Manuscript Collections
Newly Available
- Manuscript Collections by Name
- Manuscript Collections by Subject
- Topic Guides
- About Findings Aids
- Using Manuscript Collections
- Preserving Your Documents
About Finding Aids
A finding aid describes the arrangement and contents of a manuscript collection.
Lists on our web site describe collections with complete finding aids, or descriptions, online.
At present, other collections are accessible only through typewritten finding aids in the Special Collections reading room. However, as time and resources permit, these are being converted to electronic format. Contact us if you have questions about any collection.
You might also wish to browse Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections, compiled in 1976 by Samuel A. Sizer, then Curator of Special Collections; lists 211 collections, including a few that were not processed at that time.
Manuscript Collections By Subject
A partial listing of collections by broad subject area:
- African American History
- Agriculture and the Environment
- Architecture and Fine Arts
- Authors and Literature
- Business and Professions
- Civil Rights
- Economics and Infrastructure
- Education
- Folklore
- Government and Politics
- Music and Performing Arts
- Personal and Family Papers
- Religion
- Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Sports and Leisure
- University of Arkansas History
- Women's Studies
- Time Period: Colonial and Antebellum
- Time Period: Civil War and Reconstruction
- Time Period: Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Time Period: World War I to World War II
- Time Period: Cold War to Clinton
Topic Guides
Descriptions of our collections in various areas:
- Arkansas Maps
- Civil War Manuscripts
- Commonwealth College
- Folklore
- Genealogy Resources
- Japanese Americans Interned in Arkansas
- Literary Figures
- Little Rock School Integration, 1957
- Protecting your Valuable Books and Documents
- Public Officials
- U.S. Census Sources for Arkansas
- Women's Studies
