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Explore America: Arkansas

Explore America and discover people, places, art, and history that connect to Arkansas in the Smithsonian’s collections, held in trust for the American people. Known for the rugged beauty of the Ozark Mountains, the relaxing properties of its hot springs, and its abundant of wildlife, including the mockingbird, the state’s bird—Arkansas’ nickname is “The Natural State.” Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. President, was born in Hope. Hattie Caraway also hailed from Arkansas; she was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Arkansas is famous for its quartz fields, and the Berns Quartz is an 8,000-pound quartz found in Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains. Johnny Cash, called “The Man in Black” because of his signature dark clothing, was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, in 1932 and raised in Dyess, Arkansas. Cash’s music spanned genres from country and blues to rock ’n’ roll. Louis Jordan, known as "The King of the Jukebox," was from Brinkley and toured the state as a child with his father's Brinkley Brass Band before fronting his own band. Jordan also penned hits such as "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" and "Saturday Night Fish Fry."


Rural Arkansas (mural study, Paris, Arkansas Post Office)

Dike Ave. in No. Little Rock, Arkansas

Stalking Buffalo, Arkansas

Chandler St. in No. Little Rock, Arkansas

Bill and Hillary Clinton

Desegregation of Central High School Little Rock, AR

Arkansas, from the United States Series

Violin played by the enslaved man Jesse Burke

Slow River thru Arkansas

Brooks' Baby Balm

Walmart Toy Truck

Bald Knob, Arkansas Owney tag

Singer Al Green performing “Tired of Being Alone” at the Kool Jazz Festival at the Washington D. C. RFK Stadium

Insignia, Arkansas Wing, Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

Untitled, Clarksville, Arkansas, from the series In Search of the Corn Queen

Sharecropper's Wife and Child

Arkansas Blues (A Down-Home Chant) [sheet music]

Douglas MacArthur

Photograph of members of the Little Rock Nine with other students 1958

Aunt Boo and her Dolls

Moody Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark.

Sperry Remington Cash Register

22c Arkansas Statehood single

Transient cotton choppers on the road

Lamina

Rock St. in No. Little Rock, Arkansas

Eisenhower Sends Troops to Little Rock

Photographic print of a woman in an ox cart at McLeod's Amusement Park

Winthrop Rockefeller

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

1860 - 1880 "Whig's Defeat" Quilt Top

42c Arkansas Flag and Wood Duck coil single

1840 - 1860 "Mariner's Compass" Pieced Quilt Block

The Arkansas Traveller

Photographic print of Harper Franklin, Beatrice Coleman and Beatrice Dedman


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