1910's, Photo Search
Pictured here in 1910 is the office of the Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company at 404 1/2 Front Street in Newport. The operator was Maude Dunham. The first Newport telephone company started in 1885 as the White River Telephone Company with C.R. Hite as...
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...
1900s, Photo Search
This postcard was printed in Germany and sold in I.D. Price’s bookstore on Newport’s Front Street in 1907. It features a view of the west end of Front Street, facing the railroad and the river. The city fathers were already using mussel shells, abundant...
1900s, Photo Search
The signature white ink on this photography shows that it was taken by local photographer Parker. It features the east end of Front Street in 1907. Two establishments in the same block offer hot meals for 20 cents. From Watson, Tim, and Elizabeth Jacoway. Newport...
1890s, Photo Search
Berry Best’s brother and sister-in-law Ira and Jewel Best owned a popular restaurant and saloon at the corner of Walnut and Front Streets. The kitchen help is pictured here standing outside with Ira’s domesticated wolves. The man in the dark hat in the...
