Schoolroom Progress USA Train, Little Rock, Ark., May 1959 [Freeland views reading chart] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1959.

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Schoolroom Progress USA Train, Little Rock, Ark., May 1959 [Freeland views reading chart] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1959.

Negative taken for May 29, 1959, Arkansas Gazette article "'Good Old Days' Live On in Schoolroom Exhibit," B1:1. At the annual Arkansas Livestock Show in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, an exhibit on 19th century school rooms from the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village of Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan. The exhibit, entitled "Schoolroom Progress U.S.A.," is housed in two air-conditioned railroad coaches. Byron Freeland of Little Rock studies a McGuffey Reading Chart.

1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

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Arkansas History Commission

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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 ...