Artifact of the Week — June 8, 2017

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Program for the Arkansas Centennial Celebration for President’s Day, June 10, 1936

Program for the Arkansas Centennial Celebration for President’s Day, June 10, 1936

This program for the Arkansas Centennial Celebration for President’s Day, June 10, 1936 is part of the Rhodes Collection at Old Independence Regional Museum.  President F.D. Roosevelt’s photo is on the cover.  The donor attended the event with her father D.D. Adams Jr. who took part in the program with was held in Little Rock.  She remembers her father lifting her to sit on his shoulders so that she could see President Roosevelt when he spoke at the State Fairgrounds.

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