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Paddlefish in water above paddlefish drawing

Lamb chop with caviar and pesto on dinner plate

Wooden platform on steel truss bridge with trees around it

Padgett Island Bridge

Pageant Program, 1954

Transparent shrimp larvae under magnification

Palaemonetes kadiakensis

Close-up of weathered gravestone in cemetery

Palarm Bayou Pioneer Cemetery Grave

Pink flower on green stem

Pale Purple Coneflower

Sturgeon fish with long nose swimming above rocks

Pallid Sturgeon

Three-story brick building with red roof

Wooden suspension bridge over river with railings

Pangburn Suspension Bridge

"Pankey" gravestone in cemetery

Pankey Gravestone

"Paradise Lost" movie poster with booking photographs of young white man

Paradise Lost Poster

Meteorite on display including didactic text in library with bookshelves in background.

Paragould Meteorite

"Desert Storm Memorial" wall with Statue of Liberty on top next to two-story brick building

Paragould War Memorial

Lamprey attached to human hand and underside of lamprey

Parasitic Lampreys

Top of a parking meter on white background

Single-story stone building with arched doorway and trees in front yard

Parks School House

"Headquarters U.S. Forces" document with filled-in information

Paroling Document

"Head Quarters Third Division Seventh Army Corps" document with filled-in information and signature

Paroling Document

Blue and white brochure for "Pathfinder Incorporated"

Pathfinder, Inc.

Different types of pauropods with corresponding letters

Pauropod drawings with corresponding letters

Pauropods Anatomical Structures

Urn on top of obelisk shaped monument with engraved base

Pea Ridge Confederate Monument

Dedication ceremony program with order of events in black text

Pea Ridge Dedication

"Lonoke County Arkansas" hanging copper stele among others of the same kind

Steam locomotive with train cars on tracks and some trucks parked alongside

Line of white men with sprayer machines in orchard

Single-story brick school building with two wings and pavilion in fenced in yard

Peake High School

Close-up of brick school building with fenced in yard

Peake High School

Plastic cars in school yard with brick building

Peake High School

Four men on river dock with cabin barge and small boats

"Pearl Industry" newspaper clipping

Pearling Article

postcard showing man in small pole boat near shore captioned "Arkansas Pearl Fisher leaving for Mussel Shoals on White River."

Riverboat and multiple flat barges against riverbank carrying material and workers

Pearling Industry Barges

Looking down steel arch bridge with concrete platform and railings

Pedestrian Walkway

Tall stone grave marker with urn on top in cemetery

Samuel Peel Tombstone

Bow section of wooden canoe in glass display case

Peeler Bend Canoe

Middle section of wooden canoe in glass display case

Peeler Bend Canoe

View from the stern of wooden canoe in glass display case

Peeler Bend Canoe

"Pellagra expert called to State to investigate" newspaper clipping

Pellagra Investigation

"Warns against pellagra cures" newspaper clipping

Pellagra Treatment

Microscopic organisms with corresponding letters

Drawing of multistory house with iron fence and street lamp

Charles F. Penzel House

Different types of fish with corresponding letters

Seagull landing on rock with two seagulls standing on it

Perfect Landing

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

Perry County Map

Rectangular composition including five overlaid nesting rectangles each depicting one abstract painterly landscape

Persistence of the Spirit by Henri Linton

"Peter Gunn," Performed by Roy Buchanan

Signed "births" page with baby and clamshell illustration and a list of handwritten names

Peter Family Bible

Topographic map of Petit Jean, Rose Creek, Cove, and Round Mountains with boundaries for Pope, Yell, Conway, and Perry counties indicated

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