Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital, 1950
/This week’s featured photo shows the Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital under construction in 1950.
Read MoreFound in the Archives combs through the museum's photo archives to feature interesting photographs in the order that they were donated.
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This week’s featured photo shows the Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital under construction in 1950.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo, donated in 1988, shows one of Kansas City Southern’s early diesel passenger liners pulling into the depot at Siloam Springs and discusses the history of the railroad in our town.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo, donated in 1988, shows the 1949 groundbreaking of First Presbyterian Church’s current building.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo shows campers enjoying summer activities at Gypsy Camp for Girls. The camp was operational just south of Siloam Springs on Highway 59 from 1921 until 1978. Click the link to read about the camp’s history and its future.
Read MoreWithout photos of historic Siloam Springs taken by J. E. and J. H. Suttle, local historians would find it more difficult to envision downtown Siloam in the early 1900’s. Their work represented a large percentage of the photos taken of Siloam around this time. This week’s issue of Found in the Archives features a photo of one of the Suttle photographers and members of his family, donated to the museum in 1986.
Read MoreThis week’s issue of Found in the Archives tells the history of Forest Park and its long-lost lake.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo shows a large group of men gathered in front of the Siloam Spring for a town advertisement which was published in 1885.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo shows Hal Millsap IGA Food Liner as it looked in the late 1940’s. Today, this building is occupied by TC Screen Printing.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo, donated to the museum in 1986, shows a man standing beneath the 77-foot waterfall at Dripping Springs within what is now Natural Falls State Park.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo, donated to the museum in 1986, shows one of Siloam’s early wood frame buildings, J. J. Britt and Son Hardware, and tells about the life of the owner.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo shows the inside of Rapps’ Barber Shop, which was open in downtown Siloam Springs from 1909 to the mid 1960’s.
Read MoreThis week’s issue of Found In The Archives features a 1930’s photo of the present day Crown Hotel in downtown Siloam and shows the hotel’s evolution since it was built in 1881.
Read MoreThis week, we bring you a special issue of Found in the Archives as the museum begins the process of renovating its current space.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo, donated to the museum in 1984, shows a parade down present day Broadway Street in early Siloam Springs history.
Read MoreThis week's featured photo shows that Doug the Deer is not the only friendly deer in Siloam's past.
Read MoreThis week's featured photos were donated to the museum in 1983. They document a private pilot’s flight around the Siloam Springs area and provide a unique perspective on Siloam in the early 1980’s.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo shows crews paving St. John Street (present day University Street) in 1926
Read MoreThis week's Found In The Archives features several 1907 photos of Rev. Lovic P. Law and gives information about the Siloam Springs Chautauqua building, at which Law was an occasional speaker.
Read MoreThis week’s featured photo was donated to the museum in 1974 and shows Siloam Springs’ first motorized fire truck.
Read MoreDuring the 1928 season, the Siloam Springs football team went undefeated. This week’s featured photo shows the undefeated team in a menacing pose, ready to take all comers.
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