A sneak preview of The
Great War: Arkansas in World War I, a free, traveling exhibit produced by
the Arkansas History Commission, will be unveiled at the Patrick Henry Hays
Senior Center during the Aug. 29 symposium, “The Great War: Service on All
Fronts,” co-sponsored by the Arkansas History Commission and the North Little
Rock History Commission. Following the symposium, the exhibit will formally open
to the public at the North Little Rock Heritage Center at 506 Main St. in North
Little Rock from Aug. 31-October 9, 2015.
The North Little Rock Heritage Center is free and open to the public
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The traveling exhibit consists of 12 panels that showcase
images from the Arkansas History Commission’s holdings, including original
documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects and tell the story
of Arkansas’s role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields.
While
at the North Little Rock Heritage Center, the traveling exhibit will be on
display with an array of unique World War I artifacts from the historical collections
of the Arkansas History Commission and the North Little Rock History
Commission.
This exhibit joins two other Arkansas History Commission traveling
exhibits already in circulation: Fought
in Earnest: Civil War Arkansas, which chronicles major historic events in
Arkansas during the Civil War, and Arkansas
African American Legislators, 1868-1893, which tells the story of the 85
African Americans who served in the Arkansas General Assembly in the 19th
century.
The Arkansas History Commission, located in Little Rock, is
the official state archives of Arkansas. It maintains the largest collection of
historical materials on Arkansas in the world and is dedicated to collecting
and preserving the documentary history of Arkansas.
For more information about the exhibit at the North Little
Rock Heritage Center, call 501-371-0755 or email nlrhistory@comcast.net.
To schedule this exhibit at your institution, call the Arkansas History Commission
at 501-682-6900 or email state.archives@arkansas.gov. To learn more
about the Arkansas History Commission and its collections visit www.ark-ives.com.
This exhibit is funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas
Humanities Council, the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
