The WPA Guide to Arkansas
Title | The WPA Guide to Arkansas PDF eBook |
Author | Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | Trinity University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2013-09-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1595342036 |
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, the WPA Guide to Arkansas splendidly exhibits the varied environment of the Natural State. From the densely forested land in the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Timberlands to the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta, the guide to the Land of Opportunity provides several photographs of, history on, and driving tours through the state’s grand geography.
Arkansas: A Guide to the State
Title | Arkansas: A Guide to the State PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | US History Publishers |
Pages | 558 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1603540040 |
The WPA Guide to 1930s Colorado
Title | The WPA Guide to 1930s Colorado PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Gone to the Grave
Title | Gone to the Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Abby Burnett |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2015-04-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1626743428 |
Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks—and, for that matter, people throughout the South—buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the deceased's community. This process included preparation of the body for burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the burial ceremony, as well as observing a wide variety of customs and superstitions. These traditions, especially in rural communities, remained the norm up through the end of World War II, after which a variety of factors, primarily the loss of manpower and the rise of the funeral industry, brought about the end of most customs. Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed though obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services.
The WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas
Title | The WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Arkansas |
ISBN | 9780700603411 |
**** The original edition, Nevada, a guide to the Silver State is cited in BCL3. This reprint (shot from the 1940 edition) is not beautiful typographically. New (4 p.) foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Red Book
Title | Red Book PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Eichholz |
Publisher | Ancestry Publishing |
Pages | 812 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781593311667 |
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
The Indigo Book
Title | The Indigo Book PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Jon Sprigman |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2017-07-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1892628023 |
This public domain book is an open and compatible implementation of the Uniform System of Citation.