The children are Kay and
Doris Adams and the pictures around 1915. I’m pasting in an e-mail
below that I received from a historian in Hot Springs that probably
has the rest of the information that would be of interest to you.
Please feel free to post the pictures.
None of these were actually
taken at Hot Springs National Park (at that time called Hot Springs
Reservation), but they were taken in the city of Hot Springs that
surrounds the park. The one with the goat and cart was probably
taken in Happy Hollow on Fountain Street. Happy Hollow was a 1915
version of an amusement park, and the proprietor, John McLeod, was
also a photographer who specialized in novelty images. He sometimes
called his place a "Wild West Park," but the emphasis changed from
year to year.
Fountain Street forms the
north boundary of the park but is not part of the park.
The ostrich farm was in what
was then considered the suburbs on Whittington Avenue. It went out
of business in the 1940s.
The structure in the
background of the other two images is unfamiliar, but it is probably
one of the smaller boarding hotels in Hot Springs. It looks a bit
like the Waverly Hotel, but I just can't tell for sure.
Thank you J Bell 4'07