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Box Small Manuscript Collections Box 9

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Letter from Almeda Riddle to Mr. Cochran, n.d.

 File — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 9, Folder: MC 1521, Item: 4
Identifier: MC 1521
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

Dates: n.d.

Copy photograph showing African-American washerwoman wearing a turban and wielding a battling board over an iron kettle; small boy in overcoat and hat. Fenced yard with outbuildings in background, possible hen houses. Identifying note: Mattie Troop/Richard Mullins/Washing clothes/Late 1947/Wilson, AR., 1947

 Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 9, Folder: MC 1461, Item: 4
Identifier: MC 1461
Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

Copies of letters and photographs collected by Jefferson Forrest Mullins of Wilson, Arkansas, were donated to the University of Arkansas Libraries by his daughter, Carolyn Moffitt, of Memphis. The letters were written to Mullins in 1946 and 1948 by two German prisoners of war who had been incarcerated at Wilson, Arkansas, during World War II.

Dates: 1947