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
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Leo Rainey Papers
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
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Donald E. Voth Papers