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Fort Smith (Ark.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Naf

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Katie Emrich Jewett Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2194
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of a scrapbook belonging to Katie Emrich of Fort Smith, Arkansas, as well as enclosed ephemera and correspondence. The scrapbook primarily contains clippings of poetry and of newspaper articles regarding Emrich's family members.

Dates: circa 1865-1899

Juletta Ashby Jordan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1108
Scope and Content Note The majority of the materials in this collection were created or collected by Juletta Ashby Jordan. Series one contains diaries kept by Juletta Jordan, "Said" Beck, and Addison Beck. Series two consists of letters written and received by Addison Beck, Juletta Jordan, and "Said" Beck. The literary works in series three were almost entirely written by Juletta Jordan. Series four, scrapbooks and scrapbook materials, includes an elocution notebook kept by Addie Beck, a teaching notebook probably...
Dates: 1879-1932

Nancy Vaughn Griftner Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2044
Content Description

The collection consists of certificates and other materials related to Nancy Vaughn Griftner, and particularly to her time as a student at Fort Smith Senior High School. Materials include programs, diplomas from Fort Smith Senior High School and from Fort Smith Junior College, certificates, and a newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1936-2004; Majority of material found within 1936-1937

Mary Virginia Norris Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MC 535
Scope and Content Note

Scrapbook, 1922-1925, of Mary Virginia Norris, containing party and dance souvenirs, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and programs of her student days at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, through her first teaching job, Fort Smith High School.

Dates: 1922-1925

Record of Oak Grove Cemetery Interments

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1823
Scope and Content Note

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

Dates: 1876-1889

O'Shea and Hinch Daybook

 Collection
Identifier: MS qL58.F77 2
Scope and Content Note

Daily sales journal, February to May, 1893, of the firm of O'Shea and Hinch, Fort Smith, Arkansas merchants dealing in groceries, grains, and feed.

Dates: 1893

Minnie Pahotski "Early History of Fort Smith" Essay

 Collection
Identifier: MS P15
Scope and Content Note

Mimeographed copy of an essay, "Early History of Fort Smith," written by Minnie Pahotski, elementary school supervisor in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), Arkansas.

Dates: undated

Wilda Plymale Works Progress Administration Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2556
Content Description Scrapbook documenting the Works Progress Administration Division of Professional and Service Projects' "This Week Pays Your Community" programming in Arkansas in 1940; the week was designed to highlight the benefits of WPA projects to local communities. The scrapbook includes clippings, photographs, programs, speech transcripts, bookmarks, and county committee reports. The scrapbook was compiled by Wilda Plymale, a stenographer in the Fort Smith WPA office, likely for Eva B. Patterson, the...
Dates: 1940

Shipley Baking Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 954
Scope and Content Note Most of the material was saved by Garvin Shipley, one of the co-founders of Shipley Baking Company and uncle of the donor. Included are the records of the Shipley Baking Company of Fort Smith and Fayetteville, as well as the records of the W. G. Shipley Baking Company of Fayetteville and McAlester, Oklahoma. The collection also includes some material on the Shipley family, Fort Smith, the First Baptist Church of Fort Smith, and some information on the Cotton Holsum Bakeries of...
Dates: 1922-1934

Nancy K. Smith Postcard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2436
Abstract

85 photographic and illustrated postcards of places in Arkansas, primarily hospitals and medical facilities.

Dates: circa 1908-1953

Southern Hotel (Fort Smith, Ark.) Guest Register

 Collection
Identifier: MS So88 386
Scope and Content Note Guest register of Southern Hotel, "I. A. Newman, proprietor," formerly "Baird House, J. Baird, Proprietor" for the period August 6, 1882-October 2, 1883. Entries indicate that guests included Thomas Boles (Sept. 17, 1883), Prince William of Wurtemberg (Jan. 2, 1883), North Carolina Governor Frank Overton (Nov. 4, 1882), the entire casts of traveling dramatic companies (Aug. 19 and Nov. 16, 1882), and Ulysses Simpson Grant (Dec. 23, 1882). 1 vol., 16" x 11"x 1" (approx. 132...
Dates: 1882-1883

Mitchell Sparks Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS Sp4
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....
Dates: 1835-1909

Upchurch Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 197
Scope and Content Note

The papers, photographs, genealogical information, diplomas, and clippings refer to Fredrica and Grace Upchurch's parents, their brother, and sisters. There are also papers, including itemized accounts of daily expenses Fredrica and Grace Upchurch maintained over a sixty-year period, and photographs concerning the University of Arkansas, Arkansas State Normal School (later renamed Arkansas State Teachers College), and Fort Smith public and private schools.

Dates: 1879-1984

Mary Elizabeth Birnie Coster Vann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS V26
Scope and Content Note

Two receipts and a notebook, 1853-1869, recording recipes, verses, finances, genealogical notes, and miscellaneous memoranda recorded by Mary Elizabeth Birnie Coster Vann of Fort Smith (Sebastian County). Other, unidentified persons also may have made entries in the notebook.

Dates: 1853-1874

Waters-Pierce Oil Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MC 774
Scope and Content Note

Exterior and interior views of Waters-Pierce Oil Company, Fort Smith. 10 photographs, 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" to 7 1/2" x 9 1/2", by John M. Gannaway of Fort Smith. Views include offices, outbuildings, tanks, and draft animals used by the company.

Dates: circa 1890