June 2016 Acquisitions and Accessions

ASA Books

-Scott County, Arkansas Gateway to the West, by O. Alden Smith
-Murder:  In the Children’s Eyes, by Ava Jones Burnett
-The 1868 Report:  A Collection of Historical Documents from Arkansas’s First Land Commissioner, Published by the Arkansas Commissioner of State Lands
-The Brown Family, Hilda Daugherty
-1935 Jonesboro City Directory
-Discovering our Stories:  Temple B’nai Israel, by Gina Kokes
-Source Records of the Great War, 7 Vols

ASA Periodicals

Brickwall Gazette, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 2016
Perry County Historical Society Newsletter, March 2016
Arkansas Railroader, Vol. 32, No. 10, October 2001 – Vol. 42, no. 2, February-March 2011
Wagon Wheels, Vol. 1, no.4, Summer 1981 – Vol. 28, no. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer & Fall/Winter 2008
White County Historical Society News, July 2002 – November/December 2013
South Arkansas Historical Journal, Vol. 4, Fall 2004 – Vol. 13, Winter 2013-2014
The Delta Historical Review, Vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1989 – Summer 1993, Summer 2004
Journal of the Hempstead County Historical Society, 1992 – 2001
Carroll County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 49, no. 1, March 2004
The Looking Glass, 20th Anniversary Issue, November1993 – Holiday Issue 1995
The Greene County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 1983 - Vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1983, Vol. 11, 1986, Vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1994 – Vol. 8, no. 4, Spring 1995
Greene County Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol 7 no. 5, May 1994 – Vol 8, no. 4, April 1995
Garden Leaves:  Newsletter of Garvan Woodland Gardens, Vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 2007
Arkansas South
Cross County ERA, July/August/September 2006 – Spring 2011
WANA News, November 10 2001 - December 2004
Argenta News, Fall/Winter 1999, Fall/Winter 2000, Summer/Fall 2003
The Butler Banner, Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1998 – Winter 2008
The Quarterly (Ouachita County), Vol. 24, no. 3, Spring 1993 - Vol. 24, no. 4, Summer 1993
North Little Rock Neighborhood News, Vol. 5, no. 3, May/June 2000 – Vol. 20, no. 2, March/April
Madison County Musings, Vol. 14, no. 4, Winter 1995 – Vol. 17, no. 4, Winter 1998
At Home In Arkansas, Millennium Issue
Arkansas Highways Magazine, March 2013
Sodbuster, May 2009
Visions, Spring 1998
Ouachita Chapter Newsletter, January 2006
UACDC Progress Report, Summer 2000
Ozark Watch, Vol. 3., no. 1, Summer 1989 – Vol. 14, no. 1 & 2, 1990
Planning for Nuggets of Old, Vol. 27, no. 2, Fall 2006 - Vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2010
Pick and Shovel, Vol. 15, no. 2, September 2015 – Vol. 9, no. 1, March 2006
Positively Eureka, Vol. 8, no. 2, March/April 2008 - Vol. 9, no. 1, January/February 2009
Pea Ridge National Military Park Foundation Newsletter, October 21, 2005
Putman Cemetery Association, Vol. 10, April 2004
Planning and Zoning Quarterly, 2000
The Key, The Newsletter of the Faulkner County Museum, February 2002 – Winter 2007
Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings, Vol. 54, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2012
