Featured Manuscript Collection: May/June

Quapaw Quarter Association Records
MSS 06-15
Finding Aid
The Quapaw Quarter Association Records, a comprehensive 196-box collection, is the product of many years of historic preservation efforts. It features research, documents, and 11,000+ images focused on the historic neighborhoods of Little Rock, the architects who designed many of the recognizable homes, and the well-known families who inhabited the area.

L. Hart Groceries & Feed
1023 W. Markham, Little Rock, Ark., mid-1880s
The collection is broken into seven series:

Series I: Address Research Files, 46 boxes. This series contains files on individual homes and businesses in the Quapaw Quarter and Little Rock metro area.

Series II: Arkansas, 23 boxes. This series contains subject files of general Arkansas history including local architects, clubs, neighborhoods and organizations, as well as miscellaneous historical documents and files related to specific families.

Series III: Quapaw Quarter Association, 4 boxes. This series contains files related to the operations of the Quapaw Quarter Association, including their popular historic home tours.

Series IV: How We Lived: Little Rock as an American City, 3 boxes. This series contains book/chapter proofs and research related to How We Lived: Little Rock as an American City by F. Hampton Roy and Charles Witsell, with Cheryl Griffith Nichols.

Series V: General Historic House and Preservation, 15 boxes. This series contains files related to general historic house and neighborhood rehabilitation and preservation.

Series VI: Photographs, 89 boxes. This series contains over 11,000 images. Boxes 1-60 contain images of Little Rock residences and business arranged by address. Boxes 61-62 contain images of North Little Rock residences and business arranged by address. Boxes 63-70 contain images of miscellaneous locations and items including two boxes of copy negatives for How We Lived. Boxes 71-75 contain images of people. Boxes 76-77contain images that belonged to the Davidson Family. Boxes 78-72 contain images that belonged to the Punch Family. Boxes 83-86 contain large photographs and albums. Boxes 87-89 contain slides, negatives and proofs.

Series VII: Oversized, 16 boxes. This series consists largely of maps and house plans.

Plunkett House (1719 Arch Street) restoration plans, February 1981

Little Rock Housing Authority, High Street Project
Land Use and Structure Map, 1960.