Research Guides: HIST 4583: Arkansas History: Wilson Plantation

Primary Sources

.."original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories."

— Using Primary Sources on the Web, rev. 2008.

Dr. Whayne's Research Files

Dr. Whayne has provided portions of the transcriptions she made from the Lee Wilson papers for her latest book. Pdfs of these transcriptions are availeble in Special Collections. Come and see us and we'll open them up for you!

Manuscript Collections

MC 556 : Tucker Plantation Records Plantation and Business Records, 1898-1952
Daily journals, account ledgers, cash books, seed books, cotton books, farm labor time books, and post office records arranged in eleven series
MC 696: Tucker Plantation Records Addendum Plantation and Business Records, 1898-1959
MS G44 79-B: Thomas Hottel Gist Business Records, 1898-l954.
Ledgers, journals, daybooks, and other records pertaining to the history of Lee and Phillips Counties, Arkansas, especially to the business, agricultural, and legal affairs of the Moore-Daggett-Gist families of Edgewood plantation in Phillips County, and of its owners, Bogan Nathaniel Gist and Thomas Hottel Gist
qMS L58.M15: M.P. Mabry Ledger, 1882-1884, 1889-1893.
Record of plantation and commissary accounts maintained by Mabry at Iuka, Mississippi, January 3, 1882 to January 10, 1884, and in Sebastian County, Arkansas, June 1, 1889 to May 5, 1893.
MC 1161: Rice Millers Association Records
The organizational records of the private, non-profit, national trade association originally formed in 1899

Published Primary Sources

Newspapers

Arkansas Newspaper Search
Search for newspapers in our collection by county, city, decade, or combination.
Arkansas Newspapers

New York Times, 1851-2019 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Provides the full archive of the New York Times, from the first date of issue. View retrieved articles as PDFs or view the entire newspaper page for context. The detailed indexes, which cover 1851-1993, allow one to search by named person, company name, place, or type of article (editorial, obituary, review, etc.)

Microfilm Research Sets

Southern Tenant Farmer's Union Papers, 1934-1970
The Southern Tenant Farmer's Union (STFU) was a bi-racial union of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and small landowners. These documents contain information on the crisis in intellectual labor from the worker's point of view. The deplorable condition of these farmers, the founding and history of the union and its struggle for recognition are covered. The supplement, The Green Rising, features the personal papers and records of four of farm labor's dynamic leaders.

University Libraries

Research Guides

HIST 4583: Arkansas History