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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 15 items) |
Abstract | Hugh Hill Wooten (born 1894) was an economist with the United States Department of Agriculture. The collection contains reports, surveys, photographs, clippings, and other materials gathered by Wooten concerning land use and flood control in the lower Mississippi River Valley and land acquisition by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Volumes 1-2, 6 contain mounted photographs depicting land use, flood damage, and houses, as well as images of farmers. Additionally, there are 6 printed reports related to the Tennessee Valley Authority and North Carolina agricultural topic. |
Creator | Wooten, H. H. (Hugh Hill), 1894- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Hugh Hill Wooten (born 1894) was an economist with the United States Department of Agriculture.
Back to TopThe collection contains reports, surveys, photographs, clippings, and other materials gathered by Wooten concerning land use and flood control in the lower Mississippi River Valley and land acquisition by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Volumes 1-2, 6 contain mounted photographs depicting land use, flood damage, and houses, as well as images of farmers. Additionally, there are 6 printed reports related to the Tennessee Valley Authority and North Carolina agricultural topic.
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Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Volume 1: Mississippi Backwater Area Study - Yazoo Segment, 1936Summary report from United States Department of Agriculture Joint Investigation; includes pull-out map and annotated photographs depicting flood water dangers in the Alluvial Valley, Miss., as well as cotton farmers, sharecroppers, and rural homes. |
Folder 2 |
Volume 2: Preliminary Examination Plan for Land Acquisition for Sycamore Creek Land Use Project, Hancock and Claiborne Counties, Tennessee , 3 July 1936Report includes hand-colored maps and annotated photographs depicting land use as well as farmers, houses, and other buildings. |
Folder 3-4
Folder 3Folder 4 |
Volumes 3-4: Factors Affecting Land Values in the Chickamauga Reservoir Area: A Background for Appraisal , 15 August 1936Two copies of report submitted by Wooten for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Land Acquisition Division, Appraisal Section; includes pull-out map and chart. |
Folder 5 |
Volume 5: Factors Affecting Land Values in the Guntersville Reservoir Area: A Background for Appraisal , 15 September 1936Report submitted by Wooten for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Land Acquisition Division, Appraisal Section; includes pull-out maps and charts. |
Folder 6 |
Volume 6: "Estimate of Flood Damages to Farm Property in the Birds Point New Madrid Floodway (Missouri) as a Result of the Flood of January 1937," 15 April 1937Report submitted by Wooten for the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Land Economics; includes pull-out map and annotated photographs depicting the flood damage to farm property and houses. |
Folder 7 |
Volume 7: Real Property Appraisals of the Norris Reservoir Purchase Area, February 1937Report submitted by Wooten and Jack W. Hind for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Land Acquisition Division, Appraisal Section; includes pull-out maps and annotated pictures of land and houses. |
Folder 8 |
Volume 8: Mississippi and Ohio Valley Floods, January-February 1937Newspaper clippings regarding the floods taken from Memphis Commercial Appeal, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Arkansas Gazette, Cincinnati Inquirer, New Orleans Times Picayune, and others. |
Folder 9 |
Volume 9: Wolf, Loosahatchie and Nonconnah Watersheds: Mississippi and Tennessee, Preliminary Examination for Flood Control , June 1942Report from the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agriculture Economics. |
Folder 10 |
Message from the President of the United States, 1939Printed report from the Tennessee Valley Authority on flooding reduction in Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. |
Folder 11 |
Evolution of the Land Program, United States Department of Agriculture, 22 March 1939Report by L. C. Gray; also included is Report Submitted by the Department of Agriculture to the Secretary of War on the Valuation of Property Between the Proposed Protective Levees of the Boeuf and Atchafalaya Basin and in the Red River Backwater , November 1930. |
Folder 12 |
Agricultural Program for North Carolina, November 1929 |
Folder 13 |
Farm Income and Taxation in North Carolina, June 1929 |
Folder 14 |
Report of the Joint Committee Investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority, 3 April 1939Report includes pull-out maps. |