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White children smashing grapes in wooden buckets on platform beneath sign

Grape Stomping at Altus Grape Festival

Men in helmets marching in parade with rifles over their shoulders

White woman and children dancing with goats in costumes

Arkansas Goat Festival

Arkansas Literary Festival Program

White children eating pickles with table and white crowd around them

Pickle-Eating Contest at Atkins Pickle Festival

Multistory enclosed stadium building with red awnings and glass doors on parking lot

Barton Coliseum

Street with metal building next to carnival rides with Ferris wheel and loop roller coaster

Independence County Fair

Carnival rides with fence and banner

Strawberry Festival

Black raffle ticket for a

Cabotfest Raffle

Cabotfest; 1980

Cattle barn building with metal siding on fairground parking lot

Giant watermelon parade float in field with flowering bush in the foreground

Watermelon Festival

Downtown parade with marching band soldiers spectators brick buildings

Clarksville: Armistice Day Parade

Large crowd gathering in brightly colored rain jackets by glass windowed modern building and steel bridge

William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park Dedication

Holiday Inn sign congratulating Miss America

Congratulations Sign

white men in top hats and long coats posed on either side of man holding sign that reads

El Dorado: Elks Parade

Two white women, one white man, seated before microphones

four white people in horse-drawn cart riding in parade down street lined with onlookers

Fordyce on the Cotton Belt Festival Parade

Round button with Confederate battle flag in center and blue and red text

Fundraising Button

Young boy in long sleeve shirt picking cotton with a bag around his neck

Gosnell: Cotton Pickin' Contest

Hall of Industry

White men racing cardboard boats with crowd

Cardboard Boat Race

Man in suit waving at the crowd riding in a parade float labeled the

Heber Springs: Ozark Frontier Trail Festival

White children eating peaches with white man and building behind them

Peach-Eating Contest

White woman and white man sitting amidst flowers with multistory house in background

Jonquil Festival

African-American woman hanging up multicolored clothing in a tent with table

Juneteenth; 2018

African-American men and women looking at Corvette sports cars on street in front of multistory brick building

Juneteenth; 2018

African-American women selling handmade dolls under tent canopy

Juneteenth; 2018

Young white woman with crown and

Large crowd gathered around outdoor stage in town

Mixed audience dancing at outdoor festival

King Biscuit Crowd

Mixed crowd on town street with multistory brick buildings on both sides of them

Mixed crowd sitting in the grass watching a concert

King Biscuit Blues Festival

African-American guitar and brass band on stage

James Cotton Blues Band

African-American man in white shirt suspenders and hat sitting and laughing with white women posing with him outside brick building

White woman wearing sash and holding bouquet of flowers

Leanne Derryberry

Parade featuring white man riding in convertible

Lindbergh in Little Rock

White man in uniform with cap watches white woman in dark dress suit and dark hat breaking bottle on side of large airplane

KC-135 Christening

Horse-drawn wagons in parade on city street with crowds of people standing in front of multistory buildings

Livestock Show Parade

African-American man playing guitar on stage with mixed band

Robert Lockwood Jr.

White woman holding Cabotfest materials

Group of four young white women posing for camera

Miss America Candidates

White man in suit and white woman wearing sash and tiara

Montgomery and Clinton

Young white woman smiling in tiara and sleeveless dress

Naylene Vuurens

horses and jockeys on track and large buildings with flags and spectators behind

Oaklawn Racetrack

Crowd of white men and women outside church building

Old Folks' Singing

Mill machinery with belts and pulleys

War Eagle Mill Interior

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