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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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Enumeration, Black Rock School Dec 1909

Enumeration, Black Rock School

Arkansas schools

This is a school enumeration for district number 40, Black Rock school in Lawrence County, prepared by the school board director and secretary. It details the number of students attending school in that district for the year of 1909.


Indictment, Disturbing A Public School Feb 1901

Indictment, Disturbing A Public School

Arkansas schools

1901 State of Arkansas vs Indictment Pearl Pifer The Grand Jury of Lawrence County for the Western District thereof in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas accuse Pearl Pifer of the Crime of disturbing a public school commited as following viz; the said Pear Pifer on the 1st day of February


Fourth Grade Class Of Morrilton Public School, 1900 Dec 1900

Fourth Grade Class Of Morrilton Public School, 1900

Arkansas schools

This is a black and white photograph of the fourth grade class of Morrilton Public School in Conway County, taken in 1900, in front of the school building.


Walking To School Dec 1900

Walking To School

Arkansas schools

Two unidentified girls walking to school in Polk County.


Students Of Piney School In Carroll County, 1899 Dec 1899

Students Of Piney School In Carroll County, 1899

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of the 24 students of Ethel Doxey Hill, teacher at Piney School in Piney, Carroll County, Arkansas.


Commencement Program, Washington High School 1889 Jun 1889

Commencement Program, Washington High School 1889

Arkansas schools

Commencement program of Washington High School, Washington, Arkansas, June 14, 1889


Petition To Transfer Children, Thompson F. Smith Dec 1884

Petition To Transfer Children, Thompson F. Smith

Arkansas schools

This is a petition by Thompson F. Smith to transfer his children from district 24 to district 25.


Contract, Cedar Creek Subscription School Sep 1842

Contract, Cedar Creek Subscription School

Arkansas schools

This is a contract for Green Woods, a teacher, to run a subscription school out of the Cedar Creek School House in Lawrence County and includes a list of the subscribers.