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...

Scope and Content Note Account ledger kept by James B. Currie, Woodruff County, Arkansas, recording merchandise transactions, sales reciepts and a tally of cotton picked by presumabley enslaved people. These individuals names include Hanett, Sam, Wilson, Elic, Emily Manda, Crawley, Isaac, Nina, Sarah, Dick, Sal and Edward. Most of the inked entries are dated 1851-1852, with pencil additions made in the later 1860s. One laid in contract fragment appears to be a sharecropper agreement dated 1867. Some of the entries...

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...

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Contract, executed December 29, 1865, between Princeton Township, Dallas County, Ark. corn and cotton planter Lea and 15 named freedpeople (4 adults and 11 children) engaged to cultivate his lands on shares in the 12 months period beginning January 1, 1866. Freedpeople listed in the contract are “Jake + his wife Ann and their children to wit Bob, Lucy, Jeff + Archy; Fran + her children to wit Oscar, Ellen, Sip[?], Albert + Jack; Anniss + her son Fill[?] + Logan.”

Scope and Contents Sales account journal maintained by unidentified merchant, Dec. 22, 1912-circa 1914, and subsequently used, circa 1914-1915 by A. C. Williams as a miscellaneous notebook. Pagination is: 1-18, 21-32, 37, 39-42, [1,2], 43-51, 54-61, 68-71, 74-76, 78-89, 80 [sic]-121, [122-140]. Page 24 contains a sharecropping agreement executed by Oliver Howard with A. C. Williams, Jan. 12, 1914; pages 77-89 contain a draft of a constitution for the Arkansas Industrial Benevolent Association, August 12, 1914;...