Businessmen -- Arkansas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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William Blanks Diaries
Clyde Nuell Clarke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 792
Scope and Content Note
Scrapbook and photographs pertaining to Clyde Nuell Clarke. The scrapbook contains clippings (including Singer Sewing Machine newspaper advertisements), business cards, a railroad pass, a ticket to the Democratic National Convention (1904), and photographs (especially of Company M, First Infantry, Arkansas State Guard). Many clippings and papers were laid in the scrapbook; these were removed to separate storage and the clippings were photocopied on acid-neutral paper for preservation....
Dates:
1870-1938
W. E. Darby Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1963
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials related to the life and career of W. E. Darby, an Arkansas businessman who served as president and chairman of the board of the National Old Line Insurance Company of Little Rock, Arkansas. Many of the collection materials relate to Darby's posthumous induction into the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame in 2001; a scrapbook contains materials relating to celebrations of Darby's reaching the milestone of $100,000,000 in insurance sales with his company in...
Dates:
1953-2001
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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W. E. Darby Papers
John Harrison Newman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2438
Content Description
Personal and professional papers of John Harrison Newman, who was involved in Northwest Arkansas communes and food cooperatives, including the Ozark Cooperative Warehouse, and established a consulting business to turn around failing companies. Collection materials include photographs; school papers; correspondence, particularly between Newman and his parents; journals; and newspaper articles. Photograph locations include Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the Sassafras commune in Newton County,...
Dates:
circa 1948-2011
Rabie Guthrie Rhodes Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 931
Scope and Content Note
The papers contain correspondence; financial and professional records; bank ledgers; appointment and address books; diplomas, certificates, awards, and plaques; photographs; a scrapbook; twelve black and white reproductions on silk by Italian artist Oscar D'Amico, and other materials and records pertaining to Rabie Rhodes' personal life, business affairs, and professional and civic activities. Notable correspondents include: Dale Bumpers, William Jefferson Clinton, Orval Faubus, J. William...
Dates:
1914-1987
George W. Russell Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1895
Scope and Content Note
Materials contain correspondence and photographs.
Dates:
1917
Vancleave Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1399
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains letters of George J. Rodgers and Rozalee Bishop [Rodgers] from Jan 1, 1883 to Aug 22, 1884; Rodgers family correspondence, e.g., letters from his daughter, Lois Vancleave, his nephews and nieces; business correspondence and financial papers, ca 1914-1950; Rozalee Bishop Rodgers Memoirs Book; correspondence and other papers of Lois Vancleave ca 1920s and 1960s; and photographs. Most of the photographs are unidentified but some portraits have the labels of local...
Dates:
1883-1966
Lewie A. Watkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 782
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of four photographs, a scrapbook pertaining to Watkins's many activities (including nine photographs and a number of postcards), and a minute book containing the records of the Missouri and Arkansas Railway Company (one of the successor corporations of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company). A newsletter included in the orginal collection, Oak Leaves (a publication of the Missouri and Arkansas Railroad Museum,...
Dates:
ca. 1917-1981