Scope and Content Note Political campaign and other material relating to Jeff Davis. Two printed broadsides, issued during the Arkansas Democratic Party primary campaign of 1903 by state Supreme Court Justice Carroll David Wood and by supporters of his gubernatorial candidacy in opposition to the re-election of Jeff Davis, together with an affidavit, executed at Van Buren, Arkansas March 22, 1912 by four citizens of that city, testifying that Davis, candidate for the Democratic nomination to a second...

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My happy little home in Arkansas, Words and music by Henry S. DeMoss, as sung by DeMoss family at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Columbian Souvenir Songs No. 14, printed and distributed by W. G. Vincenheller, Commissioner of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture.

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Political broadside from Democratic gubernatorial primary election campaign of 1910, "The Naked Truth. Kavanaugh Denounces Donaghey"; gubernatorial proclamation, May 13, 1911, calling a special session of General Assembly.

Scope and Contents Activities to which the material specifically relates include: Donaghey's role in the construction of the Arkansas state capitol; his work as governor and as member of the state Capitol Arts Commission, Centennial Commission, Board of Charities and Corrections, and Planning Board; his work as member of the (Little Rock) Broadway-Main Street Bridge Commission and of the National Board of Finance of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; creation of the Donaghey Foundation and endowment of...

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Prospectus, copy of application for incorporation, record of action taken on application by Arkansas State Board of Railroad Incorporation, articles of incorporation, list of subscribers to stock, and minutes of first stockholders' meeting of Fort Smith, Arkansas corporation. Documents are dated February 7 to February 11, 1910.

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Bound volume of separate bills of lading for goods shipped by Pennywit and Company, Van Buren, Arkansas, on Arkansas River steamboats from March 1, 1858-October 26, 1861. Microfilm copy available for research use.

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Scrapbook of mounted newspaper clippings related to Reconstruction in Arkansas and the Memphis yellow fever epidemic of 1878.