Mines and mineral resources -- Arkansas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Noah Fields Drake Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS D789 349
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, notes, notebooks, printed material, photographs, maps and land plats, business and other records created, received, or collected by geologist Noah Fields Drake and members of his family.Materials pertain to: Drake’s academic career as student at University of Arkansas and at Stanford University (1888-1897), as associate professor of economic geology at Stanford University (1911-1912) and as professor of geology and mining at Pei-yang...
Dates:
1886-2013
New York Zinc and Lead Company Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1678
Scope and Content Note
The New York Zinc and Lead Company Collection contains items relating to its business activities, including contracts, correspondence, tax records, financial documents and minutes of meetings by its administrative board members.
Dates:
1889-1942
Albert Homer Purdue Professional Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS P97
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains 18 notebooks; 23 manuscripts of published or unpublished articles, addresses and reports by Purdue; 45 reprints, tear-sheets, clippings and pamphlet printings of published articles, addresses and other works by, or about the academic or professional careers of, the Indiana native and Stanford University graduate who became Arkansas State Geologist and Arkansas State Superintendent of Mines and Metallurgy and who served as University of Arkansas professor of geology...
Dates:
1874-1918
Ulysses S. Sartin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2416
Abstract
Property and financial records, primarily for Ulysses S. Sartin and his business partners; most pertain to properties in Marion County, Arkansas.
Dates:
1900-1935
Sisk Mining Company Prospectus
Collection — Box Small Manuscript Collections Box 8: [Barcode: 35129217141163]
Identifier: MC 1143
Abstract
Pamphlet inviting potential shareholders to invest in a marcasite and "fertilizer" mining operation.
Dates:
1901
William David Spier Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MC 1827
Content Description
The collection consists of interviews conducted by William David Spier as part of research for his 1974 doctoral dissertation, "Farming and Mining Experience: Independence County, Arkansas, 1900-1925." Interviews are on seven audio cassette tapes, two of which are accompanied by transcripts. Those interviewed include Mrs. Y. M. Massey; Jim McTeague of Batesville, who was a former miner; Mr. and Mrs. Owen Fetzer of Cord; Rimmel Baxter (a former miner) and his wife, both of Batesville; Hugh...
Dates:
1973-1978