Elisa Ashley blows out candles on her birthday [graphic]. 1982.

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Elisa Ashley blows out candles on her birthday [graphic]. 1982.

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Negative of Elisa Ashley celebrating her 65th birthday with a party at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, October 11, 1982. Ashley, left of the cake, blows out the candles as Governor Frank White, right, and first lady Gay White, left, pucker in support. Also included in the group are former Governor Orval Faubus and Betty Bumpers (former Gov. Dale Leon Bumpers' wife). Liza (Elisa Jane) Ashley was born on October 11, 1917 on the Oldham Plantation in Pettus, Lonoke County, Arkansas. She attended a one-room school going only about three months of each year. She learned to cook from her grandmother who was a cook for W.K. Oldham, Sr. and at the age of fifteen she was made a cook for the Oldham family. Ashley worked at Jacksonville arsenal in 1942. Cooking and cleaning for families, Ashley worked for families in Pulaski Heights and Mrs. Dunnaway in Little Rock, Pulaski County Arkansas. In 1952, she worked briefly at Texas Western College in El Paso, Texas but returned to Little Rock in 1953 and began working as a maid at the Governor's Mansion. Ashley became the Governor's Mansion cook in 1955 and worked under seven Arkansas governors during her 36 years at the Mansion. She is the author of a cookbook, "Thirty Years at the Mansion: Recipes and Recollections As told to Carolyn Huber."

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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White, Gay Daniels, 1947-

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White, Frank T. (Frank Torbit), 1935-

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Ashley, Liza, 1917-

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Bumpers, Betty Lou Flanagen.

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Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994

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34th governor of Arkansas. Faubus was born in the Ozark Mountain community of Greasy Creek; taught school in rural communities (1928...1939); worked as an itinerant farm laborer and lumberjack (1931...1935); briefly attended Commonweath College, the radical labor school at Mena (Polk County) Arkansas (1935); was elected to two terms as Madison County Circuit Clerk and Recorder; served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted man and subsequently as a commissioned officer in Europe (1942-1946); was Huntsv...

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