Ashley County (Ark.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ashley County Extension Homemakers Club Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 2210
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of a booklet of the history and annual activities of the Pine Hurst Extension Homemakers Club, as well as 23 color photographic slides of club members' attendance at the 1972 statewide convention held on the University of Arkansas campus. Those pictured include JoAnn Thompson, Barbara Kinniard, Geneva Atkins, Anna Kate Malloy, and Mattie Pearl Kilcrease.
Dates:
1972-1976
William Blanks Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MC 317
Scope and Content Note
Diaries (positive photocopies) of William Blanks, December 1917 - April 1919 and April 1919 - January 1920. Topics include weather, work (at a store, an undertaker or funeral home, and at Hamburg Bank), and day-to-day life in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas; agriculture, particularly cotton crops and livestock; the 1919 influenza epidemic; and President Woodrow Wilson's cancelled Little Rock speech. Persons mentioned include J.B. Callaway, Leroy Lane, Murphy Jones, Walter Johnner, Gaster...
Dates:
1917-1920
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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William Blanks Diaries
Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS Sh92 410
Scope and Content Note
Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford's school autograph book and eighteen letters, most of which are from Emma to her father, John Franklin Ramsaur (1819-1904) of Hamburg, Arkansas, written while she attended school in North and South Carolina during the Civil War. Included, however, are letters exchanged between other Ramsaur family members in North Carolina, Arkansas and California. Also included are: clippings of a published letter from Garland Julius Shuford (1876-1912) to his family, written in...
Dates:
1850-1900