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James Gillespie Birney Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS L34 Birney
Abstract

Published correspondence between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American Anti-slavery Society.

Dates: 1837-1838

Albert Webb Bishop Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS B54
Abstract

Correspondence pertaining to Bishop's legal and financial affairs as Register in Bankruptcy and to the Arkansas Immigrant Aid Society.

Dates: 1866, 1873

University of Arkansas Office of the President: Charles E. Bishop Speeches

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC 378
Scope and Content Note

Materials include speeches given by Charles E. Bishop during his time as the University of Arkansas President. Some speeches are accompanied by related material, including correspondence, press releases, and event programs. The collection also includes a few of Bishop's published papers and reports and a few speeches given by other people.

Dates: 1972-1980

Black Americans for Democracy Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1915.UA
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains meeting minutes, assorted paper materials, photographs and objects.

Dates: 1971-2009

Charles R. Black, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1482
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains Eleven Point Dam materials, J.W. Black Lumber Company materials, correspondence with political leaders, sheet music and joke books for minstrels, Lion's Club materials, and materials pertaining to the University of Arkansas that were collected by Black, a graduate in the class of 1935.

Dates: 1921-1980

Emma Stevenson Black Collection Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 892
Scope and Content Note

39 items. Legal and financial records pertaining to the Wheeler-Carnall-Stevenson families of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Some items deal with the operation of newspaper offices in nineteenth century Fort Smith.

Dates: 1849-1915

Emma Stevenson Black Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 759
Scope and Content Note The collection represents a sampling of papers from all the named families which Mrs. Black saved over the years. Dr. Homer C. Wheeler, Emma's cousin, had possession of some of the papers from 1984 to 1986, during which time he transcribed a few of the letters and made identifying notations about some others. Many of the correspondents and creators of other documents are related to either John Foster Wheeler or John Carnall, and a copy of a privately published genealogy book, ...
Dates: 1829-1986

M. Graham Black Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 608
Scope and Content Note

The papers contain items from the student and navy days of Mr. Black, programs from his season with the Martha Graham Dance Company, original poetry and a stage play, clippings, photographs, and phonograph records of songs sung by Mr. Black.

Dates: 1938-1986

Black Studies Program Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1171
Scope and Content Note

Papers include minutes, reports, and notes of the Black Studies Advisory Committee. Also included are course descriptions, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1967-1987

Bessie Motley Blair Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2534
Content Description

Family papers of Bessie Motley Blair, which were maintained by Blair's daughter, Mary Grace Blair. They include family correspondence, business papers, financial records, photographs, and Mary Grace Blair's genealogy research. Most records pertain to Washington County and Searcy County, Arkansas.

Dates: circa 1860-2000

Diane D. Blair Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1632
Scope and Content of the Papers:

Materials include biographical data, correspondence, newspaper clippings, research materials, notes, primary and secondary source documents, manuscripts, memorabilia, photographs, and electronic data.

Dates: 1874-2000

Herbert Blair Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 622
Scope and Content Note

The papers pertain to Blair's interests in the petroleum and refining industries, especially as they relate to the developments in Africa. The papers contain correspondence and reports, and the donor's arrangement has been preserved.

Dates: 1934-1986

William Blanks Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MC 317
Scope and Content Note Diaries (positive photocopies) of William Blanks, December 1917 - April 1919 and April 1919 - January 1920. Topics include weather, work (at a store, an undertaker or funeral home, and at Hamburg Bank), and day-to-day life in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas; agriculture, particularly cotton crops and livestock; the 1919 influenza epidemic; and President Woodrow Wilson's cancelled Little Rock speech. Persons mentioned include J.B. Callaway, Leroy Lane, Murphy Jones, Walter Johnner, Gaster...
Dates: 1917-1920

James M. Bliss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS B61
Scope and Content Note

Letters and related documents pertaining to James M. Bliss' commission as "special agent of the State of Arkansas to...procure engraved or lithographed bonds" from the National Bank Note Co., pursuant to legislation "providing for the building and improving of the Public Levees...." Correspondents include James R. Berry.

Dates: 1871

Jesse C. Bliss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1228
Scope and Content Note Letters, documents, and photographs created or collected by Jesse C. Bliss or his granddaughter, Jesse Elizabeth Hill Durrett. The papers consist of fourteen letters written by Bliss from 1862 to 1864 while serving in the Union Army; genealogical documents pertaining to the Bliss family; a small collection of documents gathered by Elizabeth Durrett to supplement her claim to a widow's pension; photographs of Bliss, the Durretts, and unidentified family members and acquaintances....
Dates: 1862-1967

Virgil T. Blossom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1364
Scope and Content Note Papers pertaining to Virgil T. Blossom's career as Superintendent of the Little Rock Public Schools, 1953-1958, especially his role in the desegregation crisis in 1957-58. The papers pertain to the Central High crisis. Blossom became a central figure in the controversy, and he was removed as superintendent in November 1958. He wrote an account of the crisis, published as a series of articles, "The Untold Story of Little Rock," in Saturday Evening Post (May 23 - June 27, 1959) and...
Dates: 1952-1960

David Russell Boatright Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MC 928
Scope and Content Note

Scrapbook of University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, student David Russell Boatright, 1931-1935, containing clippings, correspondence, photographs, and programs.

Dates: 1931-1935

John A. Bobo Military Commendations

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1852
Scope and Content Note

Materials include military commendation certificates.

