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[Boys' woodworking class at John T. Allan Junior High School]

Description: Photograph of a boys' woodworking class at the Old Red Campus building of the John T. Allan Junior High School, formerly Stephen F. Austin High School. The room is crowded with work stations, where the boys are engaged in making various projects such as wooden stools and picture frames. The rounded masonry wall has arched windows, covered by translucent roller shades for indirect light. There are frames mounted between the windows displaying various tools and examples of metal work. The exposed… more
Date: 1925/1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Brackenridge Elementary School]

Description: Photograph of Brackenridge Elementary School, located at 319 West Elizabeth Street, a segregated school for Negro children. The building was a one story wooden structure with board and batten exterior walls, 6/6 wood windows, and a plain, square-columned porch entrance. The wooden doors are topped by transom windows. This school for colored children was first listed in the 1909-1910 Austin City Directory, and a school by that name was operating as late as 1965.
Date: 1920~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Carver Branch Library

Description: Photograph of a man wearing glasses is looking at a book whlie sitting at a table inside the Carver Branch Library. It is a wide view of the room and there are a couple of children checking out books in the background.
Date: [1926,1979]
Creator: University Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Congress Avenue]

Description: Photograph of Congress Avenue looking north. Cabaniss Hardware and Dewey Garage are visible at right, as well as cars and some advertisements painted on the buildings. The Capitol is visible in the distance. Streetcar rails are in the center of the road.
Date: January 26, 1920
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Governor's Mansion from the grounds]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Governor's Mansion looking southeast from northwest side of the mansion on the grounds. Trees and a stone birdbath are visible in front of and partially obscure the mansion from view. A sprinkler is on and watering the lawn on the right side of the mansion. The mansion was built by Abner Cook in 1855 and was continuously occupied since 1856. The occupant here in 1929 was Governor Dan Moody. The mansion was declared a Texas historical landmark in 1962 and a national his… more
Date: 1929
Creator: Boone Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Governor's Mansion [under snow]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Governor's Mansion front and north elevations. It has a screen porch with steps. The front lawn is covered in snow. The mansion was built by Abner Cook in 1855 and continuously occupied since 1856. The mansion here was occupied by first female Texas governor Miriam A. Ferguson in 1925. The mansion was declared a Texas historical landmark in 1962 and a National historic landmark in 1970.
Date: 1925
Creator: Ellison Photo Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Group of Children at Governor's Mansion]

Description: Photograph of First Lady Willie Hobby, seated on the steps of the Governor's Mansion, surrounded by a group of children. Included are Marie Hanna Bernheim; Roy Rather, Jr.; Margaret Soreano Beverly; Kathleen Crawford; Catherine Teten Nash; Mary Watt Avery; Mary Louise Hill Sparks; Virginia Horton Roberdeau; Helen Phinney Avery; George Sparks; and Frances Seybolt Rather.
Date: 1920~
Creator: Gazley Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Guadalupe Street

Description: Photograph of Guadalupe Street taken from the west approximately where the present-day "The Drag" is located. A street car is in motion along the street. Texas Bookstore, University Co-Op and Roach Brothers pharmacy are on the west side of Guadalupe Street.
Date: April 17, 1927
Creator: Boone
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Indoor View of Plower Plant]

Description: Photograph of power plant machinery.Caption on back of photo reads: "Foreground L-R: 500KW air-injector, 2000KW air-injector - takes non-condensable vapors out of condensor; 5000KW generator is behind photographer. Background L-R: two excitors, small Allis-Chalmers turbine generator. Mid-Bkgrd: larger Allis-Chalmers generator ?; rt bkgrd: "W" denotes Westinghouse turbine generator - relatively new (In 1934, another Westinghouse turbine generator was placed on a platform in left bkgrd.)"
Date: 1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Kite Tournament]

Description: Photograph of a kite flying tournament with cars parked in a row by a field and spectators watching. A small boy in the foreground holds the string of a kite.
Date: [1928..1938]
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[May Day play at Treaty Oak]

Description: Photograph of children playing on and around the Treaty Oak branches on May Day ca. 1925. Three girls sit and stand on the oak's low branches. A fourth girl looks on with a young boy and their caretaker. Everyone is dressed in white. The lawn is littered with children's chairs and various outdoor equipment.
Date: 1925~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.271225 -97.755519
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Music Memory Contest Winners]

Description: Photograph of group of 37 students at Baker Elementary School, the Music Memory Contest Winners 3 times in a row. Mercy Ramsey is 2nd from left in 1st row. Two boys in the front hold a large trophy, the boy on the right has been identified as William Erwin McIntosh.
Date: [1923..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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