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 1973
World Wide Travel, Fayetteville
World Wide Travel: Ruth Webster
Worthen Bank: Beth Hirsheider, Ron King
Worthen Bank: Bob Perry in car
Worthen Bank: Capitol Ave. branch
Worthen Bank: Convention party
Worthen Bank: Correspondent banking, Horton & Brashears
Worthen Bank: First National Bank, Hot Springs
Worthen Bank: George Rowland, Mickey Cissell, Bob Perry, Olene Whitley & Edwards
Worthen Bank: Johnson, Jones, Boulton, Oates
Worthen Bank: Mailbox, woman, child
Worthen Bank: Safe deposit box
Worthen Bank: Wallis, Gregory Looney, Rothman
Submissions from 1972
Amy Faulkner, Holly Green with dolls
Arkansas Bank & Trust Hot Springs
Arkansas Gazette paper on school desk
Arkansas Gazette: Political group
Arkansas Power & Light Company annual report
Arkansas Power & Light Company: boy, bicycle, 2 men
Arkansas Power & Light Company: Carrie Whiteside & mother
Arkansas Power & Light Company: dog, thief, people spying, Mom's kitchen
Arkansas Power & Light Company: group of 7, Old State House
Arkansas Power & Light Company: Hard hat
Arkansas Power & Light Company: Kathy & Phillip Johnson in kitchen
Arkansas Power & Light Company: Mike Moring Jr. "No Hot Water" Ad
Arkansas Power & Light Company: Mike Moring Jr. with towel on head "Good Warm Feeling" Ad
Arkansas Power & Light Company: Rusty Russell
Ash tray from Hot Springs & two shots of Worthen Bank building
Barnet, McCain, Meadows & Cargile by sign in office
Beneli motorcycle jumping at Kenny's cycle shop
Benton State Bank: Logo, pocket dagger