World War I Traveling Exhibit Press Release

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.

July Acquisitions and Accessions

Acquisitions and Accessions of Books, Printed Ephemera, etc.

AHC Books:

Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America, by Brandy J. Crytzer

Arkansas Pioneers State Association, A Register of Members and Their Ancestors, 1911-2002

Biographical Index to Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas, by Mrs. Leister E. Presley

Handbook of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1959

Little Rock City Directories, 1871 – 1902, 5 Rolls of Microfilm

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1951

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1952

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1953

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1954

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1955

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1956

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1957

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1958

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1959

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1960

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1961

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1964

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1965

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1966

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1967

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1968

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1969

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1970

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1972

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1973

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1979

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1980

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1982

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1984

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1985

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1990

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1991

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1992

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1993

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1996

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1997

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1998

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1998-1999

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 1999-2000

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2000-2001

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2002(2)

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2003

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2004

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2005(2)

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2006 (2)

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2007(2)

Little Rock/North Little Rock Telephone Directory, 2008(2)

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1964

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1966

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1969

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1970

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1973

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1974

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1975

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1977

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1978

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1979

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1980

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1981

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1982

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1983

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1985

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1986-87

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1988
Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1989
Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1990

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1992

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 1996

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2000, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2000, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2001, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2001, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2002

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2003, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2003, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2004

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2005, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2005, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2006, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2006, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2007, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2007, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2008, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2008, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2009, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2009, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2010, Vol. 1

Little Rock, Arkansas Polk City Directory, 2010, Vol. 2

Little Rock, Arkansas Criss Cross Directory, 1970

Little Rock, Arkansas Criss Cross Directory, 1971

Little Rock, Arkansas Criss Cross Directory, 1972

Little Rock, Arkansas Cole Directory, 1974

Little Rock, Arkansas Cole Directory, 1975

Little Rock, Arkansas Cole Directory, 1976

Little Rock, Arkansas Cole Directory, 1977

Little Rock, Arkansas Cole Directory, 1978

Little Rock, Arkansas Cole Directory, 1979

AHC Periodicals:

Carroll County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 60 No. 2, June 2015

Madison County Musings, Vol. 34 No. 2, Summer 2015

The Backtracker:  Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society, Vol. 44 No. 2, Spring 2015

The Mayflower Quarterly, August 1975, Vol. 41 No. 3

Pope County Historical Association Quarterly, September 1975, Vol. 10 No. 1

The Pilgrim News-Letter, Fall 1992

The Pilgrim News-Letter, Spring 2000

The Pilgrim News-Letter, Fall 2001

The Pilgrim News-Letter, Fall 2006

The Pilgrim News-Letter, Summer/Fall 2009

White County Historical Society News, Nov. 2014

National Society United States Daughters of 1812 News-Letter, July 1977, Vol. 54 No. 1

National Society United States Daughters of 1812 News-Letter, November 1981, Vol. 58 No. 2

Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars State Society of Arkansas, Newsletter, July 2009

 Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars State Society of Arkansas, Newsletter, July 2010

AHC Printed Ephemera:

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1964-1965

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1974-1975

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1976-1977

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1981-1982

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1985-1986

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1986-1987

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1989-1990

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1992-1993

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1993-1994

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1994-1995

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1995-1996

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1996-1997

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 1998-1999 

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 2001-2003

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 2003-2004

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 2004-2005

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 2005-2006

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 2006-2007

The Arkansas Pioneers Pulaski county Association Yearbook, 2011-2012

The Arkansas Pioneers Union county Association Yearbook, 1996-1998

Arkansas Pioneers State Association, 56^th Annual Convention, April 27, 1991

Arkansas Pioneers State Association, 60^th Annual Convention, April 29, 1995

Arkansas Pioneers State Association, 64^th Annual Convention, April 10, 1999

Periodicals – Daughters of the American Colonists

Roster of Members and Ancestors, 1986

Arkansas State Society Daughters of the American Colonists Yearbook,  1976-1979

Lieutenant Samuel Cherry Chapter Yearbook, 1988-1991

Lieutenant Samuel Cherry Chapter Yearbook, 1991-1994

National Society Arkansas Society Colonial Dames XVII Century Yearbook, 1981-1983

