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Crowley's Ridge State Park
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This is a black and white 8"x 10" photograph of two young boys fishing off of a wooden bridge with Crowley's Ridge State Park in the background.
Envelope, Graysonia Concatenated Order Of Hoo-Hoo
Envelope, Graysonia Concatenated Order Of Hoo-Hoo
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A brown envelope with return address, stationary for George H. Grayson, Supreme Gurdon of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo.
Photograph, Arkansas State Rice Milling Company
Photograph, Arkansas State Rice Milling Company
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Black and white photograph of the Arkansas State Rice Milling Company with rail cars that carried the milled rice from the rice mill.
Photograph Of Disassembled Mountain Dulcimer
Photograph Of Disassembled Mountain Dulcimer
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Black and white photograph of the pieces of a disassembled mountain dulcimer lain out on backdrop with the book, "Four & Twenty: Songs for the Mountain Dulcimer" propped in the background.
Photograph Of Dulcimer
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This is a black and white photograph of a dulcimer belonging to Lynn McSpadden.
Rice Harvesting In Stuttgart
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Black and white photograph showing two men harvesting rice on a John Deere tractor and a mechanical reaper. The way the process would work is one man would drive the tractor while the other one would catch the rice stalks as they came off the reaper's conveyer belt and "bind" them.
Watering Rice Near Mccrory
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Black and white photograph showing well water being pumped into an irrigation canal by a John Deere tractor hooked up to a well pump using a belt drive system. The tractor is hooked up to a secondary fuel tank so it can run longer without needing more fuel.
Main Street, Little Rock
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Black and white photograph of Main Street in Little Rock, looking north.
Thornton Ferry, Hot Springs
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Black and white photograph of the Thornton Ferry crossing the Ouachita River in Hot Springs carrying a horse and carriage.
Little Rock Central High
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Black and white photograph of Little Rock Central High School by Jim Johnson.
Hawgs Illustrated
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Hawgs Illustrated magazine with the title is at the top and Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones looking to pass the ball during a football game.
Razorback Sports
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Razorback Sports Magazine. Razorback Sports is titled at the top of the page. On the cover is David Bazzel, labeled the "comeback kid." He is standing and leaning on what appears to be a tackling sled with the stadium bleachers in the background.
The Battle Of New Orleans Songbook Cover By Jimmy Driftwood
The Battle Of New Orleans Songbook Cover By Jimmy Driftwood
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This is a souvenir songbook published out of Driftwood's home town of Timbo, Arkansas in Stone County. It features sheet music from many of his best known songs along with rare photos.There are 35 songs with both sheet music and lyrics and nine pages of photographs.
Posed Apple Head Dolls
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Close-up color photograph of mostly finished and clothed apple head dolls.
Apple Head Doll Heads
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Color photograph showing a close-up of finished doll heads for apple head dolls.
Aerial View Of The Ozark Folk Center
Aerial View Of The Ozark Folk Center
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Black and white photographic print showing an aerial view of the main grounds of the Ozark Folk Center.
Photograph Of Rufus Laine Plowing In A Field
Photograph Of Rufus Laine Plowing In A Field
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Photographic print of Rufus Laine, custodian for Bay schools, riding a horse-drawn plow at his family farm.
Thirty-Six Years On The Trolley Car
Thirty-Six Years On The Trolley Car
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This is a selection of pages from a booklet written by Lee Evans about life as a trolley car conductor in Little Rock during the early 1900s. The booklet is 38 pages long and also discusses information about Evans' family. Evans, who was originally from Junet, Arkansas, worked as a trolley car conductor in Little Rock and later in Texas for over 36 years.
The Ozarks Mountaineer Magazine
The Ozarks Mountaineer Magazine
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This is an issue of the Ozarks Mountaineer magazine featuring Jimmy Driftwood on the cover. Page 18 features an article on the 1941 Mountain View Folk Festival, and page 19 has an article on Jimmy Driftwood which discusses his work with Arkansas Parks and Tourism for the approval of 2.1 million dollars to build the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas.
Sing Out! Folk Music Magazine, "The Rackensack Tribe Of Timbo, Arkansas"
Sing Out! Folk Music Magazine, "The Rackensack Tribe Of Timbo, Arkansas"
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Front and back cover of Sing Out! Magazine. The fold out is black and white and shows members of the Rackensack Musical group at a traditional mountain and folk music meeting in Timbo, Stone County (Ark.) in 1966.
