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Lewis Brothers' Building, 1 South Bank, Fayetteville, Washington Count...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: In the history of Fayetteville, the Fayetteville Square has been the functional and symbolic center of the economic, cultural, social, and political life in t... More

Lewis Brothers' Building, 1 South Bank, Fayetteville, Washington Count...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: In the history of Fayetteville, the Fayetteville Square has been the functional and symbolic center of the economic, cultural, social, and political life in t... More

Lakeshore Drive Bridge, Spanning Lake No. 3 adjacent branch at Lakesho...

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Photographs of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Secon...

Images show exterior and interior views of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Second Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. Details include the courtroom, the visitors' gallery, the elevator, stairways,... More

Photographs of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Secon...

Images show exterior and interior views of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Second Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. Details include the courtroom, the visitors' gallery, the elevator, stairways,... More

Photographs of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Secon...

Images show exterior and interior views of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Second Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. Details include the courtroom, the visitors' gallery, the elevator, stairways,... More

Ouachita River Lock & Dam No. 8, Ouachita River at River Mile 282.8, C...

Significance: The Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 is one of the oldest remaining locks and dams in the State of Arkansas. It represents a vital segment in the earliest attempt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin... More

Ouachita River Lock & Dam No. 8, Ouachita River at River Mile 282.8, C...

Significance: The Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 is one of the oldest remaining locks and dams in the State of Arkansas. It represents a vital segment in the earliest attempt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin... More

Ouachita River Lock & Dam No. 8, Ouachita River at River Mile 282.8, C...

Significance: The Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 is one of the oldest remaining locks and dams in the State of Arkansas. It represents a vital segment in the earliest attempt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin... More

Ouachita River Lock & Dam No. 8, Ouachita River at River Mile 282.8, C...

Significance: The Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 is one of the oldest remaining locks and dams in the State of Arkansas. It represents a vital segment in the earliest attempt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin... More

Hot Springs National Park, Bathhouse Row, Buckstaff Bathhouse: Mechani...

Significance: The Buckstaff Bathhouse is part of Bathhouse Row, which represents a typical American Spa. The spring piping, heating and ventilation systems are examples of early twentieth century state-of-the-... More

St. Francis River Bridge, Spanning St. Francis River at U.S. Highway 7...

Significance: The bridge over the St. Francis River on U.S. 70, constructed by the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company, was part of a 1930s highway and development project. Comparable with the Black River Bridge... More

Illinois River Bridge, Spanning Illinois River at Benton County Road 3...

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Ouachita River Bridge, Spanning Lake Hamilton on U.S. Highway 70, Hot ...

Significance: An excellent example of open spandrel, concrete deck arch bridge. The multiple spans (5 arch spans) exhibit the grace and style of the bridge form. It is the design of Ira G. Hedrick, a prominen... More

Old State Capitol Building, Markham & Center Streets, Little Rock, Pul...

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Old State Capitol Building, Markham & Center Streets, Little Rock, Pul...

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Old State Capitol Building, Markham & Center Streets, Little Rock, Pul...

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Old State Capitol Building, Markham & Center Streets, Little Rock, Pul...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

[William King Sebastian, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the l...

Democratic Senator from Arkansas, 1848-1861. Scratched on face of plate: Sebastian; Sebastan. Scratched on back of plate: 246. Hallmark: [asterisk] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms p... More

Old Springdale High School, U.S. Highway 71B, Springdale, Washington C...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Old Springdale High School is located on the south half of a lot consisting of 8.06 acres on what was some miles outside of Springdale Arkansas in 1910 wh... More

Old Springdale High School, U.S. Highway 71B, Springdale, Washington C...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Old Springdale High School is located on the south half of a lot consisting of 8.06 acres on what was some miles outside of Springdale Arkansas in 1910 wh... More

Warren Segraves Residence, 217 Oklahoma Way, Fayetteville, Washington ...

2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Completed in 1959, the Warren Segraves Residence was designed by Warren Segraves and was one of the first houses in the Northwest Arkansas region to have an e... More

Warren Segraves Residence, 217 Oklahoma Way, Fayetteville, Washington ...

