: various aspects of the operation and management of Gist's plantation in Phillips County (1921-1937) and in Lee County, Arkansas (1937-1959), especially as regards the purchase of tools, equipment and supplies, the sale of supplies and service to sharecroppers, cotton ginning, the sale of cotton and other agricultural products, and the payment of wages to day-laborers; Moore's business affairs (1897-1908) as Phillips County planter, realtor, and dealer in plantation supplies in and around Helena, Ark.; the law practice (1911-1925) of Marianna, Ark. attorneys Daggett & Daggett and their business affairs as partners in the Lee County Land, Loan, and Abstract Co.
Dates
- 1897-1959
Creator
- Gist, Thomas Hottel, 1905-1973 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Thomas Hottel Gist (1905-1973) was an Arkansas cotton planter and businessman with plantations in Phillips County and Lee County.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
Arrangement of the Papers
Arranged and described in three series:
- Series 1, Thomas Hottel Gist Plantation Records, 1921-1959
- Series 1, Subseries 1. Daybooks, 1935-1958
- Series 1, Subseries 2. Ledgers, 1941-1954
- Series 1, Subseries 3. Payroll Records, 1943-1944
- Series 1, Subseries 4. Cotton Gin Receipts, 1933-1958
- Series 1, Subseries 5. Cotton Grade and Staple Length Certificates, 1946-1959
- Series 1, Subseries 6. Miscellaneous Records, 1921-1954
- Series 2, John Petty Moore Plantation and Business Records, 1897-1908
- Series 2, Subseries 1. Day Books, 1897-1904
- Series 2, Subseries 2. Miscellaneous Records, 1897-1908
- Series 3, Jesse Boomer Daggett and Charles Ebenezer Daggett Business records, 1911-1925
Acquisition Information
Gift of Thomas Hottel Gist and Jessamine Daggett Gist of Marianna, Arkansas in October 1969.
Processing Information
Processed by N. T. E.; completed December 1981.
Creator
- Gist, Thomas Hottel, 1905-1973 (Person)
Source
- Gist, Thomas Hottel, 1905-1973 (Donor, Person)
- Gist, Jessamine (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Thomas Hottel Gist Plantation and Business Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- N. T. E.
- Date
- December 1981
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu