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Writing All Year Workshop Group

Sat, Apr 25 @ 12PM

Virtual via Zoom

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Community History Seminar 2026: Info Session

Tue, May 5 @ 6PM

Virtual via Zoom

Walter Pryor: This Leaves Me Okay - Legacies & Lunch

Wed, May 6 @ 12PM

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2nd Friday Art Night

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Digital Projects

The CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies has created a variety of digital projects to showcase and provide context for our vast collection of digitized archival material. They are organized into two groups: curated digital collections and mapping projects.

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Curated Digital Collections

  • black and white photograph of a combine threshing rice

    Agriculture in Arkansas

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  • photograph of a black soldier in uniform with a hat on standing for a studio portrait

    Arkansas and the Great War

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  • illustration of a large crowd lining the streets in downtown little rock following the end of the american civil war with a large american flag

    Arkansas and Reconstruction

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  • color photograph of a soldier in a helmet and uniform sitting on a sandbag wall in front of a brick building in Vietnam

    The Arkansas Vietnam War Project

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  • photograph of a view of main street business and cars in charleston, arkansas in 1946

    Charleston, Arkansas

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  • photograph of submerged homes in Little Rock, Arkansas, from the Arkansas River flood

    The 1927 Flood

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  • black and white photo with one man in open airplane cockpit with a man in a hat next to him

    Forgotten; The Arkansas Korean War Project

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  • black and white photograph of a union soldier in uniform and hat with a spaniel on his left and a horse on his right

    A Nation Divided: Arkansas and the Civil War

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  • group of workers photographed at the sturgis lumber mill in Malvern, Arkansas

    Labor and Industry in Arkansas

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Mapping Projects

  • photograph of a man in a news cap holding a newspaper in front of a frame building with a sign that reads germania office

    Arkansas's Immigrant History

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  • red food menu for the backyard with black writing and a white illustration of a cat

    Let's Eat: A Collection of Arkansas Menus

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  • black and white photograph of a three-story brick building with a road in front of it

    Little Rock's Historic Ninth Street District

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  • black and white photograph of a street with 1950s cars and a theater with a sign that reads NEW

    Little Rock's Historical Downtown Movie Theaters

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  • black and white photograph of a frame building with a hearse parked outside

    Lost West Ninth Street

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  • black and white photograph of storefronts along E. Markham Street

    Mapping Downtown Little Rock

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  • black and white photograph of people gathered at the waterfront at the chicago world's fair

    Mary Douglas Martin’s Trip to the 1893 Columbian Exposition

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  • sepia photograph of two shotgun frame houses and two larger frame houses on a residential corner

    Vanished: Documenting a Forgotten Era of Little Rock’s Built Environment

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