Scope and Contents The collection contains photographs taken by Landis Seawell Bennett, primarily of Arkansas locations and events. Locations include the University of Arkansas campus (Fayetteville, Ark.); Mt. Sequoyah (Fayetteville, Ark.); Shipley’s Bakery (Fayetteville, Ark.); the Fayetteville Square (Fayetteville, Ark.); Marianna, Ark.; Monte Ne (Benton County, Ark.); Cane Hill, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Ark.; Berryville, Ark.; Little Rock, Ark.; White Rock Mountain (Winslow, Ark.); and Hollister, Mo. Subjects...

Content Description The collection consists of a scrapbook that belonged to Walter S. Gifford; it contains photographs of an October 1940 General Education Board trip to Arkansas, including images of the Lake View and Plum Bayou resettlement projects. Photographs from the Education Board trip to Arkansas include images of an unidentified “one teacher school”; Stony Point School (Washington County); Cave Springs; “No. 15, The least profitable boiler producing farm”; the Plum Bayou resettlement...

Scope and Content Note The records consist of daily cash journals and individual account journals, as well as miscellaneous business records. Daily cash journals record daily business transactions from 1916 to 1962 and embody volumes 1-7. Individual account journals record the expenses of W. S. McClintock and Sons, as well as the accounts of individual customers from 1908 to 1963. Most of these journals are in alphabetical order by customer and embody volumes 8-14. Volume 10 contains real estate records....

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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.