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Two story brick building with balcony and vertical lettering "Arcade Hotel"

Carved artifacts resembling people and animals

Archaeological Fakes

Single story brick building with covered entrance

Archer Hospital

Group of white men and women outside "Archey Valley School House" building

Archey Valley School

White man in suit and white man in uniform with ice cream in his hand standing behind counter in store

Argenta Drug Store

"White man cut Negro's throat" newspaper clipping

Article about the Argenta Race Riot of 1906

"Every section of Argenta guarded" newspaper clipping

Argenta Race Riot Article

"John B Lindsay slain by fusillade from store of Negroes in Argenta" newspaper clipping

Argenta Race Riot Article (Part 1)

"John B. Lindsay Slain by Fusillade from Store of Negroes in Argenta" newspaper clipping continued from first page

Argenta Race Riot Article (Part 2)

Dirt city street lined with brick architecture, women in dresses below awning, horse drawn carriages, pedestrians

Argenta Street Scene

White man and women with horse in front of "Lee Pannell Horse Shoeing" shop

Arkadelphia Blacksmith Shop

Group of white men in front of office building with fence

Arkadelphia Lumber Company

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

Arkadelphia Methodist College

"Colored Football Team Challenges" newspaper clipping

Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy Football

Horses and wagons crowding the street with houses in the background and construction equipment in the foreground

Arkadelphia Street Scene

"Academy of Science Members to Meet Here" newspaper clipping

Arkansas Academy of Science Story

Four-story building with a tower and a flag pole

Arkansas Baptist College

Group of white women and children outside multistory building with balcony and covered porch

Arkansas Baptist Orphanage

Round advertisement with text on wrinkled paper

Arkansas Black Apple Ad

Single story white concrete building with tall windows

Arkansas Building

front and back of coin featuring silhouettes of indigenous people on front and Arkansas state flag and eagle on back

Arkansas Centennial Coin

three-cent postage stamp featuring renderings of Arkansas Post, Old State House, and State Capitol

Arkansas Centennial Stamp

Black and white photo of white boy in tinted goggles lying on examination table below lights and medical device

Arkansas Children's Hospital Physical Therapy Equipment

African-American woman with baskets filled with cotton

Arkansas City Cotton Picker

Ferry boat at dock on river

Arkansas City Ferry

Aerial view of flooded town

Arkansas City Flood

Multistory house with covered porch and balcony inside wooden fence

Arkansas Confederate Home

Three-story brick building with balcony and grounds

Arkansas Confederate Home

large group of people posing with large telescope in front of multistory stone and brick building

Arkansas Conference College

white baseball team poses in field in front of multistory stone and brick building

Arkansas Conference College Baseball Team

drawing of multistory stone and brick building with large windows "Arkansas Conference College"

Arkansas Conference College

Young white women in matching skirts and turtleneck sweaters white man in suit and white man in military uniform

Arkansas Conference College Women's Basketball Team

Group of white men in suits with two white men in military uniform and white woman in dress

Arkansas Council of Defense

Dirt road and field with large brick building cars trees and water tower in background

Arkansas Cumberland College

Men in helmets marching in parade with rifles over their shoulders

Newspaper front page "Arkansas Democratic Banner"

Arkansas Democratic Banner

Newspaper front page "Arkansas Echo"

gold lapel pin with image of steamboat and field plow

Two-story classical structure with four columns and American flag with in the foreground women in dresses on stairs in the shade of a tree

Arkansas Exhibition

Three-story building on street corner with flag pole on top

Arkansas Gazette Building

White men working with machinery in composition room

Arkansas Gazette Comp Room

White man in hat and vest standing at counter with white men behind it in office with hanging light fixtures

Arkansas Gazette Staff

Large group of people sitting at desks in a room

Arkansas General Assembly, 1909

"Arkansas Hard Luck Blues," Performed by Lonnie Glosson

Trees growing in planters on wooden platform of steel arch bridge

Arkansas Highway 57 Bridge

wide white building with gable roofs and bell tower with trees in foreground

Arkansas Holiness College

White men in suits standing inside fence with multistory building with covered porch and balcony behind them with large signs saying "Arkansas Lumber Company"

Arkansas Lumber Company

Steam train hauling lumber on railroad tracks

Arkansas Lumber Company

book spread titled "Arkansas National Forest a proclamation" signed by President Theodore Roosevelt

Arkansas National Forest Proclamation

Long row prone soldiers in dirt field aiming rifles kneeling officers behind caption "skirmish line"

Arkansas National Guard

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