M12-04 – JUDGE JOSEPH MORRISON HILL COLLECTION

*NOTE:  This collection was located in the Archives’ Book Room under the call number RC 309 .A7 H5.  It was made into a manuscript collection in hopes of giving it more exposure to researchers interested in the topic.

 

Box 1

File 1a – Short biography of Judge Joseph Morrison Hill, President of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanitarium (1909-1941, 1945-1952)

File 1b – 1 (8 ½”x 14”) bound papers – Material for the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium (1904-1910) – Volume 1, pages 1-154 includes an index for entire collection, appeal for the TB Sanatorium, Appropriations, Location Selection (Boonville, AR)

File 2 – 1 (8 ½”x 14”) bound papers – Material for the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium – Volume 2, pages 155-300 includes correspondence and expenditures (August 19, 1910 – August 15, 1912)

File 3 – 1 (8 ½”x 14”) bound papers – Material for the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium – Volume 3, pages 301-437 includes day-to-day business (August 15, 1912 – December 26, 1912) and biennial reports (December 8, 1912 – December 1, 1926)

File 4 – 1 (8 ½”x 14”) bound papers – Material for the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium – Volume 4, pages 438-556 includes Sanatorium Outlook newsletter (October 1924-February 1927) and biennial reports (1926-1928)

File 5 – 1 (8 ½”x 14”) bound papers – Material for the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium – Volume 5, pages 557-668 includes Sanatorium Outlook newsletter (March-November 1927) and biennial reports (December 1928-December 1930)

File 6 – 1 (8 ½”x 14”) bound papers – Material for the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium – Volume 6, pages 669-800 includes biennial reports (1930-1938), an article called “The Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium:  The Nation’s Largest” from The Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Vol. 5, No.4, 1946), Judge Hill’s address to the Mason’s in 1947, and photos of the Sanatorium (building, grounds, and people)

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