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Frank L. Borland Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: MS B64
Scope and Content Note
Borland's typewritten reminiscence, 1935, together with related clipping and memorandum, 1884 and 1922, pertaining to gamblers and gambling in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1878-1900, and especially to the "Flynn-Doran feud" and the shooting of Frank Flynn in 1884.
Dates:
1884; 1922; 1935
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Solon Borland Letter
Collection
Identifier: MS L34 1849
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter, signed, dated Washington City, Mar. 11, 1849, addressed to Charles A. Galloway, Fort Washita, C.N., defending Col. Upshaw, of Fort Washita, on charges made by "certain Indian chiefs, etc." 3 pages.
Dates:
1849
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Solon Borland Letters
Collection
Identifier: MS B644
Scope and Content Note
Letters from U.S. Senator Borland, Washington, D. C., to Charles A. Galloway and others, pertaining to affairs at Fort Washita, to business of the Senate Printing Committee, and to the Phi Delta Society at Oglethorpe University, Milledgeville, Georgia.
Dates:
1848; 1850
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Sam Boyce Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1643
Scope and Content Note
The Sam Boyce Papers consist primarily of materials related to his political career, especially his campaign for Attorney General of Arkansas in 1962; his campaign for Prosecuting Attorney of the Third Judicial District in Arkansas in 1964; his campaign for Governor of Arkansas in 1966; and his campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas in 1993. Other materials pertain to his activities as Assistant Attorney General of Arkansas in 1961 to 1962, and his involvement with the Young Democratic...
Dates:
1950-2013
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Milton P. Boyd Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1124
Scope and Content Note
Papers consist of diaries with nearly complete daily entries from 1906-1927 describing Boyd's professional, personal, and business life; one folder of letters, 1911-1921; one folder of newspaper clippings; one folder of miscellaneous papers. Also included are photographs taken at Bloomington, Illinois of stone ornamentations for the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Memorial Hall which were designed by Rem J. Slattery Jr. of the firm Haralson and Mott, ca. 1938.
Dates:
1906-1938
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Tom Boyett Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MC 1677
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists primarily of correspondence between Tom and Evelyn during the periods 1924-1925, after Tom had left Hope, and 1942-1945, when Tom served in the Navy. Other correspondence includes a letter commending Tom’s military service signed by James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy during World War II, and a couple of letters to Tom from his mother, Ida. Remaining items include greeting cards from 1904 and...
Dates:
1904-1963
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Ben O. Bracken Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1747
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes photograph proof sheets and negatives of businesses, churches, social events, and people living in Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas. Portraits of individuals are arranged in alphabetical order according to last name.
Dates:
1950s-1970s
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Bradfield-Clifton Family Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1918
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains family correspondence, deeds, general financial materials, tax receipts, land patents, and certificates.
Dates:
1848-1940
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Arthur Bradley Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1794
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of letters Bradley wrote to his family when overseas, journals documenting his the trips he took to Alaska and Mississippi, audio CDs of his key memories, a DVD with Bradley family memories, photographs of his travels and family, and some general biographical material.
Materials include correspondence, audio/visual CDs and DVD, journals, newspaper clippings, photographs, and biographical material.
Materials include correspondence, audio/visual CDs and DVD, journals, newspaper clippings, photographs, and biographical material.
Dates:
1909-2001
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Bradley County (Arkansas) Estate Sale of Slaves
Collection
Identifier: MC 1141
Scope and Content Note
Official account, signed by County Clerk W. H. Wheeler, listing the names of nine slaves belonging to the estate of James. T. Bragg, the names of the persons purchasing, and the price paid.
Dates:
1860
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Bradley County Businesses and Road Overseers
Collection
Identifier: MC 692
Scope and Content Note
"List of Licensed Groceries & Taverns & Ferries..." and "List of Road Overseers...1855."
One leave containing a handwritten list of grocery, tavern, and ferry licenses; list of road overseers for each township for 1855.
One leave containing a handwritten list of grocery, tavern, and ferry licenses; list of road overseers for each township for 1855.
Dates:
1855
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Bragg Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1257
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other materials relating to the Samuel and Hosea Bragg family. Family corresopndence includes letters written during the era of the antebellum South as well as the Civil War. Also included is correspondence during the period 1866-1911, as well as letters written during the First World War. Genealogical materials relate to the Bragg and Engles families. Legal documents include receipts for the sale...
Dates:
1836-1946
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan Braly Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS B72 391
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, diary, notebook, photographs, clippings (electrostatic copy), tax receipts, and other records created, received, or collected by members of the Braly family of Cane Hill, Arkansas and pertaining to their personal, familial, domestic, religious, business, and other affairs, especially during the period, 1862-1865, while Amanda Braly’s son William Carrick Braly was on duty with Confederate army forces as a private in Co. B, 34th Arkansas Infantry.
