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South by Southwest Books (Fayetteville, Ark.)

 Organization

Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Elmore Lucy Narrative

 Collection
Identifier: MC 667
Scope and Content Note

Narrative, ca. 1930s, with revisions, of travels of Arkansas schoolteacher Henry Hudson Davis entitled "An Arkansas Globetrotter-Teacher".

Dates: circa 1930s

Magnolia Joint Stock Company for the Education of Females

 Collection
Identifier: MC 693
Scope and Content Note

Articles of agreement and regulations, providing for membership, meetings, voting, election of officers, and financial and other business of a stock company organized to establish a "Female School" at Magnolia, Columbia County.

Dates: 1869

Malvern Hoo Hoo Club Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MC 691
Abstract

Printed form letter, with reply form for dues payment, from the Malvern Hoo Hoo Club No. 46, regarding the nearly complete first Hoo Hoo clubhouse in America, Hoo Hoo Home No. 1 facing Lake Catherine.

Dates: 1925

Brose Masingill Leaflet

 Collection
Identifier: MC 687
Scope and Content Note

Printed leaflet, folded to 4 pages (union label on p. 4), urging votes for Brose Masingill (against Dwight Blackwood for State Highway Commissioner) and "good roads with­out bonds."

Dates: 1926

Walter E. McLeod "Story of Lawrence County When Young" Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MC 712
Scope and Content Note

Typed carbon copy of unpublished work, "Story of Lawrence County When Young."

Dates: 1945

James H. Means List of Notes

 Collection
Identifier: MC 694
Abstract

List of names and amounts payable, signed by James H. Means of Hampton, Arkansas, March 15, 1861.

Dates: 1861

Methodist Church Center Point Circuit Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 989
Scope and Content Note Records pertaining to the Center Point Circuit, Washington District, Ouachita Conference, of the Arkansas Methodist Church, consisting of: minutes of the Second Quarterly Meeting, Center Point, March 31, 1866; minutes of the Third Quarterly Meeting, Piney Grove, 1866; list of names taken from the Baptisms, 1866?; typescript of "History of Center Point Circuit" by W.D. Lee, n.d.; article by W.D. Lee, "Old Center Point Camp Ground Has Been Used as Place of Worship for a Hundred...
Dates: 1866-1937

Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington District, Greenville Circuit Report

 Collection
Identifier: MC 627
Scope and Content Note

Handwritten report of Fourth Quarterly Meeting Conference, Mt. Zion, 9 September 1844, signed by Andrew Hunter. Includes lists of members present, votes on character of official members, money collected, and resolution concerning a separate organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church in states with legalized slavery.

Dates: 1844

Midland Entertainment Announcements

 Collection
Identifier: MC 666
Scope and Content Note Brochures for series of lectures and performances. Typed letter (with envelope) from S. E. Arp, The Arp House, Mountain Home, to C. J. Messick, Mountain Home, giving dates and costs of lectures and performances presented by Midland Lyceum Bureau (Des Moines, IA), for 1916-1917 season; Midland Entertainment season ticket; brochures, with halftones, of scheduled performers on tour: Dr. L. G. Herbert, Francis J. Gable, The Beverly Entertainers, The Potters, and The Cambridge...
Dates: 1916

Alexander Copeland Millar Address

 Collection
Identifier: MC 654
Scope and Content Note

Printed address of Alexander Copeland Millar to Arkansas Legislature concerning decline in forest reserves in Arkansas, 1904-1927, and the steps necessary to restore Arkansas's forests.

Dates: 1927

Miller, Bradley County, Arkansas Township Election Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1140
Scope and Content Note

Election results tallied by election judges R.C. Forester, John Covington, and M. W. McClendon on August 6, 1866.

Dates: 1866

John Tyler Morgan Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS M822 300B
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter, signed, dated Washington, D.C., June 29, 1889, to Alfred McElroy Wilson (Fayetteville, Ark.), regarding Wilson's "mission to the Cherokee Indians" and the President's "wish that the sub-committee of...the Committee of Indian Affairs...should visit that tribe, and others, at the time the Commission is" in the Indian Territory.

Dates: 1889

Morrison Power of Attorney

 Collection
Identifier: MC 668
Scope and Content Note

Appointment of Moses Morrison, "of Austins Colony and Province of Texas," agent and attorney of Joshua Morrison, Hempstead County in order to collect "two protested orders" totalling $150.

Dates: 1827

Notes on History of Arkansas Baptists

 Collection
Identifier: MC 773
Scope and Content Note

"One Hundred Years Ago" and "Beginnings," by James Sterling Rogers, circa 1932. Handwritten accounts of Baptists in Fourche and Little Rock.

Dates: circa 1932

Pleasant M. Osburn Bill of Sale

 Collection
Identifier: MC 677
Scope and Content Note

Contract by Pleasant M. Osburn for the sale of land and six enslaved people, four of whom were children, Patsy age 35, Lucy age 10, Margaret age 8, Erick age 7, Mourning age 25 and Ann age 8 to Wiley Neubury, Clark County, Arkansas, February 12, 1847

Dates: 1847

Philomathic Club Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: MC 621
Scope and Content Note

Minutes of meetings (30 January 1888-31 January 1890) of the Philomathic Club of Helena, Arkansas, a women's club devoted mainly to literary studies. Volume also includes membership lists, financial records, and the organization's constitution.

Dates: 1888-1890

Albert Pike Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS P635 300C
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter, signed, dated Alexandria, VA, July 4, 1874, from Albert Pike to David Walker (Fayetteville, Ark.), urging him to run for U.S. Senate and reviewing history of Whig Party in Arkansas.

