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"Arkansas City River Port" historical marker sign on street corner with two-story building behind it

African-American woman with baskets filled with cotton

Arkansas City Cotton Picker

Ferry boat at dock on river

Arkansas City Ferry

Aerial view of flooded town

Arkansas City Flood

Small brick building with patterned trim wooden porch and stairwell with machinery in yard

Arkansas City Museum

Three-story brick building on street corner with wraparound porch

Arkansas City Street Scene

Diesel train and cars in rail yard

Arkansas Midland Railroad

View looking over rippling river with multistory buildings in the distance and single-story house with boat in the foreground

Storefront and cafe building with couches on dirt road

River with green vegetation and trees

Choctaw Island WMA

Floating dock with foot bridge on lake

Brick building with flat roof with sidewalk and front yard

Long

Delta Country Club

"Desha County Museum established 1979" sign in flower bed with log cabin and tree behind it

Desha County Museum

Single-story brick building with bushes

Desha County Court Building

Multistory white granite building with tall corner clock tower

Desha County Courthouse

Three-story white brick building with arched entrance and clock tower

Desha County Courthouse

Flooded neighborhood with highway bridge over river in the background

Desha County Flooding

"Desha County" map with borders roads cities rivers

Desha County Map

Two wooden buildings with smokestacks

Small two-story white house with covered porch and trees

Dickinson-Moore House

Train on tracks leading to bridge with dredge boats on either side of bridge

Row of storefront buildings with covered sidewalk on town street

Dumas Street Scene

Crowded street with brick store fronts and power lines

Dumas Street Scene

Crowd of people standing outside "Dante's" department store, with railroad tracks in foreground

Dumas Street Scene

Pink and red show time flyer for "Malco Theater McGehee Arkansas"

A Face in the Crowd Ad

"Negro hanged by mob at M'Ghee" newspaper clipping

Fleming Lynching Article

Service station "Freeman's Esso Service center"

Two-story brown house with covered porch

Hubert and Ionia Furr House

Bare tree in vacant field with buildings in the distance

Two story brick building with covered entrance

Greystone Hotel

White man in suit and tie with buildings behind him

Joseph Hunter, portrait by Henry Sugimoto

"Murder and Lynching in Desha" newspaper clipping

Henry Jackson Lynching Article

White man shaking young Asian man's hand with another white man and other Asian young men standing with them

Japanese American Enlistees at Rohwer

Large group of people seated before a stage

Japanese American Internment Museum Anniversary

Single-story brick depot building with covered entrance and signs on parking lot

Japanese American Internment Museum

"Against their will the Japanese American Experience in World War Two Arkansas" display with photographs in museum

Japanese American Internment Museum Display

"Died Game" newspaper clipping

Anthony Johnson Execution Article

White wooden house with two front doors and porch swing

John H. Johnson House

Flooded brown river between two bridges; city in background

Junction Bridge Flooding

Group of men and stacks of sandbags on flooded shore with farm under water nearby

Knowlton Landing

Weathered "Laconia Circle Mississippi Township" historical marker sign

Laconia Circle Levee Monument

Fish with parasite and close-up of parasite below it

Lernaea cyprinacea

"Abe Livingston who escaped from the County Jail at Arkansas City" newspaper clipping

Abe Livingston Lynching Article

"Lynching sequel of two killings" newspaper clipping

Malpass Lynching Article

"McArthur" road sign next to two-lane highway

Damaged street surrounded by two-story town buildings with people on sidewalk

McGehee after 1927 Flood

Cypress trees in flooded swamp

Wiley A. McGehee Park

Group of men standing before single story building next to railroad tracks

Aerial view of flooded town with trees in the distance

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