Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives

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Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives

Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives Contact Information Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives is part of Arkansas State Archives Email: southwest.archives@arkansas.gov Address: 201 Highway 195 South P.O. Box 134 Washington, Arkansas 71862 Telephone: 870-983-2633 Hours and holidays: 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Tuesday through Saturday. Closed on Sundays, Mondays and state holidays. Directions, maps, and public transportation: Internet sites and databases: Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives Arkansas Digital Archives Collection Description Resources related to a 12-county region in southwest Arkansas that includes the counties of Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike, Polk, Sevier and Union. Letters, diaries, maps, photographs, newspapers and broadsides. Arkansas history reference library of books, periodicals and other print resources. Special collections: Robert B. Walz Photograph Collection, over 2,500 images of people and places around southwest Arkansas in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the Simmons Collection of early Hempstead County Court Records; and the Nan Robson Brown Collection that contains photographs and genealogical information of descendants of Arkansas’s first state governor, James Sevier Conway. Tips Research FAQs and Tips Guides Resource Guides Alternate Repositories { List (link to a Wiki article for) at least one or more other repositories that collect overlapping records, or similar family history material including central repositories, affiliated or branch repositories, higher level jurisdiction repositories, parent or daughter jurisdiction repositories. Also list neighboring repositories with similar records. Please briefly explain how each substitute repository is related.} If you cannot visit or find a source at the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, a similar source may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections Alternate Repository {create link for each, and give line or two describing collection} Similar Collections Neighboring Collections Sources