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Restoration & Repair to Legation de France, Austin, Texas. For The Daughters of the Republic of Texas

Description: These are the blueprints of the restoration of the Legation de France, now the French Legation Museum maintained by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. The architectural renderings were drawn in white on three sheets, each of which is labeled in part of the title box at the bottom of every page (in the lower right corner). The first page includes three drawings. The main drawing shows a floor plan of the building and is labeled: First Floor Plan. Scale 1/4:=1'-0". To the right, a tilt… more
Date: November 1955
Creator: Raiford Stripling Associates, Inc.
Partner: French Legation Museum

Ben Hur Temple Benefit Football Game

Description: Photograph of an announcement for the 9th annual benefit game for Crippled Children's Clinic sponsored by the Ben Hur Shrine Temple. The game was played between the Texas freshmen and the A&M freshmen and was held at Memorial Stadium on November 19, 1955.
Date: November 8, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Sinclair Service Station]

Description: Photograph of H & L Sinclair Service Station at 5517 Cameron Rd. Demolished. Photo shows two station attendants pumping gas and checking the engine of a customer's automobile.
Date: November 26, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Senior Reynolds Brothers Arranged in Front of a Stone Wall]

Description: Photograph of senior Reynolds brothers arranged in front of a stone wall. Four men stand at the wall and two sit in front of them at a table covered with glassware and silverware. A wood stove stands to the right of the men. The photo was taken in the inside porch of the Reynolds Bend cookshack at the wedding of Sally Brittingham and Jack Wallace.
Date: November 8, 1952
Creator: Rhea-Engert
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Three Women in a Room]

Description: Photograph of three women in a room. The wall is made of vertical wood planks and adorned with a painting to the left of a door with a curtained window. A woman on the left (Ethel Matthews Casey) stands in front of this door and to the right of a stool. She is wearing a hat, dark dress, and a pearl necklace and is holding a drinking glass. An senior woman (Susan Alice Matthews) sits in a chair beneath her. This woman is wearing a black hat with a mesh veil, glasses, a pearl necklace, and black … more
Date: November 8, 1952
Creator: Rhea-Engert
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch
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