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Pageant Program, 1954

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

Paradise Lost Poster

"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

"The Hanging of Parrent" newspaper clipping

Joe Parrent Lynching Article

"$200 Reward" newspaper clipping

Joe Parrent Reward Article

Blue and white brochure for "Pathfinder Incorporated"

Pathfinder, Inc.

"Negro lynched early today at Forrest City" newspaper clipping

William Patrick Lynching Article

"Negro slayer spirited away" newspaper clipping

William Patrick Lynching Article

"Lynching averted at Forrest City" newspaper clipping

William Patrick Lynching Article

Overlook view of rolling hills farmland roads and river with twin plateaus in distance

Pea Ridge National Military Park Battlefield

Dedication ceremony program with order of events in black text

Pea Ridge Dedication

Large peach with text and borders on program cover

Peach Festival Program

"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."

"Pellagra expert called to State to investigate" newspaper clipping

Pellagra Investigation

"Warns against pellagra cures" newspaper clipping

Pellagra Treatment

"The explosion of the steamer Pennsylvania" newspaper clipping

Pennsylvania Steamboat Article

"Terrible Boiler Explosion" newspaper clipping

Pennsylvania Steamboat Article

"Dreadful Catastrophe" newspaper clipping

Persian Steamboat Article

"Awful Steam Boat Explosion Thirty Lives Lost" newspaper clipping

Persian Steamboat Article

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

Peter Family Bible

"Philander-Smith Colored Institute Little Rock" illustration campus scene brick building road pedestrians trees

Philander Smith Colored Institute

"Murder by a Negro the Murderer Hung" newspaper clipping

Phillips County Lynching Article

"Reaped His Reward" newspaper clipping

Phillips County Lynching Article

"An Arkansas lynching" newspaper clipping

Phillips Lynching Article

"Little Rock Negro now member of Phi Beta Kappa Society" newspaper clipping

William Pickens Article

"Acid Plant Means Development in New Section of City" newspaper clipping

Picric Acid Plant Headline

Official patent certificate for "Lawrence G. Phillips of Altus"

Pillstrom Tongs Patent

Patent drawings with date and numbered parts

Pillstrom Tongs Prototype Drawing

Flooded city street with brick storefronts and two-story building with clock tower in the distance

Pine Bluff Flood

"A Fatal Blow" newspaper clipping

Pine Bluff Lynching Article

Press release about the "Plantation Agriculture Museum at Scott" on Department of Parks and Tourism letter head

Plantation Agriculture Museum Press Release

"Dedication Plantation Agriculture Museum" program cover

Plantation Agriculture Museum Program

Three-thousand-dollar reward poster with black ink on yellow paper

Plumerville Conflict Reward Poster

Letter to the editors in newspaper about the Pocahontas steamboat dated March 16, 1852

Pocahontas Steamboat Article

"Poe pays penalty for awful crime" newspaper clipping

Harry Poe Execution Article

"That Committee" newspaper clipping

Poland Committee Article

"Little Rock suffragists contradict Senator Vardaman" newspaper clipping

Political Equality League Article

"Roasted Alive!" newspaper clipping

Polk Brothers Lynching Article

"Polk county's only Negro dies in flames" newspaper clipping

Polk County Death

"W. C. U. leader is sentenced to die" newspaper clipping

Polk County Draft War Article

"Receipt for poll tax of 1900" document on wrinkled paper

Poll Tax Receipt

"Official list of qualified voters" on book cover

"Negro is lynched by mob at Wilmot" newspaper clipping

Pounds Lynching Article

"Mob kills slayer of Sheriff's aide" newspaper clipping

Charles Powell Lynching Article

"Lynching at Huttig" newspaper clipping

Sam Powell Lynching Article

"Negro is found hanging to tree" newspaper clipping

Sam Powell Lynching Article

Red and white background with drawing of a donkey and text "Primary Colors a Novel of Politics by Anonymous"

"A message to the voters of Arkansas" booklet cover

Prohibition Book

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