Dates: 1914-1919

Bob's Studio of Photography Collection of Donna Axum Whitworth Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2366
Content Description The collection consists of studio photographs of Donna Axum Whitworth, 1964 Miss America, by Robert A. (Bob) Huff and/or David A. Huff of Bob's Studio of Photography, as well as a custom chair used as a prop in Axum's Miss America studio sessions. Photographic materials include ten 16 x 20 prints, as well as some smaller proof prints and cellulose acetate (safety) negatives. Also included are a Bob's Studio of Photography business card and instructions provided by the studio on how to care...
Dates: circa 1963-1983

Bod-Caw Epic

 Collection
Identifier: MS B63
Scope and Content Note

A mounted clipping concerning Arkansas' "first heroic poem."

Dates: undated

Bodcaw Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1388
Scope and Content Note

The records consist of minute books and stock ledgers.

Dates: 1889-1941

Charles Boewe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2119
Abstract

Correspondence, journals, manuscript drafts, clippings, photographs, and other materials related to Boewe's involvement with the Fulbright Programs in India and the United States Education Foundation in Pakistan.

Dates: 1959-2016; Majority of material found within 1960-1985

Jesse Bogy Stock Certificate Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2376
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of eight stock certificates for the Memphis Collar Company (Memphis, Tenn.) and one for the Simmons First National Corporation (Pine Bluff, Ark.).

Dates: 1922, 1971

C. P. Bolding Oath

 Collection
Identifier: MS B638
Scope and Content Note

Positive photocopy of a parole oath sworn by Sergeant C. P. Bolding, Company A, Forty-first Mississippi Infantry, following his surrender at Oklona, Mississippi, May, 31, 1865.

Dates: 1865

Ray Bolger Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2283
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of an unsigned and undated fragment of a draft of correspondence, attributed to actor Ray Bolger, in response to a letter asking him to perform in Arkansas. Also included is a copy of the transcription created by the bookseller.

Dates: undated

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South by Southwest Books (Fayetteville, Ark.) 94
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Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 30
Arkansas Industrial University 23
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 22
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Apfelbaum, Charles 20
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 19
Compton, Ellen 17
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980 17
Orion Book Service 16
Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950 14
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) 13
Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.) 13
Finger, Charles Joseph, 1869-1941 12
Hudgins, Mary Dengler, 1901-1987 11
Smith, Stephen A., 1949- 11
United States. Congress. House 10
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections Department 10
Bumpers, Dale 9
Clinton, Hillary Rodham 9
Cravens, Fadjo (William Fadjo), 1929-2012 9
Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.) 9
NAFSA: Association of International Educators (Washington, D.C.) 9
Dollar, Clyde David, 1932-1983 8
Futrall, John C. (John Clinton), 1873-1939 8
Garland, A. H. (Augustus Hill), 1832-1899 8
Ozark Society 8
Prichard, Anne 8
Purdue, A. H. (Albert Homer), 1861-1917 8
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 8
Simon, Charlie May Hogue, 1897-1977 8
United States. Congress. Senate 8
Wappel, Anthony J., 1963- 8
Warren, Lloyd Oliver, 1915-2014 8
Cochran, Robert, 1943- 7
Deane, Ernie 7
Dillard, Tom W. 7
Donaghey, George Washington 7
Harvey, W. H. (William Hope), 1851-1936 7
Hays, Brooks 7
Jones, Euine Fay, 1921-2004 7
League of Women Voters of Arkansas 7
Lemke, W. J. (Walter John), 1891-1968 7
McMath, Sid 7
Price, Florence, 1887-1953 7
Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 1872-1937 7
United States. War Relocation Authority 7
University of Arkansas (System). Division of Agriculture 7
Arkansas Educational Television Network 6
Arkansas Historical Association 6
Arkansas. Constitutional Convention (1969-1970) 6
Bolsterli, Margaret Jones 6
Brough, Charles Hillman, 1876-1935 6
Compton, Neil, 1912-1999 6
Davis, Jeff, 1862-1913 6
Freund, Louis, 1905-1999 6
Huckaby, Elizabeth Paisley 6
Johnson, Charles A. 6
Leflar, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1901-1997 6
Parler, Mary Celestia 6
Peace Links 6
Pike, Albert, 1809-1891 6
Pryor, David, 1934- 6
Quesenbury, William Minor, 1822-1888 6
Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982 6
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. School of Architecture 6
Yell, Archibald, 1797 or 1799-1847 6
Arkansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs 5
Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark. : 1889) 5
Arkansas. State Highway & Transportation Department 5
Babcock, Bernie, 1868-1962 5
Between the Covers Rare Books 5
Burnside, Sarah McKee, 1930- 5
Cane Hill College (Washington County, Ark.) 5
Caraway, Thaddeus H. (Thaddeus Horatius), 1871-1931 5
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 5
Dunlap, Zillah Peel 5
Fisher, George, 1923-2003 5
Griswold, Nat R., 1901-1991 5
Hargrett, Lester, 1902-1962 5
Hays, Marion Prather 5
Marinoni, Rosa Zagnoni, 1888-1970 5
Old State House Museum (Ark.) 5
Purdue, Richard Howell, 1901-1982 5
Read, Lessie Stringfellow, 1891-1971 5
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union 5
Terry, Adolphine Fletcher, 1882-1976 5
Thomas, David Y. (David Yancey), 1872-1943 5
United States. District Court (Arkansas : Western District) 5
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 5
United States. National Archives and Records Administration 5
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries 5
Upchurch, Grace 5
Walker, David, 1806-1879 5
Washington County Historical Society (Ark.) 5
American Indian Movement 4
Argosy Book Stores 4
Arkansas History Commission 4
Arkansas State Penitentiary 4
Arkansas. Constitutional Convention (1979-1980) 4
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