Scope and Content Note The notebooks range from 1923 until 1987, representing over 60 years of a life of varied entrepreneurship in Northwest Arkansas through much of the 20th century, most notably his ventures with a vineyard during the Depression. The contents of this collection, with the exception of Book 3, are authored by and almost exclusively pertain to Beaty himself. The notebooks have been numbered in the original order in which they were received by Special...

Scope and Content Note The collection contains business correspondence from 1919 to ca. 1960. It has been sorted by year and includes agreements, contracts, deeds, easements, permits, plans, letters and notes from employees, and financial statements pertaining primarily to Bella Vista. Some materials pertain to and record the activities of Linebarger brothers' winery business. These include the mothly operation reports between 1935 and 1941, samples of order forms for wine stamps, receipts of payments, and a sheet...

Content Description This collection consists mostly of materials created or collected by Food Science professor and viticulturist Justin Morris pertaining to research of various fruits and patents for mechanized harvesting machines he invented, including films of the strawberry and blackberry harvester. There are several folders of photographic slides of his agricultural work and presentations, data from French Camp Vineyards in California where his patented vMECH system was used in the early 2000's, as well as...