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Women of Arkansas

Title Collection Number Description
Mary Caviness Papers M86-09 This collection contains Personal paper, correspondence, and business papers of a Hot Springs African American benefactress, 1895-1986

Diana Sherwood Papers

M88-07

Diana Sherwood worked as a freelance writer and journalist.  She also did research on early settlers in Arkansas, 1936-1951.

Lucille Babcock Papers

M88-08

A Little Rock poet, editor, Carnegie Hero and a former Women's Army Corps member was recognized from saving a young women from a would be rapist, 1987-1988.

Dr. William G. Holland Papers

M89-08

Dr. William Holland ran a successful drug store leaving behind records from his store, physician's visiting list, and a register from "Friends of Temperance" (Temperance Movement) 1868-1938.

Daughters of the American Revolution Materials

M89-25

The Arkansas branch of the Daughters of the Revolution held its first meeting in 1908.  This collection consists of programs and minutes from their annual conferences, 1911-1931.

United Daughters of Confederacy Materials

M89-26

This collection consists of programs and printed materials from their annual conventions, 1905-1925.

Effie Finley Garden Club Records

M89-31

This Pine Bluff Women's club attempted to educate amateur gardeners and to help protect the native plant life in Arkansas.  This collection contains administrative records, project materials, and scrapbooks, 1935-1960.
Conway Home and Garden Records M90-03 This collection contains correspondence, awards, newspaper articles, and photographs of a Conway women's club, 1951-1988.
L. Dorothy Lester Papers M90-07 Dorothy Lester supervised missionary in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, and she was the first female ordained into the Presbyterian ministry in these three states, 1932-1956.
Kimberly Collins Papers M92-03 Kimberly Collins collection contains material from an Arkansas business women and pro-choice activist, 1989-1991.
Pine Bluff Women's Center Records M92-06 This organization formed in 1975 with the purpose of serving the needs of women in Jefferson county.  They also collected the oral interview of several women for their book, "Women Of The Arkansas Delta", 1976.
UCA University Women Records M93-06 This collection consists of official record and memorabilia of the University of Women's Club, which provided a social forum for women associated with UCA, 1966-1991.
Arkansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union Records M93-09 The Arkansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union formed in 1878. The collection contains a few of their periodicals, annual reports, and convention program, 1908-1984.
Corrine Hodges Papers M94-02 Corrine Hodges worked as editor of the Crowley's Ridge Chronicle leaving behind clippings of her career, 1967-1977.
Women's Project Records M95-03 This collection documents a women's organization that promotes women, minority, gay, and lesbian rights.  Suzanne Pharr also donated a good deal of material on her leadership of this organization and her fight for lesbian rights, 1980-present.
Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Records M96-02 Helen Walton organized the Arkansas committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.  The goal of the committee is to promote Female artist working in the state of Arkansas, 1989-present. 
Annielaura M. Jaggers Papers M96-04 The Jaggers papers contain the research material for the book, A Nude Singularity: Lily Peter of Arkansas, by Annie Laura Jagger on Miss. Lily Peter: teacher, poet, plantation owner, author, and photographer, 1891-1991.
WAC Veterans Association / Sue Evans Collection M02-01 The Sue Evans WAC Veterans Association collection contains minutes, information on national conventions, association handbook, and the annual bulletin of WAC, 1979-2001.
Vivian Hogue Collection M02-13 Vivian Hogue collected information and photographs on the original homes in old down-town Conway.
Waves National Collection M04-10 Women were first allowed into the navy during World War II in order to increase the number of able body men in active military duty on the seas.  This collection contains newsletters written after the war about the Waves members' experiences.

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