M88-03 – GALE STEWART COLLECTION

Gale Booth Stewart is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hugh Stewart of Des Arc, Arkansas.  She is a graduate of Hendrix College at Conway, Arkansas as well as a graduate of the Indiana University School of Law.  Ms. Stewart has a private law practice in Little Rock, Arkansas.  She was active in the movement to prevent the channelization of the Cache River.  She is married to Walter H. Nunn and they own the Rose Publishing Company in Little Rock.

Notes: For additional information on the Cache River / Bayou DeView Channelization Project, refer to the Arkansas Ecology Center Records (M87-3).  See also Walter Nunn Papers (M88-12) and the Rose Publishing Company Records (M87-2)

Tracings: Arnold, Richard S.; Bowers, Drew; Fisher, George; Lavender, G. William; Stewart, Gale Booth (formerly Eddins); Ecology; Waterways – Bayou DeView; Waterways – Black Swamp; Waterways – Cache River

Photograph Tracings: Arnold, Richard S.; Bayou Deview; Bond, Julian; Bowers, Drew; Eddins, William Barcley III; Stewart, Gale Booth; Trimble, Mike

 

 

Box 1

File 1 – Legal correspondence (Mar. 1977)

File 2 – Ecology Issues – Cache River / Bayou DeView (undated & 1973)

File 3 – Ecology photographs and Motion Picture (Cache River / Black Swamp), 24 items

Env 1 – Mike Trimble (1972)

Env 2 – Group of young women and one young man, possibly Bill Eddins, in Pine Bluff  (1968)

Env 3 – Julian Bond (c. 1970)

Env 4 – Group photo – l to r – unknown, Buddy Portis., Bob Douglas, Gale Stewart?, Jonathon Portis?, Bob Lancaster, Mike Trimble (undated)

Env 5 – Unidentified person photographed what appears to be rice harvesting in a distance (undated)

Env 6 – Rice harvest on Letchworth farm near Des Arc, Arkansas (1972)

Env 7 – Huge ditch being dug in upper eastern Arkansas, not on the Cache River.  Photo by Dr. Charles Whorton of University of Georgia or Georgia State.

Env 8 – Aerial photo of Cache River below Highway 70 Bridge (Nov. 11, 1971)

Env 9 – Cypress Tree Stump

Env 10- Cypress Trees along riverbank

Env 11- Gale Stewart at base of large Cypress Tree (tight shot), 2 prints

Env 12- Gale Stewart at base of large Cypress Tree (long shot)

Env 13- Gale Stewart in front of huge Cypress Tree

Env 14- Richard S. Arnold and George Purvis (with camera) at a location south of bridge on highway 17 between Cotton Plan and Brinkley

Env 15- Richard S. Arnold at base of large Cypress Tree (pose #1)

Env 16- Richard S. Arnold at base of large Cypress Tree (pose #2)

Env 17- Richard S. Arnold inside hollow trunk of large Cypress Tree

Env 18- Richard S. Arnold standing on log in front of large Cypress Tree, color picture (pose #1)

Env 19- Richard S. Arnold standing on log in front of large Cypress Tree, color picture (pose #2)

Env 19a – Richard S. Arnold standing on log in front of large Cypress Tree, color picture (pose #3) – copy

Env 20- Two men fishing from boat on Bayou DeView south of Cotton Plant (1970)

Env 21- Two men (one with fish) fishing from boat on Bayou DeView south of Cotton Plant. One of the men is identified as Charles Whorton, Ph.D. (1970)

Env 22- Six men fishing from several boats, probably on Bayou DeView

Env 23- Four men in two boats with stringer of about a dozen fish

File 4- Personal correspondence and papers (May 1972 – Nov. 1986)

File 5- Family and personal photographs, 32 items

Env 1 – Card game during Christmas Day (1968)

Env 2 – Card game during Christmas Day (1968)

Env 3 – Stewart-Eddins wedding luncheon (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 4 – Stewart-Eddins wedding luncheon (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 5 – Stewart-Eddins wedding luncheon (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 6 – Stewart-Eddins wedding luncheon (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 7 – Stewart-Eddins wedding luncheon (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 8 – Stewart-Eddins wedding reception (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 9 – William Barkley Eddins III (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 10- Gale Stewart outside church following wedding (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 11- Gale Stewart and group outside church following wedding (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 12- L to R – Jane Eddins, Dell Eddins, and Barkley Eddins

Env 13- Gilbert Martin

Env 14- Gale Stewart and Barkley Eddins III wedding reception (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 15- Gale Stewart

Env 16- Gale Stewart in bridal gown (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 17- Gale Stewart, head & shoulder shot (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 18- Cutting the wedding cake (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 19- L to R – Susan Grady Schubert and Dell Eddins (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 20- Barkley Eddins III (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 21- Gale Stewart at wedding reception (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 22- Emma Jean Stuart (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 23- Jane Stuart Morton (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 24- Gale Stewart in bridal gown (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 25- Bill Eddins, Gale Stewart, and Joe B. McGehee at the time with the Log Cabin Democrat (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 26- L to R – Williams Eddins III, Gale Stewart, and Joe B. McGehee at wedding (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 27- Jane Ann Morton eating a piece of wedding cake (pose #1)

Env 28- Jane Ann Morton eating wedding cake, pose #2 (Dec. 26, 1968)

Env 29- Jane Ann Morton eating a piece of wedding cake, pose #3

Env 30- Jane Ann Morton eating a piece of wedding cake, pose #4

Env 31- Emma Jean Stewart and Jane Ann Morton

Env 32- L to R – Buzz Arnold, Richard Arnold, and unidentified British Friends  (c. 1973)

End of Box 1

 

In the authority file:

Reel of Cache River / Black Swamp

 

End of Collection