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The collection consists of a scrapbook belonging to Katie Emrich of Fort Smith, Arkansas, as well as enclosed ephemera and correspondence. The scrapbook primarily contains clippings of poetry and of newspaper articles regarding Emrich's family members.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding ornithologist Ruth Thomas. The correspondence consists of personal letters from Thomas to Harriet Wright of Birmingham, Alabama, regarding their shared interest in birding, Thomas’ readings and writings, and updates on her life. The newspaper clippings are of Thomas’ column, “The Country Diarist,” from the Arkansas Gazette. Photographs are of a bird feeder at Thomas’...

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Six photographic postcards with reproductions of photographs from the 1928 United Confederate Veteran's Parade in Little Rock, Arkansas: "Baton Bandleader- U.S. Army Band"; U.S. Marine Marching Band"; "United States Cavelry[sic]"; "Simmons College Cowboys - Cowgirls Band Abilene, Texas"; "Miss Liberty & Maids of Honor; "Mo Pac Hospital Candy Strippers[sic] - Masonic Band"

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection consists primarily of a series of 105 black-and-white 35mm photographic negatives of Arkansas post offices. The photographs were taken in 1976 by Harrison Post Office Distribution Clerk Pat Evans in honor of the United States’ bicentennial. Prints (not included in the collection) were made of the negatives and displayed at the Harrison Post Office. The photographs cover post offices in six counties, and many images include postmasters, such as Darrell Gibson of Hasty, Charles...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes formational documents of the organization, including its bylaws, a copy of its certificate of incorporation, articles of incorporation, and IRS tax exemption declaration; several issues of the organization’s newsletter, Ozarkia; and Board of Directors meeting minutes and correspondence. In addition, a press release, meetings minutes, and other materials relating to the activities of the Northwest Arkansas Environmental Guardianship, an...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains materials regarding the Harper family, including a letter from Rachel Harper writing from Montezuma, Indiana, to one of her sons informing him of the death of his brother, Derastus Harper, who fought in the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Marks' Mills (Cleveland County, Arkansas), as well as of the birth of his nephew, William Albert; research notes and a transcription of the letter created by Jeremy Oborny; and genealogical notes on Daniel Harper and other family...

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The collection consists of a booklet of the history and annual activities of the Pine Hurst Extension Homemakers Club, as well as 23 color photographic slides of club members' attendance at the 1972 statewide convention held on the University of Arkansas campus. Those pictured include JoAnn Thompson, Barbara Kinniard, Geneva Atkins, Anna Kate Malloy, and Mattie Pearl Kilcrease.

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The collection, collected by the Commission's General Manager, Jimmie Thomas, consists of three newsletters of the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Commission; the Commission's final report; and a letter from author Charles Portis to a member of the Commission, declining an invitation to participate in programming.

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The collection contains materials regarding photographer Geoff Winningham's commission by the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Little Rock to photograph Arkansas architecture. The materials are primarily financial in nature, and include Winningham’s correspondence with bank President H. Charles Johnson and bank employee Dana Durst; Winningham’s budgets, invoices, and receipts; planning notes for the project; and drafts and a final copy of Winningham’s contract.

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The collection consists of two copies (one partial) of typescripts of Charlotte Ellen Lea Bax's memoirs, with handwritten edits. Topics discussed include her early childhood, parents, religion, her courtship and marriage, her children, London society, and London's influenza epidemic of 1895.