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  1. 1.21.1-83 - Scrapbook

    Scrapbook of Anne B. Call, 1932-1937, including; Colony Council Proceedings 7/5/1933-9/8/1937, correspondence between Anne B. Call and the Home Owner's Loan Corporation in Washington, D.C., an official ballot for a Fairhope Single Tax Corporation referendum election 5/18/1934 (see 1.21.34), an amendment to the Home Owners Loan Act of 1933 (see 1.21.39-41), a letter to the Home Owners Loan Corporation, Birmingham, AL on behalf of the Fairhope Sing...

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  2. 12.16.1-76 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1934-1935 (N-R) including cemetery rules, election results, rent invoices, receipts. 12.8.21-26 is a report from Lydia J. Newcomb Comings, president of the Fairhope Public Library School Boards giving details about the current status of the Library.

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  3. 29.10.2-3 - Correspondence

    Documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1934. Includes a receipt dated February 28,1934 from E.B. Gaston to FSTC Treasurer E. C. Wolcott for $6. Also includes a letter dated February 26, 1934 to E. B. Gaston from J. H. Webb, District Counsel for the Hone Owners Loan Association saying that J. E. Rolston, District Manager for the HOLA had reported to him that FSTC lessees were not eligibile for HOLA loans. Webb ...

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  4. 29.13.1-12 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1934 comprised of letters and one telegram concerning the decision by the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to not allow participation by FSTC lessees in the program. The decision was a great disadvantage to the lessees personally, and a blow to the FSTC which fought the decision with the end result being an amendment to the HOLC act allowing Fairhope's participation. There are in...

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  5. 29.15.1-16 - Correspondence

    Correspondence dated June 1934 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The correspondence in this folder deals exclusively with the federal Home Owner's Loan Corporation and the issue that lessees of the FSTC were not eligible for these loans. See 29.13.1-12 for continuing correspondence about this issue from July 1934. Correspondents include E. B. Gaston, Senator Hugo Black, Congressman Lister Hill, HOLC Mobile District Counsel J. H Webb...

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  6. 29.18.1-23 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1934 and April 1934. The first issue is that the lesses of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation are not authorized to receive loans through the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (also refferred to as the Home Owner's Loan Association). There is significant correspondence between E. B. Gaston, HOLC officials and members of the U. S, House and Senate with regard to this issue both in ...

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  7. 29.20.1-12 - Correspondence

    Correspondence about the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLA) regarding the eligbility of lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to partcipate in the loan program. Also included in an amendment to the HOLC bill which would change wording so FSTC lessees would be eligible. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  8. 29.25.1-13 - Correspondence

    Miscellaneous correspondence and documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 1934 through December 1934. Documents include FSTC lessees' applications to the Home Owner's Loan Corporation and Newsdom's Second New Deal Poll of The Newspaper Industry, which polled the opinions of newspaper editors and publishers regarding the New Deal. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  9. 29.5.1-22 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated August 1934 regarding the Home Owners Loan Corporation. FSTC lessees had been rejected as applicants for the program (see 29.10.3) in February 1934, and these letters are addressing that issue. Letters are from and to the FSTC with these individuals: Senator Hugo Black, Congressman Lister Hill (2nd district of Alabama), Wallace H. Walker, J. Chandler Burton (State Counsel for the HOme...

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  10. 31_1933_1-8 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1933 including routine business, financial statements and lease surrenders and transfers. The Minutes reflect the Corporation's struggle to navigate through the trying times of the Depression. Many leaseholders were not able to pay their mortgages or FSTC rent and went into default, leaving the Corporation without income from those lessees. Additionally the Home Owners Loan Co...

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  11. 31_1934_1-11 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1934 and includes routine business, financial statements, lease transfers and annular reports. In his annual Secretary's Report (pages 1-2), E. B. Gaston writes a clear overview of the circumstances in the depth of the Depression within the context of the FSTC's policies. The Town of Fairhope negotiated with the FSTC for a Colony-owned site for a municipal airport, with the F...

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  12. 31_1935_1-8 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1935. Includes routine FSTC correspondence, annual meeting minutes, lease transfers and financial statements. The Library was authorized to use funds from the Whitehead trust to enclose first the south porch and then the north porch for more shelving space for books. The Whitehead trust was given to the Fairhope Public Library and was $3000 less attorney's fees, and the intere...

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  13. 32_1_032 - Correspondence

    Letter dated November 25, 1933 to the Home Owner's Loan Corporation in Washington, D. C. from FSTC member Anne B. Call. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  14. 32_1_1-294 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation about payment of taxes and rents due from lessees on Colony lands, dated 1932-1934. FSTC Treasurer R. E. L. Connolly died suddenly in October, 1932 and E. C. Wolcott assumed the role. There are references which Wolcott makes about acclimating to the job and reviewing information with care. Letters from the Baldwin County Building and Loan Association are scattered throughout this file...

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  15. 36_4_020_023 - Correspondence

    Correspondence dated 1933 and 1934 between E. B. Gaston and Abe D. Waldauer. Issues include transferring the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation parklands to the Town of Fairhope, and issues about the Home Owners Loans Corporation denying low interest loans to FSTC lessees. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  16. 6.4.1-143 - Letter

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1933-1947 pertaining to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, a New Deal program. Includes correspondence with Lister Hill and Hugo Black in a successful attempt to add amendments to the legislation which created the HOLC so that lessees of the FSTC would be eligible for the program. Other correspondence pertains to individual petitions for the program.

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