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| Bracy Drug Store in Little Rock, early 1900s |
We are pleased to
showcase our new collections! This month’s accessions include photos from the
early 1900s photos, a hospital scrapbook and Arkansas maps.
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Arkansas
Baptist Hospital Public Relations Scrapbook: The State Archives received a
donation of a scrapbook dated July 1, 1954 to June 30, 1955 and created by
public relations staff for the hospital. The woman who dated the scrapbook
found it in a vacant house she was cleaning.
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Charles
Engelberger Collection: This collection includes various books, pamphlets
and maps about Arkansas, including a First National Bank pamphlet, "A
Historical Look at Little Rock;" a 15th year reunion booklet
for Mount St. Mary's Academy; a 1939 Mount St. Mary’s Academy magazine, "The
Mercian;" the 1963 American Legion 23rd annual Boy's State booklet, "A
New Benedictine Settlement in Arkansas;” an Arkansas highway map; a Phillips 66
Arkansas map; information on an Arkansas semi-centennial oil celebration El
Dorado, Arkansas; a Rock Island Railroad Employees' Reunion booklet from 2019;
a book titled “Moments of Mount Magazine;” a book titled “Rabbit in a Rail Pile;”
and a book titled “With This We Challenge...An Epitome of Arkansas.”
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Lotta
Kavanaugh and Julia Ann Gillette Snodgrass Photograph Collection: Eight
photographs, most showing Mr. or Mrs. Snodgrass, were donated to the State
Archives. Two of the photographs are of the Snodgrass Bracy Drug Store in
Little Rock. The donor is not related to the family. The origin of the photos
is unknown. Donated photos are: the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1905;
the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1910; Arkansas State Pharmacists
Association, 1903; Eureka Springs, early 1900s; two photographs of Mr. or Mrs. Snodgrass
at Bracy Drug Store in Little Rock; Elks Club, early 1900s; and a photograph
with AA FP, Little Rock, AR, 1904” written on it. The AA FP photo may be of the
bandstand at Forest Park in the Heights in Little Rock.
State Records Transferred
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Arkansas
Department of Parks and Tourism: Executive Director’s Office Records – The
records, which are dated from 1969 to 2011, are part of an ongoing transfers to
State Archives.
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Arkansas
Oil and Gas Commission Records: The records are public hearing minutes for
2018 and are part of ongoing record transfers.
Printed Material
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“Tales of Bearhouse Creek and Other Stories” by
Lavana Jones Kindle, 2018
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“Hot Spring County Directory,” 2018
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“Ouachita
School District No. 1 Student Handbook,” 2014-2015
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| Arkansas State Pharmacists Association, 1903 |
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| Little Rock, Arkansas, 1904 |
