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About
the Collections
Selected
collections include:
- Guy
Howard collection. Native American prehistoric and
historic artifacts, including tools, ceramics, beads, and effigies.
- Lockwood
and Annabel Searcy collection. Items from
a prominent Springdale business family, late 1800s-1970s,
including domestic
objects, textiles, family records, and tools.
- Mooney-Barker
drugstore collection. Papers and retail items from
an early 1900s drugstore in the Madison County town of Pettigrew.
- Morris
family collection. World War I items, including uniforms,
gear, letters, photographs, and souvenirs.
- Jeanne
Hoffer-Tucker collection. Paintings by folk artist Essie
Ward.
- Ada
Lee Shook collection. Furniture, housewares, textiles,
books, papers, and photos from the pioneering Blackburn-Slaughter-Smith
families of Northwest Arkansas.
- Lucy
Cartmell Leming collection. Household objects and
handmade tools from the Cartmell family of Brentwood (Washington
County).
- Robert
G. Winn collection. Housewares, decorative arts, textiles,
tools, furniture, books, business and family records, and photographs
from the pioneering Winn family of the Winslow area of Washington
County.
- McGarrah-Reed
collection. Original log walls of a ca. 1830 rural
Washington County house with original furnishings.
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