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Actors at HemisFair '68

Description: Photograph of female actors in a play at HemisFair '68, including two adult actors standing to the left -- one wearing a tiger-like costume and the other dressed in an oriental-patterned robe. A small group of child actors are kneeling in the background to the right, and some are wearing Oriental-type dresses.
Date: [1968-04..1968-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Alamo City Jazz Band

Description: Photograph of a jazz quintet performing on a stage in front of a small group of people who are seated at three small tables. The name of the quintet is "Alamo City Jazz Band". Most of the people visible in the foreground are drinking beer, and a woman is taking a photograph of the people that are sitting at one of the tables. Chuck Reilley, a local dentist and the bandleader plays trombone and James Carroll Bell is on trumpet, while Randle Tankersley plays the bass saxophone.
Date: [1968-04..1968-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Couger with Two Mules]

Description: Photograph of Bill Couger with a team of two mules. Couger is wearing a hat, buttoned shirt, and dirty blue jeans. The group is standing on a field in front of a wooden fence.
Date: April 8, 1949
Creator: Wallace, Sally Brittingham
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

Birthday Party

Description: Photograph of elderly man seated at table with birthday cake. Birthday party was for 104-year-old man, Thomas Riddle.
Date: April 16, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Boat on Lake]

Description: Photograph of a boat in the water at the lake. John W. Gainer was a partner in the Hammerman and Gainer Insurance Company in Austin.
Date: April 19, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Boat on Lake]

Description: Photograph of a man drving a boat on the lake. John W. Gainer was a partner in the Hammerman and Gainer Insurance Company in Austin.
Date: April 19, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Bob Hope

Description: A close-up profile view of Bob Hope speaking to or entertaining a group of people. Bob Hope was one of the entertainers who performed in the convention center theater at HemisFair '68.
Date: [1968-04..1968-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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