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Charlotte Stephens Jul 2020

Charlotte Stephens

Women's history in Arkansas

Black and white print photograph of Charlotte Stephens, the first African American teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Faculty At Maddox Female Seminary Dec 1903

Faculty At Maddox Female Seminary

Women's history in Arkansas

Cabinet card photograph of the faculty of Maddox Female Seminary in 1903.


Catholic Benedictine Sisters And Students In Wynne Dec 1900

Catholic Benedictine Sisters And Students In Wynne

Women's history in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of Benedictine nuns and their students at St. Anselm's Catholic School in Wynne.


Court Case, School District Number 5 V H.B. Morris And B.N. Dawson Feb 1893

Court Case, School District Number 5 V H.B. Morris And B.N. Dawson

Arkansas schools

This is a court case between school district number five and the school district directors, H.B. Morris and B.N. Dawson, for hiring a teacher who was allegedly not licensed to teach in that area.


Hattie Elizabeth Guy Hines Dec 1889

Hattie Elizabeth Guy Hines

Women's history in Arkansas

Black and white photographic negative of Hattie Elizabeth Guy Hines. Hattie Guy Hines was born in Ohio, and attended Wilberforce College. While there, she met her future husband, George Guy. They were both teachers, eventually settling in Sweet Home, Arkansas, and teaching at the Sweet Home Colored School. The Hines raised their eight children in Sweet Home: two sons, Guy and Milton; and six daughters, Hattie M., Maude, Emma, Florence, Ida Mae, and Virgie.


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.