Digital Collections
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“Fruit-full” Arkansas: Apples is a collection of 69 items on apples assembled from a variety of collections of Arkansas folklore, souvenir booklets, poetry, photographs, speeches, and other documents. Among these are 50 images of apples from color plates in historic nursery catalogs held at the Library of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. |
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The BAD Times digital collection includes twenty issues of newspapers published between 1971 and 1977 by the Black Americans for Democracy, a student organization founded at the University of Arkansas in the late 1960s. |
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“Drawing Distinctions: The Life and Work of American Cartoonist George Fisher” provides samples of the life and career of a Little Rock political cartoonist whose work documents Arkansas and American history since World War II. |
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“Politics and Principles: Documenting the Career of Congressman Brooks Hays” covers Hays' seven-decade career, early life and subsequent work in public service and education. Hays worked in five presidential administrations, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, and he personally knew seven presidents, from Harry Truman to Jimmy Carter. |
“German Prisoner of War Letters” is a collection of 10 letters sent after the war by former German prisoners at Camp Dermott to a prominent farmer and merchant near Parkdale in Ashley County, Mr. E.D. Gregory, on whose farm the men had labored as prisoners. |
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“Spaces and Faces: Namesakes at the University of Arkansas” highlights the people and places of the University of Arkansas by showing the names behind the buildings. |
The Commonwealth College Fortnightly offers a first-hand glimpse of life at the labor college, 1926-1938. |
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"A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks" presents a collection of selected speeches and images. |
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“Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas” offers a variety of records and photographs that document the history of civil rights in the state. |
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The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History offers transcipts, video clips, and audio files of oral history interviews on Arkansas topics, including journalism, politics, and popular culture. |
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“Shared History: Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas” offers 500 photographs of the City of Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas Campus. Shared History was funded in part by grants from the Happy Hollow Foundation. |
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The Arkansas Academy of Science Archive offers volumes 1-60, 1941-2006, of the Academy's Journal (1997 - ) and Proceedings (1941-1996). |
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Fay Jones Projects pages present a growing catalog of photographs, drawings, and other materials from the collection of this premier American architect. |
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Ozark Folk Encyclopedia entries are read by archivist Ethel Simpson in this series of podcasts from KUAF Public Radio. |
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“WPA Early Settlers' Personal Histories of African Americans in Arkansas,” offers transcriptions of questionnaires from interviews with seventeen African Americans interviewed in Arkansas under this project. |
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“A History of Arkansas Razorbacks,” a digital edition of: Hancock, Hank. A History of Arkansas Razorbacks. Abilene, TX: The Author, 1976. (Arkansas Collection LD236.2 .H36 1976.) |
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“A Carnall Hall Scrapbook” is drawn from an exhibit commemorating the restoration of the former women's residence as the Inn at Carnall Hall. |
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“The Fulbright Program, 1946-1996,” an online exhibit marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Fulbright Scholarship Program. |
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“Lee Wilson & Company Archives,” an online exhibit illustrating the role of Lee Wilson & Company in the transformation of the Delta. |
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The “Western Waters Digital Library” contains government reports, classic water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and video materials about the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins. |
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“TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library” is a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. |
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“Chinese pamphlets,” political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China. |
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“Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu,” from the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century Arabic manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. |
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“Brazilian Government Documents,” executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire in 1889. |
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“Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848,” a collection of pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by the Center for Research Libraries. |
























