Sources for Exhibit and Artifacts
Artifacts:
G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co, and Little Rock & Fort Smith R.R. Co. Maps showing the connections of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad and its land grant. New York, 1873. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/98688694/.
Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo. Railroad Nation: The Art of Selling America, 1825–1925. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/134005.
“Remembering the Benton County Nursery.” Rogers Historical Museum. Accessed October 26, 2026. https://www.rogershistoricalmuseum.org/benton-county-nursery.html.
“Arkansas Agricultural Exhibit, World’s Fair, St. Louis, MO..” Central Arkansas Library System, 1904. https://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15728coll1/id/31938/rec/33.
Bland, Rose. Arkansas State Supplement. New York, Macmillan Co, 1912. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/48038524/.
Dickson, Berry. “It’s Apple Blossom Time.” University of Arkansas Digital Collections. Accessed October 26, 2026. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/apples/id/498/rec/71.
Rom, Roy C. “Apple Dolls.” University of Arkansas Digital Collections. Accessed October 26, 2026. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/apples/id/237/rec/6.
“O.L. Gregory Pure Apple Cider Vinegar Barrell.” Rogers Historical Museum. Accessed October 26, 2026. https://www.rogershistoricalmuseum.org/collections.html
“Tontitown Grape Festival.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, early 20th century. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/tontitown-grape-festival-8248/.
“Cotter Pamphlet.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, circa 1950s. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/sundown-downtown-flyer-cotter-7986/.
“Spraying for Codling Moth.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, July 30, 1945. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/spraying-codling-moth-7969/.
Traveler7. “Centennial Caboose in Rogers Arkansas.” Commons Wikimedia, June 14, 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Centennial_Caboose_in_Rogers_Arkansas.JPG.
Sources for Exhibit Panel Draft:
Presley, Leister. History of Washington County from History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Goodspeed Brothers, Nashville, TN, 1889 (183).
Arkansas. World's Fair Directory. Arkansas in -1893. Little Rock, Ark., Arkansas democrat company, 1893. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/07025096/.
“Oliver Apple.” Walden Heights Nursery & Orchard, May 15, 2026. https://waldenheightsnursery.com/product/oliver-apple/.
Passmore, Deborah Griscom. “Malus Domestica: Oliver Red Apple.” National Agricultural Library: USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, 1906.
Rom, Roy C. “Braithwaite House.” University of Arkansas Digital Collection. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/apples/id/234/rec/4.
“Braithwaite House - NPGallery.” National Park Service, December 14, 1987. https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/0555734d-9090-4e91-aa6b-649beea3ba93.
Litho. Co, Rochester. “Arkansas Black.” University of Arkansas Digital Collections. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/apples/id/245/rec/15.
Sources for Exhibit and Artifacts
Exhibit Sources
Steadman, Charles Royal. “Malus Domestica: Arkansas Black.” National Agricultural Library : U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1875. https://hdl.handle.net/10113/POM00000981.
Hicks, Sa’Quan. “The Wealth of Nations: How Slavery Built the American Economy .” academia, 2025. https://www.academia.edu/126853438/The_Wealth_of_Nations_How_Slavery_Built_the_American_Economy.
National Archives and Records Administration. (n.d.). Pacific Railway Act (1862). National Archives and Records Administration. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/pacific-railway-act
Kogan, Lee and Wertkin, Gerard C. Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. New York: Routledge, 2004. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780415929868
“1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.” Saint Louis Art Museum, n.d. https://www.slam.org/teachers-students/educator-resources/art-along-the-rivers/art-on-display/1904-st-louis-worlds-fair/.
Rom, Roy Curt. “Apple Industry.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, August 27, 2025. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/apple-industry-2098/.
“Apples! Millions of Dollars in Them for the Northwest Arkansas Grower”, The Green Forest Tribune, Nov. 9 1901. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89051294/1901-11-09/ed-1/.
“The Codling Moth in The Ozarks in 1918”, The Springdale News, January 3, 1919. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83007654/1919-01-03/ed-1/.
Rothrock, Thomas. “The Arkansas State Horticultural Society.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 34, no. 3 (1975): 261. https://doi.org/10.2307/40027660.
Roberson, P W. “Charles Warrington ‘C.W.’ Rogers (1834-1887) .” Find A Grave, March 31, 2016. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160302983/charles_warrington-rogers.
Moneyhon, Carl. Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929. 1 ed., Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997 (63). https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book30845.
Lancaster, Guy. , "They are Not Wanted": The Extirpation of African Americans from Baxter County, Arkansas," The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (2010): 28-43. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/they-are-not-wanted-extirpation-african-americans/docview/288151902/se-2.
“Here and There.” The Springdale News, August 17, 1917. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83007654/1917-08-17/ed-1/?sp=3&st=text&r=-0.021,-0.038,0.372,0.572,0
Moneyhon, Carl. Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929. 1 ed., Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997 (63). https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book30845.