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Rural development -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

Leo Rainey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1227
Scope and Content Note Included in the collection is correspondence pertaining to Leo Rainey's activities as a Cooperative Extension Service employee, papers documenting Rainey's activities promoting Ozark crafts and tourism, microfilm of 6 scrapbooks containing publicity materials about the Arkansaw Traveller Folk Theatre, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, audio tapes, records and film. Series 4 and 5 audiovisual materials digitized by Media Preserve in July 2018 are available to...
Dates: 1959-1991

Rural Arkansas Community Development Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1053
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, brochures, publications, conference files, committee files, committee minutes, case files, and audio visual materials.

Dates: 1957, 1960-1988

U. S. Work Projects Administration Arkansas Administrative Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS Un3 104
Scope and Contents Materials pertain to the development, functioning and administration of the several programs of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Work Projects Administration in Arkansas, and especially to the formation, operation and affairs of the Arkansas Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Colonization Project No. 1 (Dyess Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Dyess Colony, Inc.). Principle correspondents are William R. Dyess (Arkansas State Emergency Relief Administrator...
Dates: 1933-1943

Donald E. Voth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1264
Scope and Content Note

Materials were collected or produced by Donald E. Voth during the course of his teaching and research both as a student and as a professor. Materials primarily consist of articles, reports, project files, background research and publications related to rural sociology and community and rural development both locally and internationally. The majority of the materials relate to his teaching the research during his time at the University of Arkansas.

Dates: 1912-2003