1900s, Photo Search
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,...
1910's, Photo Search
T.S. Stephens and George Stephens started the Stephens Livery, Feed & Sale Stable in Jacksonport in the 1870’s. In the 1890’s, they moved their business to Newport, where, in addition to other services, they offered three round-trips each day between...
1900s, Photo Search
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...
1900s, Photo Search
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)...
1900s, Photo Search
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....
1900s, Photo Search
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...
