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 1972
Benton State Bank-Sunbeam products: Premium
Breakaway & Assoc: Composite "Scatpac"
Bruce Smith with RCA portable Black & white TV, Commercial National Bank of Memphis
"Cheer Chiefs" 2 girls, skirts
Christmas ad: Group of children
Codesco: Davidson Stover, W.T. Co., medical equip.
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, Allan Meadors
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, Butler & Brown with correspondent banking department heads
Commercial National Bank: Annual report candid, employees, McLarty, Combs, and Phelps
Commercial National Bank: Annual report: correspondence banking department,
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, directors
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, directors
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, directors
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, James Holley
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, L.R. Abstract
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, management committee, McLarty, Combs, and Phelps
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, McLarty Combs and Phelps; Rosenbaum
Commercial National Bank: Annual report: Rick Bowen, Dick Butler
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, Tap Horner, McLarty, Combs, and Phelps
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, travel department
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, Wallace Townsend
Commercial National Bank: Annual report: William H. McLean, Leo Armstrong
Commercial National Bank: Annual report, Wm. McLean, McLarty, Combs, and Phelps
Commercial National Bank: Commercial loan committee annual report, McLarty Combs and Phelps
Commercial National Bank: Dennis Nelson, Dale Taylor
Commercial National Bank: Exterior
Commercial National Bank: Group of 3
Commercial National Bank: Mrs. Smittle, John Flake
Commercial National Bank: National board
Commercial National Bank: National board
Commonwealth Federal Savings & Loan: Christmas premiums table settings
Construction shop, Little Rock Machinery
Copy art work, 3 men walking H.V.B.
David Watkins: Top Worthen men
Diamond water: Delivery man with little boy & mother