Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the H. H. Wooten Papers, #3887, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Hugh Hill Wooten in 1969

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Economists--United States--History--20th century.
• Land use--Mississippi River Valley--History--20th century.
• Tennessee Valley Authority.
• United States. Dept. of Agriculture--History.
• Wooten, H. H. (Hugh Hill), 1894-

Hugh Hill Wooten (born 1894) was an economist with the United States Department of Agriculture.

The collection contains reports, surveys, photographs, clippings, and other materials gathered by Wooten concerning land use and flood control in the lower Mississippi River Valley and land acquisition by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Volumes 1-2, 6 contain mounted photographs depicting land use, flood damage, and houses, as well as images of farmers. Additionally, there are 6 printed reports related to the Tennessee Valley Authority and North Carolina agricultural topic.