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Halloween Invitation To Senior Epworth League Costume Party, Asbury Church, October 28 Oct 2021

Halloween Invitation To Senior Epworth League Costume Party, Asbury Church, October 28

Holidays and celebrations

Invitation to Senior Epworth League Costume party at Asbury Church with black cat on front.


Telegram With Easter Greetings From Marx Ladies Ready To Wear Oct 2021

Telegram With Easter Greetings From Marx Ladies Ready To Wear

Holidays and celebrations

Western Union telegram to Ruth Beal Utley from Marx Ladies Ready to Wear wishing Easter Greetings and an invitation to visit store.


Telegram With Easter Greetings From Greater Majestic Theatre Oct 2021

Telegram With Easter Greetings From Greater Majestic Theatre

Holidays and celebrations

Western Union telegram to Ruth Beal Utley from Greater Majestic Theatre wishing Easter Greetings to the class of 1929 and one free admission.


Graduation Card From The Rundells Oct 2021

Graduation Card From The Rundells

Holidays and celebrations

Graduation card from the Rundells congratulating graduate with a poem about "readin', 'ritin, 'rithmetic."


Graduation Card From The Hammocks Oct 2021

Graduation Card From The Hammocks

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Graduation card, with Egyptian theme, from the Hammocks congratulating graduate.


Russian Valentine, Vincent To Ruth Oct 2021

Russian Valentine, Vincent To Ruth

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Valentine card to Ruth from Vincent with Russian soldier.


Lillian Oldham Dressed In A Devil Costume, Smiling Oct 2021

Lillian Oldham Dressed In A Devil Costume, Smiling

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of Lillian Oldham dressed in a devil costume, smiling.


Boys And Man With Pumpkins In Truck Oct 2021

Boys And Man With Pumpkins In Truck

Holidays and celebrations

Picture of two boys in the back of a truck with three large pumpkins. Older man stands beside the truck.


Children In Halloween Costumes Oct 2021

Children In Halloween Costumes

Holidays and celebrations

Picture of four children dressed in Halloween costumes and holding containers for treats.


Lillian Oldham Dressed In A Devil Costume, Not Smiling Oct 2021

Lillian Oldham Dressed In A Devil Costume, Not Smiling

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of Lillian Oldham dressed in a devil costume, not smiling.


Pfeifer's Christmas Party Oct 2021

Pfeifer's Christmas Party

Holidays and celebrations

Group of women sitting around table with Christmas gifts opened on table at Pfeifer's Christmas party.


Bride And Groom Kissing In Back Of Car Oct 2021

Bride And Groom Kissing In Back Of Car

Holidays and celebrations

Bride and groom kiss in the back of a car after ceremony.


Hubbard-Jones Wedding, Bride Bouquet Throw Oct 2021

Hubbard-Jones Wedding, Bride Bouquet Throw

Holidays and celebrations

Bride throwing bouquet to four waiting women at the Hubbard and Jones Wedding.


Library Interior, Mena, Decorated With Streamers With Hearts As If For Valentine's Day Dec 2020

Library Interior, Mena, Decorated With Streamers With Hearts As If For Valentine's Day

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of Mena Library's interior, showing tables with books on top, chairs, and bookshelves. A lady in a dark dress stands against a bookshelf. The room is decorated with streamers with heart shapes as if for Valentine's day.


"Our Wedding Song" Poem By Joseph Boone Hunter Dec 2020

"Our Wedding Song" Poem By Joseph Boone Hunter

Holidays and celebrations

"Our wedding song," poem by Joseph Boone Hunter. Includes notes that "music for this poem has been written by Marjorie S. Matsumoto" and handwritten "E L [Elizabeth Lucille; Betty Lu] Hunter High Plains Bapt. Hosp., Amarillo, Texas."


Programme For St. Valentine's Ball At Concordia Hall, 1899 February 14 Dec 2020

Programme For St. Valentine's Ball At Concordia Hall, 1899 February 14

Holidays and celebrations

Programme, featuring an illustration of woman in a dress climbing a ladder to be near a man on a balcony, for St. Valentine's Ball at Concordia Hall, in Little Rock. Includes lists of dances and committees members.


Wedding Ceremony By Joseph Boone Hunter Dec 2020

Wedding Ceremony By Joseph Boone Hunter

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Typed wedding ceremony template by Joseph Boone Hunter. Includes blanks for bride and grooms names and reminds not to ask "useless questions" with examples such as: 'If anyone knows any reason why these young people should not' [marry]..."


