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Lorna Lack Cates Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 784

Scope and Content Note

Lorna Lack Cates' collection serves as a record of her ancestors, specifically the Woolvertons and Halbrooks, who lived initially in Tennessee but eventually settled in Arkansas. The orientation of the papers is commercial rather than personal, the relatively large number of receipts attesting to economic growth in the South in general and in Arkansas in particular during the second half of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth.

Materials in the collection include tax receipts, promissory notes, poll tax receipts, accounts receivable and paid, and other documents from Henry County, Tennessee and Van Buren and Conway Counties in Arkansas. William Louis Woolverton's account book is included, as are teachers' contracts and contracts for farm and construction work. A marriage license and a small collection of photographs supplement the collection.

Dates

  • 1853-1919

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (1 Box)

Arrangement of the Papers

Material is arranged and described in two series:

  1. Papers
  2. Photographs

Acquisition Information

The Lorna Lack Cates Papers were donated by Lorna Lack Cates of Leslie (Searcy County), Arkansas on November 3, 1987.

Processing Information

Processed by Janet G. Tucker, Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in June, 1988.

Creator

Source

Title
Lorna Lack Cates Papers
Author
Janet G. Tucker
Date
1988
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444