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Small broadside advertising commissioner's sale of land and cotton gin in Bald Knob, January 9, 1894; announcement from Jno. [John] T. Hicks, Commissioner, Searcy, December 18, 1893.

Scope and Content Note Record Books: Materials include the records of the Elms Planting Company and its various divisions: the Altheimer Gin Company, the Jefferson Gin Company, and the Merchants and Farmers Gin and Supply Company. Records consist of handwritten cotton yield, seed, and gin ledgers. The collection includes an Elms Planting Company accounts receivable book, an Elms Mercantile Company general ledger, and two One Day Books from the Elms Mercantile Company. A positive photocopy of a plat book, showing...

Content Description The collection consists of a scrapbook that belonged to Walter S. Gifford; it contains photographs of an October 1940 General Education Board trip to Arkansas, including images of the Lake View and Plum Bayou resettlement projects. Photographs from the Education Board trip to Arkansas include images of an unidentified “one teacher school”; Stony Point School (Washington County); Cave Springs; “No. 15, The least profitable boiler producing farm”; the Plum Bayou resettlement...

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Cotton purchase record books kept by the John Rawlings Company of Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas. Books record producers’ names, bale weights, cotton grades, prices, and purchasers’ names. Two volumes, each 160 pp.

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Materials include William Miner Taylor's business books from his store and cotton gin, Ruth Taylor Fortenberry's account of growing up in Mississippi County, her mother's memories, and other books and articles she collected about Mississippi County, Arkansas.

Scope and Content Note Materials include Lee Wilson and Co. photographs, developed by Jack Pryor, negatives, proofs, and a short list of descriptions about the pictures. The Lee Wilson and Co. images were photographed by Jack Pryor. At least some of the images first appeared with the article, Arkansas Giant by J. D. Ratcliff from The Country Home Magazine and another article, The World's Largest Cotton...

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The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence from members of the Wood family as well as records of the family's cotton gin, general store, and plantation records.