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Box Small Manuscript Collections Box 1

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Personal note from Samuel Beckett to Robert Cochran, March 15, 1971

 Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2224, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2224
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

The collection consists of two handwritten thank-you notes from Beckett to Robert Cochran (a writer and a professor in the University of Arkansas Department of English), as well as a copy of a book review. Cochran is the author of Samuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991), and also wrote his doctoral thesis, "'Unmakable Love': A Study of the Plays of Samuel Beckett" (1973) on Beckett's work.

Dates: March 15, 1971

Portrait of "Aunt Vine Wilson," Alecta Caledonia Melvina Smith (card-mounted black-and-white photographic print), 1908

 Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2037 Folder 1, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2037
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains materials gathered by David Zimmerman during his historical research, including two photographs documenting the African-American community in Harrison, Arkansas, around the turn of the 20th century. Also included is a photograph of Eureka Springs, and two letters from folklorist Vance Randolph to Thelma O'Dell Carter of Green Forest, Arkansas, in which he solicits her knowledge on the location of Bradshaw Mountain and on reports of “white-cappers” and race-related...
Dates: 1908

Correspondence from Ben F. Taylor of Canon City, Colorado to Alma Mendenhall of Texas, June 3, 1907

 Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2037 Folder 3, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2037
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains materials gathered by David Zimmerman during his historical research, including two photographs documenting the African-American community in Harrison, Arkansas, around the turn of the 20th century. Also included is a photograph of Eureka Springs, and two letters from folklorist Vance Randolph to Thelma O'Dell Carter of Green Forest, Arkansas, in which he solicits her knowledge on the location of Bradshaw Mountain and on reports of “white-cappers” and race-related...
Dates: June 3, 1907

Photograph of 20 Millionth Ford celebration in Hazen, Arkansas, with Rogers store in background, 1931

 File — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2329, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2329
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

The collection consists of four photographic prints collected by Mildred Elizabeth Crowley, some of which may have originally been collected by her family members.

Dates: 1931

Thyra Samter Winslow, ca 1921-1940

 File — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2327 Folder 2, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2331
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

The collection consists of four photographs of Arkansas writer Thyra Samter Winslow and her first husband, Seymour Winslow, as well as newspaper clippings of Thyra Samter Winslow's obituary.

Dates: ca 1921-1940

Photograph- Bay City land dredge with cross-walker at Ditch #57, May 26, 1926

 File — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2327, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2327
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

The collection consists of five photographic prints provided by the Osceola Drainage District Office archives, as well as a photocopy from a book or article discussing the creation of drainage districts.

Dates: May 26, 1926

Letter to J. H.[?] Tenney[?], Garfield, [Arkansas?], from brother N.[?] H. Tenney in Witt Springs, Arkansas, informing him of their mother's death, 1884

 File — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 1, Folder: MC 2343 Folder 1, Item: 1
Identifier: MC 2343
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

The collection consists of two nineteenth-century letters from members of the Tenney family of Arkansas.

Dates: 1884