2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Completed in 1959, the Warren Segraves Residence was designed by Warren Segraves and was one of the first houses in the Northwest Arkansas region to have an e... More

E. Fay & Gus Jones House, 1330 North Hillcrest Avenue, Fayetteville, W...

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Completed in May 1956, the residence of the architect Fay Jones and his wife Gus Jones began as an exploration of the designer's own principles. It was ... More

E. Fay & Gus Jones House, 1330 North Hillcrest Avenue, Fayetteville, W...

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Completed in May 1956, the residence of the architect Fay Jones and his wife Gus Jones began as an exploration of the designer's own principles. It was ... More

E. Fay & Gus Jones House, 1330 North Hillcrest Avenue, Fayetteville, W...

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Completed in May 1956, the residence of the architect Fay Jones and his wife Gus Jones began as an exploration of the designer's own principles. It was ... More

Hot Springs National Park Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse: Mechanical...

Significance: The Maurice Bathhouse is part of Bathhouse Row, which represents a typical American Spa. The spring piping, heating and ventilation systems are examples of early twentieth century state-of-the-ar... More

Hot Springs National Park Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse: Mechanical...

Significance: The Maurice Bathhouse is part of Bathhouse Row, which represents a typical American Spa. The spring piping, heating and ventilation systems are examples of early twentieth century state-of-the-ar... More

Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., Confederate States of America

Print shows an attack by Confederate cavalry and infantry, with Native American troops, against a line of Union cannon and infantry at Pea Ridge in Arkansas.

Fourche Lafave Bridge, Spanning Fourche Lafave River at State Highway ...

Significance: The Fourch Lafave River Bridge is significant for its association with the Luten Bridge Company and the development of the Arkansas highway system in the first half of the twentieth century. It i... More

Newport Bridge, Spanning White River at State Highway 14, Newport, Jac...

Significance: The 400-foot, double-cantilevered bridge at Newport was a major construction project in 1929-30. The bridge, along with two similar bridges at Augusta and Clarendon, Arkansas, was designed by ren... More

Arkansas Legislature, Wednesday, December 14, 1864 (Resolutions prote...

Tull Bridge, Spanning Saline River at CR 5, Tull, Grant County, AR

See HABS AZ-3 Significance: Tull Bridge is representative of early twentieth century metal truss bridge-building technology. The bridge was bypassed in 2005 but has been preserved in place as a pedestrian brid... More

Chi Omega Greek Theater, Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Washington Coun...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Chi Omega Greek Theater on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is constructed as a gift to the university for commemorating the founding of Chi Ome... More

Little Rock City Hall, Broadway & Markham, Little Rock, Pulaski County...

Survey number: HABS AR-14 Building/structure dates: 1907- 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1960 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates:... More

Little Rock City Hall, Broadway & Markham, Little Rock, Pulaski County...

Survey number: HABS AR-14 Building/structure dates: 1907- 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1960 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates:... More

Baptist Church, State Highway 4, Washington, Hempstead County, AR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS AR-32-5 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction

Edgemere Street Bridge, Spanning Lake No. 3 adjacent branch at Edgemer...

Significance: One of eight known masonry arch bridges in Arkansas, and one of a pair adjacent to the Lakewood Development area, an innovative housing project by Justin Matthews. Certain design details, such as... More

Edgemere Street Bridge, Spanning Lake No. 3 adjacent branch at Edgemer...

Significance: One of eight known masonry arch bridges in Arkansas, and one of a pair adjacent to the Lakewood Development area, an innovative housing project by Justin Matthews. Certain design details, such as... More

John T. Thomas House, Old Military Road, Washington, Hempstead County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS AR-32-8 Building/structure dates: ca. 1869 Initial Construction

Bathhouse Row, Ozark Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS AR-28-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Black River Bridge, Spanning Black River at U.S. Highway 67, Pocahonta...

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Hot Springs National Park, Bathhouse Row, Fordyce Bathhouse: Mechanica...

Significance: The Fordyce Bathhouse is part of Bathhouse Row, which represents a typical American Spa. The spring piping, heating and ventilation systems are examples of early twentieth century state-of-the-ar... More

Hot Springs National Park, Bathhouse Row, Fordyce Bathhouse: Mechanica...

Significance: The Fordyce Bathhouse is part of Bathhouse Row, which represents a typical American Spa. The spring piping, heating and ventilation systems are examples of early twentieth century state-of-the-ar... More

Jeff. Davis! "As women and children." / Scattergood, eng.

