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Flood control -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Dale Bumpers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1490
Scope and Content Note

Materials include biographical information, correspondence, legislative and committee materials (Appropriations, Energy and Natural Resources, and Small Business committees). Additionally, the collection includes materials concerning personal and office records, speeches and voting records, photographs, posters, audio visual materials, and ephemera.

Dates: 1886-2011
Found in: Special Collections Department / Dale Bumpers Papers

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs Records Relating to Civil Action, 1971, v. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

 Collection
Identifier: MS En89
Scope and Content Note Copies of legal proceedings, including summons, complaint, transcript of hearings, opinions and orders, together with corres pondence, photographs, and other supporting documents filed in United States District Court, 1971, in Civil Action File No. LR-70-C-203, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., The Ozark Society, Arkansas Audubon Society, Inc., Arkansas Ecology Center, Pratt Remmel, Jr., and Russell Harper, plaintiffs, v. Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, Stanley R. Resor,...
Dates: 1961-1972
Found in: Special Collections Department / Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs Records Relating to Civil Action, 1971, v. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

Col. John R. Fordyce Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1428
Scope and Content Note

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from Aug 13, 1927 to 1928 relating to flood control primarily in Arkansas and Mississippi.

Dates: 1927-1928
Found in: Special Collections Department / Col. John R. Fordyce Scrapbook

J. William Fulbright Papers, Second Accession

 Collection
Identifier: MS F956 144-B
Scope and Content Note The second increment of the J. William Fulbright papers (primarily 1960-1975) comprises approximately nine hundred linear feet of materials and documents the tenure of the Arkansas Democrat in the U.S. House and Senate. The collection consists of constituent, official, and personal correspondence, memoranda, legislative bills, speeches, photographs, and other records related to the political, governmental, and diplomatic interests and activities of the senator. An important component of the...
Dates: 1940-1975; Majority of material found within 1960-1975
Found in: Special Collections Department / J. William Fulbright Papers, Second Accession

William F. and Catherine D. Norrell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1236
Scope and Content Note The collection contains some personal materials, including correspondence between the Norrells and their daughter, their obituaries, and funeral memorials. However, the bulk of the collection relates to the professional lives of the Norrells. Especially noteworthy are items pertaining to Mr. Norrell's activities as a member of the Subcommittee on Military Appropriations. These include first-hand materials from Operation Crossroads in 1946; the ships sunk in that operation included the...
Dates: 1932-1981
Found in: Special Collections Department / William F. and Catherine D. Norrell Papers

United States Soil Conservation Service Posters and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2508
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.

Dates: circa 1954-1966
Found in: Special Collections Department / United States Soil Conservation Service Posters and Photographs

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