In turn-of-the-century America, "Wish you were here" was an often-penned phrase used on the backs of postcards that had been purchased for a few pennies and mailed with a one-cent stamp. Taken from a collection of over five thousand postcards amassed by brothers Steven and Ray Hanley, these 431 images offer a close look into the lives of Arkansans during the early part of the twentieth century. Many of these scenes appeared in the Arkansas Gazette and in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the popular daily feature "Arkansas Postcard Past". Substantial captions, which add historical details and...

Takes readers on a postcard and photographic tour of Arkansas. This work helps readers to trace many towns' humble beginnings, with wooden-frame structures lining rutted dirt streets teeming with wagons, horses and mules.

A postcard and a photographic tour of various sections of Arkansas. It traces many towns' humble beginnings, with wooden-frame structures lining rutted dirt streets teeming with wagons, horses, and mules.

Offers readers a balanced history in words and historic photographs of Hot Springs National Park in the state of Arkansas. This book provides a fascinating visual history of pioneers, wealthy barons, scoundrels, gamblers, colourful politicians, and the hundreds of thousands of people who came to the spa city in hopes of regaining their fleeting health.

A century ago Hot Springs, Arkansas, was a world-renown resort city. Today, the town remains the most unique city in Arkansas but with much of its Victorian-to-1950s views nearly unrecognizable. "Hot Springs: Past and Present "shows vividly the before and after of hundreds of sites, answering questions such as What used to be on this corner? and What was here before it was a parking lot? The answer to those questions is often an opulent hotel, a theater, a bathhouse, a gambling house, or a mansion. Fire destroyed many buildings, even more were demolished, and some sites remain not so unlike...

While little has been written about the USS Arkansas, this battleship carried the state s name through two world wars, a Mexican invasion, and into the atomic age. The USS" Arkansas," measuring almost the length of two football fields, went to sea in 1911 and sailed the world until 1946 when it served as a target for the atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific. In between, the ship participated in the invasion of Vera Cruz, Mexico; served in World War I; helped Arkansas get an official flag; and assisted in the World War II battles at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Highlighting the narrative...