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[Train at Gainesville, Texas depot]

Description: Engine No. 306, an American type 4-4-0 locomotive, heads the Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's train No. 31 westbound, which is standing at Gainesville, Texas' depot enroute from Denison to Wichita Falls on June 23, 1940.
Date: June 23, 1940
Creator: Mizell, Charles M.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Melchor Ocampo" in Fraile]

Description: A combine second and first class coach, No. 7 named "Melchor Ocampo" is the rear-end car on the Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's passenger train which has made a station stop at the small town of Fraile on February 23, 1960. Along these narrow gauge rails in the early 1920s bandits frequently staged holdups of trains carrying payrolls in gold and silver to the mines at Concepcion del Oro.
Date: February 23, 1960
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Train at Concepcion del Oro]

Description: Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's Engine No. 7 has taken a long drink an a summer afternoon at the water tank located in the yards at Concepcion del Oro, preparing to head an ore consist. This was a mining town for many years where ore trains departed on frequent schedules for the Mazapil Smelter at saltillo, Mexico.
Date: February 23, 1960
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Byron Utecht at Typewriter]

Description: Photograph of Byron Etecht wearing a three-piece, dark-colored suit with a cigarette in his mouth, seated behind a typewriter and looking at the keys. He is in an office; behind him there are a desk covered in papers with a clock on a wooden platform (right), a small bookcase filled with books (center) and a photo hanging on the wall (left).
Date: November 23, 1941
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Mr. Castaneda

Description: Photographic portrait of Dr. Carlos E. Castaneda (1896-1958). Dr. Castaneda was a noted professor of Latin American History and librarian of The Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. The Perry-Castaneda Library bears his name and that of Dr. Ervin Perry.
Date: February 23, 1949
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Group photo

Description: Photograph of a group of men posing at one end of a table. Five of the men are seated around the head of the table; nine more men are standing in a semi-circle behind them. There are dishes and cutlery on the table.
Date: September 23, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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