Papers, ca. 1900-1940.

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Papers, ca. 1900-1940.

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Collection bulks with correspondence and research notes compiled during her chairmanship of the Southwestern Library Association's Regional Literature Program in Texas (1934-1936), her career as librarian at Texas Technological University and the Texas State Library, and materials related to West's master's thesis, "Cartography of the French and Spanish Expansion." The Regional Literature Program materials provide information on the purpose, scope and organization of a national movement in Texas and the surrounding states. West's Texas Technological College correspondence pertains to library business from the 1920s and 1930s. The Texas State Library materials consist of transcribed correspondence to and from Texas state offices (1906-1907), Texas State Library preliminary letter registers and miscellaneous items related to library operations (1918?-1935?). The microfilm material contains transcribed Spanish documents pertaining to William Panton, Scottish merchant and frontiersman along the Spanish borderlands during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Also includes West's research correspondence.

ca. 10, 000 leaves.

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Yonge, Julien Chandler, 1879-1962

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Born in Pontotoc, Miss., in 1873, Elizabeth Howard West was a teacher, scholar, and librarian. A graduate of the Industrial Institute and College at Columbus, Miss., West taught in Mississippi schools before relocating in 1895 to Texas, where she earned her master's degree from the University of Texas in 1901. She began her library training shortly thereafter and held various posts in libraries in Texas and elsewhere, working as a cataloger at Texas State College, as an assistant at the Library ...