Content Description

Photographs and postcards, primarily of Arkansas people and places. Additionally, the collection includes photographic negatives that were received in an envelope labeled "Frank S. Robinson"; these negatives, which include images of the San Buena Ventura Mission and Museum, are likely primarily of people and scenes in California and the American West.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a photocopied ledger of Oak Grove Cemetery interments for the years 1876-1889.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and other material pertaining to the business, commercial, and legal affairs of Fort Smith, Arkansas merchant Mitchell Sparks, to the firm of Mitchell and Parke, and to the personal, familial, political, religious, educational, social, business, and legal affairs of the related Sparks- Bennett- Barling-Kannady-Pryor families, principally in and around Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas and the Indian Territory....