Newly Available Material

Check out the newly available material we’ve recently uploaded:

Newly processed archival collections

• Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas records, BC.MSS.10.27
  This collection contains documents and photographs related to the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas from 1839-2010.
• Hipolite family photograph collection, BC.MSS.23.48 
  This collection contains photographs of the Hipolite family of DeValls Bluff, Arkansas from ca. 1888-1890.
• Curtis Cox steamboat collection, BC.MSS.24.31
  This collection contains documents and photographs related to steamboats from 1853  – ca. 1950 collected by Curtis Cox.
• Fort Smith Coffee Company photograph album, BC.MSS.24.37
  This collection consists of a 1914 photograph album from Fort Smith Coffee company.
• Drew H. Lander collection, BC.MSS.23.47
  This collection contains correspondence between Andrew Hamilton “Drew” Lander and his wife Sheffield Smith Lander. Most of the correspondence was exchanged while Lander served as an officer in the United States Army during World War II.
• J. H. Atkinson collection, BC.MSS.07.55
  New photographs were added to this collection from the Atkinson and Langston families. J.H. Atkinson was an early leader in the preservation of Arkansas’s history, helping to establish the Arkansas Historical Association and serving as chair of the Arkansas History Commission.
• Frederick S. Ursery Vietnam War collection, BC.VWP.61
  This collection contains documents, photographs, and an oral history interview recording the service of Frederick S. Ursery in the Vietnam War
• Franklin Williams papers, BC.MSS.16.57
  This collection contains military records, photographs, and correspondence of Ernest Franklin Williams, who served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II and then in the United States Air Force during the Korean War.
• Bernice Childress collection, BC.MSS.24.34
  This collection contains the diploma, senior class photograph, and yearbook of Bernice Childress, who graduated from Luxora High School in Luxora (Mississippi County), Arkansas, in 1943.
• Leonard S. Dickman World War II letters, BC.MSS.23.49
  This collection contains several letters written by Aviation Cadet Leonard S. Dickman while he was training at the Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School in Blytheville, Arkansas, in 1942.
• D. J. Hudson collection, BC.MSS.17.06
  This collection contains records from the War Relocation Authority pertaining to concentration camps at Rohwer and Jerome in Arkansas for those of Japanese descent during World War II.