In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Abby Williams Hill embarked on a letter writing campaign urging officials in the United States government to create a system of national sanitariums in the southwest for the care of tuberculosis patients. This sub-series contains Hill’s correspondence with various government officials and with several individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis, including Lolit M. Banerji, Spyridon Chrudas, and Jerome Shaffer.

Pablo Abeita (1871-1940) was the governor of Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico.

In this letter, Banerji inquires about Spyridon Chrudas and Malcolm Young. Additional correspondence between Hill, Chrudas, and Young can be found in this subseries.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Abby Williams Hill embarked on a letter writing campaign urging officials in the United States government to create a system of national sanitariums in the southwest for the care of tuberculosis patients. This sub-series contains Hill’s correspondence with various government officials and with several individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis, including Lolit M. Banerji, Spyridon Chrudas, and Jerome Shaffer.

Folder includes an address given by Abby Hill to the Washington State Branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in 1925.

Mrs. Schoff was involved with the Philadelphia Child Welfare Association and worked with Hill via the National Congress of Mothers. Letters from Mrs. Schoff can also be found in Box 10, Folder 23.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was an American educator, orator, and author. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama. Abby Hill visited the school in 1902 with her children, Romayne and Ione, where she met Washington. More information about this visit can be found in Hill's journals.

This sub-series includes letters belonging to members of the Hill family. Of particular note are letters and illustrations from German artist Hermann Haase, correspondence with the Northern Pacific Railway Company regarding Hill’s art commissions, letters from American painter Edgar S. Paxson, African American educator and author Booker T. Washington, National Park Service landscape architect Merel S. Sager, and director of the National Park Service Horace Albright.

This sub-series includes letters belonging to members of the Hill family. Of particular note are letters and illustrations from German artist Hermann Haase, correspondence with the Northern Pacific Railway Company regarding Hill’s art commissions, letters from American painter Edgar S. Paxson, African American educator and author Booker T. Washington, National Park Service landscape architect Merel S. Sager, and director of the National Park Service Horace Albright.

This sub-series includes letters belonging to members of the Hill family. Of particular note are letters and illustrations from German artist Hermann Haase, correspondence with the Northern Pacific Railway Company regarding Hill’s art commissions, letters from American painter Edgar S. Paxson, African American educator and author Booker T. Washington, National Park Service landscape architect Merel S. Sager, and director of the National Park Service Horace Albright.