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Front: "Colored Women's Prison Cummins Ark. 1949"

Cartoonist Jon Kennedy depicts a hair salon inside the Cummins Unit, providing inmates with stylish new haircuts. Prisoners show off their new 'dos.

W.H. Scroggins, drug agent, standing in front of a drug store in Grady. Located in Grady, Arkansas.

This is a hand drawn map of Tyro while it was an actual town. Tyro is now a small community with very little remaining of the original settlement.

The Star City Lumber Company once employeed several hundred people in the late 1940s before closing in 1950. The Lumber Company was one of many lumber companies within Lincoln County, demonstrating the importance of the timber industry to Lincoln…

The Confederate Memorial located on the southwest corner of the town square. Statue commissioned by the local United Daughters of the Confederacy. Statue was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1996.

The Commercial Historic District located at the town square in Star City, Arkansas. Several of the buildings have been lost due to neglect since being added to the register. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on…

Cummins Unit prisoners are baptized in the Arkansas River. Reverend was an inmate himself.

The Rice Family Cemetery in Varner, Arkansas. The Rice Family Cemetery is associated with one of the founding families in the Varner area, headed by CPT Robert R. Rice. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29,…

The old courthouse on the townsquare was razed in 1962 after the new courthouse was built. The clock tower is seen collapsing in the photo.