Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Price – Hall family letters, photographs and newspaper clippings about the family.

Abstract This collection primarily documents the personal, business, and financial activities of Elijah and Temperance Price of San Augustine, Texas, along with records relating to the mercantile firms of Blount & Price and S.W. Blount & Co., and the family of George Fulton Crocket. Through correspondence, legal documents, accounts, receipts, and cotton-related financial records, the collection provides detailed insight into nineteenth-century commerce, consumer life, and community networks...