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Rachel Skoney Research Papers

Research papers, 1986-1991

Manuscript Collection 1239
 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Rachel Skoney of Fayetteville, Arkansas, donated her research papers to the Special Collections Division on May 19, 1993.
 
The Rachel Skoney Research Papers contain computer printouts of statistical data Skoney generated while she was preparing her master's thesis, Large Planters and Planter Persistence in Antebellum Arkansas, 1850-1860.  Some files contain Skoney's descriptions of the programs used to analyze the data.
 
Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in November 1998.
 

CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (6 boxes)

Box 1

1. Agricultural Output by County and Township.
2. Birthplace and Occupations for all Large Slaveholders and the Persistent Group.
3. Female Large Slaveholders and Miscellaneous.
4. Persistent Large Slaveholders.

Box 2

1. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  April 4, 1991 (1 of 5).
2. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  April 4, 1991 (2 of 5).
3. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  April 4, 1991 (3 of 5).
4. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  April 4, 1991 (4 of 5).
5. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  April 4, 1991 (5 of 5).
 
Box 3

1. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  June 26, 1991 (1 of 5).
2. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  June 26, 1991 (2 of 5).
3. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  June 26, 1991 (3 of 5).
4. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  June 26, 1991 (4 of 5).
5. Roster--list of large slaveholders in alphabetical order by county,  June 26, 1991 (5 of 5).
 
Box 4

1.  ADESCEND--a list of slaveholders in descending order of the cash value of their farms, land acreage, improved and unimproved land, and other variables (1 of 5).
2.  ADESCEND (2 of 5).
3.  ADESCEND (3 of 5).
4.  ADESCEND (4 of 5).
5.  ADESCEND (5 of 5).

Box 5

1.  AWALTZ--frequency distributions from the Waltz census.
2.  ASLAV--means of slaves and slave houses per county by township.
3.  APOP--data analyses from the population census.
4.  TESTAG--data analyses by code for means, univariate data, and correlations.
5.  USHIST--programs describing data locations on the tape provided by the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research.  The tape is in storage at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Computing Center.
6.  USHIST--data map for ICPSR data.
7.  Programs/SAS files.
8.  Profiles--tools to organize computer data.
9.  Master and Printmerge.

Box 6

1.  Data on disk--three computer disks.
2.  Digitized maps of Arkansas.
 


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