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Hester family collection, 1854-1987, Date acquired: 00/00/1995

 

Summary

Creator:
Hester Family
Abstract:
A large portion of this collection relates to the years that Louise and Alberta Hester spent at Hillsborough High School, with misc. assorted personal materials.
Extent:
3.31 Linear Feet
5 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Hester Family collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains scrapbooks, a yearbook, photographs and photograph albums, postcards, academic diplomas and certificates, correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and some legal documents. There are also two unofficial historical accounts of the Tampa Heights Presbyterian Church (author unknown) and the Archer Methodist church (Delton L. Scudder).

Biographical / historical:

This collection represents two families: the Hughes family of Ohio and the Hester family of Tampa. Mary Louise Hughes moved to Florida with her parents in 1896. She married Ernest H. Hester and the family relocated to Tampa in the early 1900s. Mary Louise and Ernest lived with their two daughters, Alberta and Louise Hester, at 401 Palm Avenue in the Tampa Heights neighborhood. Ernest owned the Hester Furniture Company in downtown Tampa. After graduating from Hillsborough High School, Alberta Hester married and moved to Gainesville, Florida with her husband, J. R. Crane, and their two sons. Louise Hester also married, but remained in Tampa to begin a fern growing company (at the family home in Tampa Heights) with her husband Earl Davis. Louise lived at this location until her death in 1961. Frances D. Heim, the daughter of Louise and Earl Davis, donated this collection to the library.

Note written by JA

Acquisition information:

Frances D. Heim

Donation.

Arrangement:

Arranged by format.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Names:
Hester Family
Places:
Hillsborough County (Fla.)

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright.  Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Hester Family collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Location of this collection:
The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122
Tampa
FL
33620-5400
USA