G. E. Mikel and the United Mine Workers of America

Business card for G. E. Mikel, United Mine Workers of America, ca. 1930s

G. E. Mikel's official organizer certificate, April 1, 1929

Letter to G. E. Mikel from a representative of Local Union No. 480, United Mine Workers of America in Clarksville, Ark., November 26, 1932

International organizer and secretary-treasurer certificate, provisional district 21, April 1, 1934

Letter from Senator Joe T. Robinson to G. E. Mikel regarding the Guffey-Vincent Coal Bill, June 3, 1936
To learn more about the labor movement in Arkansas, visit the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

All of these items are located in the Arkansas Small Manuscripts Materials, File #371. The Arkansas Small Manuscripts Materials (SMM) is a large collection containing miscellaneous documents pertaining to Arkansas. This collection is constantly expanding as new materials arrive at the Butler Center.

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U.S. Marshal, Western District of Arkansas

In March 1876, James F. Fagan, the U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, seized a large amount of property - handkerchiefs, buttons, castor oil, oysters, peaches, candy, coffee, horses, etc.  A notice was published in the Fort Smith Weekly New Era newspaper listing the confiscated property and related legal information.

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Arkansas Small Manuscripts Materials, File #293

*The Arkansas Small Manuscripts Materials (SMM) is a large collection containing miscellaneous documents pertaining to Arkansas. This collection is constantly expanding as new materials arrive at the Butler Center. This blog is featuring items from the collection throughout the month of June.

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Do you know me?

Can you identify any of the girls in this photograph taken in Perryville, Ark., circa 1958?

Butler Center photograph, 9-323.

How about any members of this family in Fort Smith, Ark., 1911? A note on the back is signed "Pearl" and written to grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Stroud in Huntsville, Alabama.

Butler Center photograph, 9-264.

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Contributed by Stephanie Bayless, Manuscripts Department

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