Reflections, Arkansas Humanities Council, Vol. 38, no. 4, Winter 2015
Rural Arkansas, October 1992, December 1998
Life in the Ozarks, March 1, 2008 – January 2009
The Ouachita Mountaineer:  Life & Legend of the Quachita Region, Summer 1996
Baxter County History, Vol. 21, no. 4, October/November/December 1995 – April/May/June 2011
Oak Leaves, Vol. 1, no. 2, April 2005 - Vol. 4, no. 1, April 2007
Museum News, Little Rock AFB Historical Foundation, Inc., May 2008
Jefferson Highway Declaration, Vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2013 - Vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2016
Ozarks Watch, Vol. 3, no. 2, Winter 1990
The Old Time Chronicle, Vol. 3, no. 10, October 1990
The Craighead County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, no. 4, Fall 1988
Arkansas Chapter, Trail of Tears Association Newsletter, November 1999 – Summer 2009
Arkansas Historical Association Newsletter, Vol. 6, no. 4, Winter 1989 - Vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2008
Real Living, June 2004
The Arkansas Paddler, Vol. 34, no. 2, January 2011
Aboard the Ark, Summer 1995 - Summer 1999
The Arkansas Post Gazette, Vol. 4, no. 1, June 2007 – Vol. 6, no. 3, Fall 2011
Arkansas Biography Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 2, Fall 1993 - Vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 1997
Arkansas Anthropology, Summer 1997
Arkansas Review, A Journal of Delta Studies, Vol. 41, no. 1, April 2010
Borderlines, Vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 1998
The Benton County Pioneer, Vol. 53, no. 3, 2008
Fort Smith Dispatch, Vol. 2, no. 3, Summer 2001 - Vol. 3, no. 3, Summer 2002
The Arkansas Family Historian, Vol. 53, no. 4, Winter 2015
Horizons, Arkansas Grantseekers, January/February 1990 – July/August 1990
Horizons, Mid South Grantseekers, December 1993 – February 1996
Shiloh Scrapbook, Vol. 16, no. 3, August 1997 - Vol. 28, no. 2, August 2009
Arkansas The  Natural State, Autumn 1997 -  Summer 2002; Fall 2006
Nevada County Depot Museum News, March 1999
Heritage Preservation, February 1998
The History Alumnus, December 1997
The Mountain Signal, Vol. 1, no. 7, January 1990, Vol. 1, no. 10, April 1990, Vol. 2, no. 3, September 1990
The Museum Record, Vol. 1, no. 2, September 2011
National Park Service:  Special Resource Study, Wolf House Newsletter 1, April 2010
National Park Service:  Park News, The official newsletter of Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, 50th Anniversary 2007; Vol. 1, no. 1, Summer 2003, Vol. 3, no. 1; Summer 2005,
Drew County Historical Journal, Vol. 22, 2007
Landscape Architecture Newsletter, Arkansas Chapter ASLA Newsletter, Summer 2005
The Arkansas Researcher, Vol. 4, no. 4, May 1990; Vol. 7, no. 2, Summer 1993 - Vol. 8, no. 2 & 3, Summer 1994
Cornerstone, Vol. 1, no. 1, April 2001
Capitol Report, Holiday 2007 – Fall 2009
Columns, Winter 1997
The Dispatch, Vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 1996; Vol. 2, no. 1, June 2000
Friends of the Pfeiffers News, October 2007
Field Notes, no. 301, July/August 2001
Broadcaster, Ozarks Resource Center, Vol. 11, no. 3, August 2006; Vol. 13, no. 2, Spring 2009
Buck and Ball, August 2007
Business Advocate, Vol. 6, no. 2
Burger Boy Magazine, no. 10, Winter 2002

