Abstract

Company ledgers, minutes, correspondence, property records, financial records, and other documents related to various Fulbright family businesses, particularly that of the J.H. Phipps Lumber Company of Fayetteville, AR.

Content Description The collection contains 122 black-and-white photographic prints, most documenting the American lumber industry in the early 20th century. The bulk of the photographs are unidentified. Photographs with captions are: Image 8, “J. S. Betts Plant” (Ashburn, Georgia); Image 26, “J. S. Betts Plant”; Image 30, “White Boyne” (likely one of the White brothers associated with the Boyne City, Michigan lumber industry); Image 31, “Band saw damaged by a nail in a log. Lincoln, N.H. May 1907. J. E....

Scope and Content Note The collection contains typescripts, drafts, notes, correspondence, and photographs relating to The Stout Family in Arkansas, unpublished reminiscences by James L. (Jim) Gardner, co-authored by Hope Halpin, about working for Stout Lumber Company of Thornton, Arkansas, and about Stout Lumber founder Jim Stout and his family. Correspondence is primarily between Halpin and Gardner, but also includes a letter from Libby Wheeler to Halpin with an enclosed copy of...