Here’s a grouping of just some of the historic photos the museum has collected from old Fort Smith companies and the products they produced using hardwood trees.
Please click on any photo to see a full size version. All viewers are welcome to use any of the pictures shown, but please include a link back to our site.
- Fort Smith Chair Factory, taken in 1902
- A wagon seat, made at the Fort Smith Table Company
- Barrels at the Chickasaw Wood Products Co
- Building coffins at Arkansas Casket Company
- Grocery delivery wagon, made locally
- Woodpiles for fueling at Rohwer Relocation Center
- Old woodcarving class at Rohwer Relocation Center
- Kropp Furniture Company Fort Smith, 1902
- Also at Kropp Furniture Company
- One of nine steamboats built by Captain B.C. Blakely in Fort Smith
- Ead’s Furniture Company of Fort Smith
- Fort Smith Folding Bed & Table Company
- Catalog from the Fort Smith Chair Company
- Log wagon, made in Fort Smith. Photo thought to be taken on Free Ferry Rd