Leslie (Ark.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
"Peg Leg" Decker Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MC 1025
Scope and Content Note
Glass plate negatives of businesses and people in Leslie (Searcy County), Arkansas, 1907-1921. At least some of the portraits in this collection were obviously taken outside houses, with a backdrop hung to make a "studio" portrait. Some images were identified by people attending a Homecoming at Leslie; their notes, from the photocopies, are included in contents descriptions. Unless otherwise noted, the plates are 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". Many, especially the portraits, have two images...
Dates:
1907-1921
Edward Mays Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1175
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains correspondence, account ledgers, time and payroll sheets, sale invoices, a minute book, a report, picture postcards, and photographs. Most of the material relates to Edward Mays' business activities.
Dates:
ca 1910-1950s
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Edward Mays Papers
Wilda Plymale Works Progress Administration Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MC 2556
Content Description
Scrapbook documenting the Works Progress Administration Division of Professional and Service Projects' "This Week Pays Your Community" programming in Arkansas in 1940; the week was designed to highlight the benefits of WPA projects to local communities. The scrapbook includes clippings, photographs, programs, speech transcripts, bookmarks, and county committee reports. The scrapbook was compiled by Wilda Plymale, a stenographer in the Fort Smith WPA office, likely for Eva B. Patterson, the...
Dates:
1940
Searcy County Extension Homemakers Clubs Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1046
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains mostly annual narrative and statistical reports of the Searcy County Extension and Home Demonstration agents and workers; plan of work and progress reports; correspondence; Extension Council meeting programs, copies of the Secretary's Record Book for Home Demonstration Clubs of South Mountain, Arkansas, and Leslie, Arkansas, with the Constitution, By-Laws, names of the officers and leaders, and the minutes of the meetings; yearbooks;...
Dates:
ca 1911-1989