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train crossing field with hills in background

J. B. Hunt Intermodal Service

Peeling wallpaper depicting various classical buildings with columns and towers

J. V. Bell House Wallpaper

"Jackson County" map with borders roads cities river national wildlife refuge

Jackson County Map

Bust of white man with baseball cap on "Travis Calvin Jackson" plaque

Travis Calvin Jackson Plaque

Concrete bell tower outside multistory building with covered porch and circular driveway

Jacksonville Museum of Military History

Close-up of beetle on green leaf

Japanese Beetle

"Jeanes fund to aid Negro normal" newspaper clipping

Jeanes Teachers Article

"Jefferson County" map with borders roads cities river "Pine Bluff Arsenal"

Jefferson County Map

"James Jeffery of Virginia son of James Jeffery of England" gravestone in cemetery

Jeffery Tombstone

Stone marker with square base and trees in the background

Engagement at Jenkins' Ferry Monument

Men driving horse drawn wagons loaded with cotton outside gin facility with men standing on elevated platform in the background

drawing of white people riding a biplane towing blimp carrying group of African American people

Jim Crow Laws Cartoon

"Jim Dandy," Performed by Black Oak Arkansas, Featuring Ruby Starr.

Old white man with hat jacket and red bandana scarf on white shirt

rear view of truck on the sides of which are containers reading "State Fish Hatchery Lonoke Ark."

Joe Hogan Fish Hatchery Truck

Brick church with towers and gothic style arched windows

John Brown University Cathedral

Steamboat loaded with cotton bales at port

John Howard Steamboat

"Johnson County" map with borders roads cities waterways national forest

Johnson County Map

Wooden buildings in front of stone cliff face

Johnson Lime Kiln

African-American man with mustache in suit and tie with text and on stamp and envelope

"Time's up" political advertisement comparing Justice Jim Johnson and Winthrop Rockefeller

Johnson vs. Rockefeller

"Johnson" monument and gravestones in cemetery

Robert Ward Johnson Gravesite

White woman on a blue and white fan with red stars "I"m a Fan Virginia Johnson"

Virginia Johnson Campaign Fan

"State of Arkansas" death certificate

D. A. E. Johnston Death Certificate

"The Jolly Fellowship" handwritten article on notebook paper

The Jolly Fellowship

Two-story building with "Jones' Bar-B-Q Diner" sign

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner

Four trucks with trailers parked in line with numbers "1239" and "1211" and "1217" and "1209"

Jones Truck Lines

Grave marker with Masonic symbol and inscription on grass

G. H. Jones Gravesite

"Oscar Eve Jones II" flat gravestone in front of monument in cemetery

O. E. Jones Headstone

Abandoned brick house with arched doorway on street corner

Scipio A. Jones House

Front view of abandoned brick house with arched doorway

Scipio A. Jones House

Sheet music book cover for "The Entertainer" with entertainer and audience illustration

Scott Joplin Sheet Music

"Scott Joplin American Composer" painted mural on brick building showing black hands on piano keys

Scott Joplin Mural

African American man with saxophone around his neck surrounded by musical notes and some smaller figures, "Here Comes Mr. Louis Jordan 'Caldonia' Black Cinema U.S.A. 42"

Louis Jordan Caldonia Stamp

Saxophone on stand

Louis Jordan's Saxophone

Steel truss bridge over river with concrete column

Judsonia Bridge

Bristletail examples with corresponding letters

Jumping Bristletails

Steel arch foot bridge over river with elevator and stairs and small walking bridge leading up to it

Junction Bridge

Close-up of steel arch walking bridge over river with elevator and stairs

Junction Bridge

Close-up of entrance to steel arch walking bridge with elevator and stairs

Junction Bridge Entrance

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