National Society Arkansas Society Colonial Dames XVII Century Yearbook, 1991-1993

National Society Arkansas Society Colonial Dames XVII Century Yearbook, 1995-1997

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1981-1982

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1982-1983

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1985-1986

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1994-1995

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1996-1998

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Supplement  Yearbook, 1998-2000

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 2004-2006

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 2008-2010

Gilbert Marshall Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 2011-2013

Getting to know the DAR

National Society United Daughters of 1812, The Memory Hour, April 8, 1967

Heritage Seekers Genealogy Club Yearbook, 1995-1996

Arkansas Branch Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims Annual Meeting, March 28, 1992

Arkansas State Society, DAR Arkansas Old State House

Memorial Service for Arkansas Society Daughters of the American Revolution, March 12, 1998

Memorial Service for Arkansas Society Daughters of the American Revolution, March 8, 2001

Ninety- Seventh Annual Conference, Arkansas State Society of the  Daughters of the American Revolution, March 17-19, 2005

Eightieth Annual Conference, Arkansas State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, March 3, 4, and 5, 1988

United Daughters of the Confederacy, General T. J. Churchill Chapter No. 1373, Little Rock, Arkansas

DAR Handbook, Bicentennial Administration

Arkansas State Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1979-1980

Arkansas State Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1993-1994

Arkansas State Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1994-1995

Arkansas State Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 2010-2011

Arkansas State Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 2011-2012

Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars State Society of Arkansas Yearbook, 2001-2003

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Supplement, 1993-1994

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Yearbook, 1992-1993

SARA Books:

John Kendig Barr:  His Ancestors and His Descendants, by Mary Alice Burchfield

Cemeteries with Cass County [Texas] Connections

Henderson State University 1991 Star

Henderson State University 1992 Star

Henderson State University 1997 Star

Henderson State University 1999 Star

SARA Periodicals:

Arkansas Historical Quarterly,  Vol. 74, Spring  2015.

The Gems of Pike County, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring  2015

NEARA Books:

The Prairie Boys Go to War The Prairie Boys Go to War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865 by Rhonda M. Kohl

A Law Dictionary: Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States and the Several States of the American Union 2 volume set by John Bouvier

Black's Law Dictionary, by Henry C. Black

AHC Accessions:

ADPT Tourism films from Jones Film Video, 20 cu. ft.

Eagle/Oldham Collection, 5 cu. ft.

Wednesday's Wonderful Collection - Jared Martin Family Letters, MS.00107

Jared (Jarrad, Jarred) Carswell Martin was born October 11, 1796, in the Cherokee Indian Nation in Georgia, the son of John and Elizabeth Martin. The family emigrated to Missouri Territory shortly after the Louisiana Purchase and settled near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Jared, along with some other members of his family, came to Pulaski County, Arkansas Territory, in 1821, where he acquired land at Little Rock and at Mabelvale, Arkansas. He married Mary (Polly) Douglass in 1827. From 1840 to 1842, he served in the Arkansas House of Representatives. From 1843 to 1845, he served as Arkansas State Treasurer. Martin died November 7, 1857, and is buried in the Martin Cemetery near Mabelvale, Arkansas. He is often confused with his nephew, Jared C. Martin, who served as Arkansas State Treasurer from 1860 to 1861.

This collection consists of twelve letters and a large genealogical chart.

