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First Baptist Church - Usher Board 2

Description: Photograph of a group of ushers from First Baptist Church. The group includes eight women and five men standing in two rows. They appear to be wearing matching outfits. This is Usher Board 2 at First Baptist Church in Austin around 1930.
Date: 1930
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Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum

First Baptist Church - Group to Consider a New Church

Description: Photograph of twelve people from the First Baptist Church congregation. They are posed in two rows with those in front sitting in chairs and the back row standing behind them. The photograph appears to have been taken outside, in front of a building. When First Baptist Church was at it's 14th and Red River Streets location in 1930, Rev. Levi Stanmore selected 10 groups to discuss, review the survey given to them, and at a later date give their group reports to him about "considering a New C… more
Date: May 14, 1930
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Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum

First Baptist Church - Group to Consider a New Church

Description: Photograph of a group of people from the congregation of First Baptist Church. They are arranged in two rows and those in the front are sitting in chairs. Most of the people are wearing choir robes, and a man to the left of the photograph is posing with a string bass. The photograph was taken outside, in front of a building When First Baptist Church was at it's 14th and Red River Streets location in 1930, Rev. Levi Stanmore selected 10 groups to discuss, review the survey given to them, an… more
Date: May 14, 1930
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Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum

Olive Street School Faculty

Description: Photograph of the faculty of the Olive Street School c. 1933. They are posing in two rows; a man and six women are sitting in the front and five other women are standing behind them. The man in the center, bottom row is Cecil Moore, born c. 1905.
Date: 1933~
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Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum

Friendly R. Rice

Description: Portrait of Friendly R. Rice, principal of the Blackshear School of Austin, Texas from 1931 - 1972. Mr. Rice initiated the hot lunch program and the first black elementary school library in Texas. The F. R. Rice Secondary School is named in his honor.
Date: 1965~
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Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum

Carl Walker

Description: Photograph of Carl Walker sitting at a desk, reading a book. There are seals hanging on the wall behind him and a U.S. flag. Walker of Houston became the first negro in the south to be appointed an assistant United States District Attorney. A graduate of Texas Southern University Law School, his appointment in 1961 was to the southern district of Texas.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum
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