Scope and Content Note The personal reminiscences include Josephine B. Crump's accounts of her Civil War years, which include incomplete remembrances of a battle and Joe Wright Crump's unfinished story of a Mr. Fancher's successful escape from Union troops near Harrison; accounts of her experiences during World War I; and accounts of daily life in Harrison. Also in this collection are two short stories, one sheet of correspondence, a poem from Lamar Fontaine, and photocopies of materials related to the Crump and...

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Cellulose nitrate negatives of businesses in Harrison, Arkansas. The images are mainly of the interiors of Harrison businesses in the 1930s, with some exterior views and several portraits. Contact prints of the negatives were made for Special Collections.

The prints are all 5" x 7" (one of the portrait prints consists of two half-sheet portraits). Unless otherwise noted, all are interior views. Businesses and people were identified by the donor.

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Printed "1938 New Years Bulletin," mimeo "Harrison Chamber of Commerce News Flash," color litho post cards of Hotel Seville and City View Camp.

Scope and Content Note The papers contain correspondence; financial and professional records; bank ledgers; appointment and address books; diplomas, certificates, awards, and plaques; photographs; a scrapbook; twelve black and white reproductions on silk by Italian artist Oscar D'Amico, and other materials and records pertaining to Rabie Rhodes' personal life, business affairs, and professional and civic activities. Notable correspondents include: Dale Bumpers, William Jefferson Clinton, Orval Faubus, J. William...

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Approximately 4,125 sheets of drawings include tracings on vellum, flimsy, graph and bond paper. Included are renderings, sections, elevations, floor plans, site plans, schedules, details, and topographic maps. The drawings are arranged alphabetically by project title.

* indicates a job number which may be different from that on the drawings.

Abstract

Student report on the history and impact of railroads in Harrison, Arkansas.

Content Description

The collection contains United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service (SCS) posters and photographic prints, most mounted on board. Photographs are of Arkansas locations, and particularly of Six Mile Creek Watershed and of 1961 flood damage in Harrison, Arkansas. Posters were primarily produced by the Fort Worth, Texas office of the SCS.

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The papers include correspondence, minutes, yearly calendar events, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, microfilm, and other papers relating to the club's activities.

Scope and Content Note The collection contains materials gathered by David Zimmerman during his historical research, including two photographs documenting the African-American community in Harrison, Arkansas, around the turn of the 20th century. Also included is a photograph of Eureka Springs, and two letters from folklorist Vance Randolph to Thelma O'Dell Carter of Green Forest, Arkansas, in which he solicits her knowledge on the location of Bradshaw Mountain and on reports of “white-cappers” and race-related...