Arkansas Postcard Past: Hot Springs, circa 1920
Hot Springs, circa 1920: Many thousands of postcards were made at the Happy Hollow photo studio of people posed in a bull drawn cart. It remains a mystery what…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Alma in 1939
Alma, 1939: U.S. 71 North, connecting Fort Smith and Fayetteville, was paved only about three years earlier. With the modern road rose businesses like the Alma…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Little Rock, circa 1910
Little Rock, circa 1910: Friday's feature was a postcard solicitation for customers to visit Jones House Furnishings, which occupied a significant part of the …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Little Rock in 1908
Little Rock, 1908: Jones House Furnishing occupied a good portion of the east side of the 600 block of Main Street. The postcard to Hope sought business: "Why …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Hot Springs in 1912
Hot Springs, 1912: "Began baths today, Doctor says stay six weeks -- probably stay four weeks. Doctors and druggists are high priced." The man writing to Ohio …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Paris in 1939
Paris, 1939: Arkansas 22 through Paris saw a lot of traffic to and from Fort Smith. Green Top Cabins and its Esso station, with gas at 16 cents a gallon, sat o…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Lake Village in 1914
Lake Village, 1914: "Albert Mc Store" and apparently it was Albert in the vest and tie in front of the Chicot Drug Co. In the era many of the medicines dispens…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Harrison, circa 1910
Harrison, circa 1910: "On Camp grounds," which seemingly were the grounds for a mansion from the 1800s. The buildings to the left were the restrooms, marked "W…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Newport in 1908
Newport, 1908: On the public-school postcard, apparently sent by a baseball player, was penned: "Have played here three days, leave for Memphis tonight. I got …
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Hot Springs, circa 1910
Hot Springs, circa 1910: The "New" Rector Bath House on Central across the street from Bath House Row took its name from Henry Rector, Arkansas's governor duri…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Bald Knob, circa 1967
Bald Knob, circa 1967: A pink Cadillac to the left and a Thunderbird to the right were stopped at the Wallace Fruit Market at the intersection of U.S. 67 and 6…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Everton, circa 1910
Everton, circa 1910: The once bustling community is a few miles south of Harrison on today's U.S. 65. The depot of the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad pla…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Bentonville, circa 1910
Bentonville, circa 1910: An outing was photographed in a cave. Hiking into the cave wearing long dresses and carrying the Kerosene lanterns shown would have be…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Cove, circa 1910
Cove, circa 1910: Today this small Polk County town is home to about 300 people, located on U.S. 71. A century ago, it was a remote area producing fruit and ot…
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Arkansas Postcard Past: Brinkley in 1909
Brinkley, 1909: Friday's feature was on the Brinkley Car Works, which employed 150 men for railcar and lumber manufacturing. The jobs were lost when a tornado …
