Blanche Hanks Elliott papers : papers, ca. 1911-1984 ... 1990.

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Blanche Hanks Elliott papers : papers, ca. 1911-1984 ... 1990.

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Papers document Blanche Hanks Elliott's association with M.E. Oliver, Edsel Ford, Ernie Deane, Clay M. Anderson, David Pryor, Orval Faubus, and a number of War Eagle Fair artisans (1950s-1980s) and persons in cooperative extension work in Arkansas (1920s-1930s). Organizations represented include: Benton County Rug Weavers, Northwest Arkansas Handweavers Guild, Washington County Farm Women's Market, Ozark Council of Artists and Craftsmen, Benton County Republican Committee, Benton County home demonstration clubs, and the Ozarks Arts and Crafts Fair Association. Her collections of clippings and printed material include: Benton and Washington County history, Northwest Arkansas agriculture and rural life, descriptions of crafts and artisans, particularly involving weaving, sculpture, basket making, doll making, quilting, and wood carving. Materials about the organization of and activities of the War Eagle Fair, the Back-in-the-Hills Antique Show and Collectors Fair, and the Ozarks Arts and Crafts Seminars are included.

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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Deane, Ernie

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University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). College of Agriculture

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Anderson, Clay J.

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War Eagle Fair.

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Pryor, David, 1934-

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Fayetteville High School (Fayetteville, Ark.)

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Ozark Arts and Crafts Fair Association.

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Elliott, Blanche Hanks

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Oliver, M. E.

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Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943

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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...

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...