Cartoon shows Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, dressed as a woman and holding a Bowie knife, labeled "Arkansas tooth-pick" in order to avoid capture by Union soldiers after the A... More

Fryer's Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork of Point Remove Creek at Fryer...

Significance: Fryer's Ford Bridge is the oldest in-service bridge—and the second-oldest bridge of any type—in the State of Arkansas. It is an intact example of a pin-connected Pratt through truss, a type that ... More

North Fork Bridge, Spans North Fork of White River at State Highway 5,...

Significance: Designed by the Arkansas State Highway Department as a result of the unexpected cost involved in the erection of a proposed concrete deck arch bridge, the North Fork bridge was an early example of... More

Bank of Fayetteville, 100 West Center Street, Fayetteville, Washington...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bank of Fayetteville, 100 West Center Street, Fayetteville, Washington...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A. O. Stuart House, Washington, Hempstead County, AR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS AR-32-6 Building/structure dates: 1852- 1857 Initial Construction

Lycurgus Johnson House, State Highway 142, Lake Village, Chicot County...

1985 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The Lycurgus Johnson House on Lakeport Plantation is an historic treasure. This antebellum grande dame is found in the southeast corner of Arkansas fac... More

Spavinaw Creek Bridge, Spans Spavinaw Creek at Benton County Road 29, ...

Significance: Though bedstead trusses were widespread near the turn of the century, the Spavinaw Creek Bridge is now unique as the only surviving example of a bedstead truss in Arkansas. Built in 1909, this se... More

James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...

James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He dis... More

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Fordyce Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

See also HABS Nos. AR-28, AR-29 & AR-34-A thru AR-34-C for related structures. See also HABS Nos. AR-28, AR-29 & AR-34-A thru AR-34-C for related structures. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this stru... More

All-American news. 1945-09 - movie film screenshot

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More

Little Rock Commercial College and Telegraph Institute of Little Rock,...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Major & Knapp Lith. Co., printer. Category designa... More

Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. Royal Gorge, walls 1500 feet in height

No. 138. Part of series: Colorado Views. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites an... More

Perspective map of the city of Little Rock, Ark., State capital of Ark...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. "Copyrighted for the 'Gazette Printing Co.' Little Rock, Ark." Indexed for points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 14 Available also through the Lib... More

[Hot Springs, Arkansas, Southern Club]

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Arkansas Club and Post Office, Hot Springs, Ark

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "384" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013155. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Diamond field, Arkansas - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Bath house row, Hot Springs, Ark.

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Main St., Little Rock, Ark. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Prospectors examine diamond, Arkansas

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Promenade and Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark.

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Panoramic view, Dardanelle Rock on the Ark River, Dardanelle, Ark. / S...

Postcard shows a rocky hill on the edge of the Arkansas River. H 122765 U.S. Copyright Office.

John N. Tillman, Ark. - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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Hot Springs, Ark. (1920), left to right: William A. Pinkerton, Inspect...

Photograph shows the three men in front of a log cabin with the sign "Our Summer Home" over the cabin door. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:... More

Sharecropper's son, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

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The steamer Capitol, Mississippi River, Arkansas

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Weighing in cotton. Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Bringing in cotton for weighing, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Family of Arkansas sharecropper

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Zinc, Arkansas, deserted mining town

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A black and white photo of a group of men - FSA / Office of War Inform...

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Cotton pickers ready for day's work, 6:30 a.m., Pulaski County, Arkans...

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Resettled farmer and family. Dyess Colony, Arkansas

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A black and white photo of a mountain range, View of Ozark Mountains, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Farmer who has been resettled on good land, Dyess Colony, Mississippi ...

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Rehabilitation client, Arkansas

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Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

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Community canning, Dyess Colony, Arkansas

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House with roof made of license plates built by rehabilitation client,...

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Squatter's camp, Route 70, Arkansas

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Interior of canning kitchen. Johnston County, Arkansas

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Rehabilitation client. Madison County, Arkansas

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Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Son of a sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas

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Typical view of store and cotton trader in small Arkansas town. This o...

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Arkansas family in California. Great Depression public domain photogra...

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Rehabilitation Administration client standing in opening of storm cell...

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Water pump and tractor power plant, a common sight in the rice area in...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The families of evicted sharecroppers of the Dibble plantation. Parkin...

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A group of people standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA ph...

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