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The pictures include cartes-de-visite of Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis and his wife, and Civil War generals; original artwork; photographs (some taken by family members) of the Ellsworth and Van Patten families and their friends; purchased photographs (including stereographs and a souvenir viewbook of colored engravings of Niagara Falls), and photograph albums.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains two scrapbooks, two publications, The Helm 1946, published by the WAVES Naval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and While So Serving by Eleanor Hart and Harriet Welling (Robert W. Kelly Publishing Corporation, New York), and twelve additional photographs. The scrapbooks contain photographs, personal and official letters, picture postcards, greeting cards, programs, newspaper and magazine...

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Box of 117 pictures, mostly photographs but including some newspaper clippings and miscellaneous pictures. Many of the photographs are labeled. Most are of scenes in the Ozarks, and include fine pictures of springs, mills, and covered bridges. All of the mills and covered bridges are from Missouri. One excellent photograph of Vance Randolph and O. E. Rayburn, taken in Mr. Rayburn's bookstore in May, 1960.

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This collection contains research material accumulated during the author's work on her book First Ladies of Arkansas: Women of Their Times. Included are the original drafts of the narrative, handwritten notes, correspondence pertaining to the author's research, questionnaires, newspaper and magazine clippings (as well as photocopies), and other printed material; photographs and slides. Also included is the incomplete manuscript of the book.

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Many of the pictures were not identified. Note that pictures originally attached to or included in the correspondence files (mostly snapshot portraits included with applications for employment) have been left in Series 1 (correspondence).

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Portraits of members of the DuVal family, their friends and acquaintances, and two views of Fort Smith ca. 1860. All of the portraits in the album numbered 34-72 are unidentified, but are likely the siblings of Benjamin DuVal and their offspring. One of the Fort Smith photographs, #25, has been removed for separate oversize storage.

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Journal kept by Captain King of the Clarksville and California Mining Association, during the later part of an overland expedition from Clarksville, Arkansas to California, April 2 to December 22, 1849.

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382 positive prints, 5 1/4" x 4" to 8 3/4" x 6 1/2", of photographs made by Mena, Ark, commercial photographer Bert Hiltebrand, 1900-1930, of buildings, persons, scenes, and activities in and around Mena. Photographs pertain to: churches; schools; agriculture, lumbering and other industrial and commercial activity; social, cultural, and recreational activities. Most are mounted; some are captioned or identified with penciled notation on verso of mounting; few are dated.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection contains positive prints collected by author Hale for use in illustrating his book, University of Arkansas, 1871-1948, published in 1948. Most have manuscript notations on verso. Eighteen (18) of the photographs used to illustrate Hale's book are not preserved in this collection. These are alpha­betically listed below with the number of the facing page. Albert Webb Bishop, p. 23 Maurice L. Britt, p. 216...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Correspondence, memoranda, scrapbooks, diary fragment, legislative bills, broadsides, photographs, clippings and other published and unpublished materials created or received by the Arkansas lawyer, politician, state legislator and administrator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1943 and who was, from 1942 his retirement in 1968, Executive Manager of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Part of the materials pertain to Ellis’ personal...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Correspondence, 1919-1950; photographs, c. 1884-1943; journal, 1931-1934; scrapbooks of clippings, 1927-1931 and 1934-1944; and other material pertaining to Thaddeus Horatius Caraway's political and other activities, 1927-1931, and Hattie Wyatt Caraway's political and other activities, 1931-1945, while serving as U.S. Senators from Arkansas (1920-1931 and 1931-1945, respectively); to T.H. Caraway's death, 1931; to H.W. Caraway's post-Senatorial career as U.S. civil servant, 1945-1950; and to...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Correspondence, 1919-1950; photographs, c. 1884-1943; journal, 1931-1934; scrapbooks of clippings, 1927-1931 and 1934-1944; and other material pertaining to Thaddeus Horatius Caraway's political and other activities, 1927-1931, and Hattie Wyatt Caraway's political and other activities, 1931-1945, while serving as U.S. Senators from Arkansas (1920-1931 and 1931-1945, respectively); to T.H. Caraway's death, 1931; to H.W. Caraway's post-Senatorial career as U.S. civil servant, 1945-1950; and to...

