Bill Sayger Collection
M94-13
Box 1
File 1- Professional Correspondence- J.G. Theweatt/Arkansas’ first Superhighway. 1930-1932
File 2- Correspondence, 1982-1989
File 3- Correspondence, 1990-1994
File 4- Correspondence and Photos, 1994-1995
File 5- Correspondence with James R. Fair, 1990-1994
File 6- Correspondence with Wayne Coffman, 1992-1994
File 7- Correspondence with Tom Dillard, 1994-1996
File 8- 2 Books, American Heritage Vol. XIV No. 5, August 1963 American Heritage Vol. XV No. 1, December 1963 Featuring some A.R. Waud Sketches of Chicago Fire and New Orleans
File 9- Book, Biscoe Remembered by Bill Sayger, 1989
File 10- Book, Brasfield Remembered by Bill Sayger, 1982
File 11- Book, DeValls Bluff Remembrancer by Bill Sayger, 1989
File 12- Gravestone of known Black Union Soldiers buried at Biscoe and DeValls Bluff in Prairie Co., Arkansas
File 13- Book, A Hazen Remembrance by Bill Sayger, 1989
File 14- Book, Memories in Pictures Second Edition, by Wayne Coffman “The Petty Family of Arkansas”
File 15- A Photo Album featuring descendants of James Anderson Mashburn, 1868-1926, and Sarah Jane Fletcher Mashburn, 1873-1957, by Bill Sayger, 1990
File 16- Sanborn Insurance-Maps for DeValls Bluff, Prairie Co., 1913, 1924, and 1950
File 17- List of known burials in St. Paul’s Cemetery (Black) near Beula and North of Biscoe in Prairie Co., AR
End of Box 1
Box 2A
File 1- Manuscript of the Sager/Sayger/Saeger Family in America, the descendants of Melchoir (born 1636) and Anna Marie Seeger, with original Photographs by Bill Sayger (1989 with later revisions)
File 2- Book (copy 1), The Sager/Sayger/Saeger Family in America, the descendants of Melchoir (born 1636) and Anna Maria Seeger by Bill Sayger
File 3- Book (copy 2), The Sager/Sayger/Saeger Family in America, the descendants of Melchoir (born 1636) and Anna Maria Seeger by Bill Sayger
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Box 2B
File 1- Manuscript of Mashburn Book Manuscript with Original Photographs by Bill Sayger (1990)
File 2- Book (master copy), The Prairie County, Arkansas Slave Narrative by Bill Sayger (1990)
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Box 3
File 1- Book, The Brown Operations W.P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. Inc. Louisville, Kentucky
File 2- Negative of W.P. Brown & Sons Lumber Mill at Brasfield, Prairie Co., AR about 1920
File 3- Photos, Brown Lumber Co. 1918-1920’s, Near Brasfield, AR., Cache River Bottom fishing & hunting, early 1900’s
File 4- Copies of 3 Photos, W.P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. & Employees Brasfield Prairie Co., AR
File 5- Negative of some of the “Yearbook of 1922” W.P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. Sawmill Photos (Some of these in Brasfield Remembered)
File 6- Louisville’s Invisible Benefactor, The Life Story of James Graham Brown, 1881-1969 by Dorothy Park Clark (Co-owner of W.P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.)
