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 1974
Union National Bank group of 3, new head tellers
Union National Bank: group outside time/temp clock (Foxcroft)
Union National Bank group: promotion
Union National Bank: Jim Watts at TV station
Union National Bank: lemonade stand & boy, Union is for believers
Union National Bank: McAdams & Becknel, Barrios, Greg Oliver & people
Union National Bank new branch managers: Mike Seymore, Honor Millender
Union National Bank-NYLI: outstanding sales people, group of 10
Union National Bank: Old boards
Union National Bank: people on the street
Union National Bank: securities, man and wife in living room
Union National Bank: TV commercial, Channel 4, Greg Oliver & people
Union National Bank: Union is for Believers, father and son playing
Union National Bank: watch & calendar
Universal-Nolin Division of UMC Industries, Inc.
Universal-Nolin Division of UMC Industries, Inc.
Worthen Bank: Correspondent banking
Worthen Bank: Correspondent banking, 4 women
Worthen Bank: Correspondent banking, Roland
Worthen Bank: Emblem in motion
Worthen Bank: E. Penick, James Hall, Jim Penick Jr.
Worthen Bank: FABCO (First American Bankstock Corporation): Brochures
Worthen Bank group: Larry Burrows, George Rowland, alone: Jim Hamilton
Worthen Bank: Jim Penick & Beverly Lambert step-lens
Worthen Bank: J. Penick, G. Rowland
Worthen Bank: Lambert, Johnson, man, teletype
Worthen Bank: Men in computer room
Worthen Bank: Mini bank, Kay Allen
Submissions from 1973
2 Arkansas Industrial Development Commission members: Dildy, McAdams, Bowen, Rieff
American Foundation Life: F. Whitbeck & officers
Architectural photos of Peoples Savings & Loans: Holy Souls
Arkansas Highway Department exterior