Arkansas Postcard Past: Little Rock in 1910
Little Rock, 1910: The Elks Club was parading through the crossroads of Arkansas where Main Street crossed 5th Street (later Capitol Ave.). Union Dentists adve…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Wedington, circa 1910
Wedington, circa 1910: The Washington County community was named in the 1870s for early settler William L. Weddington. At some point in the past century, one "…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Little Rock in 1908
Little Rock, 1908: American pianist Myrtle Elvyn had debuted her talents in Berlin in 1904 and played across Europe before performing at the Capital Theater (W…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: O’Kean in 1918
O'Kean, 1918: "We got the little girl picture and think she is so sweet. Harry has been awful sick since we got the picture." The small community in Randolph C…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Helena, circa 1940
Helena, circa 1940: Cherry Street was the vibrant heart of the Phillips County seat at the time. To the right, the local movie theater was playing a Victor McL…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Beebe, circa 1940
Beebe, circa 1940: Today Beebe's downtown is bypassed by a freeway, but when the photo was made the commerce was all down and around Main Street near the railr…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Clarksville, circa 1940
Clarksville, circa 1940: Before the coming of Interstate 40, U.S. 64 brought heavy traffic by the ESSO station and Looper Motors (on the left) and the rental c…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Oark, circa 1920
Oark, circa 1920: The printer of the card mistakenly labeled the post office as at Dark, Ark. In truth, it was at Oark in Johnson County where the post office …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Hardy, circa 1950
Hardy, circa 1950: "This place is 2 miles up the river from town and off (the) highway. You can see how the women dress up here in the summer and believe me so…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Amity, circa 1910
Amity, circa 1910: "Bruce Harris and baby. (Florice) 14 months." The solemn, but we expect proud, father had visited a photographer's studio to have postcards …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Arkadelphia, circa 1940
Arkadelphia, circa 1940: U.S. 67 was paved in the mid 1930s and soon enterprises opened to serve the flow of motorists. One such was the Colonial Tourist Home …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Amity, circa 1930
Amity, circa 1930: Wednesday's feature showed the new school around 1910. Twenty years later it still stood, but with the center roof tower removed that once f…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Leola in 1915
Leola, 1915: "So hot here we hardly have any crops," says a card mailed to Texas in mid-July. The card was of the white-framed Baptist Church, set on raised fo…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Little Rock in 1910
Little Rock, 1910: In 1904 the Sisters of Mercy relocated their Convent and Mount St. Mary's girls' school from downtown to Pulaski Heights on Kavanaugh. The p…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: El Dorado, circa 1928
El Dorado, circa 1928: The Lion Oil "Stills," or refinery, began in 1922 by Col. T.H. Barton (for whom Barton Coliseum is named). By 1925 it was refining 10,00…
