Tulip (Ark.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Butler-Paisley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 514
Scope and Content Note
The correspondence pertains primarily to family matters in Tulip and elsewhere, religious concerns, business and other travel, the Civil War, emigration to California and Texas, and business matters. The business records pertain mostly to William Paisley's general stores in Dobyville and Guerdon, Arkansas. Most of the family correspondence (series 1 and 2) consists of letters written to and from members of the Butler and Paisley families. Other correspondents include Emma's...
Dates:
circa 1829-1899
Butler-Paisley Photograph Albums
Collection
Identifier: MC 632
Scope and Content Note
The two albums contain a total of 83 portraits of members of the extended family of Alexander Butler (1807-1881), a farmer and merchant in Tulip, Arkansas, as well as friends and a number of Methodist clergymen. Fifty-eight negatives and thirty- two 5 x 7 copy photographs made from Emma Paisley's album are also included, as well as thirty-three negatives of grave markers and buildings in Tulip, Arkansas, photographed in the 1980s. Some of these photographs have been published in...
Dates:
ca 1829-1890s, 1980s
Rebecca Jane Tackett McAlister Colburn Diary
Collection
Identifier: MC 1537
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of a photocopies of a diary kept by “Becca” Tackett McAlister in 1857 and of a transcription made by Mary-Louise Bixby.
Dates:
1857
Jonathan K. T. Smith Map
Collection
Identifier: MC 633
Abstract
Marked map and text describing locations of early dwellings and businesses in Tulip Ridge (Dallas County).
Dates:
circa 1977
Tulip, Arkansas General Store Ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1784
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists largely of the general store ledgers of Herbert Matthews, a merchant and postmaster at Tulip. Herbert Matthews' father, George Matthews, a Methodist circuit rider, married into the Butler family, a large and prominent family within the Tulip community. Alexander Butler, the family's patriarch, was one of the town's first settlers, arriving there in 1848; Herbert Matthews eventually inherited the original Butler house. This collection also contains a journal (which,...
Dates:
1858-1948