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96 ammunition packing boxes
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repaired
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2 @@ 236 shotguns and rifles ( repaired mostly for troops in service )
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23 pistols ( repaired mostly for troops in service )
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received & issued
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752 packages of ordnance and ordnance stores received and mostly issued to troops in service
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repaired and painted
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4 gun carriages
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performed
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guard office and police duties
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perhaps the most illuminating points of the above summary of work and those for following months are that the standard ammunition made was buck & ball indicating that the 69 caliber smoothbores and shotguns remained the predominant caliber weapon in use and of this nearly one sixth or more of all small arms ammunition was still for flintlock weapons indicating that no less than a sixth of the confederate troops in this vicinity were still armed with obsolete flintlock weapons
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the summaries of work done at little rock arsenal csa continue at about the same pace and scale from august 1862 until august 1863 <unk> to the summary for august 1863 is the ominous notation during the last week in the month nearly all stores at the arsenal have been packed and sent to arkadelphia in obedience to orders from chief of ordnance district of arkansas this then marks the beginning of the evacuation of ordnance activities from little rock with the city being surrendered to the advancing federal troops of frederick steele 's arkansas expedition on september 11 1863
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in 1864 after little rock fell to the union army and the arsenal had been recaptured general fredrick steele marched 8 @@ 500 troops from the arsenal beginning the camden expedition
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the arsenal was briefly seized once more by joseph brooks loyalists during the brooks @@ baxter war of 1874
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= = decommissioning = =
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in 1873 the building was renamed little rock barracks and used as a barracks for married officers and their families the building was drastically altered the inside and outside prior to renovation a rear basement door provided the only entrance to the building while the tower served as a hoist to move munitions between floors by 1868 front and rear porches had been added to the building as well as interior walls and stairs some of which remain today including the central staircase in 1880 douglas macarthur was born on the northwest upper floor of this building while his father captain arthur macarthur was stationed there
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in the 1880s the federal government began closing many small arsenals around the country in favor of smaller ones built near railroads for quick deployment the arsenal commander received word from washington that the little rock site must be abandoned not later than october 1 1890 on april 12 1893 the tower building and the surrounding buildings were traded to the city of little rock for 1 @@ 000 acres ( 4 km ² ) in north little rock under the condition that the building and land be forever exclusively devoted to the uses and purposes of a public park for 1 @@ 000 acres ( 4 km ² ) in big rock mountain on the north side of the arkansas river present day north little rock that site later became fort logan h roots all of the original buildings surrounding the tower building were demolished
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= = æsthetic club = =
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in 1894 the little rock æsthetic club one of the oldest women 's societies west of the mississippi river moved into the tower building this was prompted due to increased membership and a need for larger more permanent quarters the previous year club members working with women 's organizations throughout the state raised money to furnish the arkansas building of the columbian exposition at the chicago world 's fair at the fair 's conclusion artifacts from the exhibit were displayed in the tower building with the æsthetic club invited to meet in the columbian room
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except for æsthetic club meetings the tower building remained largely unoccupied for almost fifty years and suffered significant deterioration the æsthetic club provided much @@ needed financial support during the period and even paid the electric bill during the great depression the æsthetic club is still headquartered in the tower building
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= = public use = =
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the building and the surrounding park were used for many public purposes throughout the early 20th century the tower building served as headquarters for the united confederate veterans reunion may 15 18 1911 over 106 @@ 000 civil war veterans the largest popular gathering in the history of the city up to that time attended and were housed in the building or camped in the park which had also become a popular camping area later the building served as an armory for the arkansas national guard in 1912 the second floor of the tower building became little rock 's first public library in 1917 little rock built a fire station in the park that building is now gone a band shell named for h h foster also was built in the park during this time but also no longer exists in 1936 works progress administration built the museum of fine arts now called the arkansas arts center just south of the tower building
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the arsenal was listed in the national register of historic places in 1970 due to its association with the camden expedition of 1864 the arsenal may be included in the camden expedition sites national historic landmark designated in 1994
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in 1942 the tower building was renovated due to the efforts of the æsthetic club little rock philanthropist frederick w allsop and the works progress administration it became the new home of the arkansas museum of natural history and antiquities which had been located in little rock city hall the museum remained in the tower building for approximately fifty @@ five years the area surrounding the tower building had been known as arsenal park when the first decommissioned and then later renamed city park due to the efforts of bernie babcock however the city finally named it macarthur park in 1942 in honor of douglas macarthur
