One of the things we have been doing at the ASA over the
last several years is putting together digital collections, a sort of online
museum gallery, and presenting images, letters and other items that help to
tell the story of Arkansas.
One of our more popular digital collections is the
Arkansas Women’s History Collection. The collection, chosen by Danyelle McNeill
and other staff members, contains images, postcards, letters, and pamphlets
that document the legacy of women in Arkansas. They spent months digging
through photograph collections, manuscripts, and books to build the collection.
“I wanted to make sure that what I chose was diverse,” Danyelle remembers. “It
was important to me to tell the stories of all of Arkansas’s women.” This led
her to pick roughly 90 items that represent different aspects of women’s
history in Arkansas. To see the collection, visit http://ahc.digital-ar.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16790coll14.
As Danyelle was collecting images, she was also compiling
information about collections that relate to women’s history for a resource
guide which has a list of materials that contain information pertaining to
Arkansas women’s history throughout the ASA’s collections. This guide can be
found on our digital collections webpage: http://ahc.digital-ar.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16790coll13/id/288.
