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"Official Ballot Democratic Primary Election" document with directions and list of candidates

1948 Primary Ballot

Long tan single story brick building

39th Brigade Support Battalion

Log cabin with separate entrances and brick chimney

American Legion Des Arc

Single story log cabin with rock fireplace/chimney

American Legion Hut

Large stone cemetery monument "Auersperg"

Auersperg Memorial

"Mob kills Negro riot threatened" newspaper clipping

Bailey Lynching Article

Multistory white wooden house with large front porch

Multistory yellow wooden house with large front porch surrounded by trees

Bedford Brown Bethell House

Buttons

White workers sitting in two rows at machines in factory

View of river as seen from concrete bridge with three former bridge supports in the distance

Names listed on concrete plaque

Cemetery Founders

Gravestones and trees at a cemetery

Cemetery Grounds

Gravestones at a cemetery including a tall one with a cross on top

Cemetery Grounds

Newspaper front page "Constitutional Union"

Constitutional Union

Gated entrance to a cemetery with wrought-iron arch saying "Czech National Cemetery"

Czech National Cemetery

"Des Arc Bridge Opens to Public" advertisement

Des Arc Bridge Announcement

arched bridge over river lined with trees

Newspaper front page "Des Arc Citizen"

Des Arc Citizen

Steam train on flooded tracks with smoke billowing from its smoke stack

Single story red brick building

Des Arc High School

Multistory red brick building with white cupola with a cross on top and four columns in the front

Des Arc Library

River flowing between tree-covered banks with grassy park area in foreground

Single story tan brick building with blue roof at intersection

Des Arc Post Office

Single story red brick building

Des Arc Schools

Small town street with storefront buildings on both sides of the road

Des Arc Street Scene

Intersection with curve in road and various buildings

Des Arc Street Scene

Men driving horse drawn wagons on town street

Des Arc Street Scene

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Des Arc Water Tower

steamboat pushing barge on river

DeValls Bluff Steamboat

White men in hats with horse outside wooden building

Street with brick storefronts on both sides

Single-story church with arched entrance in state of dilapidation

St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church

"DeValls Bluff in the Civil War" historical marker sign

DeValls Bluff Commemorative Sign

Single story building next to railroad tracks

DeValls Bluff Depot

Horse drawn carriage and wagon on dirt street outside storefront buildings with covered entrances

DeValls Bluff Street Scene

Dirt road through town with storefronts on both sides with people walking under their awnings

DeValls Bluff Street Scene

House next to water tower

DeValls Bluff Water Tower

"Railroad Prairie-Downs Tract" four-tiered wooden sign in field

Downs Prairie Natural Area

"Murder in the First Degree" newspaper clipping

"General" Dupree Conviction Article

"A Negro Hanged" newspaper clipping

"General" Dupree Execution Article

Road

Entering Childers Corner

Road with trees on both sides and a sign saying "Des Arc"

Entering Des Arc

Road with trees on both sides and a sign saying "Jasmine"

Entering Jasmine

Multistory white wooden house with chipped paint and boards on windows and tall trees around it and informational sign

Frith-Plunkett House

white water tower at the fork in the road printed with "Grand Prairie Regional Water"

Grand Prairie Water Tower

Two-story brick store building with awning and single-story storefront on street with water tower in the background

Gazebo trees and flag pole in town park with row of storefront buildings across the street

Group of white men working with tools and horses in rice field

Hazen Rice Crop

Wooden houses

Hazen City Park

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