Pictures, ca. 1880s - 1980s
- Series 1. Glass plate negatives, ca.
1920s - 1930s. Boxes 90-98. RESTRICTIONS APPLY.
- Series 2. Prints, ca. 1880s -
1980s. Boxes 99-110.
- Subseries 1. General pictures.
- Subseries 2. Army & Navy General Hospital pictures.
- Series 3. Stereographs, ca.
1880s - 1900. In Special Collections Stereographs Box.
- Series 4. Postcards,
ca. 1900-1970s. Boxes 111-113.
- Subseries 1. Hot Springs and surrounding area.
- Subseries 2. Arkansas and surrounding area.
- Series 5. Other
pictures, ca. 1930s - 1950s. Box 113.
- Series 6. Albums, ca. 1920s
- 1930s. Box 114.
- Series 7. Print and
manuscript material pertaining to pictures, ca. 1950s - 1980s.
Box 115.
- Series 8. Negatives,
ca. 1950s - 1980s. In Special Collections Negatives Storage.
- Subseries 1. Hudgins negatives.
- Subseries 2. Tozy Brandenburg negatives.
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Series 1. Glass plate negatives, ca.
1920s - 1930s. Boxes 90-98.
Many of the photographs are from "Too Cute Studio" in Hot
Springs. Too Cute featured humorous props for tourist poses, as
well as formal poses. Of particular interest are the photos of
Indians, in both formal and tourist poses. According to Michael
Hoffmann, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, the Indians were probably
- "part of a family of well-to-do Oklahoma Indians who were
visiting for the baths. My guess would be Quapaw or Osage who had
the mineral (the former group) or oil money by the 1920s. I know
that Quapaw families frequently visited Hot Springs in the first
third of this century. The fringed shawls look right for the
1920s."
Too Cute Studio also made group portraits for conventions and
documented such events as fires and floods.
Some photographs are of other photographs or published images.
Three of the plates housed with the 8" x 10" plates (189, 213,
and 226) are actually 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". Some plates have two
exposures per plate. In these cases no attempt has been made to
give each exposure its own image number.
Prints have been made of some of the glass plates; these are in
the beginning of Series 2, Prints, and have the same image number
as the glass plates. Likewise prints that have been identified
from these plates have been placed at the beginning of Series 2
and given the same image number as the plates.
Box 90. (4" x 5") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
These appear to be the work of an amateur photographer, late 19th
or early 20th century, who was photographing local people and
scenes (both interior and exterior) and trying different
techniques. Some "action" pictures look posed; some plates show
movement during exposure.
- Images 1-4. Portraits of a man (one with two dogs), perhaps
processed for ambrotypes.
- Image 5. Ink drawing on plate of dog watching rabbits.
- Images 6-13. Poses of people indoors, on or about porch, at
[stile] or well.
- Images 14-20. Horses and buggies, including children with
horse and wagons at [train station].
- Image 21. Steam engine going through cut.
- Image 22. [Scarecrow] posed with humorous sign.
- Images 23-31. Outdoor poses, including children, hill
couple, people "working." Images 30 and 31 have "texture" (some
sort of screen used in camera?).
Box 91. (5" x 7") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 32-35. Hot Springs street scenes (business).
- Images 36-40. Hot Springs street scenes (residential).
- Images 41-50. Hotels, Hot Springs, some with groups of
people, some of framed pictures.
- Images 51-58. Other businesses, including gas station,
amusement area, shooting gallery.
- Images 59-60. Church groups.
Box 92. (5" x 7") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 61-65. Horses and carriages (tourist excursion
carriages?).
- Images 66-70. Donkey carts, mule and wagon.
- Images 71-72. Oaklawn race track winner.
- Images 73-75. Bridge, trolley, and man with automobile (half
plate; picture of hotel on other half).
- Images 76-84. Hot Springs fires, 1913, 1923, including
[charred remains] on table.
- Images 85-89. Hot Springs flood, 1923.
- Image 90. Hot Springs flood, 1927.
Box 93. (5" x 7") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 91-95. Hot Springs flood, 1927, continued, including
highway to Little Rock, bridge.
- Images 96-105. Hot Springs tornado, 1924.
- Images 106-108. Man chopping tree, cutting wood.
- Images 109-112. Group portraits: band, school class,
unidentified men.
- Images 113-114. Unidentified people.
- Images 115-118. Boxers: match and posed pictures.
- Images 119-120. Posed humorous tourist photos (2 exposures
per plate).
Box 94. (5" x 7") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 121-122. Posed humorous tourist photos (2 exposures
per plate).
- Image 123-124. Posed humorous tourist photos, one a band
with musical instruments.
- Image 125. McLeod's photo studio (exterior) and portrait of
Norman E. McLeod with camera (2 exposures per plate).
- Images 126-128. Indians posing with humorous tourist props
(2 exposures per plate).
- Images 129-131. Indians photographed at studio, Hot Springs.
- Images 132-133. Indians (man in 133 is John Beaver)
photographed at studio, Hot Springs.
- Images 134-138. Indian artifacts: [grinding stones], points
(2 exposures per plate; half of 134 is of Anglo tourist with
humorous tourist prop).
- Images 139-149. Indian artifacts: points, pots, bowls,
animal effigy bowls (2 exposures per plate).
- Image 150. Indian artifacts and bones [burial?].
Box 95. (5" x 7") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Image 151. Anglo artifact: woven (Jacquard) coverlet, 1839.
- Images 152-157. Little Rock flood, 1927, including
[aftermath of flood], Fone's Hardware.
- Images 158-161. Marriage and military discharge papers.
- Images 162-164. Fort Smith, 1836; San Francisco, 1906; page
from American Fruit Grower Magazine.
- Image 165. Soldiers in camp (2 exposures per plate).
Box 96. (5" x 7") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 166-172. Street scenes, business (including one with
Wilson Company wagon and six horses) and residential.
- Images 173-177. Hotels, including Rector and Arlington
decorated [in honor of Joe T. Robinson].
- Images 178-182. Automobiles and automotive businesses.
- Images 183-188. Bath Houses and springs, including interiors
and groups of people posing at entrance.
- Images 189-194. Other businesses: exteriors, including poses
with delivery trucks.
Box 97. (8" x 10") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 195-198. Other businesses: interior and decorated
windows.
- Images 199-203. Tourist businesses, including tour bus,
campground, amusement area.
- Images 204-208. "Churches" (five plates, all but one of
groups posing outside church).
- Images 210-215. [Arkansas Centennial] celebrations, costumed
participants.
- Images 216-223. Baseball teams.
Box 98. (8" x 10") RESTRICTIONS APPLY
- Images 224-225. Baseball teams.
- Images 226-227. Basketball team, boxers posing.
- Images 228-232. Musicians: dance bands, choral group.
- Images 233-235. School groups.
- Images 236-237. [Extension Homemakers] group with crafts.
- Images 238-247. Convention and other group portraits, some
from Too Cute Studio.
- Images 248-250. Excavation and/or construction in wooded
area; stone tunnel (underground passage to spring?).
- Images 251-253. Truss bridge, fountain in Arlington Park,
model (made of sugar) of Belvedere Cafe.
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