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The collection consists of records related to the professional career of journalist Kenneth C. Danforth, as well as Arkansas-related materials collected by Danforth. Materials include copies of Danforth's writings; resumes; photographs taken by Danforth of David Pryor's 1976 gubernatorial campaign; and an Arkansas Sesquicentennial souvenir packet containing reproductions of historic photographs of El Dorado.

Scope and Contents The collection contains the personal and professional papers of journalist and educator Robert R. Douglas; the bulk of the materials relate to his work at the Arkansas Gazette, his work as Chair of the Journalism Department at the University of Arkansas, or to his interest and involvement in legal cases related to libel, defamation, and freedom of the press.Collection materials include correspondence, clippings, legal documents, writings by Douglas...

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The bulk of the collection is the negative and print files of George C. Douthit, as he originally arranged them. Typescripts and clippings kept by Douthit and his wife are also included.

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Materials include correspondence, deeds, mortgages, financial papers, artifacts, and photographs.

Scope and Content Note The collection contains professional, personal, and family correspondence. Correspondents include Booth Campbell, Orval Faubus, Walter J. Lemke, Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, Sid McMath, Vance Randolph, Otto E. Rayburn, and others. The collection further contains personal papers; photographs; newspaper clippings of France's column Hills of Home (ca 1936-1961) as well as its manuscript and typewritten form; newspaper clippings of her column Shepherds Springs (ca...

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Materials include correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Scope and Content Note The first group of materials pertains to Clay Fulks and his family. Biographical materials consist primarily of newspaper clippings, which include information on the Arkansas Socialist Party. The FBI report contains documents released to Stephen Smith relating to the investigation of Clay Fulks from 1941 to 1952. Fulkss newspaper writings include columns, news features, and letters to the editor. Among them is an article on Arkansas entrepreneur Harvey Couch (1932). His writings also include...

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The material consists mainly of scrapbooks (including binders used as scrapbooks) containing newspaper clippings of articles pertaining to Funk's activities or written by him. In addition, a number of binders contain typed letters, speeches, articles, and essays, including an autobiography up to World War II. There are also a number of loose clippings, letters, articles, and Arkansas Press Association papers.

Scope and Content Note The collection consists mainly of biographical information, correspondence, memoranda, typescripts of articles, broadcast scripts, speeches, and magazine and newspaper articles, the majority of which were written or edited by Gilstrap during her career with the United states Department of Agriculture. Other materials in the collection include memorabilia from the Women's National Press Club Annual Dinner and stunt parties, clippings about Gov. Orval E. Faubus during the Central High crisis...

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The collection consists of diaries and reminiscences from 1920s-1990s. Much of the collection is personal correspondence and correspondence concerning Gilstrap's involvement with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. Also included in the collection, is Gilstrap's family genealogy materials, several family photographs.

Materials include correspondence, diaries, newspaper clippings, photographs, and audio visual materials.

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The collection contains writings by Good, program bulletins, and newspaper clippings.

Scope and Content Note The collection includes significant materials pertaining to celebrities such as Bob Burns, Chester Lauck, Gail Patrick, and others. Also, significant materials pertain to the relationship between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kevin McCann. Materials pertaining to Dr. Thomas Dooley, famed for his volunteer work in Laos and co-founder of MEDICO, the Medical International Cooperation Organization, include items related to his visit to Winnetka, Illinois, in 1959, as well as efforts to...

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The collection contains correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper and magazine articles, publications, brochures, pamphlets, school notebooks, and other papers.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, maps, bulletins, newspapers and other material created, received or collected by journalist-columnist- collector Lemke, University of Arkansas professor of journalism 1928-1956. Material, most of which dates from 1928 to 1968, pertains to Lemke's professional and academic career and interests, especially as regards his newspaper columns and publications; the Arkansas press; the journalism of World War II; the publications of "Uncle Walt's...

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Most of the materials in this collection are newspaper clippings, manuscript articles, and family photographs. Some correspondence, chiefly between Zillah and her publishers, is also included.

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The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, announcements, brochures, bulletins, newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, photographs, programs, speeches, travel itineraries, and other materials associated with Powell's career as a journalist, primarily with the Arkansas Gazette.

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The Wesley Pruden Papers pertain to the personal life and career of Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden, Jr.

Scope and Content Note The collection comprises personal, academic and professional/research records. The personal records consist mostly of correspondence and files pertaining to Reed’s studies at Harvard University. The academic records pertain to the classes taught by Reed, such as classroom lecture notes, syllabi, tests, newspaper and magazine articles, typescripts, and other classroom items created and collected by him. The professional/research records contain subject files that concern primarily Reed’s...

Scope and Content Note Materials include correspondence, court documents, scrapbooks, diaries, physician appointment books, photographs, drawings, etc. An avid collector of Arkansas-related historical materials, Margaret Smith Ross assembled a collection that includes her personal papers, historical and genealogical research materials, and the original records of the Pulaski County Circuit Court dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her personal papers include correspondence,...

Scope and Content Note Papers and scrapbooks concerning the Arkansas Gazette newspaper columnist, Hardy "Spider" Rowland. The papers consist of correspondence, scrapbooks and memorabilia, as well as notes about Rowland which his son Ray Rowland, collected while researching a biography of his father. A notable segment of the correspondence is contained in Folder 1, which includes material concerning alleged attempts by Little Rock's two leading newspapers to violate section 7a of the National Recovery...

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The Charlotte and Melvin Schexnayder Papers consist of the personal and professional papers of journalists Melvin and Charlotte Schexnayder; the bulk pertain to Charlotte Schexnayder, who also served as an Arkansas state representative.

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This collection includes documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Dorothy Davis Stuck. The materials emphasize her personal and professional accomplishments in the fields of civil rights, politics, and small business, and include draft manuscripts of her published works. The collection also includes documents relating to her family history and her brother Floyd H. Davis’s military service.

Scope and Content Note Series 1, Biographical Materials, includes samples of essays written by John Wells when attending the University of Arkansas in the early 1920s, newspaper essays written by Wells that were primarily autobiographical, newspaper clippings which feature Wells and his career as the subject, correspondence pertaining to Wells personally and the operation of his newspaper, and research materials for articles Wells planned to write or collected out of general interest. Series 2, Jovejoy Award...