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"Dallas County" map with borders roads cities rivers

Dallas County Map

White men with protest signs on city sidewalk outside "Wonder Bread Hostess Cake" building

Sandbags being lowered off of a concrete bridge by an excavator to prevent flooding

Dardanelle Flooding

Rock face in wooded area with lake in the distance

Dardanelle Rock Natural Area

Single-story cabin and mine entrance with trees

White workers on concrete platforms in wooded area

Deep-Notch Weir

Dirt roads and quarried rocks on sloping landscape

Denieville White Lime

Workers and horses standing outside pit top tower and industrial buildings with smoke stacks

Denning Coal Mine

A flooded downtown city block photographed from a small boat pictured in the foreground.

Dermott 1927 Flood

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

Flooded neighborhood with highway bridge over river in the background

Desha County Flooding

"Desha County" map with borders roads cities rivers

Desha County Map

View from mountain of tree-covered valley

Devil's Knob - Devil's Backbone Natural Area

Grain elevators with silos and buildings on gravel road

DeWitt Grain Elevator

topographical map "The Arkansas Diamond Area"

Diamond Pipe Map

Worker sifting for diamonds while standing on machinery in water

Diamond Washing

Miners digging trench with rail carts

Diamond Mining Company

Men loading large logs onto train cars with trees in background

Two white men wearing hats walking on flooded streets

Dixie 1927 Flood

A yellow two-page booklet of the pilot license issued to Jess O. Dockery

Dockery License

Young white man in green suit and tie

Line of biplanes and hangers at air field

Dockery Airport

White man and woman with biplane

Irene and J. O. Dockery

White man on cotton harvester machine in cotton field

Dortch Plantation Cotton Picker

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

Downs Prairie Natural Area

men operate stream-based machinery

Dredging Project

"Drew County" map with borders roads cities lakes

Drew County Map

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