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in 1997 the museum of science and natural history merged with the little rock children 's museum which had been located in union station to form the arkansas museum of discovery the new museum was relocated to a historic building in the little rock river market district the macarthur museum of arkansas military history opened on may 19 2001 in the tower building the new museum 's goal is to educate and inform visitors about the military history of arkansas preserve the tower building honor servicemen and servicewomen of the united states and commemorate the birthplace of douglas macarthur
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= cicely mary barker =
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cicely mary barker ( 28 june 1895 16 february 1973 ) was an english illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers barker 's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the croydon school of art her earliest professional work included greeting cards and juvenile magazine illustrations and her first book flower fairies of the spring was published in 1923 similar books were published in the following decades
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barker was a devout anglican and donated her artworks to christian fundraisers and missionary organizations she produced a few christian @@ themed books such as the children s book of hymns and in collaboration with her sister dorothy he leadeth me she designed a stained glass window for st edmund 's church pitlake and her painting of the christ child the darling of the world has come was purchased by queen mary
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barker was equally proficient in watercolour pen and ink oils and pastels kate greenaway and the pre @@ raphaelites were the principal influences on her work she claimed to paint instinctively and rejected artistic theories barker died in 1973 though she published flower fairy books with spring summer and autumn themes it wasn 't until 1985 that a winter collection was assembled from her remaining work and published posthumously
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= = biography = =
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= = = early life = = =
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barker was born the second daughter and youngest child of walter barker a partner in a seed supply company and an amateur artist and his wife mary eleanor ( oswald ) barker on 28 june 1895 at home at 66 waddon road in croydon surrey england barker was an epileptic as a child and cared for at home by her parents later her sister and elder by two years dorothy oswald barker continued the care
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the family of four was moderately well off and belonged to the lower end of the upper middle class a nanny a governess and a cook to prepare special meals for barker were hired she spent much time in bed at home amusing herself with painting books and a nursery library that included the works of kate greenaway and randolph caldecott two artists who exerted strong influences on her later art
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= = = art education and first professional work = = =
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barker took correspondence courses in art probably until about 1919 in 1908 at 13 years she entered an evening class at the croydon school of art and attended the school into the 1940s in time she received a teaching position
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in 1911 raphael tuck & sons bought four of barker 's little drawings for half a sovereign and published them as postcards in october 1911 she won second prize in the croydon art society 's poster competition and shortly afterward was elected the youngest member of the society the art critic for the croydon advertiser remarked her drawings show a remarkable freedom of spirit she has distinct promise
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following her father s death in june 1912 the seventeen @@ year @@ old barker submitted art and poetry to my magazine child s own leading strings and raphael tuck annuals in an effort to support both her mother and sister her sister dorothy taught kindergarten in two private schools before opening a kindergarten at home she brought in some money for the family 's support while supervising the household
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= = = flower fairies of the spring 1923 = = =
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fairies became a popular theme in art and literature in the early 20th century following the releases of the coming of the fairies by sir arthur conan doyle peter pan by jm barrie and the fairy @@ themed work of australian ida <unk> outhwaite queen mary made such themes even more popular by sending outhwaite postcards to friends during the 1920s in 1918 barker produced a postcard series depicting elves and fairies
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in 1923 barker sent her flower fairy paintings to various publishers blackie paid £ 25 for 24 paintings with accompanying verses but it wasn 't until publication of flower fairies of the summer in 1925 that barker received royalties for her work mary violet clayton calthrop wife of author dion clayton calthrop wrote in april 1925 about barker and flower fairies of the spring she has such exquisite taste besides draughtsmanship
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in 1924 the family moved into a four @@ level semi @@ detached victorian house at 23 the waldrons barker had a studio built in the garden and her sister conducted a kindergarten in a room at the back of the house the family lived frugally and attended both st edmund 's and st andrew 's in croydon low churches for the less privileged barker sometimes incorporated portraits of her fellow parishioners in her religious works she was described by canon ingram hill as one of the pillars of st andrew 's
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the children in the kindergarten modelled for the flower fairies until the kindergarten closed in 1940 in an interview in 1958 barker said my sister ran a kindergarten and i used to borrow her students for models for many years i had an atmosphere of children about me i never forgot it she also painted the children of relatives as well as gladys tidy the barkers ' young housekeeper who posed for the primrose fairy in 1923 the plants were painted from life and if a specimen was not readily at hand kew gardens staff would provide her the specimens needed barker designed and built the flower fairy costumes and based each on the flowers and leaves of the particular plant to be illustrated the costumes were kept in a trunk in her studio along with wings made of twigs and gauze each was broken down after an illustration was completed and the parts recycled for other costumes she often referred to dion clayton calthrop 's english costume
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in the late 1920s barker began to doubt she was doing enough for the church and considered focusing solely on sacred works family and friends recommended she continue secular and sacred works which she did
