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Photograph, A&M Arch At Arkansas State University Aug 2020

Photograph, A&M Arch At Arkansas State University

Arkansas schools

This is a picture taken in Spring of the A&M arch on the campus of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Craighead County.


Photograph, Oil Trough School Interior Oct 1991

Photograph, Oil Trough School Interior

Arkansas schools

This is the interior of an old one-room school house in Oil Trough, Independence County.


New Baptist Student Center At Arkansas State College Dec 1959

New Baptist Student Center At Arkansas State College

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of the newly completed Student Center on the Arkansas State College campus.


Photo, Arithmetic Exhibit At Jonesboro Dec 1959

Photo, Arithmetic Exhibit At Jonesboro

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of a teacher, Mrs. Georgia Dunlap, with students Pat Haulk and Ellen White, in Jonesboro, Arkansas.


St. Peter's Catholic School Cheerleaders, 1951 Dec 1951

St. Peter's Catholic School Cheerleaders, 1951

Arkansas schools

Postcard sent to Jettie Mae Turner on September 8, 1951, depicting a group of St. Peter's Catholic School cheerleaders. Pictured are Christine Hammons, Gladys T. Turner, Marinda Henderson, Jettie Mae Turner, and Bessie Marie Davis.


School Bus With Children In Line To Board, Marshall, Searcy County Dec 1949

School Bus With Children In Line To Board, Marshall, Searcy County

Arkansas schools

This photograph depicts a school bus with several children waiting in line to board, in Marshall, Searcy County, Arkansas, sometime in the 1930s or 1940s. The image is from the Works Projects Administration Arkansas Writers' Project.


Lincoln School In Tin Cup Town, Fayetteville, Washington County Dec 1949

Lincoln School In Tin Cup Town, Fayetteville, Washington County

Arkansas schools

A sepia-toned photograph of children playing in front of the African American Lincoln School in Tin Cup Town, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. The school was built by Works Projects Administration labor in 1936.


Arched Gate Leading To St. John's Seminary In Little Rock, 1930s-40s Dec 1949

Arched Gate Leading To St. John's Seminary In Little Rock, 1930s-40s

Arkansas schools

This is a close-up view of one of the arched gates leading into St. John's Seminary in Little Rock.


Teaching Certificate, Myrtle Campbell Dec 1948

Teaching Certificate, Myrtle Campbell

Arkansas schools

This is a three-year elementary teaching certificate for Myrtle Campbell, valid from 1948 to 1951.


Petition, Consolidation Of Districts Number 62 And Number 80 Dec 1946

Petition, Consolidation Of Districts Number 62 And Number 80

Arkansas schools

This document is proof of publication from the Walnut Ridge Times-Dispatch showing that they advertised the court proceedings to consolidate school districts number 62 and number 80.


Enrollment And Attendance, Flat Creek School District 7 Feb 1939

Enrollment And Attendance, Flat Creek School District 7

Arkansas schools

This form describes the enrollment and attendance of school children at the Flat Creek rural school in Lawrence County for February of 1939 as prepared by teacher or principal Ruth Price.


Teacher Retirement Card, Mrs. J.E. Purdy Dec 1937

Teacher Retirement Card, Mrs. J.E. Purdy

Arkansas schools

This notecard is folded and printed on both sides to track the retirement fund for school teacher Vesta Mae Wyatt Purdy.


Teacher's Contract, Jewel Verkler Dec 1931

Teacher's Contract, Jewel Verkler

Arkansas schools

This is a contract for first-grade teacher Jewel Verkler to teach for six months in Lynn, Arkansas.


Campus View At Magnolia A.& M. College Dec 1931

Campus View At Magnolia A.& M. College

Arkansas schools

Campus View of Magnolia A.& M. College, looking west from Caraway hall and Old Main buildings.


Magazine Public School And Students, 1930 Dec 1930

Magazine Public School And Students, 1930

Arkansas schools

This is a black and white photograph taken in 1930, of the Magazine Public School building with a group of the school's students in front of it.


