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Thomas Harding photograph collection, 1970s-1983

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 1972

Dickinson, Harold

Dickinson, Tyndall

Doctor's Building

Doctor's Hospital rendering

Downs, Mrs. W.D.

Dugger, Shirley

Earnhart, Charles

East Cashion East: 2 men

Electric light on post, made like a gas light

Elwood, Richard

Faulkner, Sidney

Fine jewelry-Mall counter

Finkbeiner: 7 inter negs. Food

Finkbeiner, Buddy

Finkbeiner: Food

Finkbeiner: Ham/bacon

Finkbeiner: Holiday ham pkg., rope sausage

First Charlie Meyer store

First Federal, Pine Bluff: "Hog"

First Federal Savings and Loan of Hot Springs: Black & White House & Plans

First Federal Savings of Helena passbook

First National Bank

First National Bank

First National Bank: 27 people

First National Bank: Battery

First National Bank: Bob Anderson on mini-bike

First National Bank: Bob Berryman & checkbook

First National Bank: B. Walker & cat, Jim Johnson & Hitler

First National Bank: Capitol Avenue Branch, Charles Stewart

First National Bank: Capitol dome, Birdsong & Griffin

First National Bank: Charles Stewart, Capitol Avenue Branch

First National Bank: Door

First National Bank: Exit sign

First National Bank: Foreign coins

First National Bank: Foreign coins

First National Bank: Golden passbook, fire net

First National Bank: group of 7, Bartel

First National Bank: Guard

First National Bank: Guard employees

First National Bank: Guard, group of 3 in studio, Art Rand, etc.

First National Bank: Guard nightclub scene

First National Bank, Hot Springs, AR

First National Bank: Jar

First National Bank: J.C. Mitchell

First National Bank: Jim Selman, Doctor's Branch

First National Bank: Julian Gilliam

First National Bank: Kate Morrow

First National Bank: Lobby, Sam laughing, Gar Puryear

First National Bank: Museum shot

First National Bank: negs, old bank location

First National Bank: New building signing

First National Bank: Nyberg & Haddon

First National Bank: Piggy bank

First National Bank: Sharri Smith

First National Bank: Todd Jurgens & Paul Lovett standing

First National Bank: Watch & insurance Policy

First National Bank: West Branch mgr., Dorothy Becton

First National Bank: Yield signs

First Pyramid Life Insurance Company of America: Building exterior

First Pyramid Life Insurance Company of America: Group of 6 on Old State House steps

First Pyramid Life Insurance Company of America: Jim Becker on highway, Ft. Smith

First Pyramid Life Insurance Company of America: Premium, clocks

Flanigan, Edith

Flanigan, Edith

Flanigan, Edith

Flemister, Carl

Fletcher, Miller, Dean

Fletcher, Mrs. Tom

Fletcher, Mrs. Tom M.

Fontaine, Nancy

Freidrich, George

Friberg, Mrs. Andrew

Fulgham, Mrs. C.E.

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