1900’s – Peabody School in Tupelo

1900’s – Peabody School in Tupelo

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These students from the Peabody School in Tupelo, a farming town south of Newport, stand with their teacher, Ruby Harris who taught all grades.  A note on the back of the photograph identifies the students by las manes as, from right to left, (first row) Taylor,...
1905 – Harvey House

1905 – Harvey House

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Sam W. Harvey and his wife, Maud Harrison Harvey, and daughters Sylla (left) and Clara stand outside their new home in Tuckerman in 1905.  Harvey was a prominent merchant, planter, and ginner.  Sylla married Edward Wayne Boyce, Sr., who was a ginner, and she later...
1900’s – Family of Colonel Lancelot Minor

1900’s – Family of Colonel Lancelot Minor

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The family of Col. Lancelot Minor poses outside their home in the early 1900’s.  Pictured are, from left to right, (first row) Alcorn F. Minor, Charles L. Minor II, Willie Overton Minor (later Forsythe), and Mildred Minor (who drowned in her teens); (second row)...
1900’s – Watson Afternoon Card Party

1900’s – Watson Afternoon Card Party

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An afternoon card party at the home of O.D. Watson offered a pleasant outing for a few Newport ladies.  Pictured here are, from left to right, Mrs. Gus Jones, Kate Watson Bennett, Mrs. Bob Harder, Nettie Bond, Sweet Minor, two unidentified ladies, Bessie Watson, O.D....
1909 – Wolff Goldman Department Store

1909 – Wolff Goldman Department Store

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The employees of the Wolff Goldman department store pose outside their newly renovated and expanded operation in 1909.  Arkansas’s leading architect, Charles L. Thompson, designed the new building at the corner of Hazel and Front Streets.  Sigmund Wolff and...
1900’s – Tuckerman Gin

1900’s – Tuckerman Gin

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This photograph shows cotton bales at the Tuckerman gin.  From here, they would have been loaded onto railroad cars and shipped to cotton mills in the North. From the Jean Boyce Collection From Watson, Tim, and Elizabeth Jacoway. Newport and Jackson County. Arcadia...