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Fayetteville (Ark.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Naf

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Truxton Lowell Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS L34 Lowell
Scope and Content Note Letter dated at Mountain Post Office, Washington County, Arkansas October 1, 1836, from Truxton Lowell to his brother, Captain James Lowell, in Bath, Maine. Pertaining to personal and familial affairs, to the writer's journey from Pennsylvania to Arkansas and into the Creek Nation, and to his experiences while teaching school in the Cherokee Nation and in Arkansas, the letter also describes the country around Fayetteville, Arkansas, narrates something of the writer's hunting experiences in...
Dates: 1836

Kim I. Martin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2524
Content Description

Papers of journalist Kim Martin, primarily relating to her work as editor of The Grapevine, a Fayetteville, Arkansas-based weekly newspaper and to The Grapevine's coverage of the Fayetteville Arts Center (now the Walton Arts Center) planning process. Also included is correspondence and material related to a D.C. Circuit Court ruling on the constitutionality of "must-carry" broadcasts.

Dates: 1983-1985

Rick Mayes Dickson Street Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1935
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes materials pertaining to the Dickson Street Central Business Improvement District, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs,and DVDs.

Dates: 1985-1993; Majority of material found within 1986-1987

A. D. McAllister, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2072
Scope and Contents The collection contains the personal, professional, and family papers of lawyer and World War II veteran A. D. McAllister, Jr.Included are materials related to McAllister's childhood; his time as a student at Fayetteville High School and at the University of Arkansas; his legal career; his service during World War II and his involvement with veterans' organizations; and his involvement with Fayetteville clubs and organizations, including the Forty Club and the Lions Club....
Dates: circa 1837-2015

McIlroy Motor Bank Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1470
Scope and Content Note

The documents consist of real estate deeds, abstracts, agreements, correspondence, equipment descriptions, and a photograph of the finished building.

Dates: 1900-1972

William McIlroy Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS qL58.M18
Scope and Content Note

Daily cash journal and miscellaneous financial records book of the firm of William McIlroy and James Hayden Van Hoose, merchants, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the period December 1, 1874, to July 11, 1878.

Dates: 1874-1878

Modern Literature Club of Fayetteville Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 891
Scope and Content Note The papers consist of two series - administrative records, and records of club activities. Administrative records include minutes, correspondence, club histories written by Eloise Baerg, lists of presidents and their activities, an incomplete collection of yearbooks, and photographs. Records of club activities include reading lists and book reviews. However, the majority of items in this series consist of taped oral histories of club members prepared by ten selected club members in 1987....
Dates: 1926-2018

Modern Literature Club of Fayetteville Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1190
Scope and Content Note

The photograph album, created by Kim Harington, contains thirty-three portraits of the club members and a favorite passage or a quotation from a book, to accompany their image.

Dates: 1992

Robert Morris and Elizabeth Morris Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1436
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, albums, and physical artifacts pertaining to the lives of Robert Morris and Elizabeth Morris Walker.

Dates: 1922 - 1995

Mudcat's Dixie Dirt Review Videocassette

 Collection
Identifier: MC 881
Scope and Content Note

Video recording of a live performance held on June 19, 1980 by Mudcat's Dixie Dirt Review at the UARK theater on Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Performers led by Michael Acklin.

Dates: 1980

Margaret Myers Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1676
Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of newspaper clippings, awards, a scrapbook, and miscellaneous items.

Dates: 1946-1963

John Harrison Newman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2438
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,...
Dates: circa 1948-2011

OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1850
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains organizational materials, correspondence, event promotional materials, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Dates: 1983 - 2006

OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology Records Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1850a
Scope and Content Note The collection contains organizational materials, correspondence, event promotional materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and videos. Also included are materials from the OMNI Center's "library," including magazines, newsletters, journals, etc. As of August 2017, the collection includes ongoing captures of the OMNI Center's website and Twitter account. These captures are scheduled by Special Collections staff using the Archive-It tool, a subscription service run...
Dates: 1946-2021

Marion Orton Posters

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2160
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of seven handmade posters related to recycling or the Arkansas/Washington County League of Women Voters, as well as two sets of eight handmade placards relating to aspects of Fayetteville city planning.

Dates: circa 1965-2005

Washington Willow Historical District Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1286
Scope and Content Note These interviews were also used to create a multi-media slide show about the Washington Willow Historic District of Fayetteville, Arkansas, titled Washington Willow Historical District: A September Song. The collection contains taped interviews arranged alphabetically by the name of the interviewee, transcripts of these interviews, and a slide show Washington Willow Historical District: A September Song, consisting of a tape,...
Dates: 1980-1981

Providence Baptist Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1789
Scope and Content Note

Materials in the collection includes correspondence, board meeting minutes, membership lists, financial records, and photographs.

Dates: 1891-2008

Ida Pace Purdue Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS P972
Abstract

Scrapbook of Ida Pace Purdue, a founding member of the Chi Omega Fraternity.

Dates: circa 1888-1958

Nathaniel Madison Ragland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS R12
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, sermons, clippings, biographical sketch, minutes of meetings, broadsides, notebook, ledger, and other material pertaining to the ministry of, and to the civic, educational, religious, ecclesiastical, and other interests and activities of the Reverend Nathaniel M. Ragland, pastor of First Christian Church of Fayetteville, Arkansas from 1885 to 1908, to the history of that congregation, to marriages and deaths among its membership, to the history of Arkansas College in...
Dates: 1860-1946

Elizabeth Reagan Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1307
Scope and Content Note

Diary of Elizabeth Reagan. Reagan's diary spans over 18 years (1953-1970) and offers an intimate insight into her family's daily life, such as the daily struggles of operating an economically viable farm, her husband's continuous bad health, the social implications of living in poverty especially for her children, and the comforts that her devoutly religious outlook brought her in her life.

Dates: 1953-1970

Elizabeth Reagan Journals Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1307a
Scope and Content Note The Elizabeth Reagan Journals Addendum consists of handwritten journals, personal letters, and financial documents dated from 1939 - 2009. This collection holds twenty-eight hardback journal books, four Big Chief notepads used as journals, and one composition notebook. Other materials include personal accounts such as schedules for the children’s chores, prayers, and family expectations. It appears that these things were well documented to help keep track of her many children, she also...
Dates: 1939-2009

Harmon L. Remmel Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2055
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection are comprised of correspondence, datebooks, a small number of photographs, and printed material. The collection also contains correspondence and the nursing school notes of Grace Cameron, Harmon L. Remmel Jr.'s aunt.

Dates: 1907-1995

Bess Wolf Romans Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1382
Scope and Content Note

The scrapbook was created by Bess Wolf to contain mementos of her University experiences, her career as a schoolteacher, and other early experiences. Other materials were inserted into the book throughout her life.

The collection consists of Bess Wolf's scrapbook, three letters written by her parents shortly before their marriage, and a card index of the contents of the scrapbook created at the Fayetteville Public Library.

Dates: 1874-1971

Thomas Rothrock "Fayetteville's City Hospital" Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS R74
Scope and Content Note

Literary manuscript of Thomas Rothrock's article, "Fayetteville's City Hospital," published under the same title in the Washington County Historical Society's Flashback, Volume 19, Number 2, May 1969 (pages 1-8); Number 3, August 1969 (pages 11-19); and Number 4, November 1969 (pages 11-21).

Dates: 1969

Ira Russell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MC 581
Scope and Content Note

Collection is arranged chronologically with letters first followed by a photographic print of Dr. Russell.

Dates: 1862-1863