The Meaning Of Easter, Sermon By Joseph Boone Hunter Dec 2020

The Meaning Of Easter, Sermon By Joseph Boone Hunter

Holidays and celebrations

Typed sermon entitled "The Meaning of Easter" by Joseph Boone Hunter, pastor of Pulaski Heights Christian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Includes handwritten notes in margins. Lists Mrs. Janice Moore as pastor's assistant.


Unidentified Boy Beside Chair With A Birthday Cake Dec 2020

Unidentified Boy Beside Chair With A Birthday Cake

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of a boy and his cake. The cake has two candles and "2 Years" written on it. The back of photo includes handwritten note "He looks kind of mad, he wanted to put his finger on the cake."


Valentine, Lewis Webb To Elizabeth Ann Hollis Dec 2020

Valentine, Lewis Webb To Elizabeth Ann Hollis

Holidays and celebrations

Valentine, from Lewis Webb to Elizabeth Ann Hollis with poem.


The Country Club Announces Five Big Parties For The Season Dec 2020

The Country Club Announces Five Big Parties For The Season

Holidays and celebrations

Parties include Thanksgiving party on Saturday November 28th, Christmas Tree on Thursday December 31st, Mardi Gras Party on Tuesday February 23rd, and Spring Carnival on Saturday April 17th. Announcement also notes "The Board has entrusted these special entertainments to a committee of ladies, of which Mrs. T. H. Bunch is Chairman. This Committee will doubtless advise members more definitely of its plans before each event. These dates are additional to the usual dinners, dances, etc., given by the regular committee.


Wesley Family Thanksgiving Dinner, 1980 Dec 1980

Wesley Family Thanksgiving Dinner, 1980

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of a family hovered around a table with the Thanksgiving meal.


Blytheville Bicentennial Activities Posted On The Bulletin Board At Headquarters Jun 1976

Blytheville Bicentennial Activities Posted On The Bulletin Board At Headquarters

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of bulletin board includes description of base wide decoration activities and photographs.


Airmen Robert Vencion And Michael Cavanaugh, Members Of The Blytheville Afb Fire Department Dress Up Base Fire Trucks With Stars And Stripes As Part Of A Base Wide Effort To Commemorate The 200th Birthday Of America. Jun 1976

Airmen Robert Vencion And Michael Cavanaugh, Members Of The Blytheville Afb Fire Department Dress Up Base Fire Trucks With Stars And Stripes As Part Of A Base Wide Effort To Commemorate The 200th Birthday Of America.

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of two airmen decorating a U.S. Air Force base fire truck.


Young African American Men Sit In The Back Of A Truck Leading A "[Happy] Birthday America" Parade Float Jun 1976

Young African American Men Sit In The Back Of A Truck Leading A "[Happy] Birthday America" Parade Float

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of young African American men sitting in the back of a truck leading a "[Happy] Birthday America" parade float as part of the Arkansas American Revolution Bicentennial flag presentation at Dermott, Arkansas. One young man wears a Dermott letterman jacket.


Presentation Of The Fifty State Flags, All State Day Hot Springs, Arkansas, July 4, 1973 Jun 1973

Presentation Of The Fifty State Flags, All State Day Hot Springs, Arkansas, July 4, 1973

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of young men dressed in matching white uniforms, arranged in a line, and holding state flags. Children with band instruments sit in the foreground.


Halloween Drive To Aid Children's Fund, Governor Faubus Giving To Fund Dec 1967

Halloween Drive To Aid Children's Fund, Governor Faubus Giving To Fund

Holidays and celebrations

Governor Faubus sits at his desk and inserts a coin into donation box while a girl dressed as a bunny rabbit and a woman holding a booklet entitled "Trick or Treat" stand beside him.


Three Children Stand In Front On Christmas Tree Dec 1960

Three Children Stand In Front On Christmas Tree

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of three young boys standing with hands in pockets in front of bare Christmas tree.


Person With Christmas Decorations Dec 1960

Person With Christmas Decorations

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of young girl placing Christmas decorations on table in classroom at Waldron High School.


People With Christmas Tree, Waldron High School Dec 1960

People With Christmas Tree, Waldron High School

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of woman and man talking behind small decorated Christmas tree in class at Waldron High School.