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 1976
Photos taken at Christmas party
Progress Industries, North Little Rock, building exterior
Pulaski Federal Savings (PFS): Law Day, time capsule
Pulaski Federal Savings (PFS): McCain branch exterior
Pulaski Federal Savings (PFS): McCain branch, opening & ribbon cutting
Pulaski Federal Savings (PFS): Stonewall, Rendering & plot plan
Quapaw Quarter Association: 3 houses, T. Wilkes
Rector, Phillips, Morse: group of 3 in Chowning Office
Rector, Phillips, Morse: group of 6
Rector, Phillips, Morse groups
Rector, Phillips, Morse: Larry Taylor, J. Cruse, Jim
Rice Employment Agency: Kelly girls & mayor
Robert D. Cabe: Rector, Phillips, Morse
Scruggs, Mrs. James Ray (Mary)
Shearin & Associates, Inc.: 7 individuals
Shearin & Associates, Inc.: Sandy Sanders, Bob Stahler, Jack Oliver and Boykin
Sterling/Magic Mart Annual Report
Sterling/Magic Mart Annual Report
T. J. Raney: Building exterior
Typewriter and artist materials
Union National Bank: credit card and wallet
Union National Bank group: Doris Clark, Charles Garris
Union National Bank group: Erleen, Sue, Jerry
Union National Bank group: Murray Harding, R.D. Melton, Jan Henderson, Andrew Greene
Union National Bank: man on fence
Universal-Nolin Division of UMC Industries, Inc