• 1. 1825 May 22: John Martin, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, to Jarrad C. Martin
  
• 2. 1825 July 20: John Martin, Jackson, Missouri, to Jared C. Martin
  
• 3. 1826 February 21: John Martin, Jackson, Missouri, to Jarred C. Martin
  
• 4. 1832 February: John F. Martin, Jackson, Missouri, to Jared C. Martin
   
• 5. 1839 September 6: Mary Martin, Fourche Settlement, Arkansas, to Jarred C. Martin
  
• 6. 1840 March. 12: John and Rebecca Martin, Jackson, Missouri, to Jared and Mary Martin
  
• 7. 1840 December 26: John and Rebecca Martin, Batesville, Arkansas, to Jared C. Martin
  
• 8. 1841 November 4: John Martin, Batesville, Arkansas, to Jared C. Martin
  
• 9. 1846 April 13: John Martin, Independence County, Arkansas, to Jared C. Martin
  
• 10. 1853 September 11: John Martin, Polk Bayou, Arkansas, to Jared C. Martin
  
• 11. 1853 November 11: John Martin, Polk Bayou, Arkansas, to Jared C. Martin
  
• 12. 1871 March 6: Mary Martin, Fourche, Arkansas, to Henry G. Martin
  
• 13. Undated: Family history chart of Martin family
  

From Scrapbooks to Pinterest

I have a confession to make.  I am unabashedly addicted to Pinterest. And this is a little surprising for me because I never jumped on the paper scrapbooking craze that’s swept through the U.S. in the last ten years.  But Pinterest, so easily accessible on my phone, has me glued (no pun intended) to my screen far too often.  I can spend (read this as “waste”) way too much time organizing boards and pinning posts.  There’s something gratifying in finding quotes, recipes, home décor, fashion, images, art, articles, stories and everything in between and then organizing them onto pages.  There’s no mess, no scissors or glue, no paper cuts and most importantly, I’m not forced to admit how much artistic skill I lack because this is all electronic and involves no creativity. 

As an archivist who has spent the majority of her career in history, I recognize that what I’m doing is nothing new, though. Pinterest, is for all intents and purposes, a digital scrapbook.  And scrapbooking has always been popular.  Both women and men have kept scrapbooks for centuries.  People like to save things that catch their eye.  They like to be able to go back and reference a poem or an article or a quote.  They like to be able to go back admire a pretty image.  But most of all, people like to create something that is representative of who they are.  Looking through someone’s scrapbook (or Pinterest page) can tell you just as much about a person as reading their diary because what people choose to keep….what they find important enough to save can give you a very accurate look into a person’s soul. 

At the History Commission, we have numerous scrapbooks.  I came across one today that I thought would be fun to share.  It’s part of the Sarah Stillwell Huffman Papers (MS.000104), which also contains a diary and a photograph. 

The scrapbook, itself, is full to the brim of everything imaginable – articles, stories, poems, artwork, pictures, etc.  Sarah clearly loved words.  There are hundreds of poems scattered throughout. She also loved brightly colored images as there are brightly colored advertising cards, images of flowers, animals and people on page after page.  There are also several clippings and images related to Arkansas.  In the middle of the scrapbook are obituaries of family members.  It’s interesting that she chose to save those in the middle of poetry and pretty pictures. 

I think the thing that stands out to me the most, as always, is that people don’t change throughout time.  Sarah chose poems and images that I, today, would like and would pin on Pinterest.  What moved her and what she found to be compelling enough to save isn’t really all that different from what women today might pin.  I know looking through other scrapbooks kept by women, that fashion and home décor often reign supreme. These definitely dominate my own Pinterest boards.  I also have a board of nothing but compelling quotes because, like Sarah, I love words.  And the brightly colored images she clipped?  I have an entire board of vintage images, a number of which are old ads.

We often assume that people in the past were different from us and are very removed from us today, but really they aren’t.  Working in the world of history and, more importantly, in an archives keeps that in the forefront of my mind.   It’s a constant reminder of the importance of the work we do.

Below are some images from the scrapbook.  It can viewed in its entirety at our research room Monday through Saturday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.