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The Bullet In The Brick: The Materiality Of Conflict In Museum Objects, Siobhan Doyle
The Bullet In The Brick: The Materiality Of Conflict In Museum Objects, Siobhan Doyle
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Tangible traces of conflict in visual artefacts can take viewers uncomfortably close to the realities of war—violence, destruction and fatalities. This article questions the evidential force of objects associated with conflict and their eventual display in exhibitions. Through a study of the display of a brick in which is embedded a bullet that is said to have passed through the body of Francis Sheehy Skeffington when he was executed by firing squad during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, this article explores the historical configuration of the brick and analyses its public display in the National Museum of Ireland …
The Wiley Funeral Home Records At Ouachita Baptist University, Lisa K. Speer
The Wiley Funeral Home Records At Ouachita Baptist University, Lisa K. Speer
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In 2009, Ouachita Baptist University's Special Collections and Archives received a set of records from the Wiley Funeral Home (now Mitchell Funeral Home) of Arkadelphia, containing death certificates, burial transit permits, and funeral insurance records kept between 1941-1968. The records document the lives of several thousand African Americans who were either residents of Clark County or whose funerals were handled by Wiley Funeral Home.
Clark County, Arkansas: The Garden Spot Of The Sunny South, Lisa K. Speer
Clark County, Arkansas: The Garden Spot Of The Sunny South, Lisa K. Speer
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Presented here is a typescript of a pamphlet produced and distributed circa 1877 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway to promote settlement in Clark County. The original pamphlet is housed in the collections of the Arkansas State Archives.
100 Years Ago: Front-Page Stories From Arkadelphia's Southern Standard, Lisa K. Speer
100 Years Ago: Front-Page Stories From Arkadelphia's Southern Standard, Lisa K. Speer
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The following news items were extracted from the front pages of Arkadelphia's Southern Standard weekly newspaper of 1919. The articles illustrate the variety of news published by the paper and offer glimpses into life in early 20th-century Clark County. The return to normalcy following the end of a world war; agricultural and economic development of the county; and moonshining were just a few of the themes that ran through the news that made the front pages of 1919.