Appeal, School Districts Consolidation Aug 1929

Appeal, School Districts Consolidation

Arkansas schools

These are documents from a court case between the Hoxie Special School District number 46 and the Ringle School District number 54. District number 54 was to be dissolved and the territory annexed to district number 46, but the families of both districts did not want to be combined into one school district and appealed the decision.


Magazine High School Graduating Class Of 1928 Dec 1928

Magazine High School Graduating Class Of 1928

Arkansas schools

Photograph of Magazine High School graduating class of 1928. Front row: Bessie Barker, Mildred Leftwich, Loyd Vaught. Middle row: Rooney Coffer, Fawn Leftwich, Hobart White. Back Row: Herbert Grist, Garland Godphrey


First School Bus Piney Grove Dec 1925

First School Bus Piney Grove

Arkansas schools

This was the first school bus at Piney Grove, located in Hempstead County.


The 1924 Mulerider First Team And Entire Basketball Squad Dec 1924

The 1924 Mulerider First Team And Entire Basketball Squad

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of the 1924 A.& M. College Mule Rider girls basketball first team and entire squad.


Pistol Permit, H.S. Griggsby Dec 1923

Pistol Permit, H.S. Griggsby

Arkansas schools

This is a pistol permit issued to H.S. Griggsby of Portia.


Petition To Create School District 78 Dec 1921

Petition To Create School District 78

Arkansas schools

These documents include the certification of a petition to create a new school district and a map delineating the proposed district's boundaries.


Indictments, Damaging A School House Aug 1921

Indictments, Damaging A School House

Arkansas schools

These are indictments for Owen Hilburn and John Adair for damaging the Dry Creek School House in Lawrence County, Arkansas.


Spring Hill School Group Dec 1920

Spring Hill School Group

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of female students from the Spring Hill School District sitting in front of City Hall in Hope, Arkansas.


Domestic Science Class, Third District Agricultural School Dec 1920

Domestic Science Class, Third District Agricultural School

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of the 1920 domestic science class of the Third District Agricultural School in Magnolia, Arkansas.


Schoolhouse And Students In Snowball, Arkansas, 1910s Dec 1919

Schoolhouse And Students In Snowball, Arkansas, 1910s

Arkansas schools

Photograph of schoolhouse with students and faculty from Snowball, Arkansas. Identified on the back of the picture are Merty Martin Jaco (teacher standing at far right), and his daughters Eula and Alva Jaco.


Third District Agricultural School Dec 1912

Third District Agricultural School

Arkansas schools

Photograph of four buildings on the campus of the Third District Agricultural School in Magnolia, Arkansas, including the dining hall, boys' and girls' dormitories, and Old Main.


Graded Course Of Study For Rural Schools Dec 1911

Graded Course Of Study For Rural Schools

Arkansas schools

This is a guidebook designed for use by teachers in rural, one-room schools where they would be teaching first through seventh grade. The book offers guidance for how to schedule all of the lessons for the seven groups of students each day, how to successfully conduct classes, and what skills and knowledge to expect of each grade. The back of the book has space for recording the progress of each student over time. This guidebook in particular was utilized between 1909 and 1911, in central Arkansas County, Arkansas.


Students At Center Point School Dec 1910

Students At Center Point School

Arkansas schools

Photographic negative of students at Center Point School, Howard County.


Girls Winding Maypole At Nashville School Dec 1910

Girls Winding Maypole At Nashville School

Arkansas schools

Girls at Nashville School participate in a Maypole dance while accompanied by two ladies on the guitar and violin.


Petition, Not Providing An Education For Black Students Jan 1910

Petition, Not Providing An Education For Black Students

Arkansas schools

These are court documents filed in a case regarding the education of African American children. Jim Nations, Monroe Binkley, and Mr. Russell, fathers of 10 African American children within School District No. 2, filed a petition against the district for not providing an education for their children. L.H. Walker, Tom Bottoms, and F.M. Graves, directors for school district number 2 provided a response denying the claims against the district.