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Multistory building with arched windows and tower with tree in the foreground

1874 Courthouse

White men with hats and tools and push cart on steel truss bridge

Multistory hotel and storefronts on street with signs street lamps and parked cars

Group of white men in suits smoking in rocking chairs and boy on bench on covered hotel porch

Barlow Hotel Porch

Two story red brick building with covered porch and street on post card

Barlow Hotel Postcard

Group of older white men and women with glasses in formal clothing eating at long tables in dining hall

Barlow Hotel Banquet

Group of men standing beside loaded train on tracks with horses nearby

Wood frame house with metal roof screened porch crawl space well coop and large tree

James Black's Home

Buildings in state of near collapse with fallen trees in foreground

Blevins Tornado, 1921

Munitions lab equipment on two counter tops

Testing Equipment

White man with brown hair and sideburns in black with white collar

Large knife leaning on wooden wagon wheel in grass

Multistory house with covered porch inside white picket fence

Clinton Birthplace

Group of older white men in suits seated around a long table

CNB Board of Directors

Brick building with parking lot and mail box

Columbus Post Office

Two-story wooden building with brick chimney

Confederate State Capitol

Large group of people surrounding small body of water

"Negro Was Lynched" newspaper clipping

"Jim" Dillard Lynching Article

"Negro Swung up by Determined Mob" newspaper clipping

"Tom" Dillard Lynching Article

Railroad tracks running between two rows of shacks and African Americans standing outside

Dolph's Station

Trees and grass on a hillside

Dooley's Ferry Fortifications

Gravestones under tree and people standing in field with trees and power lines in the background

Dooley's Ferry Fortifications

Old white man with long beard reading a book

White man in suit and tie posing on a porch with a large watermelon

Orval Faubus with Hope Melon

Rows and rows of mobile homes in fields as seen from above

"Vincent Walker Foster Junior" gravestone with dates January fifteenth Nineteen forty-five and July twentieth Nineteen ninety-three

Vince Foster Grave

People standing on deck of steamboat

Frank R. Hill Steamboat

Older white man with coffee cup and tray standing next to white man in suit with glasses and tray

George Frazier and Haskell Jones

White man with glasses smiling in suit and tie

Fulton road sign on two-lane highway

Men loading two cars onto river ferry

Black car parked on flooded street with two people standing in the waters in the distance

Fulton 1927 Flood

Bridge across river and house in foreground

Train crossing bridge with steamboat in the background

River almost overflowing levee with people standing among houses

Two men examining levee next to overflowing river

Series of large metal frames with pipes and supporting wires connecting them

Fulton Pipeline

White man with long dark beard in suit and tie

Old white man in glasses posing at his desk with typewriter and rotary telephone

White man in suit jacket sitting with giant watermelon on "World's largest watermelon from Hope Arkansas certified weight 195 pounds" display

Giant Watermelon

Multistory wooden house with cupola

Gibson Residence

Multistory wooden building with smokestacks

Goodlet Cotton Gin

Weathered barn-like building with smokestacks in field

Piece of paper signed to James Black from Hempstead County clerk

Grand Jury Receipt

light brown building with gas pumps in front and small cottages to the side

Green's Cottages and Cafe

White man in suit and tie

James H. Gunter

Two-story wood frame building with dark shutters and "Confederate State Capitol" on the front with rectangular stone monument and barbed wire fence

Hempstead County Courthouse

Multistory art deco brick building with carved stone bordered entrance steps landscaping and light pole

Hempstead County Courthouse

Multistory building with trees and flag pole in front yard

Hempstead County Courthouse

Close-up of multistory building with framed doorway and steps

Hempstead County Courthouse Entrance

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