Phillips County (Ark.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
H.J. Briggs Oath of Allegiance
Collection
Identifier: MC 43
Scope and Content Note
Oath of allegiance issued by the provost marshal's office of Helena, Arkansas, to H.J. Briggs on January 5, 1863
Dates:
1863
Jesse Laurence Charlton Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MC 545
Scope and Content Note
Collection of 256 glossy prints, mostly 8" by 10", made from the photographer’s negatives for Special Collections in the winter of 1980-1981. Subjects include rural schools before and after the WPA construction program and before and after consolidation; farm tenancy and migratory farm labor, many small rural churches and dwellings, including log structures, tenant houses, and sharecroppers’ cabins; and agricultural structures, including many types of chicken houses, barns, and...
Dates:
1937-1954
W.A. Crouch Letters
Collection
Identifier: MC 550
Scope and Content Note
Letters (and positive photocopies written by W.A. Crouch, Cotton Plant, Arkansas, 13 October and 26 October 1862, to his wife. Includes account of capture of a Federal wagon train neat Helena, Arkansas. Letters, dated October 13 and 26, 1862, from Private W. A. Crouch, Chrisman's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, stationed in Cotton Plant (Woodruff County), to his wife at Batesville. Crouch describes in considerable detail his part in a raid on a Union army forage expedition near...
Dates:
1862
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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W.A. Crouch Letters
Thomas Hottel Gist Plantation and Business Records
Collection
Identifier: MS G44 79B
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ledgers, journals, daybooks, receipts, invoices, statements of account, certificates and other records, 1897-1959, created or received by cotton planter Thomas Hottel Gist; by planter, realtor, and merchant John Petty Moore; by attorney Jesse Boomer Daggett; or by attorney Charles Ebenezer Daggett, and pertaining to: various aspects of the operation and management of Gist's plantation in Phillips County (1921-1937) and in Lee County, Arkansas (1937-1959), especially as...
Dates:
1897-1959
Phillips County Levee Construction Film
Collection
Identifier: MC 1799
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains video footage of the rebuilding and construction of the White River Levee in Phillips County, Arkansas in 1940. The footage was shot by J.J. Patridge, Superintendent of Elaine Public Schools.
Dates:
1940
Charles B. Roscopf Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2631
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials created or collected by Arkansas lawyer and legislator Charles B. Roscopf. Included are materials related to the 1969-1970 Arkansas Constitutional Convention, at which Roscopf served as a delegate; correspondence with elected officials, particularly on topics related to Phillips County, Arkansas; and two telegrams sent to Roscopf by Gov. Orval E. Faubus when Faubus called a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly in response to court-ordered school...
Dates:
1928-2010
Southland College Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 577
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes correspondence, predominantly during the last years from 1922 to 1925; student records from 1876 to 1925; financial records from 1882 to 1925; minutes of the Missionary Board of the Indiana Yearly Meeting from 1872 to 1918; minutes and records of the Southland Monthly Meeting from 1873 to 1922; and photographs, circa 1900 to 1925. Although these materials provide keen insight into the history of Southland College, many large gaps exist in the written record....
Dates:
ca 1872-1925
Kerry Taylor Elaine Race Massacre Research Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1710
Scope and Content Note
As an avid researcher of labor history, Taylor assembled a collection of newspaper clippings, primary documents, notes, secondary sources, and miscellaneous materials on the Elaine, Arkansas's "Race Riot". The Elaine Race Riot, also called the Elaine Massacre, was a race riot that began on September 30, 1919, in the small town of Elaine, located in Phillips County, Arkansas. The event continued through the month of October. The events in Elaine stemmed...
Dates:
1915-1996