Arkansas Made, Volume 1

Arkansas Made, Volume 1

Author: Swannee Bennett

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 168226131X

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Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.


Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas

Author: Goodspeed Publishing Co

Publisher:

Published: 1890

Total Pages: 1120

ISBN-13:

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A condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of its distinguished citizens, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties mentioned, and numerous biographical sketches of the citizens of such county.


The American Census Handbook

The American Census Handbook

Author: Thomas Jay Kemp

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780842029254

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Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.


Arkansas Made, Volume 2

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

Author: Swannee Bennett

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1682261441

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Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.


A Weary Land

A Weary Land

Author: Kelly Houston Jones

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0820368210

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In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of Arkansas’s acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the “second slavery”—the increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as they saw fit.


Populations of States and Counties of the U. S. (1790-1990)

Populations of States and Counties of the U. S. (1790-1990)

Author: Richard L. Forstall

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0788133306

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Contains extensive data about population in all of the states and counties of the U.S. from 1790-1990. Contents: population of the U.S. and each state; population of counties, earliest census to 1990; and historical dates and Federal information processing standard (FIPS) codes. Information presented in tabular form.


Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Author: Peter E. Palmquist

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9780804740579

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This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.


A Pictorial History of Arkansas's Old State House

A Pictorial History of Arkansas's Old State House

Author: Mary L. Kwas

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1557289557

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Arkansas's Old State House, arguably the most famous building in the state, was conceived during the territorial period and has served through statehood. A History of Arkansas's Old State House traces the history of the architecture and purposes of the remarkable building. The history begins with Gov. John Pope's ideas for a symbolic state house for Arkansas and continues through the construction years and an expansion in 1885. After years of deterioration, the building was abandoned by the state government, and the Old State House then became a medical school and office building. Kwas traces the subsequent fight for the building's preservation on to its use today as a popular museum of Arkansas history and culture. Brief biographies of secretaries of state, preservationists, caretakers, and others are included, and the book is generously illustrated with early and seldom-seen photographs, drawings, and memorabilia.