Photograph, Ewilda Robinson

 
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Photograph, Ewilda Robinson
Photograph, Ewilda Robinson
Photograph, Ewilda Robinson
Photograph, Ewilda Robinson

Photograph, Ewilda Robinson

Object number2016.006.08
Date1937
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions9 × 7 in. (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of Ewilda Robinson, wife of Arkansas Senator Joe T. Robinson. The photograph was taken shortly after the Senator's death on July 14, 1937. Ewilda is wearing a fur wrap with a broach, a pearl necklace, earrings, and wire-rimmed glasses.

    Ewilda "Billie" Gertrude Miller Robinson was the wife of Arkansas Governor, Joseph “Joe” T. Robinson, who had one of the most storied Arkansas political careers of the twentieth century. Originally from Lonoke, “Billie” was not first lady for long, since Joe Robinson won a US Senate seat less than two weeks after his inauguration as governor. She spent the next two and a half decades as a world traveler, associating with figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe T. Robinson's close friend. After her husband died in 1937, Billie served as postmistress for Little Rock for fifteen years.

    It is an ACME NewsPictures, Inc. photograph.
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    Not on view
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