This collection consists of materials collected by Effie Elizabeth Combs, long-time member of the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Documents from the Arkansas Division and two of its chapters – the General T. J. Churchill Chapter (est. 1911) and the Little Rock Chapter (est. 1937) – comprise the bulk of the collection. Documents include printed programs of the Arkansas Division annual conventions from the period 1931 to 1962; an event calendar; event programs; brochures; pamphlets; letters to or from the Arkansas Division president; General T. J. Churchill Chapter yearbooks from the period 1922 to 1949; Little Rock Chapter yearbooks from the period 1938 to 1972; a membership roster of the Little Rock Chapter; and printed programs from the Little Rock Chapter’s annual conventions.

In addition to the material produced by the Arkansas Division of the UDC and its chapters, the collection contains a pamphlet titled Letters of David O. Dodd (he was hung as a Confederate spy during the Civil War); two copies of Marie Erwin Ward’s The Long, Long, Thoughts of Youth: The Story of David Owen Todd; a copy of the text of a 1923 Arkansas State Law involving the Arkansas Division of the UDC; a typescript titled "Southern Recipes"; a series of booklets of poems written by UDC member Josie Frazee Cappleman (d. 1936); a typescript by George M. Mooreland titled "An Arkansas Poet: The Confederates’ Friend" (about Cappleman); notes on Cappleman; a booklet titled The Right of Secession; a program from the re-enactment of the Secession Convention on its 100th anniversary; the Biennial Report of the Arkansas Confederate Home, 1926-1928; and the Arkansas History Commission Bulletin of Information, no. 5 (March 1913). Also included is one document from the Oklahoma Division of the UDC.