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Post card with "Some of the Churches and Schools for Colored People in Helena Arkansas" written above photos of four different brick church and school buildings

African-American Institutions

Newspaper front page "Arkansas Echo"

German newspaper front page

Arkansas Staats-Zeitung

African American adults and children gathered in large room with beds and tables

Awaiting Passage to Liberia

Postcard depicting crowd of African-American men and women gathered at body of water watching a baptism

Native American men and women standing in clearing surrounded by mound buildings and trees

African-American men in uniforms labeled "Claybrook Tigers" pose for a group photograph with bats and gloves laid out in front of them

Claybrook Tigers

Group of young African-American women posing in dresses

Colored Industrial Institute Students

Multistory building inside fence on dirt road

Colored Industrial Institute

Drawing of multistory buildings and chapel on street

Colored Industrial Institute

Group of African-American children and teachers outside a clapboard school house

Colored Industrial Institute

"The Colored Race at the North" newspaper clipping

Free Blacks Article

Wooden church building with large spire with cross on top

German Catholic Church

Large group of men in suits and hats posing for photo in front of flags

German Day Parade

Native American man in traditional garb and headdress

Halpatter-Micco

Group of Hmong men and women in traditional garb

Map showing extent of Native American land claims in Arkansas

Indian Extents Map

Elaborate religious building with tall bell tower and round dome on city street with a used car lot next to it

City street corner with tall store buildings and a city bus with ads on it

Field of coffee plants with two tall palm trees

Liberian Coffee Plantation

African-American women in formal dresses with a child sitting in chairs while men in suits stand behind them

Methodist Missionaries

White man in suit holding his hat standing outside multistory house with two Native American men in traditional clothing on each side of him

multistory corner building and street intersection with cars and pedestrians

Pfeifers Building

Mural featuring a Native American man in traditional garb

Quapaw Man Mural

"A great work" newspaper clipping

St. Joseph Colony Article

Newspaper front page "Stuttgart_Germania"

Stuttgart Germania

"The Italian as a cotton picker" newspaper clipping

Sunnyside Plantation Article

"Ninth Commencement of the M. M. Tate High School" on spotted paper

Tate School Commencement

Advertisement with African-American men in suits "Alphonso Trent and His Orchestra"

Alphonso Trent Orchestra

Three black soldiers uniformed holding rifles in safety position standing outside wood frame wall

World War I Soldiers

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