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Television film, "As We See It...," produced by WWTW/Chicago Public Television Station in May 1978, for Public Broadcasting System series of 24 half-hour programs on school desegregation. Part I, on Hope High School, Hope Ark., shown by AETN Feb. 16, 1980; another segment, on Little Rock's Central High School, shown by AETN May 25, 1980. 2 U-matic videotapes, without soundtracks.

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The four family scrapbooks pertain to members of the Darby-Delony-Lindsay-Purkins-Turner-Williams family of Hope, Arkansas. The albums contain created and collected genealogical material; family letters, ca. 1864-1981; greeting cards; announcements; obituaries; newspaper clippings; last will; indenture (1879); Journal of the Hempstead County Historical Society, Winter, 1985; family portraits; and photographs.

Scope and Content Note The papers contain two scrapbooks. Marie Antoinette Purkins's scrapbook details the kindergarten she founded and taught in Hope, Arkansas from 1938-1962. Of special interest is the Christmas photocard of the child William Jefferson (Billy) Blythe III, who later became Arkansas Governor and United States President Bill Clinton. Sophia Delony Purkins's scrapbook documents her husband's death in 1934 and special events in her immediate family. Also included are two travel journals from the...

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The papers contain correspondence between the Williams and Elsass family and other family friends. In addition, the collection contains Elsass Family scrapbooks and newspaper clippings.

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24 black-and-white photographic prints documenting the poultry industry in Hope, Arkansas.

Those pictured include John Randolph, secretary-treasurer and General Manager of Corn Belt Hatcheries, Inc., which opened an office in Hope in 1956 or 1957; Freeda Roth Greenan, president of Corn Belt Hatcheries, Inc.; and Hillman Koen, who established Koen Farms, Inc. in 1965 and was inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame in 2002.

Scope and Content Note Album of mainly black-and-white snapshots. The album has been "repaired" with plastic tape and clear plastic along the cover and the front hinge, but is in good condition for its age. Some pages clearly pertain to Erwin Funk circa 1918 and later, and others may be assumed to do so. Some of the photographs in the album are labeled and dated and depict Arkansas subjects, including Erwin Funk. Mr. Funk died in 1960. Labeled photographs of Arkansas subjects include Van Buren (1912); Hope;...