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Lumbering -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Bardwell Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MC 709
Scope and Content Note

Twenty postcard photographs of people and places in and near Rosboro (Pike County). The Bardwell photographs were taken by B. Bardwell and his nephew Carney Bardwell, Rosboro, Arkansas, from about 1910 to 1926. The photographs are all 3 1/4" x 5 1/4" and are printed on the verso for use as postcards. Descriptive material was included for most of the photographs, and is incorporated into the description of each photograph.

Dates: ca 1910-1926

Bob and Patty Besom Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1758
Scope and Content Note The collection contains Arkansas historical materials collected by Bob and Patty Besom. Series I, The University of Arkansas News Bureau files, contains a variety of material focused on contemporary University activities. Included are printed, typed, or hand-written press releases, communications from faculty, staff and media, newspaper clippings, research material, and drafts of stories. Series II, Union Saw Mill Material, contains materials pertaining to the Union Saw Mill...
Dates: circa 1759-2019

Bodcaw Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1388
Scope and Content Note

The records consist of minute books and stock ledgers.

Dates: 1889-1941

Kenneth L. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1423
Scope and Content Note The collection includes photographs, interviews, notes, research materials, organizational records, and other materials documenting the life and work of Kenneth L. Smith, particularly related to his involvement in environmental conservation in Arkansas and to his research and writings on the lumber industry in the Ouachita region of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Series 1 contains materials related to Arkansas environmental organizations, including the Ozark Society, the Arkansas...
Dates: circa 1850-2021

Ormie Twiford Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS T92
Scope and Content Note

"Journal of Ormie Twiford; transcribed by Bill R. Beaver; term project for Arkansas folklore; fall semester 1958-1959," being a part (January 1-December 31, 1901) of the diary of a highly literate and articulate log cutter in the vicinity of Mena, Arkansas, transcribed and preface added by Beaver from original manuscript in possession of Roger A. McMillan of Mena.

Dates: 1901

U.S. Forest Service. Ozark-St. Francis National Forest Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS Un3f 286 U.S. Forest
Scope and Content Note Seventy-one each 8" x 10" positive prints and 35 mm. negatives of Arkansas events and scenes in the Ozark National Forest relating to: Jasper, Mountain View, Combs, and Cass, Arkansas: river ferry and bridge construction at Dardanelle-Russellville, Arkansas; lumbering and stave manufacture, including the Hamlin Stave Company of Little Rock; oil well exploratory drilling in Scott County, Arkansas; highway construction; Arkansas College of Technology; rural schools; floods, including the 1927...
Dates: 1914-1938

R. E. L. Wilson Plantation Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1870
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...
Dates: ca 1939

Blake Wintory Collection of Photographs and Postcards

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2510
Content Description

Photographic prints, stereoviews, and postcards, primarily of scenes in and around Marianna, Ark. Also includes a photograph of Robert Ramsey, a Memphis, Tennessee-born writer who grew up in Lee County, Arkansas, and authored works such as Fiesta and Fire in Summer, which was set in a fictional county inspired by Lee County.

Dates: circa 1906-1951