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barker continued to attend evening classes at the croydon art school between the 1920s and the 1940s eventually receiving a teaching position she took sketching trips to amberley and storrington in sussex and to cornwall and the southern coast with family and friends she visited and stayed with artist margaret tarrant in gomshall surrey and with family in <unk> near whitby north yorkshire
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in 1940 the barker 's live @@ in maid retired and dorothy barker closed her school at the back of the house in the waldrons she continued to supervise the household and to give both her mother and sister the care they needed dorothy and her sister collaborated upon only two books our darling 's first book and the christian @@ themed he leadeth me in 1954 dorothy barker died of a heart attack barker was unable to pursue her art to any significant extent following her sister 's death as all the care of her aged mother devolved upon her but she did manage to begin planning a stained glass window design in her sister 's memory for st edmund 's pitlake
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= = = later life and death = = =
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barker 's mother died in 1960 and in 1961 barker moved from 23 the waldrons to 6 <unk> avenue in croydon she restored a maisonette in storrington sussex england bequeathed by her friend edith major and named it st andrew 's after taking up residence her health began to deteriorate she was in and out of nursing and convalescent homes and tended by relatives and friends
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barker died at worthing hospital on 16 february 1973 aged 77 years two funeral services were held one in storrington church and one in barker 's maisonette her ashes were scattered in storrington churchyard in 1989 frederick warne a division of penguin books since 1983 acquired the flower fairies properties
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barker worked principally in watercolor with pen @@ and @@ ink but she was equally competent in black @@ and @@ white in oils and in pastels she carried a sketchbook with her for capturing interesting children she once indicated i have always tried to paint instinctively in a way that comes naturally to me without any real thought or attention to artistic theories
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kate greenaway was a childhood favorite and an influence on her art barker 's child subjects wear nostalgic clothing as greenaway 's children do though barker 's children are less melancholy and less flat in appearance due perhaps to advances in printing technology barker studied flowers with an analytical eye and was friend to children 's illustrator margaret tarrant along with greenaway illustrator alice b woodward also influenced barker 's work
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the pre @@ raphaelites were a strong lifelong influence on barker she once indicated i am to some extent influenced by them not in any technical sense but in the choice of subject matter and the feeling and atmosphere they could achieve she admitted a fondness for the early paintings of john everett millais and the wonderful things of edward burne @@ jones
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barker 's sketches drawings and paintings of children were given to friends or to the parents of the subjects donated to charitable institutions and church sponsored events or exhibited through various art organizations she illustrated magazine covers dust jackets and produced series of postcards for raphael tuck and other publishers such as picturesque children of the allies ( 1915 ) seaside holidays ( 1918 ) and shakespeare 's boy and girl characters ( 1917 1920 ) her own old rhymes for all times ( 1928 ) and the lord of the rushie river ( 1938 ) a tale about a girl who lives among swans on a riverbank were critically well received set about 1800 groundsel and necklaces ( 1943 ) tells of a girl named jenny who rescues her family from poverty through the agency of the fairies the story features an old scrooge @@ like man called mr <unk> and tonally suggests a dickensian social consciousness simon the swan intended as a sequel to rushie river was outlined in 1943 with groundsel but only developed in 1953 it was published posthumously in 1988 and is critically considered less successful than groundsel
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= = = christian @@ themed works = = =
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barker was a devout christian and produced religious @@ themed works throughout her life she published eight postcards and five guardian angel birthday cards for the society for promoting christian knowledge in 1916 and in 1923 respectively christmas cards were designed for the girls ' friendly society over a 20 @@ year period and the first three designs sold out a combined printing of 46 @@ 500 in 1923 an original design for the society called the darling of the world has come was purchased by queen mary for ₤ 5 @@ 5 @@ 0 in 1926 the croydon art society hung barker 's booklet cover design for the society for the propagation of the gospel in its november 1919 exhibition
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religious @@ themed books include the children 's book of hymns ( 1929 ) and he leadeth me ( 1933 ) the latter written in collaboration with her sister major religious works include the triptychs in oil the feeding of the five thousand ( 1929 ) for the chapel in llandaff house a home for destitute women at penarth wales and the parable of the great supper ( 1934 ) for st george 's chapel waddon the feeding has since disappeared and only a black @@ and @@ white photograph dated 1929 reproduces the work in 1941 she completed oil panels on the subject of the seven sacraments for the baptismal font at st andrew 's south croydon she designed baptismal rolls for the wall behind the font in 1948 and 1962 in 1946 she completed the 4 x 7 ft oil painting out of great tribulation for the memorial chapel of norbury methodist church following the death of her sister in 1954 barker began designs for a stained glass memorial window depicting christ preparing to wash the feet of his disciples her last religious @@ themed work it was installed in st edmund 's pitlake in 1962
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picturesque children of the allies j salmon 1916
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national mission society for the preservation of christian knowledge 1916
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shakespeare 's boy characters c w faulkner 1917
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shakespeare 's girl characters c w faulkner 1920
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seaside holiday j salmon 1918 1921
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elves and fairies s harvey 1918
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