Leo Rainey Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 1227

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Scope and Content Note

Included in the collection is correspondence pertaining to Leo Rainey's activities as a Cooperative Extension Service employee, papers documenting Rainey's activities promoting Ozark crafts and tourism, microfilm of 6 scrapbooks containing publicity materials about the Arkansaw Traveller Folk Theatre, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, audio tapes, records and film.

Series 4 and 5 audiovisual materials digitized by Media Preserve in July 2018 are available to researchers as .mp3 access copies, as indicated in the collection inventory; Special Collections also holds .wav preservation files.

Dates

1959-1991

Creator

Rainey, Leo, 1932-2004 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Graduate of University of Arkansas, Leo Rainey joined the Cooperative Extension Service University of Arkansas headquartered at Batesville, Arkansas, in September, 1961. As an Area Rural Development Agent and later District Community Development Specialist, he worked with local and governmental leaders to help improve the economic and social conditions of North Central Arkansas region. He helped to organize the Arkansaw Traveller Folk Theatre at Hardy, Arkansas, in 1968 and was the Theatre's Executive Director from 1983 until its closure in 1990.

Extent

9.25 Linear Feet (16 boxes)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Series 1: Arkansas Traveller Folk Theatre

Series 2: Ozark Foothills Handicraft Guild

Series 3: Cooperative Extension Service

Series 4: Photographs, Transparencies, and Film

Series 5: Audio Tapes and Records

Acquisition Information

Leo Rainey of Batesville, Arkansas, donated his papers to Special Collections Division on November 9, 1992.

Processing Information

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, August 1993.

Finding aid updated by Katrina Windon in September 2019 to add references to digitized access copies of Series 5 audiovisual materials that were created by Media Preserve in July 2018.