Guide to the Otero and Cora Brown Letters MSS.3366
Brown, Otero and Cora
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-05-25T10:45-0500
- Language Usage:
English
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Otero and Cora Brown Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.3366
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (six letters, five envelopes)
- Dates:
1913-1950
- Abstract:
This collection contains six letters written to Cora and Otero Brown of Illinois by various family members. Letters mostly contain farming and harvest news, and one letter from a nephew discussed the effects of New Deal policies.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
none
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Otero and Cora Brown Letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processing Information note
Processed by Kendal Spires, 2011
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains six letters written by various family members to Cora Brown and her husband Otero, who lived in the Illinois cities of Caledonia, Cherry Valley, Belvidere, Union, and Poplar Grove. Letters mostly contain farming and harvest news, and one letter from nephew Russell discussed the effects of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies.
Otero and Cora Brown Letters Box SC0074 Folder 3366.01