* Archived Featured Photos of the Month *

Title: Black woman and girl cooking, Wilson, Ark.
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Summary: A black mother and daughter cook in a small kitchen at Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, Arkansas.

Courtesy of Arkansas Historical Commission

Title: White man inspects cook stove in black workers kitchen, Wilson, Ark.
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Publication Date:1939
Summary: Jim Crain examines stove for cooking in the kitchen of a black workers' home at Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, Arkansas. On the right are a woman and a girl holding an infant. Pots and pans decorate the stove and walls.

Courtesy of Arkansas Historical Commission

Daughter of sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas.

Photographer: Rothstein, Arthur
Published: 1935 Aug.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USF33-T01-002010-M2 DLC

Arkansas Sharecropper

Photographer: Ben Shahn
Published: October 1935
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection,

Merry Christmas from Blytheville!

Lora and Robin Nunn, Christmas, 1981
Photographer: Ken Hubbell

Sitting on Santa's lap are Lora Elen (left) and Robin Nunn, the daughters of Robinson and Glanetta Nunn, who lived in Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas.
Persistence of the Spirit Collection
Courtesy of Arkansas History Commission

Santa's Workshop Dell, Arkansas

Santa's Workshop, Second Street, Dell Arkansas
1994
Photographer: Curtis Duncan
Photo Courtesy of Dru King
To see more about Christmas celebrations in Dell click here

Title: The Cabin on the Mississippi shore / by
Gussie L. Davis. (Cincinnati: Groene, J. C., 1884.)
source: Library of Congress, Music Division

Title: WWI Poster

Title: Cotton Weighing
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Date: 1939
Description: Cotton weighing at Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Black farm workers weigh cotton sacks on scales set up on road through cotton field behind tractor drawn cotton wagons where sacks will be emptied to be carried to gin. A few workers take advantage of the shade of the wagon for a rest from the sun as well as the work.

 

Title: Cotton Weight Book Photographer: Jack Pavoa Date: 1939 Place: Lee Wilson Farm Mississippi County, Arkansas Description: A white woman wearing overalls and head scarf sits on a box beside the back wheel of a cotton wagon holding cotton weight book used to record the weight of cotton as it is weighed in sacks in the fields before being loaded into cotton wagons. A small black boy, probably a cotton picker, leaning on the wagon wheel as he watches. Source: The Arkansas History Commission