Old State House Museum Collections Blog

The video above is an experimental segment that I've dubbed, "Collections in :60 Seconds."  The topic of this particular segment is a clock currently on exhibit at the Old State House Museum.  (Photographs are from the Old State House Museum Collection, the Eighth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Mines, Manufacturers and Agriculture, and NewWoodWorker.com.)  

The large standing clock was one of the decorations in the Arkansas Building at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The inlaid design features 50,000 pieces of 27 varieties of Arkansas hardwoods applied to a base of southern pine.  The clock was made by Charles Becker of Little Rock.  Becker, a graduate of Yale University, was born in Illinois, but was listed in the Little Rock census of 1890 as a painter and cabinet maker.  Click here for more information on Charles Becker.

Back in 2002, the Old State House Museum displayed a temporary exhibit on Arkansas's role in the 1904 fair entitled "Meet Me in St. Louis."  To see the other 109 objects the museum has in it's collection concerning the fair, click here to navigate to our eMuseum page.