Scope and Content Note Correspondence and related records created, received, or collected by Arkansas manufacturer, entrepreneur, amateur historian, soldier, engineer, and inventor John Rison Fordyce. Records pertain primarily to Fordyce’s personal, familial, business, military, and avocational interests and activities and incidentally to his professional activities. Principal areas to which records relate include: Fordyce family genealogy; the college education of Fordyce’s son, Edward Winfield;...

Content Description Kodak album containing 60 2.5”-diameter round photographic prints of the type printed from film from Kodak Original and Kodak No. 1 cameras; locations pictured include Hot Springs, Arkansas; Leeper and Lone Star, Missouri; and Brewster, Massachusetts.Locations pictured in Hot Springs, Arkansas include the Eastman Hotel, the Army-Navy Hospital, Bathhouse Row, Park Hotel, The Arlington Hotel, the Van Vliet house and livery, a brick building labeled “Coopers,” and an advertisement...

Scope and Content Note Materials consist of hotel guest registers, clippings, and other items pertaining to William Hope Harvey and to his resort at Monte Ne, Arkansas. Materials were found in the McWhorter family home (which had formerly belonged to W. H. Harvey) or was collected over the years. This collection was originally processed in 1977. Because many items originally in the collection have special storage or access needs, the collection was reorganized by Nan Lawler in 1988. The original...

Scope and Content Note Guest register of Southern Hotel, "I. A. Newman, proprietor," formerly "Baird House, J. Baird, Proprietor" for the period August 6, 1882-October 2, 1883. Entries indicate that guests included Thomas Boles (Sept. 17, 1883), Prince William of Wurtemberg (Jan. 2, 1883), North Carolina Governor Frank Overton (Nov. 4, 1882), the entire casts of traveling dramatic companies (Aug. 19 and Nov. 16, 1882), and Ulysses Simpson Grant (Dec. 23, 1882). 1 vol., 16" x 11"x 1" (approx. 132...

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Folio volume, 12" x 16", bound in half leather with alternate pages for registration of hotel guests and blotter pages containing advertisements for area merchants and services.