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Includes an enclosure "From my mailing list," 2 pp of names and addresses of Lemke's former students and other associates in the Washington, D. C. area.

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Correspondence, Newspaper clippings, Photographs, and other documentation of Mrs. Thorp's death and memorial service.

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Lynnette Thorp seated at manual typewriter inspecting a copy of the Arkansas Traveler when she was editor.

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On the verso are a photocopy of her obituary in the Washington Post, May 19, 2001, and notes written by her husband, Matt Thorp.

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On the verso are testimonials from two of Lynnette Thorp's admirers.

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After Hancock graduated, he sent a drawing of the hog to coach Francis A. Schmidt, which is possibly the one in MC 1488, a sketch on tracing paper signed by the artist, inscribed "as ferocious as I can make him." It was loaned to the University Libraries by Miss Kate Davenport, who was employed for many years in University administration. Following her death, when no survivors could be located, it was decided to accession the drawing for preservation in Special Collections.

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Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

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Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

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Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

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Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

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Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

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Two letters and an envelope written by J. C. Whitescarver in 1877. A transcription made by the donor accompanies the original documents. Whitescarver describes his first impressions on arriving in the Little Red River community and finding work, as well as inquiring about people and the conditions in his home place in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, where the addressee, Sallie Whitescarver, lived, apparently with J. C.'s brother, to whom the content of the letters is addressed.

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Two letters and an envelope written by J. C. Whitescarver in 1877. A transcription made by the donor accompanies the original documents. Whitescarver describes his first impressions on arriving in the Little Red River community and finding work, as well as inquiring about people and the conditions in his home place in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, where the addressee, Sallie Whitescarver, lived, apparently with J. C.'s brother, to whom the content of the letters is addressed.

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Two letters and an envelope written by J. C. Whitescarver in 1877. A transcription made by the donor accompanies the original documents. Whitescarver describes his first impressions on arriving in the Little Red River community and finding work, as well as inquiring about people and the conditions in his home place in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, where the addressee, Sallie Whitescarver, lived, apparently with J. C.'s brother, to whom the content of the letters is addressed.

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The collection consists of one item, a letter written by James Mitchell on November 27, 1874. It is written by hand on a folded sheet of stationery bearing a lithograph in green depicting University Hall, the building housing the Arkansas Industrial University. In the letter Mitchell addresses David Walker, a prominent judge, asking Walker to use his influence with the Arkansas General Assembly to obtain a sufficient appropriation to operate the new University.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Color-printed cardboard fan bearing an advertisement for the Fayetteville Business College. The fan is vase-shaped, with the handle an integral part of the fan and reinforced by an overlay of brown cardboard. On the face of the fan is an image of a daydreaming schoolboy seated at his desk. His daydreams include images of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The verso of the fan contains a promotional message "Compliments of Fayetteville Business College, 'The School You'll...

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The roster is a printout of a database with the following fields: name, address, spouse or next of kin, whether a native son, whether entombed in the USS Arizona, whether living or dead on July 1, 2000, whether a member of the association and active or not, Pearl Harbor Survivors registry number if known.

A copy of Lt. Col. Moffat's covering letter providing a brief analysis of the data is included with the finding aid.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The letters were written by Lilbourn Meriwether in 1912, when he was a student at the University, to his father R. W. Meriwether in Paragould. The first was dated February 27 and the second February 28 and they were sent Special Delivery from Fayetteville. They describe the student uprising known as the X-Ray incident, in which students published a paper by that name. For a full account of this incident, see Robert A. Leflar's history of the University, The First Hundred Years, pp....

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The collection consists of copies of the transcriptions of interviews she conducted with Daisy Gatson Bates and Vivion Lenon Brewer, two leaders of the effort to desegregate Central High School. N.B. The transcripts were copied from the Southern Historical Collection, the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and were given to the University of Arkansas Libraries by Ms. Jacoway.

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The collection consists of copies of the transcriptions of interviews she conducted with Daisy Gatson Bates and Vivion Lenon Brewer, two leaders of the effort to desegregate Central High School. N.B. The transcripts were copied from the Southern Historical Collection, the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and were given to the University of Arkansas Libraries by Ms. Jacoway.

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The collection consists of copies of the transcriptions of interviews she conducted with Daisy Gatson Bates and Vivion Lenon Brewer, two leaders of the effort to desegregate Central High School. N.B. The transcripts were copied from the Southern Historical Collection, the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and were given to the University of Arkansas Libraries by Ms. Jacoway.

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Typewritten letter, signed, June 4, 1909, from Oldfield to Hon. Geo. W. Reed, H[e]ber, Ark. Response to request for restoration of "the status of those persons serving in the 4th Arkansas Mounted Infantry Volunteers," expressing doubt that the measure will be considered in the current session of Congress.

Scope and Contents Correspondence (1924) between L. F. Snow and Nat L. Shepherd of the American Bauxite Company of Bauxite, Arkansas, and officials of Wallace & Tiernan, developers of chlorine control apparatus, regarding the use of chlorine therapy for colds, respiratory diseases, and influenza. Also offprints of published material on this topic. Also letters from Harrison Hale, Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas, to Shepherd with offprints of two reports from the Journal of Industrial and...

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Copies of letters and photographs collected by Jefferson Forrest Mullins of Wilson, Arkansas, were donated to the University of Arkansas Libraries by his daughter, Carolyn Moffitt, of Memphis. The letters were written to Mullins in 1946 and 1948 by two German prisoners of war who had been incarcerated at Wilson, Arkansas, during World War II.

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Copies of letters and photographs collected by Jefferson Forrest Mullins of Wilson, Arkansas, were donated to the University of Arkansas Libraries by his daughter, Carolyn Moffitt, of Memphis. The letters were written to Mullins in 1946 and 1948 by two German prisoners of war who had been incarcerated at Wilson, Arkansas, during World War II.