The Arkansas State Archives' postcard collection dates back to the 19th Century and showcases areas and events from around the state. This selection is only a small portion of our postcard holdings. To learn more about our full postcard collection, please contact us at 501.682.6900 or state.archives@arkansas.gov.
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Park Springs Hotel, Bentonville, Ark.
This colorized postcard, published by the Bentonville News Company and printed by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn, New York, shows an image of the Park Springs Hotel in Bentonville, Arkansas. The postcard was never sent.
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Railroad Cut, Gravette, Arkansas
This black and white postcard depicts the level cut through a hillside for railroad tracks to pass through, near Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas. The postcard was never mailed.
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Season's Greetings - 1707th Co., Camp Dutch Creek, Waldron, Ark.
This black and white postcard depicts and aerial view of Dutch Creek Civilian Conservation Corps Camp. The postcard was never mailed.
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State School for the Blind, Little Rock, Arkansas
This is a color postcard featuring an image of the front of the Arkansas School for the Blind, located on Center Street in Little Rock.
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St. Edwards Mercy Hospital
This is a color postcard depicting St. Edwards Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith, Arkansas, as it appeared in 1914. The postcard was never sent.
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Tumbling Shoals Bridge, Heber Springs, Arkansas
This is a color postcard with a image of the Tumbling Shoals Bridge from the side including both ends the bridge and the river below.
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Union County Court House, El Dorado, Arkansas
This black and white postcard depicts the Union County Courthouse in El Dorado, Arkansas. It was sent to Mrs. J. W. L.... sometime in the early 1900s.
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Franke's Cafeteria
This color postcard depicts scenes of Franke's Cafeteria at their Hot Springs location, including the exterior of the cafeteria, the rear of the east dining room, a section of the west dining room, and the view through the lobby. The postcard was never mailed.
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Henderson's Landing, Lake Norfork, Arkansas
This is a color postcard with an image of the lake with woods surrounding it and landing with a ferry with cars on it leaving on the front. There is a handwritten note on the back. It was mailed on June 4th, 1953.
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Dam No.1 and Mill in Mammoth Spring
This partially colored postcard shows the Roller Mill and Dam Number 1 in Mammoth Spring from the vantage point of a bluff down the river.
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Ole King Cole Restaurant
This color Dextone postcard shows the Ole King Cole restaurant, Arkansas's oldest drive-in restaurant, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Mather Lodge, Petit Jean Mountain, Morrilton, Ark.
This black and white postcard depicts Mather Lodge at Petit Jean Mountain, near Morrilton, Conway County, Arkansas. It was sent by Mrs. N. W. Campbell to Miss Clara B. Eno in July of 1939.
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Souvenir Folder of Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This is a color souvenir folder containing eighteen fold-out images of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, circa 1930s. Includes front cover; back cover / Bird's Eye View of Eureka Springs, Arkansas; inside cover; Basin Springs Fountain; Band Stand at Basin Park; Famous Basin Spring; Basin Park Hotel; Magnetic Springs; Crescent Hotel; Pivot Rock; The Thach Hotel; Lover's Leap at Harding Spring; Railway Station; First Church of Christ Scientist; High School and Industrial Arts buildings; Sanitarium Lake; First Baptist Church; Scene Along White River; Eureka Springs Public Library; Train Tunnel, Eureka Springs; and Eureka Springs Catholic Church. It was never mailed.
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Lake Fort Smith
This is a color postcard with an aerial image of Lake Fort Smith including a bridge, field land, and mountains surrounding the lake on the front. There is a typed note on the back from David to Clara Eno. It was mailed in on August 17, 1938.
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Souvenir Folder of Heber Springs, Arkansas
This is a souvenir postcard book with built-in envelope, containing ten fold-out, partially colored images of Heber Springs. The fold-outs are black and white with a colored blue sky. It was sent from Blanche Trawier to Miss Aubrey Cobine of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Scenes of Diamond Cave Souvenir Postcard Book
This is a souvenir postcard book with built-in envelope, containing ten fold-out, black and white images of cave formations. It was sent to Bernice Babcock, State Chairman of the Federal Writers Project in Little Rock, Arkansas. Includes front cover, inside cover, back cover, Japanese Fish Pond, Chandelier, Garden of the Gods, King's Way, Piano, Red Room, Bridal Chamber of King Solomon's Temple, East Wing of King Solomon's Temple, Fountain of Youth, Garden of the Gods.
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Frisco Engine by Spring River
This sepia postcard portrays a Frisco steam engine coming around a curve of the Spring River.
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State Capitol from Capitol Ave.
This color postcard depicts the Arkansas State Capitol building, and was sent to Elizabeth Calvert of Big Fork, Montana, in 1925.
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Lumber Derrick and R.I.R.R. Bridge, Devalls Bluff, Ark.
This black and white postcard showing images of a lumber derrick and a railroad bridge at Devalls Bluff, Arkansas, was sent to Eva Bailey from Ted D. Chase, on November 29th, 1920.
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Majestic Hotel and Bath House, Hot Springs, Arkansas
This color, C. T. Photochrom postcard depicts the Majestic Hotel and Bath House in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, as it appeared in 1919. The postcard was never mailed.
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New City Hall, Markham and Broadway, Little Rock, Ark.
This color postcard depicts Little Rock's "new" city hall, with pedestrians, a horse-drawn carriage, and early motor vehicles in front of it. The postcard was never sent.
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Scene in Brinkley, Ark. after cyclone
This is a black and white postcard with an image on the front of damage in Brinkley, Monroe County, Arkansas, from a tornado that touched down there in March of 1909.
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Engine No.5 Wreck
This black and white postcard depicts men working on the wreckage of train engine number 5 which derailed at the Cedar Bluff Cut in Fulton County.
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Scenes at Mammoth Spring
This sepia postcard depicts the Mammoth Spring train depot in the foreground with the Roller Mill on the left side.
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The Allen Hotel, Monticello, Arkansas
This black and white postcard shows an photograph of the Allen Hotel in Monticello, Arkansas, on the front. It was sent from J. M. Thompson of Monticello to Clara Eno, in Pryor Green, Oklahoma, on September 28th, 1912.