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The collection consists of the records of the Ark-Oma Whirl-Away Square Dance Club, based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Materials include by-laws, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, officer and member lists, financial records, and newspaper clippings.

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1950 yearbook for the Brush and Palette Guild of Pine Bluff Arkansas, including officer and member lists and meeting minutes.

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The ledger contains minutes of the society, which changed its name to Kennard Literary Society in 1902, membership rolls, and a few programs.

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This collection consists primarily of the Child Study Group's annual calendars, dating from the 1950s to 2009. Other items include photographs from the 1990s, meeting attendance rolls, and member information.

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Materials include member and officer lists, treasury records, club by-laws, and other miscellaneous materials.

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The Demeter Garden Club Records include the club’s creed and constitution, a small business ledger, and the minutes of the club’s meetings. The collection has three scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings of the various events hosted by the garden club, certificates, and photographs.

Materials include club constitutions, a creed, three scrapbooks, yearbooks, and membership directories.

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The record book contains Constitution, By-laws, and minutes of the Fayetteville City Hospital Auxiliary, 1909-1916; roll of members 1912-1913; expense report 1909; inlaid typed explanatory note by Elizabeth D. Ellis; and undated newspaper clipping reporting about the first six-month City Hospital's operation.

Scope and Content Note The records contain the council's constitutions, minutes, and scrapbooks. One scrapbook, entitled Over the Rainbow, was entered into the Rose Rosette City Council Flower Show on May 12, 1964, and includes narratives, clippings, photographs, and samples of material. The supplementary materials (box 3) contain correspondence, minutes of the meetings, pamphlets, nine issues of The Arkansas Gardener, newspaper clippings, two...

Scope and Content Note The records consist of by-laws and constitution; minutes of the meetings; financial, election, and activity reports; correspondence; membership roster and directories; convention and installation banquet programs; awards and certificates; newspaper and magazine clippings; newsletters; bulletins; the official publication of Kiwanis International The Kiwanis Magazine; photographs; nineteen slides (Kiwanis Kid's Day Football, Aug 16, 1985); two audiotapes...

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4-page folded leaflet describing Fort Smith's assets and encouraging immigration, issued by the Business Men's Club of Fort Smith.

Content Description The collection consists primarily of Arkansas home demonstration club records, and particularly those related to Washington County home demonstration clubs and to the Washington County Extension Homemakers Council. Of the Washington County club records, the bulk pertain to the Baptist Ford Extension Homemakers Club and to the Busy Bees Extension Homemakers Club (Fayetteville); smaller subsets of materials relate to the Growing 59ers Extension Homemakers Club, the Habberton Extension...

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Three scrapbooks and a photographic album containing organizational files, correspondence, reports, programs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs, pertaining to the General LaFayette Chapter's activities from 1986 to 1988.

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This collection consists of materials resulting from the Work Progress Administration's Historical Records Survey project in Arkansas.

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The collection consists of handmade annual yearbooks of Fayetteville's Iris Garden Club. Contents of yearbooks vary by year, but typically include information such as officer lists, brief meeting minutes, and member contact information.

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Letter from J. William Fulbright to Ray Adams regarding Fulbright's visit with the Rotary Club of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Printed form letter, with reply form for dues payment, from the Malvern Hoo Hoo Club No. 46, regarding the nearly complete first Hoo Hoo clubhouse in America, Hoo Hoo Home No. 1 facing Lake Catherine.

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Scrapbooks of the Maple Hills Garden Club of Fayetteville (Washington County) include clippings, photographs, correspondence, programs, and by-laws.

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The material consists of annual reports, minutes of annual meetings, audits and budgets, membership lists, research notes, and other records.

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The collection consists of organizational records of the Scandinavian Society of Northwest Arkansas. These materials were primarily compiled by the club historians to document the organization's history and activities. Materials include photographs, newspaper clippings, event materials, the organization's constitution and bylaws, club newsletters, and correspondence.

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The collection contains newsletters, event materials, and membership lists of the Scottish Society of Northwest Arkansas. Event materials include clippings, programs, and correspondence, primarily related to the Society's annual Robert Burns Night celebrations.

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Materials include awards, plaques, invitations, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, correspondence, photographs, lectures, academic publications, research journals, club minutes, constitutions, charters, University of Arkansas job applications and notices of change in job status, poetry by Otis Hite, and confidential papers pertaining to illegal recruitment of Jim Barnes.

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The collection consists of records of The Town Club, a social organization based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Materials include meeting minutes, bylaws, member lists, event fliers, photographs, and an audiocassette tape of the group's 50th anniversary celebration.

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The collection consists of scrapbooks containing Tyler's three columns from the Eureka Springs Times-Echo, Vance Randolph correspondence, and photographs. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically and consist of her "Alpine Hiking Club," "Ukulele Club," and "Around Town" columns. Photographs of activities mentioned in the columns are arranged chronologically in Series 3.

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The records consist of two scrapbooks with yearbooks, programs, newspaper clippings, and photographs. They also contain the National Federation of Music Clubs' publications and letters, yearbooks of Monticello Melody Club (1936-1937), Monticello Music Club (1936-1937), and Pine Bluff Musical Coterie (1937-1938), and other papers.

Scope and Content Note The historical papers which comprise Series 1 were maintained to support historical and genealogical research at Headquarters House in Fayetteville, where the society has its offices and a historical museum. The original order of the files has been retained as far as possible, with some adjustments to provide easier access to the materials. There is great variation in the type and quantity of materials in these files, reflecting their existence in a continuing research and publishing...