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Date Original
1916
Description
This photograph depicts the stave yards of the H.D. Williams Cooperage and the Peken Cooperage Companies. The two rail cars in the middle right belong to the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad, and were used to transport staves for the manufacturing of whiskey barrels. In the background is a residential section of Leslie, Searcy County, Arkansas.
Physical Description
Photograph, 10" x 8"
Subjects
Coopers; Barrels
Geographical Area
Leslie, Searcy County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
G3218.44a
Resource Type
Image
Collection
General photo file
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Photograph, H.D. Williams and Peken Cooperage Company, General photo file, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
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Comments
As a graduate student, I authored a National Register of Historic Places nomination for a house in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, constructed by H.D. (Horace Dickinson) Williams, owner of the H.D. Williams Cooperage Company. Williams described his company as the largest cooperage factory in the world (a slogan that he used in Poplar Bluff and Leslie.) There are several photographs of the company and its workers in the Arkansas State Archives collections, but this is the only one to have an image of both the company and Leslie in it. -Darren Bell