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White men and white women in costume riding in convertible in front of a diner-type building

Dogpatch Characters

Children playing in theme park with western style buildings and wooden fences

Dogpatch USA Performers

Multistory brick and stone church with arched stained glass windows and sign saying "Emoba's Haunted Cathedral"

Ernie's Museum of Black Arkansas

"ESSE" building with sidewalk and tree on street

Esse Purse Museum

Handbags and accessories in glass cases in museum gallery

Esse Purse Museum Display

Headless mannequins with bags in display cases on top of them with clock in hanging case in museum

Esse Purse Museum Display

Group of white men with hats outside small building and tree

First Free Bathhouse

Concrete ruins near edge of pond with pavilion and trees in background during winter

Forester Reunion Park

Wooden pavilion in the trees with picnic tables and a bulletin board with signs and maps

Forester Reunion Park

Multistory brick building with scaffolding under construction

Free Bathhouse Construction

Crowd of men and women spectators in lawn chairs sitting outside multistory building

Front Porch Stage Audience

musicians performing on storefront stage

Front Porch Stage

Stone bridge with railing and round opening over creek

Garvan Woodland Gardens Bridge

Natural rock waterfall in wooded area

Garvan Woodland Gardens Waterfall

Trees covered in blue and white lights at night

Garvan Woodland Gardens

Building with arched windows and columns with cars in parking lot

Government Free Bathhouse

Mixed crowd watching outdoor stage play

Great Passion Play

Actors dressed in robes and sandals on stage set

Great Passion Play

Road sign with map with "Treasures of the Great River Road" at the top

Great River Road Sign

Road signs next to multilane street with single-story cabin building with green roof and flagpoles in the background

Great River Road Welcome Center

Scenic byway through multiple counties on map and explanation with blue text on white background with another map showing region

Great River Road Map

Greyhounds running on track past an electronic scoreboard

Greyhound Racing

Wooden buildings positioned alongside steam with trees in the background

Hale Bath House

White man and old white woman on donkeys with white woman on foot dressed in Native American garb in front of log cabin with "Arkansaw Traveler" sign above the door

Two-story square building with multi-pane windows and sign on top saying "Happy Hollow Motel Apartments Kitchenettes"

Happy Hollow Motel

White people in suits

Happy Hollow Postcard

Three men in coats and hats on a wooded hillside pointing guns at a chained bear

Happy Hollow Staged Bear Hunt

White boy and girl smiling on "Arkansas Traveler Home or Bust" tied to goat

Happy Hollow Tourists

Waterfall seen from behind with cave and green trees

Road and bridge construction site with parked car and workers with horses

Highway 23 Bridge

Wooden sign with yellow lettering and lake with tree covered hills

Natural waterfall with rocks and trees on hillside

Hot Springs National Park

"To the Hot Springs of Arkansas America's Baden Baden Illustrated where it is what it is and how to get there" cover art

Hot Springs Promotional Brochure

Two men standing in a valley looking into the distance

Hot Springs, Early Nineteenth Century

Bird on a branch over a river on wooden sign with white text and stone base

Huckabee Nature Center

Advertisement for "Unbelievable famous performing animals" featuring a raccoon playing basketball

IQ Zoo Handbill

Print advertisement for "Keller Bulard's I.Q. Zoo, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas" with rabbit jumping through hoop illustration

Postcard showing one story building with a blue diamond design and a sign saying "I.Q. Zoo"

IQ Zoo Postcard

Round concrete building with dome and covered entrance on parking lot

Jerusalem Chapel

City street with tall buildings and two-story "wax museum"

Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum

white hospital building with sloped roof

Julia Chester Hospital

Single-story brick building with "King of Clubs private club" sign on gravel parking lot with parked cars

People canoing in lake lined with trees

Lake Lucerne as Sanitarium Lake

People golfing on hilly and tree-covered golf course

Lake Lucerne Golf

People swimming and boating in the water with multistory buildings along the shoreline

Lake Lucerne Swimming

Postcard "Hello from Arkansas land of opportunity" with illustrated Arkansas map and flag

"Land of Opportunity" Postcard

"Welcome to Lepanto Arkansas since 1895 home of the terrapin derby" sign above sign for "John Grisham's A Painted House"

Lepanto Attractions

Multistory building with front awning and smokestack behind it

Libbey Memorial Physical Medicine Center

People sitting in covered picnic area and at tables next to trees and rocks

Magnesia Springs

Lake with trees growing out of the water and wooden dock in the foreground

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