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[Southern Pacific train passing through Dallas]

Description: Observe this rare specimen of steam motive power: Southern Pacific's Engine 741, a Mikado, type 2-8-2 locomotive, Train No. 155, heading a passenger train of two cars passing through Belt Junction in Dallas on June 22, 1952. Train 155 was a mixed freight and passenger train from Beaumont, Texas, which having dropped off its freight cars at Fox siding, out of sight just behind the coach, will continue to Union Terminal to deliver its passengers and express. The freight cars left at Fox would the… more
Date: June 22, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

Susanna Moehr - Family Picnic

Description: Large family gathering outside under the trees. Dorothy Flury Moehr is seated front center with man's hand on her shoulder. Miss Flury was a teacher at Austin High and at Reagan High for many years.
Date: June 22, 1947
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Dr. Bernice Moore

Description: Photograph of three women cutting peaches by a table with a basket seen on the ground. Two of them are seated and the other is standing next to them.
Date: October 22, 1949
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Montage: various buildings

Description: Copy negative of six photos attached to a sheet of paper. The images show (left-to-right, top-to-bottom): [1] a house with a long canopy covering the sidewalk; [2] the front of "Deacon Jones' Barbecue" with several men outside; [3] a man wearing a cap and apron outside a store; [4] the front of "Vandyke Business Service"; [5] the storefront of "LGTT Lumber Co and Materials" on a main street; [6] The front of a residential-type building with decorative woodwork and a sign over the door.
Date: April 22, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

City Hall Council Room with Boss Thorp

Description: Photograph of Boss Thorp standing in the corner of a room, near the doorway, behind several unidentified men seated around a table. Thorp is wearing a suit and holding a cigar and classes in his left hand. A pull-down map is visible on the wall above the men.
Date: June 22, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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