Dates: 1874

Poetry Day Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MC 680
Abstract

Printed broadside announcing "Arkansas' First Poetry Day," October 15, 1948.

Dates: 1948

Porter Township Booklet

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1144
Scope and Content Note

Porter Township (Crawford County, Arkansas). Porter Public School District 69.

Souvenir booklet listing the members of Miss Iona Wilson's class. Oval photograph of Wilson glued on the front cover.

Dates: 1905

Prairie Grove Battle Account

 Collection
Identifier: MC 673
Scope and Content Note

Typewritten eyewitness account pertaining to the disposition of the dead and wounded following the battle of Prairie Grove (Washington County), December 7, 1862, by Samuel Pinckney Pittman, 1st Sergeant, Company K, 34th Arkansas Infantry. This account was first published in the December 5, 1896 issue of the Mountain City Gazette, Fayetteville (Washington County), Arkansas.

Dates: circa 1896

Lessie Stringfellow Read Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS R22 233B
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, reports, speeches, bulletins, and other records created or received by Lessie Stringfellow Read of Fayetteville, Ark., who was, at various times, State Chairman of Publicity for the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs; Arkansas editor of the General Federation of Women's Clubs' General Federation Magazine, and Publicity Chairman for the GFWC. Most of the records, dated circa 1918-1922, pertain to the...
Dates: 1913-1945

Lessie Stringfellow Read Literary Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS R22L 351A
Scope and Contents

Autobiographical sketch of Lessie Stringfellow Read, 2 pages, prepared for "General Federation Personal Sketch File," and text of an article, 4 pages, "Niloak of the Ozarks."

Dates: undated

Roy Robinson Literary Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS R566 351B
Scope and Contents

Pencil-written memoir entitled "Love Will Find a Way," by Roy Robinson, of a Washington County, Arkansas courtship.

Dates: circa 1910

Sebastian County, Arkansas Land Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS Se21s 351D
Scope and Contents

Plat surveys of a part of T6N, R32W, drawn and annotated by County Surveyor John R. Smoot, April 7, 1870 (1 L. folded); two plat surveys of a part of T8N, R32W, drawn by surveyor J.K. Birnbaum, November 11, 1881 (1 L.) and December 1, 1886 (2 L.), the former indicating intersection of Van Buren Road and Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad.

Dates: 1870-1886

Sisk Mining Company Prospectus

 Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 8
Identifier: MC 1143
Abstract

Pamphlet inviting potential shareholders to invest in a marcasite and "fertilizer" mining operation.

Dates: 1901

Additional filters:

Subject
Arkansas -- Politics and government 8
Fort Smith (Ark.) 4
Political campaigns -- Arkansas 4
Religion -- Arkansas 4
Women -- Arkansas -- Societies and clubs 4
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Bradley County (Ark.) 3
Education -- Arkansas 3
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 3
Lonoke County (Ark.) 3
Slavery -- Arkansas 3
Auctions 2
Authors -- Arkansas 2
Baptists -- Arkansas 2
Clubs -- Arkansas 2
Cotton gins and ginning 2
Helena (Ark.) 2
Independence County (Ark.) 2
Methodist Church -- Arkansas 2
Scott County (Ark.) 2
Sebastian County (Ark.) 2
Slave bills of sale 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Washington County (Ark.) 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 2
Accounts 1
African American children -- Education 1
African American churches -- Arkansas 1
African Americans -- Education -- Arkansas 1
Agriculture -- Arkansas 1
Agriculture, Cooperative 1
Arkansas -- Description and travel 1
Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Arkansas -- Social life and customs 1
Arkansas Territory 1
Bald Knob (Ark.) 1
Banks and banking -- Arkansas 1
Batesville (Ark.) 1
Benton County (Ark.) 1
Business 1
Business -- Arkansas 1
Business records 1
Calhoun County (Ark.) 1
Center Point (Howard County, Ark.) 1
Cherokee Indians -- Government relations 1
Chickasaw Indians 1
Chicot County (Ark.) 1
Coal mines and mining 1
Columbia County (Ark.) 1
Communal living -- Arkansas 1
Concert programs 1
Concerts 1
Conservation of natural resources 1
Cotton growing -- Arkansas 1
Crawford County (Ark.) 1
Dancing schools -- Arkansas 1
Debates and debating 1
Deeds 1
Draft -- United States 1
Dyer (Ark.) 1
Elections -- Arkansas 1
Elgin (Ark.) 1
Elm Springs (Ark.) 1
Entertainment events 1
Fayetteville (Ark.) 1
Folklore 1
Fraternal organizations 1
General stores -- Arkansas 1
Harrison (Ark.) 1
Hempstead County (Ark.) 1
Hotels -- Arkansas 1
Indian Removal, 1813-1903 1
Japanese -- United States 1
Lawrence County (Ark.) 1
Lectures and lecturing 1
Legal services 1
Little Rock (Ark.) 1
Logan County (Ark.) 1
Lovely County (Ark.) 1
Lumbering 1
Lyceums 1
Magnolia (Ark.) 1
Medical personnel 1
Medicine 1
Methodism -- Arkansas 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Miller County (Ark.) 1
Mines and mineral resources -- Arkansas 1
Monte Ne (Ark.) 1
Mountain Home (Ark.) 1
Music in universities and colleges. 1
Musicians -- Arkansas 1
Orphanages -- Arkansas 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Poetry 1
Political campaigns -- Arkansas -- Carroll County 1
Pottery -- Arkansas 1
Prairie Grove, Battle of, Ark., 1862 1
Railroad travel -- United States 1
Railroads 1
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