A blog about the history of the Ozarks and the people who have lived in the region from the earliest recorded history to today.
![Toy Horses](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/toy-horses.jpg)
Toy Horses
During the 1950s and 1960s, small plastic figurines like these horses were popular, inexpensive toys. Four major manufacturers of these plastic playsets were . . .
![Gilbert Family](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/96-2-128-featured.jpg)
Gilbert Family
General Clayton Gilbert with his grandsons in Bentonville, circa 1918. . . .
![Parthenon](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/83-115-16-featured.jpg)
Parthenon
The group stands next to a school bus for the Parthenon Consolidate School District. Elmer Casey, who taught at Parthenon . . .
![Swanky Swigs](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/swigs-featured.jpg)
Swanky Swigs
While “Swanky Swigs” may be used today as a catch-all name for decorated tumblers made during the 1930s into the 1970s, the term was first coined by Kraft Foods. . . .
![Telling Ed’s Story](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/stilley-featured.jpg)
Telling Ed’s Story
There is a saying, “all good things must come to an end.” Soon, our “Instruments of Faith” exhibit on the life and work of folk instrument maker Ed Stilley will close. . . .
![Wadsworth Building](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019-38-1-featured.jpg)
Wadsworth Building
Corner of Spring and Mountain streets, Eureka Springs, circa 1900. The occasion is unknown. At the time of the photo, the building was occupied by . . .
![Sarah Morton](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/P-4602-featured.jpg)
Sarah Morton
According to the 1910 census, Fayetteville resident Sarah Morton was born in 1855 in Tennessee. Her occupation in 1910 is listed as . . .
![Bear Brand Teddy Bear](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2003-35-1-featured.jpg)
Bear Brand Teddy Bear
This teddy bear was a marketing item for Bear Brand Hosiery Company. Founded in Chicago in 1893 as Paramount Knitting Company . . .
![Vance Randolph Slept Here](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/randolph-southern-hotel-featured.jpg)
Vance Randolph Slept Here
In 1968 the Shiloh Museum was given a guest register from Springdale’s Southern Hotel. Joe Robinson, a Springdale businessman . . .
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World War I Poster
This 1918 World War I poster from France was discovered in a trunk in an old hotel in Eureka Springs (Carroll County). The trunk, which contained posters, army manuals, maps, and letters, had belonged to . . .