1900’s – Paddleboat Sears

1900’s – Paddleboat Sears

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The paddleboat Sears loads lumber onto barges at the Jacksonport log yard in about 1900.  All types of lumber – including cottonwood, gum, hickory, elm, oak, maple, ash, and cedar – were brought down from the Black, Current, and upper White Rivers to...
1900’s – Railroad Workers

1900’s – Railroad Workers

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These unnamed railroad workers show by their faces and clothing that they had hard lives.  They worked up and down the rails repairing tiles, replacing spikes, and clearing the track of debris. From Watson, Tim, and Elizabeth Jacoway. Newport and Jackson County....
1990’s – Tom Thumb Wedding

1990’s – Tom Thumb Wedding

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Mrs. O.D. Watson and Mrs. Charles Wilmans sponsored this Tom Thumb wedding as a benefit for the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  The performance was in the Newport Opera House.  This photograph was taken in front of the Brandenburg house on the southwest corner...
1900’s – Lula Empie Van Dyke

1900’s – Lula Empie Van Dyke

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Lula Empie Van Dyke is pictured here seated in the family buggy.  The carriage horse, Nellie, is harnessed.  This is a typical scene in Newport before the automobile age.  Many ladies had their own light buggies as well as a family surrey.  They were good horsewomen...