Walter Lee Brown collection : ledgers, newspaper scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers, ca. 1861-1912.

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Walter Lee Brown collection : ledgers, newspaper scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers, ca. 1861-1912.

Walter Lee Brown collection : ledgers, newspaper scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers, ca. 1861-1912.

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Papers of the P.G. Henry family, ca. 1861-1892 (store ledger, receipts, letters, special orders, appointment papers signed by the then Governor of Arkansas, Isaac Murphy, and a recipe for magic soap); papers of th e Ward, Jones, and Earle families, ca. 1862-1879 (family letters with typewritten transcripts, last will, bills of sale, receipts, and other papers); papers of Hal L. Norwood, Arkansas attorney general in the early 1900s, ca. 1896-1915 (correspondence, newspaper scrapbooks, and an incomplete issue of the Arkansas gazette, July 19, 1899); miscellaneous papers, ca. 1872-1928 (newspaper and magazine articles, non-postal Arkansas stamps, published poem Arkansas by Blanche Chenault Junkin, reunion program, a booklet of admission tickets to the Democratic National Convention, Houston, Texas, June, 1928, and other papers) Picture postcards (New Orleans, Louisiana, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, World's Fair 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, San Antonio, Texas, and others), twenty-three photographs (only ten pictures could be identified as Arkansas related: e.g., pictures of flooded court house in Clarendon, Monroe County, Arkansas, 1927, a river terminal at West Memphis, Arkansas, ca. 1890, and a Conway-Bradley Grave Yard at Walnut Hill, Arkansas, the burial place of James S. Conway, first Governor of Arkansas; the rest of the photographs are either not identified or contain insufficient information to determine their origin); and slides of menus from Arlington and Eastman Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

1.2 linear ft.

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries