Scope and Content Note Correspondence and related records created, received, or collected by Arkansas manufacturer, entrepreneur, amateur historian, soldier, engineer, and inventor John Rison Fordyce. Records pertain primarily to Fordyce’s personal, familial, business, military, and avocational interests and activities and incidentally to his professional activities. Principal areas to which records relate include: Fordyce family genealogy; the college education of Fordyce’s son, Edward Winfield;...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, memoranda, reports, payrolls, contracts, charts, certificates, tax returns, invoices, financial statements, architectural drawings, personnel files, bulletins, registers, minutes of meetings, printed advertising and promotional materials, and other records documenting the management, maintenance, operation, business and financial affairs, personnel administration, and patron relations of three of the larger and more popular former establishments of Hot Springs' celebrated...