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Line drawing of a multistory church building with spires

1870s Bethel AME Church

Promotional photograph of white man woman and 19 young and teen children standing together with white text

19 Kids and Counting

Multistory building with large 555 on top and wider streetscape

Stone memorial with words and picture of mother and child carved into it

Abortion Memorial

Young white man in suit and tie

Wooden church building with spire

Church building with steeple and covered entrance inside iron fence

All Souls Church

Close-up of covered entrance on church building

All Souls Church Entrance

Single-story building with covered porch inside iron fence next to church building and trees in foreground

All Souls Church Grounds

Wooden beams supporting the roof in sanctuary room

All Souls Church Interior

Close-up of wooden staircase with hand railing

All Souls Church Staircase

Looking up at steeple on church building

All Souls Church Steeple

Side view of single-story brick church building with covered porch and steeple with tall tree next to it

Altheimer First Baptist Church

Multistory white wooden church building

Single-story church building with cross on covered porch and stone walls with steeple in the background

Antioch Baptist Church

Single-story church building with covered porch log walls and bell in the front yard

Antioch Baptist Church

Single-story brick church buildings one with steeple and sign on parking lot

Antioch Christian

Multistory stone and wooden building with archery targets off to the side

Students seated in school uniforms on quad outside large multistory brick building with clock tower

Arkadelphia Methodist College

Brick church with spire, arched stain glass, corner entrance, cars, trees

Arkadelphia Presbyterian Church

Four-story building with a tower and a flag pole

Arkansas Baptist College

Multistory brick building with parked cars outside and trees

Arkansas Baptist Hospital

Front page of "Arkansas White Ribboner"

Arkansas White Ribboner

Multistory brown brick church building with covered entrance and tall gray steeple

Multistory brown brick building with large spire

White brick church building with sign and bushes

Augusta Presbyterian Church

Group of African American men women and children posing in front of wooden church building

Auvergne Church

Multistory tan rock church building with covered entrance

Bald Knob Church

Old white man with glasses smiling in shirt and tie with pens in pocket protector

James David Bales

Memorial with crucifix and Jesus figure over tile base with plaque and wrought iron detailed floral columns

Bandini Memorial

"Negro Baptists Meet" newspaper clipping

Baptist Academy Article

Group of white men women and children posing before stone wall with tree

Baptist Convention

Single-story building with siding and covered porch on gravel parking lot

Single-story brick building with covered porch and gravel driveway

Tan brick and white stucco church building with steeple and trees in background

White wooden church building with large parking lot

Red brick church building with short tower

Berryville Church

Multistory brick building with covered porch supported by four columns and arched windows with "Temple Beth El" engraved on the front

Single story white concrete block church building with steeple and covered entrance

Bethel AME Church

Single story white wooden church building with trees behind

Bethel AME Church

Single story brick church building next to sign saying "Bethesda Campground United Methodist Church"

Bethesda Church

Single-story brick building on "The Bible Church of Little Rock" bulletin cover

Bible Church Bulletin

Single-story church building with cupola covered porch and sign next to two-lane road

Big Springs Church

Single story tan brick church building with tall white steeple with cross on top

Bismarck Church

Portrait of balding white man with round glasses mustache wearing suit jacket and tie gazing contemplatively upwards

Single-story church building with cupola steeple and wing with covered porch on gravel parking lot

Boles Free Will Baptist Church

"Wants inspection bill" newspaper clipping

Boniface Letter

Older African-American man with mustache in suit and tie and glasses

White man with lengthy beard

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