ASA Printed Ephemera

Pulaski County Historical Society, Constitution February 8, 1999
Preserving Historic Interior Architecture For Modern Living, July 17, 1998
Historic Preservation In Arkansas

NEARA Books

Life and Times of Meriwether Lewis Randolph: Grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Arkansas’s Last Territorial Secretary, by Grace Benton Nelson

SARA Books

Gamble Family by Raimonda Martin-Davis, (2 copies)

SARAPeriodicals

Clark County Historical Association & Museum newsletter, March/April/May 2016

AHC Accessions

South Fourche LaFave River Bridge, Photograph Collection, 0.25 cu ft

Bradford Family photograph and funeral notice

Geologic Atlas of the United States, Fayetteville Folio, Arkansas-Missouri, 1905. Washington, DC: US
Geological Survey

Craighead County Land Record Ledger, 0.50 cu ft

Life and Law In Late 19th Century Arkansas, 1 cu ft

1953 Hale Brothers Little League Baseball Team photograph, 1 photograph

NEARA Accessions

King Family Records – 6 cu.ft.
Lawrence County Jail site plans – 2 panels; donated by LCHS
Loan: Jonesboro/Craighead county newspaper microfilm masters for duplication (60 rolls, late 1800s to early 20th century)

Wednesday's Wonderful Collection - James Franklin Cooley papers, MS.000045

James Franklin Cooley was born January 11, 1926, in Rowland, Roberson County, North Carolina. He graduated from Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina, with degrees in social science and theology. Cooley also served in the Army during World War II, and later received honorary doctorates in divinity and civil law.
Reverend Cooley moved to Forrest City, St. Francis County, Arkansas, in 1957 to become pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, the county's first African American Presbyterian church. He was also a teacher and community leader who worked to combat juvenile delinquency in the area. In 1969 the Forrest City School District dismissed Cooley from his teaching position. He believed his firing was due to his involvement in civil rights activities. His dismissal resulted in protests and rioting of black students at Lincoln Junior-Senior High School.
Cooley’s community involvement included the establishment of a day care, a free lunch program for underprivileged children, college extension courses for prison inmates, and the publication of the “Arkansas Weekly Sentinel” in Little Rock, Arkansas, from 1978-1984. Cooley served as a dean at Shorter College in North Little Rock from 1969-1973. He died July 24, 1992, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.

This collection contains biographical information, correspondence, newspapers, clippings, and material related to civil rights and other topics.

• 1. Biography, awards, and honors
• 2. Cooley's Athletic and Teenage Club, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1966-1973
• 3. Cooley's Athletic and Teenage Club, food service applications (Arkansas Social Services and the United States Department of Agriculture), 1969-1974
• 4. Cooley's Day Care, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1973
• 5. Correspondence, 1969-1975
• 6. Law enforcement, rehabilitation and inmate education programs, 1969-1972
• 7. Miss Black Teenage America Beauty Pageant, 1971-1974
• 8. Newsclippings, prison inmates, 1971-1974
• 9. Newspaper editorial comments, James Franklin Cooley to Arkansas-Gazette and Arkansas Democrat newspapers, 1971-1974
• 10. Newspaper editorials, "Cooley Said It," Southern Mediator Journal, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1970-1972
• 11. Race riot, Arkansas-Gazette and Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, Arkansas (clippings), 1969
• 12. Race riot, Daily Times-Herald, Forrest City, Arkansas (clippings), 1969 March 21
• 13. Race Riot, The Committee for Peaceful Co-existence, a list of conditions to the governments of Forrest City and Saint Francis Counties, Arkansas, 1969 July 14; and personal recommendations from James Franklin Cooley to the leaders of Forrest City, Arkansas, circa 1969
• 14. Southern Mediator Journal newspapers, Little Rock, Arkansas; 1974 March, August, September; 1975 February

State Archives Closed in Observance of July 4th Holiday

The Arkansas State Archives will be closed on Monday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. We will be open with regular business hours on Saturday, July 2. Our regional branches, the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives and the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, will also be open with regular business hours on Saturday, July 2.

Paper Conservation: Principles and Practices

The Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives is hosting a workshop from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 23 at the Male and Female Academy in Powhatan. The workshop’s theme, “Paper Conservation: Principles and Practices,” will feature presentations by NEARA Archival Manager Dr. Lisa Perry and conservator Jane Thompson.

Topics include “Basic Conservation Practice and Theory” and “Conservation on a Budget.”  There will be a hands-on workshop on paper conservation at the end of the day. Participants are asked to bring their own paper materials to work with.

The workshop is free to attend but registration is required. The deadline for registration will be July 20. Registration is limited to 20 people, but there will be a wait list available in case of cancellations, so be sure to register soon. Check-in will begin at 9 a.m. on July 23.  Lunch will be provided.

The Arkansas State Archives, located in Little Rock, is the official state archives of Arkansas and maintains the largest collection of historical materials on Arkansas in the world.  The Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives is a branch of the Arkansas State Archives and is dedicated to collecting and preserving primary source materials that represent the unique history, culture and heritage of northeast Arkansas.  Located at 11 Seventh Street in Powhatan, NEARA has been open since 2011.

For more information about the workshop or to register, contact us at northeast.archives@arkansas.gov or call us at 870-878-6521.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Heroes of Arkansas Folk Music Symposium and Concert

The Arkansas State Archives will host a symposium and concert on Saturday, July 30 from 9:00 a.m. until noon in Conference Room 4A-400 on the fourth floor of the Multi-Agency Complex building at 1 Capitol Mall. The symposium’s theme, “Heroes of Arkansas Folk Music,” will feature speakers George West, Charley Sandage, and State Archives staff member Jeff Lewellen.

Topics include Arkansas musicians Almeda Riddle, Jimmy Driftwood, and Patsy Montana. The folk band, Harmony, will play select songs from each musician in between presentations and there will be brief question and answer sections after each presentation.

