NLR History

Photographer’s Work in Smithsonian

North Little Rock History is a rich and educational part of our city. Chris Huie, the son of Chinese immigrants, grew up in North Little Rock’s Dark Hollow community in the 1940s and 1950s. His parents, George D.D. and Helen, owned and operated the Huie Grocery Store at 1400 Pine Street for three decades. After graduating from North Little Rock High School in 1959 and then attending Little Rock University (now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Chris Huie served in the United States Army in Germany. Huie went on to study photography at Rochester University in New York and earn a master’s degree in history at New York University. In the early 1970s, he photographed a number of people and places in Dark Hollow as well as other areas of the city and state. The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. has 23 of Huie’s photographs in its collection, including several depicting life in North Little Rock in the 1970s. Chris Huie now lives in San Francisco.