Little Rock (Ark.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Colter Hamilton Moses Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS M852 24
Scope and Content Note
Included are the correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, datebooks, literary manuscripts, photographs, printed material and legal, business and tax records pertaining to the life, career, civic activities, business and financial interests of Colter Hamilton Moses. Correspondents include Thomas Harry Barton, Charles Hillman Brough and John Little McClellan. Contents of nine Colter Hamilton Moses scrapbooks, 1919-1956, were microfilmed and are available as microfilm copies only.
Dates:
1924-1966
Sarah Alderman Murphy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1321
Scope and Content Note
This collection is a combination of papers accumulated by Murphy during her years as an activist and materials used in writing her book. Among the latter are the papers of Billie Wilson, a former member of WEC. Wilson gave Murphy her papers, which included correspondence, pamphlets, and press clippings, to aid in the writing of Breaking the Silence. Because of the overlapping subject matter in Murphy's and Wilson's papers, Wilson's materials have been...
Dates:
1950-1994
Mary Ng'ayu Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: MC 2647
Content Description
Photograph album created by Mary Njeri Ng'ayu, an international college student from Kenya, while she was in the United States between 1960-1963. The album includes a number of photographs on the campus of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, including of the Cox Administration Building, dormitories, the Library and Fine Arts Building, a graduation ceremony, and a parade.Other scenes in Little Rock include the “colored entrance” to a building with Cook’s...
Dates:
1960-1963
Larry Obsitnik Photo Archives
Collection
Identifier: MC 1280
Scope and Content Note
Materials in this collection include almost 700 prints and more than 10,000 negatives. They include items spanning the entire length of Obsitnik's career as a photographer. One series features photographs taken while he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The collection includes approximately one hundred prints of prominent persons, including American presidents, Arkansas politicians, and celebrities; it contains a substantially larger number of negatives depicting these subjects. Several...
Dates:
1918-1984
Ruth Polk Patterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 903
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains manuscript versions of her articles and book and other related material such as grant applications, research notes, and correspondence; papers pertaining to professional organizations and activities such as the Arkansas Commemorative Commission, the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Commission, and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History; papers pertaining to a lawsuit filed against the Little Rock School District concerning discriminatory employment...
Dates:
1954-1988
Petentes Women's Club Records
Collection
Identifier: MC 811
Scope and Content Note
The papers encompass expense records, minutes, attendance records, a scrapbook, yearbooks, and various club papers including a club history and copies of a few of the educational programs presented by club members.
Dates:
1928-1973
Albert Pike Memorial Temple Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MC 1442
Abstract
Composite photograph of the Jefferson Alison Memorial Class of Freemasons at the Albert Pike Memorial Temple, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1946.
Dates:
1946
Lorraine Blore Ragland Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 902
Scope and Content Note
The Ragland collection consists of letters, journals, literary manuscripts, and photographs from all three generations of the Smithee family. Series 1, Letters, includes many written by Annie and Smithee during their Civil War years and subsequent courtship. Among the letters are ones written by Smithee just before and after the battle of Helena, Arkansas, in July, 1863, one letter to Annie from David O. Dodd, and two recieved from author Opie Reed. Series 2, Journals, consists of journals...
Dates:
1860-1981
Roots Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS R679 348
Scope and Content Note
Copies of correspondence, diaries, certificates, lists, map, military, genealogical, business and legal records, photographs, and other published and unpublished materials created, received, or collected by Logan Holt Roots (1841-1893), Philander Keep Roots (1838-1921), or members of their families. Material pertains to: the military, business, political, personal, familial, and other activities and interests of soldier, planter, political leader, banker, and railroad developer L.H. Roots,...
Dates:
1842-1907
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Roots Family Papers
Margaret Smith Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1587
Scope and Content Note
Materials include correspondence, court documents, scrapbooks, diaries, physician appointment books, photographs, drawings, etc. An avid collector of Arkansas-related historical materials, Margaret Smith Ross assembled a collection that includes her personal papers, historical and genealogical research materials, and the original records of the Pulaski County Circuit Court dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her personal papers include correspondence,...
Dates:
1813-2002
Nancy K. Smith Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 2436
Abstract
85 photographic and illustrated postcards of places in Arkansas, primarily hospitals and medical facilities.
