The Pulaski County Historical Review

VOLUME 58        SPRING 2010        NUMBER 1

 

Contents

 

Adolphine Fletcher Terry:

Congressional Campaigning and the Americanism Committee, 1933-1935

by Stephanie Bayless

 

A Family at the Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery:

The Logan H. Roots Family Plot

by Richard B. Clark

 

The Jewish Experience in Arkansas: The Concordia Association

by Carolyn Gray LeMaster, adapted by Shirley Schuette

 

Pulaski County in the National Register of Historic Places

Fort Logan H. Roots Military Post Historic District

by Rachel Silva

 

News & Notes

 

Our Back Pages

A Murderer Escaped

 

Images of Pulaski County’s History

Images of Pulaski County’s History

 

Interior of Breier’s Restaurant. Founded in 1901 by Samuel Breier, a native of Austria-Hungary, and wife Bertha, a native of Russia. Breier’s atmosphere and food quality made the restaurant Little Rock’s finest. Located on Markham Street near the Marion Hotel, Breier’s moved in 1964 and closed in 1970. Photograph is from the Carolyn LeMaster Arkansas Jewish History Collection at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System.

 

 

The Ottenheimer float in the Cotton Festival Celebration held in Little Rock, May 9-11, 1935. The float depicts the first permanent cotton factory in the United States which was established in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1787. The Ottenheimer Brothers manufactured ladies clothing in Little Rock. Postcard is from the Carolyn LeMaster Arkansas Jewish History Collection at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System.