Thomas Harding was born July 7, 1911, at Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of Thomas Harding II, an architect, and Mary Rice Harding. Following his education at St. Andrews Cathedral, Little Rock High School, and Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, he practiced architecture with his father. During World War II Harding served with the Air Force in North Africa and Italy. After his discharge in 1945, Harding opened a photography studio in Little Rock.
In 1964 Harding sold his Little Rock studio and moved to New York where he was associated with the prestigious Bachrach studio. He returned to Little Rock in 1970 and again opened a commercial and portrait studio. His company has provided photography for most of the advertising agencies in Arkansas as well as numerous national accounts. The portrait division photographed individually over 200 prominent Arkansas lawyers for the Arkansas Bar Association Wall of Fame, several thousand bankers, doctors, and other professionals.
Harding closed his studio in June 1982 to retire and devote his time to several hobbies, including pinhole photography and water color painting. He published two books, One Room Schoolhouses of Arkansas As Seen Through a Pinhole (UA Press, 1993) and An Outhouse by Any Other Name (August House Publishers, 1999). Harding died August 4, 2002, and is buried at Calvary Cemetery, Little Rock
Submissions from 2020
Commercial National Bank: Annual report: employees
Commercial National Bank: Annual report: Julian Blass
Cromwell, Neyland, Truemper, Levy and Gatchell, Inc. office staff candids
FABCO (First American Bankstock Corporation) bldg.
First National Bank: First National Guard billboard
First National Bank: First National Guard family portrait
First National Bank: Group with Joy Greer
Jim Jackson Companies: Christmas card group
Little Rock Club: Kitchen, dining room
McGeorge Construction Company: Big shovel
McKay: Cambridge Place, Mr. & Mrs. B. Ames
People's Saving & Loan Association: Building exterior
Photo of a Russel painting entitled "The Last Stand"
"T" Hanger, North Little Rock airport: Exterior
Tom Hinton-Sunbeam bread, hamburger rolls
Union National Bank group: Frances Heard, Garland Binns
Union National Bank: Jay Freeman
Worthen Bank: Mother, child at home, mother, child at branch
Submissions from 1983
Submissions from 1982
Aluminum kitchen utensils, Black & white
Blue Cross Blue Shield: Group of 4 men
Butcher, R.K., gas grill, ladies, H & S