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Bardwell Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MC 709
Scope and Content Note
Twenty postcard photographs of people and places in and near Rosboro (Pike County). The Bardwell photographs were taken by B. Bardwell and his nephew Carney Bardwell, Rosboro, Arkansas, from about 1910 to 1926. The photographs are all 3 1/4" x 5 1/4" and are printed on the verso for use as postcards. Descriptive material was included for most of the photographs, and is incorporated into the description of each photograph.
Dates:
ca 1910-1926
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Bob and Patty Besom Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1758
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains Arkansas historical materials collected by Bob and Patty Besom. Series I, The University of Arkansas News Bureau files, contains a variety of material focused on contemporary University activities. Included are printed, typed, or hand-written press releases, communications from faculty, staff and media, newspaper clippings, research material, and drafts of stories.
Series II, Union Saw Mill Material, contains materials pertaining to the Union Saw Mill...
Dates:
circa 1759-2019
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Bodcaw Lumber Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MC 1388
Scope and Content Note
The records consist of minute books and stock ledgers.
Dates:
1889-1941
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Frost-Trigg Lumber Company Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MC 2688
Content Description
The collection includes a scrapbook album containing photographs related to the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company, as well as a pamphlet titled "1907 Catalogue of Photographs of the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company for Special Album Presented to Mrs. Ben Collins by R. D. Collins" that includes captions for the images included in the scrapbook. Inscribed on the cover is the message "To Mrs. Ben Collins from R.D. Collins"; R.D. Collins was assistant general manager for the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company's...
Dates:
circa 1900-1907
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Lumber Industry Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MC 2691
Content Description
The collection contains 122 black-and-white photographic prints, most documenting the American lumber industry in the early 20th century. The bulk of the photographs are unidentified. Photographs with captions are: Image 8, “J. S. Betts Plant” (Ashburn, Georgia); Image 26, “J. S. Betts Plant”; Image 30, “White Boyne” (likely one of the White brothers associated with the Boyne City, Michigan lumber industry); Image 31, “Band saw damaged by a nail in a log. Lincoln, N.H. May 1907. J. E....
Dates:
circa 1900-1915
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Kenneth L. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1423
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes photographs, interviews, notes, research materials, organizational records, and other materials documenting the life and work of Kenneth L. Smith, particularly related to his involvement in environmental conservation in Arkansas and to his research and writings on the lumber industry in the Ouachita region of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Series 1 contains materials related to Arkansas environmental organizations, including the Ozark Society, the Arkansas...
Dates:
circa 1850-2021
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Ormie Twiford Diary
Collection
Identifier: MS T92
Scope and Content Note
"Journal of Ormie Twiford; transcribed by Bill R. Beaver; term project for Arkansas folklore; fall semester 1958-1959," being a part (January 1-December 31, 1901) of the diary of a highly literate and articulate log cutter in the vicinity of Mena, Arkansas, transcribed and preface added by Beaver from original manuscript in possession of Roger A. McMillan of Mena.
Dates:
1901
Found in:
Special Collections Department
U.S. Forest Service. Ozark-St. Francis National Forest Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MS Un3f 286 U.S. Forest
Scope and Content Note
Seventy-one each 8" x 10" positive prints and 35 mm. negatives of Arkansas events and scenes in the Ozark National Forest relating to: Jasper, Mountain View, Combs, and Cass, Arkansas: river ferry and bridge construction at Dardanelle-Russellville, Arkansas; lumbering and stave manufacture, including the Hamlin Stave Company of Little Rock; oil well exploratory drilling in Scott County, Arkansas; highway construction; Arkansas College of Technology; rural schools; floods, including the 1927...
Dates:
1914-1938
Found in:
Special Collections Department
R. E. L. Wilson Plantation Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MC 1870
Scope and Content Note
Materials include Lee Wilson and Co. photographs, developed by Jack Pryor, negatives, proofs, and a short list of descriptions about the pictures. The Lee Wilson and Co. images were photographed by Jack Pryor. At least some of the images first appeared with the article, Arkansas Giant by J. D. Ratcliff from The Country Home Magazine and another article, The World's Largest Cotton...
Dates:
ca 1939
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Blake Wintory Collection of Photographs and Postcards
Collection
Identifier: MC 2510
Content Description
Photographic prints, stereoviews, and postcards, primarily of scenes in and around Marianna, Ark. Also includes a photograph of Robert Ramsey, a Memphis, Tennessee-born writer who grew up in Lee County, Arkansas, and authored works such as Fiesta and Fire in Summer, which was set in a fictional county inspired by Lee County.
Dates:
circa 1906-1951
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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