Date of Award
Winter 12-17-2016
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts - History
Department
History
First Advisor
M. Scott Sosebee
Second Advisor
Perky Beisel
Third Advisor
Court Carney
Fourth Advisor
Linda L. Reynolds
Abstract
Founded by W.R. Pickering in 1894, the Pickering Lumber Company had lumber operations in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and California. The company practiced cut-and-run policy that dictated the relocation of lumber operations when the company exhausted its timber holdings. The Pickering Lumber Company operated in Texas and Western Louisiana from 1898 to roughly 1930 when timber holdings were exhausted and financial difficulties brought on by the Great Depression required the withdrawal of the company from its mill at Haslam. This thesis narrates the story of the Pickering Lumber Company and explains the procedures undertaken to process the Pickering Lumber Company Collection at the East Texas Research Center.
Repository Citation
Pitts, Joyce Madeline, "Pickering Lumber Company: Archival Processing Project" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 55.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/55
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
