Scope and Content Note

This collection contains promotional pamphlets, calendars of events including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's trip to Arkansas, a questionnaire game for the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs, a Van Buren High School Pageant script, and minutes of the Arkansas Centennial Commission concerning the New York World Fair.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence , mimeographed memoranda, and brochures pertaining to activities of Commission. Principal correspondent is Augustus W. Parke, Executive Secretary of Commission.

Scope and Content Note

The collection, collected by the Commission's General Manager, Jimmie Thomas, consists of three newsletters of the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Commission; the Commission's final report; and a letter from author Charles Portis to a member of the Commission, declining an invitation to participate in programming.

Scope and Contents Activities to which the material specifically relates include: Donaghey's role in the construction of the Arkansas state capitol; his work as governor and as member of the state Capitol Arts Commission, Centennial Commission, Board of Charities and Corrections, and Planning Board; his work as member of the (Little Rock) Broadway-Main Street Bridge Commission and of the National Board of Finance of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; creation of the Donaghey Foundation and endowment of...

Scope and Content Note

The photographs include 53 images of the Arkansas Centennial Celebration (1936) in Mena and 97 images of buildings, events, and people in and around Mena from the late nineteenth century into the 1950s. The business records are an itemized account of income and outgo for the photographic studio, rental property, and the antique business.