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Drawing of an unknown ship in a harbor by Joseph Pennell. Poster commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department to promote and encourage the purchase of war loan certificates.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Contains 48 folders of correspondence, press releases, articles, pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, notes, studies, reports, and other items pertaining to Brooks Hays's administrative and legal activities with the Resettlement Administration, later disbanded, and the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1942, together with other materials, including speech notes and some Brooks Hays speeches, relating to Brooks Hays speaking engagements undertaken for the two agencies, arranged chronologically in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Contains 21 folders of correspondence, together with some clippings and campaign literature, pertaining to Brooks Hays's 1958 Congressional campaign in the Fifth Arkansas District and subsequent defeat by "write-in" candidate [Thomas] Dale Alford. Files include letters of condolence from the religious sector, including spokesmen from the Southern Baptist Convention, American Baptist Convention, churches, and other organizations, as well as from political colleagues and supporters. Also...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Contains 24 folders of materials pertaining to Hays' candidacy in the 1972 North Carolina Congressional campaign, including correspondence enclosing contributions and/or expressing views on Brooks Hays's campaign; clippings; notes; drafts of campaign letters; mailing lists; and campaign materials, including pamphlets, posters, brochures, and stickers. Files 11-12 concern Citizens for Brooks Hays for Congress, D. C. Committee, including material related to the organization of such a...

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Contains 16 folders, mostly of programs from banquets, lectures, seminars, workshops and other events in which Brooks Hays was a featured speaker. Also includes maps indicating cities where Brooks Hays spoke, promotional leaflets, and clippings of articles concerning Brooks Hays' speeches.

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Correspondence, newspapers, clippings, speeches, broadsides and other material pertaining to the political career of John Wellington Grabiel, the Ohio-born attorney of Fayetteville, Arkansas, who, in 1922 and 1924, was Republican candidate for governor of Arkansas.

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Correspondence, newspapers, clippings, speeches, broadsides and other material pertaining to the political career of John Wellington Grabiel, the Ohio-born attorney of Fayetteville, Arkansas, who, in 1922 and 1924, was Republican candidate for governor of Arkansas.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: Correspondence, bills of lading, invoices, statements of account, receipts, legal documents and other materials collected by Clara B. Eno which pertain to the history of Arkansas, especially in and around the city of Van Buren and in Crawford County. Most of the material relates particularly to the steamboat trade on the Arkansas River and to the commercial activities of Van Buren merchants Edward Cunningham, John Henry, and David C. Williams, 1842-1868. Correspondents include Stephen K....

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Historical documents collected by Albert Howard Stebbins, Jr. related to the history of Arkansas.

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On back of poster, written in longhand, is the following explanation: "Anti-Jeff Davis campaign broadside, second term, 1903. Pomp Brown, Negro convict, pardoned by Gov. Davis"