Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, maps, bulletins, newspapers and other material created, received or collected by journalist-columnist- collector Lemke, University of Arkansas professor of journalism 1928-1956.

Material, most of which dates from 1928 to 1968, pertains to Lemke's professional and academic career and interests, especially as regards his newspaper columns and publications; the Arkansas press; the journalism of World War II; the publications of "Uncle Walt's Newsletter"; the affairs of the University of Arkansas journalism department, the Arkansas Press Association, the Arkansas Writers' Conference, and the Arkansas High School Press Association, which he founded in 1928.

Material also relates to: the history of the University of Arkansas; athletic and other activities of University faculty, students and alumni; University publications; Lemke's correspondence with University faculty, students and alumni in military service during World War II and the Korean war; his active participation in the affairs of the Washington County Historical Society, which he founded in 1951, and his support of and interest in other state and county historical societies and associations; his general interest in Arkansas history and genealogy; his collecting of historical maps and other Arkansiana; and his photographing of, and collecting of photographs of, historical and scenic sites in Arkansas.

Correspondents include: Homer Adkins, Harry Scott Ashmore, Bernie Babcock, Carl Edward Bailey, Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, John Tyler Caldwell, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Hodding Carter, Francis Cherry, Homer Croy, Beverley Githens Dresbach, Orval Eugene Faubus, Charles Joseph Finger, Charlie May Fletcher, John Gould Fletcher, Edsel Ford, James William Fulbright, John Clinton Futrall, Victor Gondos, Jr., Arthur McCracken Harding, Brooks Hays, John Netherland Heiskell, Lewis Webster Jones, Benjamin Travis Laney, Sidney S. McMath, Colter Hamilton Moses, Allan Nevins, Vance Randolph, Otto Ernest Rayburn, Leslie String fellow Read, James William Trimble, Jacob Wythe Walker, Charles Morrow Wilson, Walter Winchell.