Scope and Content Note Correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and other material pertaining to the business, commercial, and legal affairs of Fort Smith, Arkansas merchant Mitchell Sparks, to the firm of Mitchell and Parke, and to the personal, familial, political, religious, educational, social, business, and legal affairs of the related Sparks- Bennett- Barling-Kannady-Pryor families, principally in and around Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas and the Indian Territory....

Scope and Contents The collection contains materials related to and collected by the family of Harry Bell Stanley, including his wife, Alta Kenyon Stanley; his brother, Samuel Willard Stanley; and his son, Harry Kenyon Stanley. The bulk of the materials pertain to Harry Bell Stanley's life in Weiner, Arkansas, or to his son Harry K. Stanley's military service during World War II and career in civil aviation. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, military records,...