The seminar is free to attend but registration is required. The deadline for registering will be July 25, and registration is limited, so be sure to make reservations soon.  Check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m. on July 30. Teachers can earn up to four professional development hours through attendance.  Light breakfast refreshments will be served.

The Arkansas State Archives, located in Little Rock, is the official state archives of Arkansas and maintains the largest collection of historical materials on Arkansas in the world.  The agency has two branch locations; the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives is located in Powhatan and the Southwest Regional Archives is located in Washington.

For more information about the symposium or to register, contact us at events.archives@arkansas.gov or call us at 501-682-6900.

This event is funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council.

NEARA is Awarded a Grant

On June 2, one of our branches, the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives in Powhatan, was awarded a grant in the amount of $1,499 from the Arkansas Humanities Council.  The grant will assist in funding two events at NEARA over the summer, including a paper conservation workshop in July and an August symposium titled, “All We Need is Love: War and Religion in Northeast Arkansas.”  Congrats to our team at NEARA!

Wednesday's Wonderful Collection - Rose family papers SMC.15.4

Judge Uriah Milton (U.M.) Rose was a nationally known lawyer. Born in Kentucky in 1834, he attended the Transylvania Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated in 1853 at the age of nineteen. In the same year he married Margaret T. Gibbs. They moved to Batesville, Arkansas, where U.M. began his law practice. In 1865 Governor Elias Conway appointed Rose Chancellor of Pulaski County. Moving to Little Rock, Arkansas, he started a law partnership that became the Rose Law Firm. He was the only attorney from Arkansas asked to help organize the American Bar Association in 1878, and was elected president in 1901. At his suggestion Arkansas attorneys founded the Arkansas Bar Association in 1882. He was asked by President Theodore Roosevelt to attend the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 as Ambassador. Uriah Milton Rose's statue stands in the United States Capitol in Statuary Hall located in Washington, District of Columbia. Rose died August 12, 1913, and is buried in the Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.

George B. Rose was born in Batesville, Arkansas, July 10, 1860, the son of Uriah M. and Margaret T. Gibbs Rose. In 1865 George moved with his family to Little Rock. He received his education at St. John's College in Little Rock, studied law under his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. In 1881, he went into partnership with his father. In 1893, W.E. Hemingway joined the firm creating the Rose, Hemingway, Rose Law firm.

On May 2, 1882, George Rose married Marion Kimball, the daughter of Judge Eben W. Kimball and Mary Frye Kimball. Marion was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and moved with her family to Little Rock in 1874, where she finished high school. She graduated from Wellesley College. George and Marion had two children, a daughter who died in infancy, and a son Clarence.

George B. Rose was a prominent lawyer and art critic. He authored "Renaissance Masters" and "The World's Leading Painters." He was a member of the Arkansas Bar Association (president in 1902), the American Bar Association, American Law Institute, Board of Directors of the Little Rock Public Library, and Board of Trustees of the Little Rock Museum of Fine Arts.

This collection contains the correspondence, legal papers, receipts, and miscellaneous documents of the Rose family of Arkansas.

• Correspondence (Reel MG00208)
  
  • 1. 1921 May 23: George B. Rose to Mrs. Lewis H. Rose, Fayetteville, Arkansas
  • 2. 1930 March 19: C.H. Richter, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Marion Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • 3. 1935 February 23: Raymond L. Davis, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Marion G. Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • 4. Undated: M.T. Rose to "My Dear Son"
• Legal
  
  • 5. 1903 January 9: Will, Margaret T. Rose
  • 6. 1913 September 11: Appointment, Margaret T. Rose, executrix of last will and testament of U.M. Rose
  • 7. 1915 March 5: Memorandum of agreement, Margaret T. Rose and F.W. Ruckstuhl
  • 8. 1922 October 16: Directive, Margaret T. Rose to Union and Mercantile Trust Company
• 9. 1892 June 29: Receipt, A.D. Beach to U.M. Rose
• 10. 1913 September 11: Advance, Margaret T. Rose to John M. Rose
• Receipts, Ida J. Brown to Margaret T. Rose
  
