Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Guide to the Florida Virginia Hill James Papers
1909-1950
Cage 41
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
- Creator
- James, Florida Virginia Hill
- Title
- Florida Virginia Hill James Papers
- ID
- Cage 41
- Date [inclusive]
- 1909-1950
- Extent
- 820.0 items.
- General Physical Description note
- 2 linear feet of shelf space.
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- Correspondence, diaries, photographs and other papers of a student at the University of Oregon and the University of Southern California, 1918-1922; school teacher, 1923-1930; and rural housewife in Whitman County. Included are correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and legal and financial papers of other members of the Hill and James families.
Preferred Citation note
[Item Description]. Cage 41, Florida Virginia Hill James Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biographical/Historical note
Florida Hill, born in 1896, the daughter of a Palouse, Washington wheat farmer, lived in eastern Washington until 1917 when she and her widowed mother moved to Eugene, Oregon, where Florida enrolled as a student at the University of Oregon. In 1920 both moved to Los Angeles where Florida finished her college work at the University of Southern California and taught in the public schools of Pomona, California. About a year after her marriage to Arthur James (1929) she returned to the Palouse Country.
Scope and Contents note
The papers consist primarily of Florida's intermittent diaries and correspondence from friends and family, which includes her letters to her sister Bess. In addition, photographs of the Hill and James families; memorabilia of the Hill Family; papers of Arthur James concerning his wartime experiences and employment as a railroad brakeman and conductor; correspondence of Marylin James, and photographs of Colfax and Palouse scenes, are included in the collection.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries © 1972
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/mascTerrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Conditions Governing Access note
This collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
The papers were assembled by Florida's son, Glen James, b. 1937, who donated the material to the Washington State University Library in 1960. A further donation of Arthur J. James' papers was added to this collection in August, 1975.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- University of Oregon--Students--Diaries
- University of Southern California--Students -- Diaries
Family Name(s)
- Hill family
- James family
Personal Name(s)
- James, Florida Virginia Hill --Archives
- James, Glen. waps
Subject(s)
- Country life -- Washington (State)--Whitman County--History--Sources
- Home and Family
- Photographs
- Transportation
- Washington (State)
General note
Trainmen's Schedule
Collection Inventory
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Correspondence 1909-1950 350 items. |
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Series 1: Diaries 9.0 items. |
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Colfax 1912 |
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Eugene 1918 |
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Los Angeles 1920 1925 |
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Palouse 1935 |
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fragments 1930 |
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Memoranda and address books. 5.0 items. |
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Child's autograph book 1.0 item. |
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Culver City, California, real estate papers 1925-1940 30 items. |
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Programs and announcements, commencements and weddings 1911-1935 20 items. |
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Series 2: Diaries (donated in 1974) |
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Unknown rancher 1889-1890 |
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Besse Hill, Colfax 1912 |
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Florida Hill, Eugene 1919 |
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Genealogy, deeds and abstracts, grade cards, bank statements, ration books and other memorabilia of the Hill and James families 1911-1945 35 items. |
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Employment and union papers, insurance policies, service records and other papers of Arthur James 1912-1922 50 items. |
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Correspondence of Marylin James 1946-1947 50 items. |
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Sketch scripts, poetry and essays by Florida James undated 10 items. |
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Series 3: Photographs 250 items. |
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Members of the Hill and James families (some identified) |
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The Palouse farm and the Colfax area |
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The Los Angeles home |
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World War I servicemen's snapshots of Arthur James |
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Hop picking crew 1915 |
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A Ku Klux Klan rally near Colfax 1925 |
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Series 4: James, Arthur J. (Addition of 21 August 1975) |
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Papers 1925-1956 120.0 items. |
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Receipt book and miscellaneous invoices, receipts and other papers. |
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