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Lumber trade -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Arkansas Lumber Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MC 600
Scope and Content Note Photographs of the Arkansas Lumber Company of Warren, Arkansas, and its parent company, Rittenhouse and Embree, of Chicago, Illinois. The photographs were taken in October, 1906 (Arkansas Lumber Company) and 1907 (Rittenhouse and Embree) by a photographer for the American Lumberman magazine. They were given to the Bradley County Chamber of Commerce by a descendant of Moses F. Rittenhouse early in 1986. The photographs were apparently mounted in a scrapbook, together...
Dates: 1906-1907

Arkansas: Then and Now Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2465
Abstract

Photographic negatives and prints of Arkansas life and industry made from a set of slides created or collected by University of Arkansas Geosciences professor Thomas O. Graff circa 1975, along with a script used in presenting the slides.

Dates: 1940-1975

Bob and Patty Besom Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1758
Scope and Content Note The collection contains Arkansas historical materials collected by Bob and Patty Besom. Series I, The University of Arkansas News Bureau files, contains a variety of material focused on contemporary University activities. Included are printed, typed, or hand-written press releases, communications from faculty, staff and media, newspaper clippings, research material, and drafts of stories. Series II, Union Saw Mill Material, contains materials pertaining to the Union Saw Mill...
Dates: circa 1759-2019

Charles R. Black, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1482
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains Eleven Point Dam materials, J.W. Black Lumber Company materials, correspondence with political leaders, sheet music and joke books for minstrels, Lion's Club materials, and materials pertaining to the University of Arkansas that were collected by Black, a graduate in the class of 1935.

Dates: 1921-1980

Bodcaw Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1388
Scope and Content Note

The records consist of minute books and stock ledgers.

Dates: 1889-1941

Caddo River Lumber Company Plat

 Collection
Identifier: MS C114p
Scope and Content Note

Map (30 " x 44") of "Caddo River Lumber Co./ Forester, Ark. / Scale l"=100', March 12, 1935 / Revised . . . 1939 / . . . 1945 . . . / Lumbermen’s Underwriting Company / . . .Traced from original map / by Kenneth L. Smith, / . .. 1981. "

Two copies: original tracing; blue-line, colored.

Dates: 1945

Lee Wilson and Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1289
Scope and Content Note Materials in the collection fall into three basic groups: the Bank of Wilson, Lee Wilson and Company, and Keiser Supply Company. Bank of Wilson records relate to both individual and business accounts. Materials include correspondence and statements, bank statements, cancelled checks and receipts, and cash vouchers. Lee Wilson and Company records pertain to the activities of the company as well as the communities founded by Lee Wilson. They include materials related to labor...
Dates: 1830-1996

Ozark Lumber and Spoke Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 995
Scope and Content Note

Book containing by-laws and minutes of meetings of the Ozark Lumber and Spoke Company, held in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Dates: 1908-1912

Pomeroy & McGowin, Inc. Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2400
Abstract

Materials regarding the history of the Pomeroy & McGowin, Inc. forest management company and its predecessor, the Ozark Badger Lumber Company.

Dates: circa 1939-1988

Kenneth L. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1423
Scope and Content Note The collection includes photographs, interviews, notes, research materials, organizational records, and other materials documenting the life and work of Kenneth L. Smith, particularly related to his involvement in environmental conservation in Arkansas and to his research and writings on the lumber industry in the Ouachita region of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Series 1 contains materials related to Arkansas environmental organizations, including the Ozark Society, the Arkansas...
Dates: circa 1850-2021