Content Description The collection consists of 22 CDs containing recordings of Arkansas environmentalist and physician Neil Compton, primarily of Compton narrating his travel through the Ozarks and nearby areas and responding to questions from Kay Schroeder, who created the recordings. Content includes historical narratives; anecdotes; geographic, geologic, and botanical descriptions; and folk songs. In some cases, Compton's daughter, Ellen Compton, is also present on the recordings. The collection also...

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Papers and photographs pertaining to the Kirby Family of Newton County, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Materials include: two letters from family members, 1903, 1920; genealogical notes and writings created by Meda E. Curtis and her daughter, Faye M. Turbyfill, ca. 1950s; photographs of family members and homes in Arkansas and Oklahoma, circa 1887-1990; newspaper clippings concerning the Curtis family; 10 sketches created by Mabel Durham Ryker of the Curtis homestead in Newton County.

Content Description Photographs, primarily of Walnut Grove Home Demonstration Club members and events in Newton County, Arkansas, including a clean-up day at the Walnut Grove Cemetery. Collection materials are copy photographic prints and negatives made from images in a personal scrapbook created by Orphea Duty, a club member. Two photocopies of scrapbook pages illustrating the original context are also included.Those identified in photographs include Orphea Duty, Josie Clark, Virgie Moore, Easter...

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,...

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Scrapbooks and photographs from the Southern Forest Experiment Station, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Servic.

The two scrapbooks contain mostly clippings. Most of the photographs are mounted on cardboard and were sorted as to category. Some photographs were accompanied by negatives; negatives have been removed to separate storage in Box 10. Many of the photographs are by Clement Mesavage or Ralph A. Neal.