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The collection consists of materials relating to the Hammock and Tharp families of Arkansas; the bulk of the materials are family photographs, accompanied by manila envelopes labeled by Kathryn Kelly with identifying information and, in many cases, biographical notes. Also included is a published book regarding the family, and printouts from Kelly's Ancestry.com family tree.

Scope and Content Note Hewen's two journals date from 1881 and 1884; the 1884 journal is numbered "volume XI." The journal from 1881 is not numbered, and no other journals are in the collection. Each is a record of his daily existence for an entire year, functioning additionally as exercises in penmanship, of which Hewen was justifiably proud. Although his home was in Baring Cross, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Hewen made frequent trips by mule and train to Cabot (Lonoke County), Arkansas for shopping, as well as to...

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Printed ballot listing candidates and parties for representative, Lonoke Township justice of the peace and constable, county judge, sheriff, assessor, and other county offices; penciled note on reverse.

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Book containing Articles of Association, 2 January 1889; attached certificate of filing from the Secretary of State, Arkansas; by-laws, minutes of stockholders' and direc­tors' meetings; annual reports and financial reports, 1889-1892. 1 volume, 192 pages.

Scope and Content Note This collection comprises the scrapbooks of the Marson Home Demonstration Club as well as some from the Lonoke County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs between 1936 and 1963 with some omissions. It also includes the secretarial notebooks from 1968 to 1977, documenting the monthly meetings. The scrapbooks contain accounts and photographs of monthly meetings, listings of the officers, and any trips/public events in which the organization was involved. The secretarial notebooks...

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Accounts of James and Peter St. Clair, 1858-1861. 14 sheets.

Printed ledger sheets of Skillern & Mulherin, "Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods ... Austin, Ark." with lists of pur­chases by James St. Clair, November 13- December 11, 1858, and by Peter St. Clair, November 13, 1858-January 7, [1861]; list of credits.

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The collection includes diaries, receipt books, ledgers, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Scope and Contents Sales account journal maintained by unidentified merchant, Dec. 22, 1912-circa 1914, and subsequently used, circa 1914-1915 by A. C. Williams as a miscellaneous notebook. Pagination is: 1-18, 21-32, 37, 39-42, [1,2], 43-51, 54-61, 68-71, 74-76, 78-89, 80 [sic]-121, [122-140]. Page 24 contains a sharecropping agreement executed by Oliver Howard with A. C. Williams, Jan. 12, 1914; pages 77-89 contain a draft of a constitution for the Arkansas Industrial Benevolent Association, August 12, 1914;...