Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...

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Records and memorabilia pertaining to medical practitioners and the biomedical equipment industry in Little Rock, Arkansas. Materials include office door plaques; the Little Rock Bio-Medical Product Development Group business plan; Physical Diagnostics Inc. (PDI) marketing proposal; fabric banner promoting PDI; and a portion of a medical equipment manual.One item, an appointment book, is currently restricted.

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Photographs, correspondence, scrapbook, business ledger, and other materials pertaining to the Norwood family of Sevier County, Arkansas. The bulk of the materials are related to J. P. Norwood and to his wife, Demma Dooley Norwood.

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"Sketches of a journey from Camden [New York] to [Peoria County?] Illinois," written by an unknown woman, June 13 - November 6, 1837, describing an overland journey. The diary was apparently sent back to Camden, and new entries made by someone else January 1 - November 29, 1845.

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Correspondence written or collected by David Walker, James David Walker, Charles Whiting Walker, Nancy Walker Warren, and other family members on topics including the Walker family, politics, social matters, and the Civil War.

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Some genealogical materials are also included in this series.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Correspondence, memoranda, drafts of grant proposals, conference materials, minutes, publications, and other documents primarily related to Charles Gliozzo’s involvement with NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the National Council for International Visitors, and the Council for International Educational Exchange. The bulk of the collection is made up of documents from Gliozzo’s time spent at annual NAFSA conferences from 1992-2010, and the formation of an awareness program for...

Content Description From the Collection: Photographs, planners, newspaper clippings, playbills, correspondence, awards, and other materials documenting the career of actress Alice Ghostley.Materials pertaining to Ghostley's theater and television performances are primarily from scrapbook binders; they include photographs, fan mail, playbills, newspaper clippings, and other materials. Photographs include both behind-the-scenes and stage photos as well as promotional photographs; many are copy prints rather than original...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Family correspondence between members of the Wheeler, Carnall, and Stevenson families of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Sallisaw, Oklahoma. The bulk of the family letters are addressed to Emma Carnall Wheeler and are dated from 1880 to 1899.  A few examples of business correspondence, primarily to John Carnall, and his son, John Henry Carnall, are included with this series and concern the operation of their newspaper, the Fort Smith Elevator, and John Henry Carnall's term as mayor of Fort Smith. ...

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Receipts, invoices, promissory notes, and cancelled checks pertaining to the Wheeler-Carnall families.  Some of the material documents transactions concerning the Fort Smith Herald, the Weekly New Era, and Wheeler's Independent, all nineteenth century Fort Smith newspapers.  All of the materials have been replaced with positive photocopies and have been chronologically arranged.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Indentures, deeds, and petitions pertaining to the legal transactions of the Wheeler, Carnall, Stevenson, and other families in Arkansas and Oklahoma.  These documents have been arranged chronologically and include an 1829 power of attorney issued to John Nicks from Frances McDermott to claim land in Arkansas Territory recently ceded by the Cherokees; an 1830 purchase agreement transacted by John Nicks; and an application by Edgar T. Stevenson for enrollment as a member of the Cherokee tribe...

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Genealogy notes, poetry, and manuscript obituaries written by or  pertaining to the Wheeler-Carnall-Stevenson families.  Of particular interest is an April 2, 1894, handwritten resolution of the Arkansas Industrial University faculty honoring Miss Ella Howison Carnall following her death.  All of the handwritten manuscripts in this series have been replaces by positive photocopies.

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Journal written by William P. Floyd, a surgeon with Edward Fitzgerald Beale's wagon road expedition who documented his trip from Virginia to Fort Smith, then on to the Colorado River.

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Letter and engraving of Calhoun (engraving of Henry Clay on reverse of Calhoun engraving). Letter, suggesting Arkansas for the relocation of the Six Nations, has been published in W. Edwin Hemphill, ed., The Papers of John C. Calhoun (Columbia: South Caroliniana Society, 1963), vol. II.

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This collection is a history prepared on Dr. John C. Carter and his business by Kim Allen Scott. The paper was published in Flashback volume 37, number 1 on February 1987.

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Pardon for Benjamin W. Martin, of Bradley County, Arkansas, for his role as a tax collector for the Confederate States of America. Signed by President Andrew Johnson and his Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Original is in two pieces.

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Fragile originals removed from series 1-6.

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Photocopies of the Brown family's birth certificates and visa applications.

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The collection includes the FIES articles of incorporation and other legal and historical documents; board meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; financial records; mailing and donor lists; records concerning the Foundation's scholarships; newsletters; brochures; and computer discs.

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The collection includes the FIES articles of incorporation and other legal and historical documents; board meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; financial records; mailing and donor lists; records concerning the Foundation's scholarships; newsletters; brochures; and computer discs.