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- [Elisabet Ney Museum]
- Photograph of the exterior of the Elisabet Ney Museum.
- [Governor's Mansion]
- Photograph of the front entrance of the Texas Governor's mansion.
- [Governor's Mansion]
- Photograph of the Texas Governor's mansion taken from the northwest.
- Interior of senior high library [at Austin High School]
- Photograph of interior of the senior high library at Austin High School from behind the circulation desk. Students fill the wooden tables, five or six per table. Girls sit together, as do boys, with some mixing. Card catalog drawers are on the circulation desk the foreground, as are books stacked and standing. A wall clock wrapped in ivy hangs on the wall above a bust on a mantle above a bricked in fireplace on the rear wall. Sunlight comes in through high windows on both left and right of the image. Double doors indicate the exit at the back of the room on the right. Paint is chipped from tabletop edges at the tables where students are seated in wooden chairs with vertical slats.
- Manor School, May 2, 1930
- Photograph of a large group of Manor School students posing for a photograph. The students vary in age from young children to teenagers and are African American.
- [Marching band at Wooldridge Park]
- Photograph of a marching band performing for a crowd at Wooldridge Park
- [May 4, 1922 Tornado]
- Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado funnel in the sky.
- [Motorists stranded in flood waters]
- Photograph of "stranded motorists attempting to remove their cars from 4 feet of water under an overpass of the MoPac Expressway in the western part of the city. Over 4.5 inches of rain late Monday 5/21 caused flooding in the downtown area." Men are standing, some waist-deep in water, outside of their vehicles.
- [People in Boat on Colorado River]
- Photograph of three women and two nicely dressed men in a boat at Mormon Falls on the Colorado River with Mt. Bonnell in the background.
- [Raising the Flag at Camp Swift]
- Photograph of four soldiers raising the flag for the first time at Camp Swift. Writing on the back reads: "Left to right: 1st Lt. Victor M. Wallace, adjutant; 2nd Lt. Henry Stone, Motor Pool Officer; Major Oscar P. Houston, Executive; and Major Earl Chase, Director of Supply. When the flag pole was originally set in place it was not perfectly vertical. It was necessary to take it up and reset it which was a major operation because of its length, weight, and concrete setting."
- [Removal of Railroad Tracks from E. 1st St.]
- Photograph of East 1st Street, showing brick immediately after rails have been picked up and method of loading rails. Houses on either side of the street are visible on both sides of the street. Workers and their vehicles are in the background.
- Removing Street Car Tracks on East 1st
- Photograph of two construction workers using jackhammers to remove the street cars tracks on East 1st Street.
- [Rosewood Park pool]
- Photograph of the swimming pool at the Rosewood Park for Negroes. The pool was built by J.F. Johnson Construction and is seventy feet wide by seventy five feet long, and runs three feet to seven feet and six inches deep. The photo is of the shallow end of the pool. Two cars are parked in near the pool. A lifeguard sits underneath a rules notice.
- [Rosewood Park swimming pool]
- Photograph of the empty swimming pool at Rosewood Park for Negroes. The photograph shows the shower in the middle left where swimmers can wash off grass and dirt before entering the pool. The diving board is visible behind the shower indicating this is a photo of the deep end of the pool. A lifeguard sits in the lifeguard chair at the far end of the pool. A swing set is partially visible behind the diving board and a some trees.
- Saint David's Episcopal Church
- Photograph of Saint David's Episcopal Church Austin, Texas as seen from the intersection of 7th Street and San Jacinto looking north east. The photograph also features a 1950 Mercury station wagon and a 1955 Ford Fairlane. A handwritten note on the back reads "Saint David's Episcopal Church, Oldest Protestant Church in Austin."
- [Student gathering on University of Texas at Austin campus before Governor Ferguson protest parade]
- Photograph of a group of University of Texas students and supporters gathered on the lawn behind the Old Main Building, as they prepare for a protest march to Governor James E. Ferguson's (Pa Ferguson) capitol office. Many of the group are seated on the lawn or on chairs, and some hold umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. A caption on the back of the photograph reads "scene in the campus before the student parade, May 28, 1917, Old Main Bg. in the background." The group was protesting Governor Ferguson's call for fraternities and sororities to be banned from the UT campus, and his further call for the removal of University president Dr. Robert Ernest Vinson. The Governor was not successful in either case, and was indeed himself impeached and removed from office by the Texas legislature on September 25, 1917.
- [Sunday Break Music Festival in 1976]
- Photograph of a large crowd of people at the Sunday Break music festival with a stage visible in the backgroud. Performing acts included America, Peter Frampton, Santana, and Gary Wright. 56,000 people were in attendance with a gross income of $532,000 against expenses of $425,000. Medical assistance was provided by YWCA's Middle Earth Program with over 100 volunteers. DPS agents and uniformed city police were not invited in the gates.
- [Texas State Capitol]
- Photograph of the Texas State Capitol building taken from the south. The words "Souvenir May 1888" appear in the bottom center of the photograph.
- [Tornado]
- Photograph of a tornado that has yet to touch down.
- [Tornado Damage]
- Photograph of a view of the steel tank at Penn Field damaged after the May 4, 1922 tornado.
- [Tornado in Sky]
- Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado forming in the sky.
- [Tornado in Sky]
- Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado in the sky.
- [Tornado in Sky]
- Photograph of a tornado in the sky on May 4, 1922. Caption on back reads: "Cyclone at Austin, Texas; Ruth Granberry."
- [Tornado in Sky]
- Photograph of a tornado in the sky on May 4, 1922, over downtown Austin. Writing on back reads: "Alta Heflin Wilder, photographer (?)."
- [Tornado, May 4, 1922]
- Black and white photograph of a tornado in the sky that has yet to touch down. The roof of a building is visible in the lower left corner.
- [Tornado over Capitol]
- Photograph of tornado above Capitol building looking northwest.
- [Tornado over Courthouse]
- Photograph of a tornado over the Travis County Courthouse.
- [Treaty Oak]
- Photograph of Treaty Oak on Baylor Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Austin shows the approximately 450-year-old tree's twisting branches and trunk. A low stone wall surrounds the tree, and sun dapples the grass beneath the branches.
- [View of tornado as seen from Congress Avenue downtown Austin, Texas]
- Photograph of the May 4, 1922 tornado in Austin, Texas, as seen from a rooftop on downtown Congress Avenue. Visible in the foreground are: the Queen Theater at 700 Congress Avenue, the Walter Tips Building at 708-710-712 Congress Avenue, and the F. W. Woolworth & Company at 800-802 Congress Avenue. The side of the Paramount Theater is also visible. There is a painted sign, on a building in the foreground, for Maxwell House Coffee. The tornado is clearly visible in the dark sky to the northwest of downtown. The original of this image is PICA 25989, which has not yet been scanned.