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| Portrait of Betty Bumpers, by Betty Dortch Russell, whose portraits of former Govs. Orval Faubus and Winthrop Rockefeller hang in the Capitol. She later became the wife of former Gov. Sid McMath. |
Our
new accessions include items from the late U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers and his wife
Betty; election commission records from Arkansas counties; and a 1957 yearbook
from the Arkansas State Teachers College, which is now the University of
Central Arkansas. We have records and artifacts you won’t find anywhere else. Let
us help you with your next Arkansas history research project!
Archival Collections
·
Sen.
Dale and Betty Bumpers collection:
Items purchased at the estate sale of Dale and Betty Bumpers were recently accessioned
at the Arkansas State Archives. Dale Bumpers served as Arkansas’s 38th
governor from 1971 to 1975 before serving in the U.S. Senate until January
1999. He died in 2016. His wife, Betty, was known for her efforts to promote
childhood immunizations and world peace. She died in 2018. Donated items
include undated photographs, a framed drawing of Betty Bumpers, tea towel,
patch, fan and brochure.
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Crow
Barnes Resort brochure:
An undated brochure for the Crow Barnes Resort on Bull Shoals Lake was recently
donated by Michael Fagan of Clarkdale, Arizona.
·
Arkansas
Department of Parks and Tourism:
The Arkansas State Archives recently received a transfer of records from the
former Department of Parks and Tourism. Records include 2019-2020 travel
guides, motorcycling and cycling guides and the magazines Love Where You Live and
Living in Arkansas.
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Arkansas
State Board of Election Commissioners records: The Arkansas State Archives
received 48 boxes of records that included reimbursement files for the cost of
elections by county; information on historical voting systems and voting
equipment used for past elections; board meeting recordings on tape; and commissioners
headshots from 1995 to 2014.
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Arkansas
State Board of Health records:
The Arkansas State Archives received 15.21 cubic feet of Board of Health
minutes from 1951 to 2008.
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Arkansas
Waterways Commission records:
About 3 cubic feet of records from the 1990s through the 2000s were recently
transferred to the State Archives.
Published Materials
·
Brickwall
Gazette, V. 24, issue 2, February 2020.
The magazine issue was donated by the Genealogy Society of Craighead County,
Arkansas.
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“1957
Golden Anniversary Yearbook,” Arkansas
State Archives employee April Goff donated a yearbook from the Arkansas State
Teachers College. The college, which was created in 1907 as The Arkansas State
Normal School, became the Arkansas State Teachers College in 1925. In 1967, the
college changed its name to the State College of Arkansas before changing its
name to the University of Central Arkansas in 1975.