File 7- Time Sheets and Payroll for W.P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co., Brafield, AR 1934-1935
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Box 4
File 1- Manuscript for Biscoe Remembered by Bill Sayger, 1989
File 2- Manuscript for Brasfield Remembered by Bill Sayger, 1982
File 3- Manuscript for A DeValls Bluff Remembrance by Bill Sayger, 1989 with tracing of DeValls Bluff Map and Drawing of Sanders Home
File 4- Manuscript of A Hazen Remembrance by Bill Sayger
File 5- Selected pages from The Goodspeed’s 1890 Biographical and historical memoirs of Eastern AR Pertaining to Prairie Co. with map of Early DeValls Bluff and drawing
End of Box 4
Box 5
File 1- Negatives- Biscoe Remembered photos & DeValls from Roger & Rita Farris
File 2- Negatives, some photos appear in Brasfield Remembered Book and A DeValls Bluff Remembrancer
File 3- Louis Jordan, blues and jazz musician born and raised in Brinkley, Monroe Co., AR (Brasfield Remembered)
File 4- Negatives, photos in Brasfield Remembered
File 5- Negatives, some photos in Hazen Book
File 6- Negatives, some of the photos in the Sayger and Mashburn book, Photo of Peter Sayger (1807-1886) and others
File 7- Some Sayger Family photos, some late 1800’s and early 1900’s
File 8- Photos by Bill Sayger, Memphis, Tennessee, 1963-1964
File 9- Photos, Hill Lake, near North Little Rock, AR 1969 and 1984
File 10- Photos, Conway, Faulkner Co., AR 1969 or 1970
File 11- Photos of the Sayger Brother fishing on the Cache and Old Rivers in 1969 and 1970’s
File 12- Photos, Cache River near Brasfield, AR 1969 or 1970
File 13- Photos Memphis, TN 1969 or 1970
File 14- Photos, Troys Bate Shop 2515 N. Broadway, NLR, AR 1983
File 15- Photos, Old Homes, Bridges, Depots in and near Brasfield, Prairie Co., AR and Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR
File 16- Photos, Old Homes Railroad bridges & bayous in Brasfield and Prairie Co., AR 1984
File 17- Photos, Brasfield, Bisco, and Clarendon, AR 1985-1986
File 18- Photos, Brasfield, DeValls & Hazen in Prairie Co. and Little Rock Pulaski Co., AR 1986
File 19- Photos, Sayger Family, Casche River, Brasfield and Hazen, Arkansas 1986-1987
File 20- Photos, Sayger family, Old Homes, Casche River, Brasfield and DeValls Bluff, Prairie Co., AR 1987-1989
File 21- 3- (4”x 5 7/8”) Color Photos- Gov. Bill Clinton, L.R. AR, Red Ribbon Anti Drug Week, October 1989
File 22- Photos, in and near Brasfield, Prairie Co., AR 1990
File 23- Photos, Brasfield, Devalls Bluff, Little Rock, AR 1990-1991
File 24- Photos, Troy Sayger diving for Shells and bottles in Casche River near Brasfield, AR (Prairie Co) July 1991 and Aug. 1993
File 25- Photos, Buildings and Seascapes of Corpus Christi, Texas July 1991
File 26- Photos, Biscoe, Brasfield & DeValls Bluff, Prairie Co., AR 1991-1993
File 27- Photos, 3-(10 ½” x 13 ½”) Color Photos of Cypress Trees and Soybean fields
File 28- Photos and Old Post Cards, Memphis, TN c. 1906 Easter Cards- C 1900’s, WWII era Post Cards- 1942
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Box 6
File 1- Arkansas Times- July 1985, Article by Bill Sayger, “The End of The Line” (Rock Island and Pacific Railroad) pp.44
File 2- Chinese in the Post Civil War South A people without a history (Arkansas mentioned on pp. 64-67, 78-79, and 144-146) by Lucy M. Cohen
File 3- Cincinnati Locomotive Builders 1845-1868, by John H. White 1965
File 4- Cotton Picking Book and Calculator (2 copies) 1950, 1951
File 5- The History of Hardy County (West Virginia) 1786-1896, Conrad Sager mentioned on pp. 142
File 6- Hardy County Family History to 1990- Project of the Hardy County Commission, 1991, Conrad Sager mentioned on pp. 71, 207
File 7- Life and Labor in the Old South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1948 (Arkansas pp. 63, 103)
File 8- The North Arkansas Line, the story of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroads by James R. Fair, Jr.
File 9- Manuscript and Correspondence Taps to a Company Town by Joe T. Carmack, 1980’s
File 10-Central Delta Depot Museum
File 11-Journal - Central Delta Historical Journal - 1997-2001
File 12-Newsletter - “Doodlebug” Central Delta Historical Society - 2002-2006
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