The Need For Establishing An Historic District In The City Of Little Rock
The Need For Establishing An Historic District In The City Of Little Rock
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Three page, black and white document, printed on carbon paper. Authored by James Hatcher of the Quapaw Quarter Committee, the document explains why the city of Little Rock should protect historic structures through historic district regulations. This draft copy was for John Truemper (name in pencil, top right corner page 1) a member of the Little Rock Historic District Commission. This document includes quotes from the book Historic Preservation Law by Jacob H. Morrison, an advocate for the creation of historic districts in New Orleans to protect historic structures from demolition there.
Invitation To Ahc Director, John L. Ferguson
Invitation To Ahc Director, John L. Ferguson
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This invitation was sent to Dr. John L. Ferguson, Director of the Arkansas State Archives from 1960-2005, for the dedication of Greers Ferry Reservoir. The invitation says, "The Chamber of Commerce of the City of Heber Springs, Arkansas, requests the honor of the presence of John Lewis Ferguson at the Dedication of the Greers Ferry Reservoir by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States of America."
X-Ray Machine At The Tuberculosis Center, State Health Department
X-Ray Machine At The Tuberculosis Center, State Health Department
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This black and white photograph shows a demonstration of the x-ray machine in the Tuberculosis Center at the State Health Department offices in Little Rock. X-rays were key in the diagnosis process for Tuberculosis, a disease that once affected one in sixty people in Arkansas and accounted for one in seven deaths. X-rays proved to be the most effective way to diagnosis active cases of Tuberculosis, but the struggle, which continued well in the 1940s, was in finding access to a machine and someone trained to read the films once produced.
1959 Arkansas State College Beauty Contestant
1959 Arkansas State College Beauty Contestant
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Black and white photograph of a young woman, possibly Fern Dean Bryan, posing for a glamor shot that was part of her entry into the 1959 Miss Arkansas State College Pageant. The picture was taken in Fordyce, Arkansas, which is most likely her hometown. An annual scholarship beauty pageant is still held at what is today known as Arkansas State University.
Arkansas State Parks Brochure, 1957
Arkansas State Parks Brochure, 1957
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This is a state parks brochure from the time period that Governor Faubus was in office. The brochure highlights various popular sites around the state in the 1950s.
U.S. Post Office In Washita, Arkansas
U.S. Post Office In Washita, Arkansas
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Black and white photograph of the United States post office in Washita, Arkansas.
Arkansas State Parks Brochure, 1954
Arkansas State Parks Brochure, 1954
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This is a state parks brochure from very short time period that Arkansas State Parks was under the Arkansas Forestry Commission.
Menu, Board Of Directors Meeting, Arkansas Wood Products Association
Menu, Board Of Directors Meeting, Arkansas Wood Products Association
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Lunch menu for the Arkansas Wood Products Association Board of Directors meeting on October 31, 1953, at the Marion Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, printed on plywood. There is a depiction of a peckerwood (woodpecker) in the top left corner, drilling at wood. Lumber industry terminology is used to describe items on the menu.
Bull Shoals And Norfork Dams Dedication
Bull Shoals And Norfork Dams Dedication
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Black and white photograph of the Bull Shoals Dedication on July 2, 1952. Bull Shoals Dam is on the border of Marion and Baxter Counties in Arkansas. Pictured are Harry S., Truman (1884-1972), James W. Trimble (1894-1972), Wilbur Daigh Mills, Boyd Tackett (1911-1985), Sidney Sanders McMath (1912-2003), Clyde Ellis, James William Fulbright (1905-1995), Thomas B. Tinnon, (1915-),George McKee, Oscar Chapman, Frank Pace, Lewis A. Pick, Clarence Wickard, James T. Blair, Jr. (1902-1962), and Orland Kay Armstrong (1893-1987).
"President Truman Dedicates Giant Dams," The Baxter Bulletin
"President Truman Dedicates Giant Dams," The Baxter Bulletin
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This is the front page of the July 2, 1952, Baxter Bulletin, a weekly publication out of Mountain Home, covering President Harry S. Truman's visit to state for the dedication of Bull Shoals dam on the border of Marion and Baxter Counties in Arkansas, and Norfork dam, southeast of Mountain Home in Baxter County.