Content Description The collection consists of a scrapbook that belonged to Walter S. Gifford; it contains photographs of an October 1940 General Education Board trip to Arkansas, including images of the Lake View and Plum Bayou resettlement projects. Photographs from the Education Board trip to Arkansas include images of an unidentified “one teacher school”; Stony Point School (Washington County); Cave Springs; “No. 15, The least profitable boiler producing farm”; the Plum Bayou resettlement...

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...