Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection include garden catalogs.

Scope and Content Note The Verna Cook Garvan papers comprise family records that include materials pertaining to Garvan’s parents, Arthur Bacillius and Essie Bordis Cook; her sister, Dorothy Cook Baker; Alonzo Bernard Alexander and Francis Patrick Garvan, her first and second husband, respectively; personal correspondence; legal and financial materials; newspaper clippings; and handwritten notes. Contained also are the business records of A.B. Cook, Wisconsin and Arkansas Lumber, and Malvern Brick and Tile...

Content Description This collection consists primarly of materials related to horticulture as written and collected by retired U of A professor Dr. Gerald L. Klingaman. It includes many newspaper columns he wrote titled "Plant of the Week", materials he collected about the U of A Horticulture Department and faculty history, plant and product catalogs from Arkansas nurseries, materials from his Farmer-to-Farmer Program and other horticulture associations particpation, his doctoral thesis, correspondence to his...