Dates:
circa 1908-1953
Albert Howard Stebbins, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: q MS St3
Scope and Content Note
Historical documents collected by Albert Howard Stebbins, Jr. related to the history of Arkansas.
Dates:
1838-1839; 1861
Billye Stockton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1704
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers related to Billye Stockton's work on the 1960 film Take a Giant Step, which was created to promote Little Rock urban renewal and beautification projects, as well as her related work with the Greater Little Rock Council of Garden Clubs and the Little Rock HANDS program's city beautification efforts. Collection materials include copies of the Take a Giant Step film, correspondence, photographs,...
Dates:
1960-2007
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Billye Stockton Papers
Adolphine Fletcher Terry Memoirs
Collection
Identifier: MC 631
Scope and Content Note
Life is My Song, Also, the autobiography of Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882-1976), as told to Carolyn J. Rose. Positive photocopy of original belonging to the Quapaw Quarter Association, Little Rock.
Dates:
1973-1974
Mildred Tisdale Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MC 2227
Scope and Content Note
The scrapbook was kept by Mildred Tisdale of Hot Springs, Arkansas from 1924-1929, and contains photographs, correspondence, notes and reminiscences, newspaper clippings, programs, and ephemera documenting her life and social activities as a Hot Springs High School student and, later, as an undergraduate at Central College in Conway, Arkansas. Tisdale was involved in local theater and her high school's orchestra; the scrapbook contains cast lists of performances she participated in as well...
Dates:
1924-1928
Union National Bank Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1646
Scope and Content Note
Materials include photocopies of newspaper articles.
Dates:
1968-1979
United States Army Department of Arkansas Circular
Collection
Identifier: MS Ar4 7.4
Scope and Content Note
Published regulations regarding ordnance and ordnance stores, issued at Little Rock, Arkansas, August 9, 1864 by order of Major General Frederick Steele. 1 broadside, 24 cm.
Dates:
1864
University of Arkansas News Clippings
Collection
Identifier: MC 2220-UA
Scope and Contents
This collection primarly consists of newspaper clippings pertaining to the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and Little Rock campuses. There are also some clippings about the state of Arkansas in general, and a few photographs. At the end of the collection there are UA Fayetteville documents and enrollment and retention research files. The documents include an academic plan, information on copyright law and the university, a 5 year plan from the Fayetteville Campus Planning Council, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1993-1995; 1976-2003
U.S. Quartermaster Corps Plats of Little Rock Barracks
Collection
Identifier: MS Un3pl 277
Scope and Contents
Two 4" x 5" photographic negatives and two 8" x 10" positive prints of plats of the Little Rock Barracks military post, one each dated 1862 and 1885.
Dates:
1862-1885
Velma and J. O. Powell Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1367
Scope and Content Note
Papers pertaining to the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis (1957-1959) and the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). The collection includes an account of the events by J. O. Powell, along with notes and correspondence to a nephew, Tim DeLaney. Also included in the collection are photocopies of several other accounts: an unpublished book, The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock, by Vivion Lenon Brewer, one of the founders of WEC;...
Dates:
ca 1958-1979
Pendleton Woods Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1566
Content Description
The collection consists of papers related to Pendleton Woods and his family, including materials related to his father, John Powell Woods, Sr., a University of Arkansas graduate and Fort Smith-based lawyer; to his brother, John Powell Woods, Jr., a University of Arkansas graduate and Siloam-Springs-based lawyer; to his brother, Daniel H. Woods, a University of Arkansas graduate who served as Timex Corporation's human resource director and legal administrator; to his aunt, University of...
Dates:
circa 1916-1996
Benjamin Harrison Wooten Letter
Collection
Identifier: MS L34 1967
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of typed letter signed, dated Dallas, TX February 9, 1967 from Ben H. Wooten to E. C. Deane, University of Arkansas News Service, regarding Wooten's role "in establishing the forerunner of the USO in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Fall of the year 1940."
Dates:
1967
Joann Baxter Zeisel and Sarah Kathalane Baxter McCool Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 2434
Abstract
Illustrated and photographic postcards of Arkansas and the Ozarks, collected by Joann Baxter Zeisel and Sarah Kathalane Baxter McCool.
Dates:
circa 1900-1981