Scope and Content Note Lorna Lack Cates' collection serves as a record of her ancestors, specifically the Woolvertons and Halbrooks, who lived initially in Tennessee but eventually settled in Arkansas. The orientation of the papers is commercial rather than personal, the relatively large number of receipts attesting to economic growth in the South in general and in Arkansas in particular during the second half of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. Materials in the collection...

Scope and Content Note Glass plate negatives of businesses and people in Leslie (Searcy County), Arkansas, 1907-1921. At least some of the portraits in this collection were obviously taken outside houses, with a backdrop hung to make a "studio" portrait. Some images were identified by people attending a Homecoming at Leslie; their notes, from the photocopies, are included in contents descriptions. Unless otherwise noted, the plates are 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". Many, especially the portraits, have two images...