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George W. Ware, Sr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 871

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of fourteen (out of a series of eighteen) albums/scrapbooks numbered 4 through 17 and 17 A. The first three volumes, devoted primarily to family and personal photos covering four generations of the Ware and Clark families, and volume 12, are not part of this collection. Albums 4 through 11 contain photographs from Ware's army life, international assignments, and travels during 1944 to 1971. Scrapbooks 13 to 17 and 17 A contain promotional materials, publicity, and articles written on porcelain; announcements and reviews of Ware's horticultural books and the New Guide to Happy Retirement; invitations, brochures, theater programs and play bills, exhibitions and other programs, tour guides and excursions in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia during 1944 to 1971; and letters, greeting cards, thank-you notes, business cards, culinary recipes, certificates, newsletters, brochures, reports, announcements, invitations, programs, newspaper clippings, and other material pertaining to Ware's activities in Arlington, Virginia.

The collection further contains three scrapbooks with mounted clippings, letters, postal cards, bulletins, reports, programs, and other material relating mostly to Ware's publicity; a scrapbook of articles, reports, and printed material centered around the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station, Hope, Arkansas; scrapbooks pertaining to Ware's professional activities in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia; a photo album presented to Ware by Spanish farmers during his official assignment in Spain in 1965; three scrapbooks with correspondence, appraisals, and other miscellaneous material pertaining to Ware's porcelain collecting activities and donations; a draft of his unpublished book Appraisal Guide and Glossary (1982); a small album with pictures of Adolph Hitler's Headquarters before and after WWII; and two bound compilations of various printed material: Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Institutions and Activities in the U.S. Zone of Germany, 1945-1948 and Brazilian Agricultural Institutions and Point IV Training Procedures, 1953-1956.

The collection also contains over two thousand slides pertaining primarily to Ware's travels connected with his professional career and other official and private affairs.

Dates

  • ca 1944-1983

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

George W. Ware, Sr., was born in Belen, Mississippi on December 22, 1902. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1924 with a degree in agriculture and received a master's degree in horticulture and rural economics from Cornell University in 1935. He served as assistant county agent in Jefferson County, Arkansas, and later as county agent for Jackson County, Arkansas. From 1927 to 1943 he was superintendent of the then new Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station (later renamed the Southwest Arkansas Branch Experiment Station), Hope, Arkansas. He left in 1943 to become agricultural and educational advisor in the American Zone of Germany. After World War II, Ware served as food and agriculture officer for the U.S. Army and then spent the next fifteen years working for the federal government in the State, Agriculture, and Defense Departments as agricultural educator. He was stationed in Europe, South America, and Asia. After returning to the United States in 1959, Ware served as director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas, until 1961, when he joined the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., and continued serving on special overseas missions. After his retirement in 1965, Ware remained in Arlington, Virginia, where he was active in community affairs. He was a member of various community groups such as the Arlington National Association of Retired Persons. He also acted as a retirement consultant for a New York counseling firm and was a member of the American Society of Appraisers in art and personal property.

Ware became interested in porcelain as a hobby while he was serving as director of the University of Arkansas Horticulture Experiment Station and over the years became an ardent collector and internationally known authority on antique porcelain and ceramics. Ware's collections have been exhibited in Memphis, Tennessee, Little Rock, Arkansas, Nashville, and New York galleries. Dorothy and George Ware made substantial gifts to the Smithsonian, Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Cornell University, University of Arkansas, and other museums.

Ware was a versatile writer covering a wide range of topics. He wrote several books and numerous publications on foreign agricultural institutions and practices. These monographs are: Southern Vegetable Crops (1937), German and Austrian Porcelain (1952), Raising Vegetables (1959), and Producing Vegetable Crops (1968 and 1977). Ware also published The New Guide to Happy Retirement in 1968, and The Latest Guide to Happy Retirement in 1984. George W. Ware, Sr., died in 1984.

Extent

7 Linear Feet (16 boxes)

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged by type.

Acquisition Information

The George W. Ware, Sr., Papers were donated to the Special Collections Department by George W. Ware, Jr., Tucson, Arizona, on June 29, 1988.

Processing Information

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in August 1999.

Title
George W. Ware, Sr., Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Vera Ekechukwu
Date
August 1999
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444