1920s
The Bank of Swifton was no Wall Street bank, but it did a brisk business in this prosperous little north Jackson County farming community. (Courtesy of Ray Hanley.)
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...
1890s, Photo Search
In 1890, the Safe Deposit Bank, a private entity, was reorganized as the Bank of Newport to provide more banking services. Pictured here are E.L. Watson, founder and president (wearing the hat) and T.D. Kidman (cashier at the right); all others are unidentified. From...