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

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Submissions from 1982

Cravens, William

Cypert, W.A.

Dalrymple, Dr. Glenn

Dennie, David

Dodson, Betty

East, Bob

Fan

Faulkner: St. George & Chuck Dovish

Fawcett, Louann

Files, Jack

First Federal Savings & Loan: 3 groups

Flake, John

Flat art, Mallin cordt

Flowers, Mallin cordt

Flowers, William

Flowers, William

Foti, Vicky

Garner, Bobby

Gipson, Martin

Glover, Earl

Glover, Lawson

Goldberger, Judge Charles

Good Old Days: Biscuits

Greer, Joy

Grose, James

Halter, Bill

Hammerschmidt, Robert

Hammons, Albert

Hartman, Sid

Hays, Steele

Hefner, Norman

Hiryak, Victor

Holmes, Tom

Holy Souls: Confirmation class

Holy Souls: First communion

Holy Souls: Graduates

House, Jim

Hughes, Betsy

James, Peggy

Jarvis, Don

Jim Davis

Johnson, David

Johnson, Helen

Johnson, Helen

Justus, Jack

Maginn, Ray

Mallin cordt, stream

Mason, Betty

Maybelline: 130 salespersons

Maybelline: Plant Interiors

McCain, Susan

McCutcheon, John

McDaniel, Barry

McDonough, Russ

McGrath, John

McKinney/Taylor: John Rogers, Phil Byers

Meyers, Mike

Morgan, Biff

Munsey

Munsey

Needler, R.

Needleworks Inc.: Covers & literature

Nurse taking blood pressure

OCII

Officers of Arkansas Advertising Federation

Parker, Ray

Patterson, Bill

Phillips, William

Photos of Gary Haynes and John Brower

Planter's Lumber Company: Gary Cattlett, Don James

Pollard, Steve

Post, Karen

Rappeport, Dorothy

Riffel, Mrs. Riddick

Roberts, John

Roy, Linda, group of 2

Sams, B.J.

Shoe

Shoes

Smith, Martha

Snowden, Christine

Spaulding Athletic Goods Co, Inc: Randy Taylor

Spence, James

Spencer, Frank

Spence, Thad

Stortz, Charlotte

Summers, Patricia

Tate, Sherman

Venhaus, Don

Walsh, Joanne

Ward, John

Ward, Terri

Weisenberger, Royce

Wellborn, Elizabeth

Wellborn, Elizabeth

Wiegel, Bob

Wilkerson, Marilyn

Wilson, Judy

Womack, Tom

Submissions from 1981

Ackley, Richard