  • 11. 1916 April 1
  • 12. 1916 May 1
  • 13. 1916 June 1
  • 14. 1916 July 1
  • 15. 1916 August 1
  • 16. 1916 September 1
  • 17. 1916 October 1
  • 18. 1916 November 1
  • 19. 1916 December 1
  • 20. 1917 January 1
  • 21. 1917 February 1
  • 22. 1917 March 1
  • 23. 1917 April 1
  • 24. 1917 May 1
  • 25. 1917 June 1
  • 26. 1917 July 1
  • 27. 1917 August 1
  • 28. 1917 September 1
  • 29. 1917 October 1
  • 30. 1917 November 1
  • 31. 1917 December 1
  • 32. 1918 February 1
  • 33. 1918 March 1
  • 34. 1918 April 1
  • 35. 1918 May 1
  • 36. 1918 June 1
  • 37. 1918 July 1
  • 38. 1918 August 1
  • 39. 1918 September 1
  • 40. 1918 October 1
  • 41. 1918 November 1
  • 42. 1918 December 1
• 43. 1919 August 4: Promissory note, Lillie M. Rose to Margaret T. Rose
• 44. 1919 October 11: Advance, Margaret T. Rose to William M. Rose
• 45. 1920 May: Receipt, Lillie M. Rose, John M. Rose, N.D. Rose, and Will N. Rose, to Margaret T. Rose
• 46. 1920 September 24: Receipt, Lillie M. Rose, John M. Rose, Jr., N.D. Rose, and Will N. Rose, to Margaret T. Rose
• 47. 1923 February 20: Advance, Margaret T. Rose to John M. Rose, for use of W.N. Rose
• 48. 1923 June 18: Receipt, John M. Rose, Lillie M. Rose, and N.D. Rose to Margaret T. Rose
• 49. 1923 March 3: Advances, to heirs of John M. Rose
• 50. 1934 August 13: Receipt, John F. Clark and Company to Marion Rose
• 51. 1934 September 10: Receipt, Justin Matthews to Marion Rose
• 52. Undated: Receipt, estate of U.M. Rose to G.B. Rose
• Tax receipts
  
  • 53. 1913 March 4
  • 54. 1914 March 7
  • 55. 1915 March 26
  • 56. 1916
  • 57. 1917 March 23
  • 58. 1917 May 8
  • 59. 1918 April 10
  • 60. 1920 March 20
  • 61. 1921 April 9
  • 62. 1922
  • 63. 1922 April 10
  • 64. 1923 March 1
  • 65. 1924 March 27
  • 66. 1925 March 27
  • 67. 1926 March 13
  • 68. 1926 April 10
  • 69. 1927 April 9
  • 70. 1928 April 10
  • 71. 1929 April 10
  • 72. 1930 March 28
  • 73. 1931 March 20
  • 74. 1932 April 9
  • 75. 1932 November 1
  • 76. 1935 April 15
• Miscellaneous
  
  • 77. 1888 March 9: Stock certificate, U.M. Rose, The Children's Home Association of Little Rock, Arkansas
  • 78. 1917 December 1: Stock certificate, Mrs. M.T. Rose, Army Post Development Company, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • 79. 1922 February 27: Fragment
  • 80. 1934 December 1: Foreclosure of estate of Marion Rose, Union Trust Company

Arkansas State Archives Launches Redesigned Website

The Arkansas State Archives is pleased to announce the redesign of its website, www.ark-ives.com.

For nearly two years, the agency has worked with Aristotle, a local web design company, to give its website a new look with a more streamlined, user-friendly functionality.

Featuring lighter colors and a user friendly navigation bar at the top, the newly redesigned website now has an integrated records search that makes locating historic records in the State Archives much simpler. The new search function allows researchers to conduct a much broader search of records from one platform while also allowing them to limit their search very specifically. The new site also gives researchers the option to search finding aids of the agency's archival collections or browse them alphabetically by title.

The website now features a section for educators with links to Arkansas History lesson plans, the Arkansas State Archives digital collections, research subject guides, microsites for the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives and the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, as well as links to other Arkansas History resources and archival agencies.

Other new features include information for researchers planning a visit to the State Archives or one of its regional archives, including driving directions, FAQs and research tips, and information on area lodging, ATMs, and restaurants.   The website will also continue to maintain much of its current content.

The Arkansas State Archives, located in Little Rock, is the official state archives of Arkansas and maintains the largest collection of historical materials on Arkansas in the world.  The agency has two branch locations; the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives is located in Powhatan and the Southwest Regional Archives is located in Washington.

This project is funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council.