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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Lida W. PylesPapers Library Home Special Collections Home Manuscripts Home Lida W. Pyles PapersPapers and Photographs, 1948 - 1986Manuscript Collection 722Information about Lida W. PylesInformation about the CollectionContents of the CollectionINFORMATION ABOUT LIDA W.PYLESBorn in Eagle Rock, Barry County, Missouri, in 1906, Lida [Lydia] WilsonPyles wrote about unusual people and events of the Ozarks of northern Arkansasand southern Missouri. Pyles was the author of several books, includingthe novel Stranger at the Gate, Tall Tales from the Hills,ItHappened in the Ozarks, and Sense and Nonsense in Verse, a publicationin book form of her newspaper column, a regular feature of the MountainView Herald of Mountain View, Arkansas. She recorded Ozark folktales of the Ozarks and wrote "local color" newspaper articles, publishedin The Joplin Globe, The Oklahoma Farm World, The SundayNews and Leader of Springfield, Missouri, The Carthage Press,Country World, the Times-Echo of Eureka Springs, Arkansas,and The Tulsa World, among others, from the nineteen-fifties tothe nineteen-seventies. She also was a charter member in the OzarkWriters and Artists Guild and in the Ozark Creative Writers, Inc., of whichshe was one of the founders.INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTIONIn addition to a photocopy of Sense and Nonsense in Verse andher newspaper articles, the collection also contains two newspaper itemspertaining to Pyles, an article about her husband, Elba Pyles, papers concerningthe Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, materials about the Ozark CreativeWriters, Inc., and a collection of photographs of Pyles, Cora Pinkley Callof Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, the Ozark Writers and ArtistsGuild, in which both women were active members, and the Ozark CreativeWriters, Inc.Lida Wilson Pyles of Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, donated herpapers and photographs to Special Collections on September 10, 1987.Prepared by Janet G. Tucker, Special Collections Division, Universityof Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February 1988.CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTIONOne container(c. 47 items)Box 1Folder 1. Sense and Nonsense in Verse (Pineville, Missouri:Pineville Democrat, 1950), unpaged, photocopy.Folder 2. "Gentle Jim Cummings," Frontier Times (Vol.36, No. 4, New Series No. 20, Fall, 1962), pp. 16-17.Folder 3. Newspaper articles, July 20, 1958 - Mar 9, 1980.Folder 4. David E. Bryant, "Observing Bird and Animal Behavior,He Predicts the Weather," Today's Farmer (Aug, 1970), pp. 32-33. Magazine article about Elba Pyles, husband of Pyles, photocopy.Folder 5. The Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, 1947-57.Folder 6. Ozark Creative Writers, Inc., 1973-84. Photographs. Pyles, Cora Pinkley Carr, the Ozark Writersand Artists Guild, and Ozark Creative Writers, Inc. All photographsare black and white unless otherwise noted. The dimensions of thephotographs are given height first.Folder 7: Individuals.1. Mrs. Mary Flenniken of Joplin, Missouri, 1958, 10 x 8. Stampedon verso: "Baird Studios, 2nd Floor, Keystone Hotel, Joplin, Missouri." Handwritten notation on verso: "Mrs. Mary Flenniken, Harold Cragin'saunt. (Story by Mrs. Pyles). Sunday for Cochran, 2 col., 58." A copy of this photograph, in a 5 1/4 x3 1/2 reduction, was published in the Joplin Globe, Sunday, Nov23, 1958, illustrating a Pyles article, "Joplin Woman at 98 Keeps UniqueScrap Book."2. Formal color portrait of Pyles, 1986, 5 x 3 1/2. Handwrittennotation on verso: "Lida Pyles, 1986."3. Formal portrait of Pyles. n.d., 7 x 5 photocopy on 81/2 x 11 paper. As used for frontispiece from one of her books(not identified).4. Pyles holding the jawbone of a large animal, n.d., 7 x 5.5. Formal portrait of Cora Pinkley Call, a founder, with Pyles,of the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, n.d., 3 3/4 x 2 1/2, cut down froma larger picture.6. Photograph of Cora Pinkley Call, n.d., 5 x 2 1/4, cut downfrom a larger picture.7. Formal blue half-tone portrait of May Kennedy McCord playinga guitar. n.d., 5 1/2 x 3 1/4. Handwritten notation onfront: "Love to Lydia [Lida] from May." Handwritten notationon verso: "I don't know whether I ever sent you one of these 'critters,'and I am mailing some I had promised this morning. It was taken at Eureka in front of the curtain at Festival 2 years ago. A lady artist there who is really a fine artist. Forgot her name."Folder 8: Groups.8. Formal group portrait of several members of the Ozarks Writersand Artists Guild, Ginger Blue (near Noel, Missouri), Oct, 1948. 5 x 7, identifying sheet attached. Stamped on verso: "When reordering copies ofthis print, please refer to No. 301 - B. Fenton Fotos, Noel, Missouri." Handwritten notation on verso: "Ozark Writers and Artists Guild. Taken at Ginger Bluein October, 1948."9. Cora Pinkley Call, Pyles, and an unidentified man, 1958, 31/2 x 5. Handwritten notation on verso: "Cora Call and Lida Pyleswith a speaker at a Conference in 1958."10. Formal outdoor group portrait of the Ozark Creative Writers,Inc., c. 1973, 8 x 10. Pyles first row, fifth from left. Handwrittennotation on verso: "ca. 1973: Ozark Creative Writers. Lida Pyles in plaid pantsuitholding sign. L. P. was a founder of (with Lee Ward this group; latershe withdrew from membership."11. Formal outdoor group portrait of Pyles, Cora Pinkley Call,and others. n.d., 5 x 7. Stamped on front: By Fenton." Handwritten notation on verso: "When I'm done with this picture, it goes to Lida Wilson Pyles - - 2228Pearl, Joplin, Missouri." Handwritten notation on verso, differenthand: "Lida Pyles, top row. Taken in Eureka Springs."12. Pyles (?) with back to camera, and four musicians. n.d., 5 x 7. Stamped on verso: "Sunbeam Photo Studios, Seligman,Missouri 65745. Please Give Credit to Sunbeam Photo Studios." 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