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Papers and photographs pertaining to the Kirby Family of Newton County, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Materials include: two letters from family members, 1903, 1920; genealogical notes and writings created by Meda E. Curtis and her daughter, Faye M. Turbyfill, ca. 1950s; photographs of family members and homes in Arkansas and Oklahoma, circa 1887-1990; newspaper clippings concerning the Curtis family; 10 sketches created by Mabel Durham Ryker of the Curtis homestead in Newton County.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains photographs taken at the Arkansas state capitol building in Little Rock.  Photographs 1-30 are of Vada Sheid with dignitaries, as listed below.  Photographs 31-111 are of Vada Sheid with constituents, pages, and other office holders.  These photographs were taken by the Secretary of State's Office and are in chronological order by the negative number the Secretary of State's office assigned to each photograph.  Photographs 112-145 are snapshots of Vada Sheid with...

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Pictures include drawings, photoprints (sometimes hand colored for use in several different ways), and negatives. Numbers refer to images; there may be drawings or prints in Box 7 or in Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 9, negatives in Box 8 or 9 (glass plate negatives) or Negatives Box 2 (safety film), or Items in more than one location. In each location, Items are in numerical order, but there may be gaps in one location because the image is represented only in a different location.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Most of the material was saved by Garvin Shipley, one of the co-founders of Shipley Baking Company and uncle of the donor. Included are the records of the Shipley Baking Company of Fort Smith and Fayetteville, as well as the records of the W. G. Shipley Baking Company of Fayetteville and McAlester, Oklahoma. The collection also includes some material on the Shipley family, Fort Smith, the First Baptist Church of Fort Smith, and some information on the Cotton Holsum Bakeries of...

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Negatives of images in Series 1-3.

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11 positive prints, 8" x 10" and 5 strips of negative film, 1" x 7 1/2", photographs of the portraits used to illustrate Gatewood's article, "Negro Legislators in Arkansas, 1891: A Document" Arkansas Historical Quarterly XXXI (Autumn 1972), 220-223.

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35mm negatives corresponding to images in Series 25, Subseries 1-3; many if not all may be copy negatives created during processing or for researchers.

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The Women's Library also incorporates the library of the Mari Spehar Health Education Project. Mari Spehar was a Fayetteville woman who died in 1977 from complications caused by the use of a Dalkon Shield IUD.

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Mounted photographs, clippings, and other material collected by compiler Truman G. Shipman while serving as United States Weather Bureau meteorologist in Fort Smith, Arkansas, pertaining to great storms in Fort Smith and vicinity, 1923 to 1930, including the cyclone of 1927.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains 35 Folders of photographs, originals and prints reproduced from photographs made available by JTR heirs, together with negatives, all arbitrarily arranged and partially identified. Photographs are largely of political, family, or recreational subjects, and include photographs of the Robinson and Henry Grady Miller families; the London Naval Conference; Democratic National Conventions of 1920, 1924, and 1936; Franklin Delano Roosevelt's reelection campaign of 1936; JTR's hunting and...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Sixty-four 8" x 10" glossy prints, 31 of the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Ark. and 33 of the Jerome Relocation Center at Denson, Ark., together with 680 electrostatic copies of photographs (64 of those in 8" x 10" prints and 616 others) with coded and captioned identifications. Photographs and electrostatic copies depict aspects of American concentration camp administration and facilities and of the life and work of incarcerees held there. Prints and electrostatic copies are...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Sixty-four 8" x 10" glossy prints, 31 of the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Ark. and 33 of the Jerome Relocation Center at Denson, Ark., together with 680 electrostatic copies of photographs (64 of those in 8" x 10" prints and 616 others) with coded and captioned identifications. Photographs and electrostatic copies depict aspects of American concentration camp administration and facilities and of the life and work of incarcerees held there. Prints and electrostatic copies are...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Sixty-four 8" x 10" glossy prints, 31 of the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Ark. and 33 of the Jerome Relocation Center at Denson, Ark., together with 680 electrostatic copies of photographs (64 of those in 8" x 10" prints and 616 others) with coded and captioned identifications. Photographs and electrostatic copies depict aspects of American concentration camp administration and facilities and of the life and work of incarcerees held there. Prints and electrostatic copies are...