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White man in suit and tie touching a globe

Pageant Program, 1954

Two story brick storefront building with covered walkway

Palace Drug Store

Multistory brick "Palace" theater and single-story buildings on street with handwritten notes

Multistory building at intersection

Paladino Restaurant

Young white man getting into his airplane with white soldier helping him

Johnny Paladino

Young white catcher umpire and batter in uniforms playing baseball with wooden fence behind them

Paragould Browns

Town square with storefronts parked cars and water tower in distance

Paris Street Scene

Large white wooden building with porch and balcony next to smaller white building

Aerial view of river

Parkin Bridge over the St. Francis

Aerial view of river

Parkin Bridge over the St. Francis

Single-story motel building with identical apartments with pink trim and cars in parking lot

Parkway Courts Historic District

"We care budget inn" hanging sign on motel building on street with parking lot and white van

Parkway Courts Historic District

Candid photo white woman in glasses dress hair bun brushing hair over ear

White woman in glasses using a typewriter

Young white man with headphones speaking into a microphone in radio booth

Dedication ceremony program with order of events in black text

Pea Ridge Dedication

Group of white women in dresses and men in top hats being pulled in a giant sleigh parade float by horses

Peach Festival Float

White man smiling in suit and tie

Row of multistory brick buildings and street

Perry Plaza Court

three views of brick motel showing exterior with signs interior of room with furniture and outdoor pool with diving board

Perry's Congress Motel

Woman and child outside stone-walled shop with parked cars

Perryville Street Scene

Single-story house with red and white door and banks of rectangular windows

Peter Dierks Joers House

Single-story house with red and white door and covered porch with stone steps and walkway

Peter Dierks Joers House

Older white woman with pearl necklace and dress

Single story abandoned wooden shed with weeds growing everywhere

White man in suit sitting at table reading to African-American man standing and African-American woman sitting beside him

Phelps and Students

Large group of African Americans in cap and gown on steps of building with "Philander Smith College" on the front

Philander Smith Graduates

"Murder by a Negro the Murderer Hung" newspaper clipping

Phillips County Lynching Article

white man in suit and tie

African American man sitting at desk holding sheets of paper

William Pickens

Rows of uncovered wooden vats with wooden walking path in between them

Pickle Barrels; 1955

White women with glasses working at assembly line of jars

Pickle Factory Workers

Crowd of people standing in or near a river with bridge in the background

Pigeon Creek Baptism

Multistory brick church building with arched windows

Piggott Baptist Church

Multistory brick building with rows of windows

Piggott Hospital

Multistory brick church building

Piggott Methodist

glass display case with various sculptures depicting humans and animals

Cicero Pilgrim Sculptures

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

Pillstrom Tongs Patent

Patent drawings with date and numbered parts

Pillstrom Tongs Prototype Drawing

White man in shirt and tie holding up a snake with a stick

Lawrence Pillstrom

Black men factory workers in white coveralls at assembly line handling cylindrical objects on cranes

Pine Bluff Arsenal Assembly Line

Two men seated on porch of small wood frame building under awning near truck

Pine Ridge Post Office

White woman scientist in blouse, lab coat handles white mouse with white male assistant watching

Margaret Pittman

African-American man with football in uniform running on autographed picture

Single story wooden building

Pocahontas Depot

"Pocahontas Water Works" water tank and fence with locked gate

Pocahontas Water Tank

White man and woman standing outside two-story building with screened-in porch and polka-dot paint on dirt road

Pok-A-Dot Restaurant

Single-story building with flat roof and covered porch on street

Police and Court Building

"Official list of qualified voters" on book cover

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