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Multistory building with arched windows and tower with tree in the foreground

1874 Courthouse

Official Program for multiple meetings including the "38th annual reunion United Confederate Veterans"

1928 UCV Reunion Program

White man in gray military uniform with rifle on program for the fifty-ninth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans

1949 UCV Reunion Program

Decorated gates and displays inside large hall

Agricultural Exhibit

Multistory building with row of columns on street

Albert Pike Memorial Temple

Display of red and white striped shirt and trophy

All American Red Heads Display

Soldiers with guns at rest on their shoulders marching down town street

White children smashing grapes in wooden buckets on platform beneath sign "Altus Grape Festival" while other white children and adults watch them

Altus Grape Festival Grape Stomping

White man in football uniform on field kicking high

Three racing horses with white jockeys in action on wet track

American Pharoah

Exterior of sports arena with "Andrews Field" sign

Tower with copper clad steel frame and columns in wooded area

Anthony Carillon Tower at Garvan Woodland Gardens

Narrow wood frame building with A-frame roof and hanging glass walls in wooded area

Anthony Chapel at Garvan Woodland Gardens

Machinery under fluorescent lights in shop room

Adults and children in swimming gear at lakeside with two metal slides in foreground

Arbordale Swimmers

"Colored Football Team Challenges" newspaper clipping

Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy Football

Red diesel train with cars crossing a steel bridge

Arkansas and Missouri Railroad

Multistory brick and concrete building with "Arkansas Arts Center" on front with vertical banners circular driveway and large fountain

Arkansas Arts Center

Single story white concrete building with tall windows

Arkansas Building

Round building with cupola and spire

Arkansas Building, 1876

white baseball team poses in field in front of multistory stone and brick building

Arkansas Conference College Baseball Team

Young white women in matching skirts and turtleneck sweaters white man in suit and white man in military uniform

Arkansas Conference College Women's Basketball Team

Men in helmets marching in parade with rifles over their shoulders

White woman and children dancing with goats in costumes

Arkansas Goat Festival

poster "2008 Arkansas Literary Festival" featuring stacked books

Arkansas Literary Festival Program

Cannon on wooden platform pointed over body of water

Arkansas Post Cannon

Men in hockey uniforms talking to group of boys

Arkansas Riverblades

Multistory building with people standing on balcony

Arkansas State Building

Native American man with feathered headdress and text on program cover saying "homecoming and silver jubillee Arkansas State College Indians versus Monticello Bollweevils Friday November Ninth"

ASU Homecoming Program

Group of young white women in matching athletic jackets with their male and female coaches kneeling in front of Arkansas Tech University billboard

Arkansas Tech's Women's Basketball Team

Statues of Asian man and woman in garden area

ATA Martial Arts Statues

Group of white men gathered around older white woman holding framed certificate

Marian Breland Bailey Retirement

postcard of multistoried light building with gabled roofs and chimneys "The Baker Hospital Eureka Springs Arkansas"

Drawing of large

Barnhill Fieldhouse

Multistory rounded concrete building with "T H Barton Coliseum" on the front with four entrances and front-mounted flag poles

Barton Coliseum

Oval-shaped stadium and surrounding buildings with residential area and trees in the background

Barton Coliseum

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

Barton Coliseum

Group of young white women in sleeveless shirts and shorts standing in line against a brick wall with ball

Batesville Pioneers

Young white man in military uniform

Raymond H. Bass

Group of white men in gym uniforms

Batesville Basketball

Single-story buildings alongside spring-fed stream with cattle nearby

Bathhouse Row; 1867

Trees and shoreline reflected in lake

Bear Creek Lake

white man with mustache in football uniform

White man in football uniform with "Bill Bergey Bengals" on banner below him and foot ball with "Middle Linebacker" on it

Small log building with buggy and two grinding wheels

Blacksmith Shop

Interior of a large cave with rock formations and tourists walking along a paved path with railings

Blanchard Springs Caverns

Tourists wearing hard hats with lights on them inside a cave

Blanchard Springs Caverns

artificially lit cave with striated stalactites

Blanchard Formations

striated stalactites in cave

Blanchard Flowstone

Interior cave stalagmites on natural shelves above mineral deposit piles covered in icicle like drips

Blanchard Springs Caverns

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