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"When I Started A Courting," "The Old Fox," "Missouri Girls," "Southern Soldiers," and two untitled songs (words only) handwritten by Thomas Gibbs, Whiterock Church, Farmington, Arkansas. Also story of 1836 frontier life as told by Gibbs's great-grandmother.

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Composition book filled with handwritten poems and stories, "Odds and Ends of Poetry and Prose," circa 1921. Some copied and some apparently written by Criser, who was evidently a student at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

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Diary by an anonymous author, 15 June 1894 - 26 May 1895. Chronicles a grand tour cruise ship voyage from Boston to Europe to New York, and sightseeing in Europe.

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John J. Egger's certificate as postmaster of Egger, Polk County, Arkansas (1886), and diary kept on a calendar pad by Johnny Egger, 1927. The diary includes notes on the weather and a day-by-day account of Egger's activities: farming, hauling, woodcutting, hunting, and visits.

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Letters thanking Hugh Park for editorial in Van Buren Press-Argus about Arthur McCracken Harding (1884-1947), President of the University of Arkansas, 1941-1947. The letters are from Harding's survivors, University officials, lawyers, and a judge.

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Agreement with bankers pertaining to highway and road bonds.

Typed carbon copy (unsigned) between Arkansas and two corporations ("the Bankers") in St. Louis and Chicago, pertaining to highway and road bonds.

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[Mimeographed] musical score for cornet and typed dialogue to go with The Arkansas Traveler.

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[Mimeographed] musical score for cornet and typed dialogue to go with The Arkansas Traveler.

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Certificates for two witnesses, George Lewis and Sam [Speight], in the case of Arkansas vs. [Janie] Jones, signed by F. J. Ginocchio, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Pulaski County, October 27, 1911.

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Certificates for two witnesses, George Lewis and Sam [Speight], in the case of Arkansas vs. [Janie] Jones, signed by F. J. Ginocchio, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Pulaski County, October 27, 1911.

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Certificates for two witnesses, George Lewis and Sam [Speight], in the case of Arkansas vs. [Janie] Jones, signed by F. J. Ginocchio, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Pulaski County, October 27, 1911.

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History of the Magnet Cove Missionary Baptist Church, 1868-1968, compiled from the Church records by Clara A. Golden.

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Tuition and matriculation receipts, Arkansas Industrial University, signed by James Mitchell and J. F. Simonds, for fees paid by James Henry Dunaway (1861-1938).

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Journal of Expedition to Texas, 1846.

Typescript of diary of John P. Gaines (1795- 1857), First Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, from camp near Memphis, TN, 16 July 1846, through Arkansas and Texas to the Rio Grande River, 20 October 1846. Positive photocopy.

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Report, photographs, and letters between Ellis and the National Park Service pertaining to the development of a military park on the site of the Civil War battle at Pea Ridge (Benton County), Arkansas. The report and photographs were created by J. Walter Coleman of the NPS in 1941 following a survey of the area.

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Report, photographs, and letters between Ellis and the National Park Service pertaining to the development of a military park on the site of the Civil War battle at Pea Ridge (Benton County), Arkansas. The report and photographs were created by J. Walter Coleman of the NPS in 1941 following a survey of the area.

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Report, photographs, and letters between Ellis and the National Park Service pertaining to the development of a military park on the site of the Civil War battle at Pea Ridge (Benton County), Arkansas. The report and photographs were created by J. Walter Coleman of the NPS in 1941 following a survey of the area.

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Letter Regarding Mail Transportation, 1865.

Letter from James H. Starr, Agent, Post Office Department Trans-Mississipppi, Marshall, Texas, May 18, 1865, advocating public aid for mail transpotation west of the Mississippi. Positive photocopy.

Positive photocopy of an original letter dated May 18, 1865, Marshall, Texas, written by James H. Starr, Confederate agent for the postal service west of the Mississippi River; it advocates public aid for mail transportation.

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Letter Regarding Mail Transportation, 1865.

Letter from James H. Starr, Agent, Post Office Department Trans-Mississipppi, Marshall, Texas, May 18, 1865, advocating public aid for mail transpotation west of the Mississippi. Positive photocopy.

Positive photocopy of an original letter dated May 18, 1865, Marshall, Texas, written by James H. Starr, Confederate agent for the postal service west of the Mississippi River; it advocates public aid for mail transportation.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Materials relating to the family of Joseph Hubbard Jones of Desha County, Arkansas. The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs, and includes images from a 1916 flood in Watson, Arkansas. Also included is a positive photocopy of reminiscences entitled "Sketch of My Army Life from 1861 to 1865," by Corporal Joseph Hubbard Jones, Company D, First Arkansas Infantry. Apparently written in the late nineteenth century, this autobiographical essay by Jones is a thumbnail sketch of his...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Notebook, transcribed by Stuart G. Vogt, 1975, of Charles William Fry (1842-1922), containing lists of personnel, military expenditures, inventories of ordinance, and copied quotations. Includes biographical note. Positive photocopy. Positive photocopy of a transcription of a notebook kept by Captain Charles William Fry, Fry's Company of Virginia Light Artillery (Orange Artillery). Captain Fry took part in many fights in Virginia during the war and kept a record of ordinance...

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Outlines, drafts, and finished essays; notes; examinations; and other papers (including Regulations of AIU; appointment as beneficiary; receipt for fee; and concert, chapel, elocution, and commencement programs) of Daniel M. Davis, a student of the Preparatory Department, Arkansas Industrial University, 1893.

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Outlines, drafts, and finished essays; notes; examinations; and other papers (including Regulations of AIU; appointment as beneficiary; receipt for fee; and concert, chapel, elocution, and commencement programs) of Daniel M. Davis, a student of the Preparatory Department, Arkansas Industrial University, 1893.

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Outlines, drafts, and finished essays; notes; examinations; and other papers (including Regulations of AIU; appointment as beneficiary; receipt for fee; and concert, chapel, elocution, and commencement programs) of Daniel M. Davis, a student of the Preparatory Department, Arkansas Industrial University, 1893.

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The material consists of speeches delivered by Governor Parnell, as well as articles written by him, and two newspapers.