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Bank interior with teller, telephone service operator, and other employee.

Bank of Prescott

Brick storefront and two-story bank on street corner

Bank of Scranton

Multistory red brick building with group of people standing on sidewalk adjacent

Bank of Thornton

Four-story building on street corner with people and cars

Bankers' Trust Company

Two story building with exterior staircase and garage door under trees

Empty in-ground swimming pool with steps and single-story building with trees behind it

Banks Swimming Pool

Portrait black man in suit and tie with glasses smiling in front of book case

Group of people gathered at a river while spectators watch from a nearby wooden bridge

Baptism Service

Crowd of people, some with umbrellas, standing by a riverside while others stand in the river

Baptism Service on Caddo River

Postcard depicting crowd of African-American men and women gathered at body of water watching a baptism

"Negro Baptists Meet" newspaper clipping

Baptist Academy Article

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

Baptist Convention

Tug boat in the center of river pushing a barge

White men women and girls standing outside single-story house with covered porch and slanted roof

Two young white women in white dresses standing against building with wooden siding

Steel railroad bridge across a river

Baring Cross Bridge

man in straw hat outside small building with pointed roof standing alongside railroad tracks

Baring Cross Bridge Tender's Office

part of a bridge extending into a river with flooded city in background

Baring Cross Bridge; 1927

Steel truss bridge under construction over river with town buildings in the background

Baring Cross Bridge

Steel arch bridge being built over a river with train cars on tracks in the foreground

Baring Cross Bridge

Photos of wooden houses and weapons

"Splitting his daughter's head with an ax" newspaper clipping

Barker Lynching Article

White woman with short hair in dress

Mug shots of white man with faint mustache

White man staring into camera

Arthur "Doc" Barker

White woman with short hair in formal pose

Catherine Barker

Indoor fireplace with red tiles and gas heater

Interior door with decorative frame and chair

Barkman House Interior Door

Indoor staircase with long banister

Barkman House Staircase

White man with mustache in jacket and shirt

Front view of two-story house with covered porch and balcony

James E. M. Barkman House

Doors with decorative windows and chandelier above them as seen from staircase

James E. M. Barkman House Exterior Door

Steel truss foot bridge over creek with parking barriers in the foreground

Barkshed Bridge

one story stone building with parking lot in front

Barling City Hall

Multistory hotel and storefronts on street with signs street lamps and parked cars

Group of white men in suits smoking in rocking chairs and boy on bench on covered hotel porch

Barlow Hotel Porch

Two story red brick building with covered porch and street on post card

Barlow Hotel Postcard

Group of older white men and women with glasses in formal clothing eating at long tables in dining hall

Barlow Hotel Banquet

Painting of two mules and wooden barn with trees

Barn with Mules by Howard S. Stern

Young African-American man kneeling in uniform with alligator in truck bed

"Sunpie" Barnes

African-American man in long sleeve shirt and hat playing an accordion

"Sunpie" Barnes

four men in basketball uniforms in mid game play with one African American player jumping in the attempt to make a basket

Jim "Bad News" Barnes

"The Gallows" newspaper clipping

Lee Barnes Execution Article

"Negroes Lynch A Negro" newspaper clipping

John Barnett Lynching Article

Older white woman with lipstick and curly hair

Small store with soda advertisements and car and gas pump on dirt road

Barnett's Store

"Brutal murder" newspaper article

Barney Brown Murder Article

Drawing of large

Barnhill Fieldhouse

white man in old-fashioned football uniform "Capt. Barnhill."

white man with glasses in suit

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