Dates:
1841-1920; Majority of material found within 1860-1865
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan Braly Family Papers Supplement
Collection
Identifier: MS B72 Sup. 391A
Scope and Content Note
Two handwritten and signed letters from William Carrick Braly (1841-1920) to his mother, Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan Braly, of Cane Hill, AR: October 3, 1863. Arkadelphia, AR. 4 pages on 1 L. folded; Apr. 5, 1865. Blossom Prairie, Lamar County, Tex. 4 pages on 1 L. folded.
Dates:
1863-1865
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Jennie E. Brander Letter
Collection
Identifier: MC 814
Scope and Content Note
Letter written by Jennie E. Brander, a school teacher in Bolivar, Mississippi, to "Beloved Friend," living in Bellevue, Louisiana. Brander describes the previous year's burning of her town by Union troops, rumored conditions in the Vicksburg area, and her activities as a teacher at Bolivar. Four-page letter written by Jennie E. Brander to an unnamed friend at Bellevue, [Louisiana], from Bolivar, Mississippi. She describes her activities as a teacher, the impact on her and other...
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Special Collections Department
John Casper Branner Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 280
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of the correspondence between John Casper Branner and Albert Homer Purdue, from 1892-1917. It includes a letter from Branner to Purdue's widow, Ida Pace Purdue, on the occasion of Purdue's death; Ida Pace Purdue's reply is also contained in the collection. Letters are variously handwritten or typescript; all are photocopies. The correspondence between Dr. John Casper Branner (1850-1922) and Albert Homer Purdue forms a portion of the Branner collection of the...
Dates:
1892-1918
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Joseph K. Brantley Memorandum Book
Collection
Identifier: MC 978
Scope and Content Note
Memorandum book, kept by Sergeant Joseph K. Brantley, Zimmerman's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery, (7th Arkansas Field Battery), containing a roster of non-commissioned officers and enlisted men; a list of shoes issued to the unit on May 12, 1865; and what appear to be sales transactions recorded in February, 1860.
Dates:
1860-1865
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Beth Brickell Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1713
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains scrapbook materials, photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs from University of Arkansas events.
Dates:
1955-1958
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Beth Brickell Research Materials on Maud Crawford
Collection
Identifier: MC 2317
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of Beth Brickell’s investigative research into the 1957 disappearance of Arkansas lawyer Maud Crawford, as well as copies of her publications regarding the case. The research includes transcripts of more than 1,500 interviews conducted by Brickell with Camden residents and persons of interest in the case.
Dates:
ca 1850-2018; Majority of material found within 1957-1986
Found in:
Special Collections Department
I. C. Brickey Letter
Collection
Identifier: MC 1058
Scope and Content Note
Letter from I. C. Brickey, Corresponding Secretary, Batesville (Independence County), 18 December 1851, to William C. Buck, Corresponding Secretary, Bible Board, Nashville, Tennessee, concerning action of the Executive Board of the White River, Arkansas, Baptist Convention.
Dates:
1851
Found in:
Special Collections Department
H.J. Briggs Oath of Allegiance
Collection
Identifier: MC 43
Scope and Content Note
Oath of allegiance issued by the provost marshal's office of Helena, Arkansas, to H.J. Briggs on January 5, 1863
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Margaret Virginia Briggs Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1339
Scope and Content Note
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...
Dates:
1945-1946
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Mary Susan High Casey Brisco "The Story of My Life" Autobiographical Sketch
Collection
Identifier: MS B774
Scope and Content Note
Xerox copy of manuscript text (138 pages) and of typewritten transcript (70 pages) of autobiographical sketch, dated March 3, 1954, by Mary Susan High Casey Brisco, a Berryville, Arkansas folk singer whose sound recorded songs are a part of the University Folklore Collection. (See "A Check List of Arkansas Songs," Arkansas Folklore, vol. 4, no. 2, Jan. 1, 1954 and vol. 7, no. 1, Mar. 1957, in Series F4 of University Folklore Collection). Prefatory...
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Hugh D. Britt Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 834
Scope and Content Note
Business cards, clippings, and two memoirs.
Dates:
1949-1952
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Maurice "Footsie" Britt Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1238
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of scrapbooks, photograph albums, speeches, printed materials, photographs, film, audio and video cassettes, and awards collected by Britt over his sports, military, and political careers. Included are albums assembled by Britt's mother, Virgie; photographs of Britt during World War II and his subsequent acceptance of the Medal of Honor at the University of Arkansas in 1944; speeches made by Britt during his political campaign for governor in 1986; plaques, awards, and other...
Dates:
1920-1993
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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