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- [Parade on Congress Avenue]
- Photograph of a parade as it goes down Congress Avenue. Businesses are visible including C. L. Condit Co. and C. F Rumpel Art Store and Bazaar. An illegible note is in the lower right corner.
- [Fort Saloon]
- Photograph of a group of men, women, and children at "Fort Saloon."
- Governor’s Mansion in winter
- Front elevation, south elevation, from southeast, picket fence, gazebo.
- [Governor’s Mansion]
- Front elevation, walkway with urns, gothic screen door, grounds.
- Governor’s Mansion with first family
- Black and white photograph of the Campbell Family standing in front of the Governor's Mansion. Governor Campbell served 1907-1911.
- [Governor’s Mansion]
- Front elevation walkway with urns, gazebo, carriage house, grounds, curb, dirt street and no picket fence.
- [Capitol Greenhouse]
- Exterior of a greenhouse building.
- [Congress Avenue looking south from Capitol Building]
- View of Congress Avenue, looking south from Capitol Building. Signs are visible for Maerki's Bakery and Hill & Hill Groceries.
- View of Austin from the Capitol
- Photograph of the view from the Capitol building facing southwest. The Colorado River and a bridge spanning it can be seen in the background.
- Scene at Camp Mabry
- Photograph of a scene at Camp Mabry with men on horseback riding across a field. One man, left of center, holds a flag.
- [Soldiers on Horseback at Camp Mabry]
- Photograph of soldiers on horseback at Camp Mabry.
- [Man Sitting on Ledge at Barton Creek]
- Photograph of a man sitting on a ledge at Barton Creek.
- [Austin Dam Broken after Flood]
- Photograph of a view southeast at the Austin Dam on the Colorado River after breaking during a flood.
- [Home Damaged by Colorado River Flood]
- Photograph of a house damaged by the Colorado River flood.
- [Deserted Log Cabin]
- Photograph of the exterior of a deserted log cabin.
- [People boarding a passenger train]
- Photograph of two women wearing long dresses and large hats, two men in suits and hats, a black porter and two conductors (one black and one white) stand near a stationary train. One of the women is standing on the boarding stool at the train door and bending over; she appears to be looking for something. Above her, part of a third woman's body is visible in the door opening. There is a number written in pencil on the lower left corner of the photograph that reads "6009".
- [Train wreck south of Austin in 1908]
- Photograph of of wrecked railroad train cars, with a small boy in a hat in the foreground looking at the camera. The elevated end of the locomotive and a damaged stock car are visible.
- [Texas State Capitol]
- Photograph of the Texas State Capitol building taken from the southwest.
- Capitol Grounds - Austin, Texas
- Photograph of the Capitol Grounds in Austin, Texas. The photograph is on the front of a postcard written to Joe Harrell in Kingsland, Texas from Bob. The correspondene on the postcard reads, "It is he_ _ to have to go back to work after having such a fun easy time. Regards to All. Bob."
- Deaf and Dumb Institute
- Photograph of men a women standing on top of foundation of the Texas school for the Deaf. Francis Fischer and J.B. Nitchke hold the cornerstone. "Deaf and Dumb Institute, Fischer and Lambie Contractors, Lumber from Clacasieu Lumber Co." is written in the bottom left-hand quarter of the photo.
- [Woman standing with a bicycle with balloon tires]
- Photograph of a woman dressed in a white blouse and hat as well as a dark skirt standing on a lawn in front of bushes with a bicycle with balloon tires. She has her right hand on the seat and her left hand on the handlebar. The bicycle is a turn-of-the-century safety model with a single gear and bicycle chain.
- Court-House crowd [Group of Travis County officials standing on the steps of a stone building]
- Photograph of a group of men wearing suits standing on the steps of what may be either the Travis County Courthouse or the Travis County Jail. The identified men, including Judge George Calhoun, District Clerk James P. Hart, and Deputy Sheriff Fred Peck, are all Travis County officials, but most of the group are unidentified. One of the the men is African American, and he appears to be the only person not wearing a suit coat. Several of the men are wearing ties -- including bow ties, string ties and neck ties -- and several are wearing vests and have watch chains. The building behind them is made of stone blocks, with rusticated blocks below and ashlar blocks above. There is a door in the center of the photograph, behind the men, and it is flanked by two double-hung sash windows. Inscribed below the image in ink is "Court-House crowd", and the identifications are written in either ink or pencil with arrows pointing to the identified person.
- [Group of men on horseback, including Sheriff George S. Matthews, in front of Barnes and Company Grocers store]
- Photograph of a group of men on horseback in front of Barnes and Company Grocers, including George S. Matthews, who served as Travis County Sheriff from 1902 to 1920. Prior to that Matthews was a deputy sheriff. The men are wearing suits and hats, and some are wearing sashes and ribbons. Horses and buggies are visible behind the men on horseback, just in front of the store. Two women on the store's front porch are wearing long skirts and large hats. The Barnes and Company grocery was a two-story brick building with a two-story front wooden porch, located at 123 West 7th Street at Colorado Street. The railing on the second porch floor has Maltese crosses and Masonic emblems on alternating metal balusters, and a painted wooden slat sign between the floors has a decorative pierced and pointed detail on the bottom side. The painter of the grocery's sign was Philip Bruckmann. The street in front of the store is dirt.
- [Old Austin High School/John T. Allan Junior High School]
- Photograph of the recently completed building that housed Austin High School from 1900 to 1925 and the John T. Allan Junior High School from 1925 until it was destroyed by a fire. Note that the photograph is mounted on cardboard backing and written on the back is the name J. E. Pearce.
- [Congress Avenue]
- Photograph of Congress Avenue looking north. The state capital building is visible in the background.
- Union Depot
- This is a photograph from the book - "Austin, Texas, illustrated: Famous Capital City of the Lone Star State" published in 1900 that shows Union Depot on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas. Trains and passengers in view. Property of International & Great Northern Railroad.
- [Congress Avenue Bridge]
- Looking north towards the Capitol on the Congress Avenue bridge.
- [Colorado River Flood]
- Photograph of a house surrounded by floodwaters during a Colorado River flood. The capitol dome is visible in the distance.
- [Three Men Under Bridge at Barton Creek]
- Photograph of three men in suits holding buckets and standing under a bridge at Barton Creek. Photograph is a cyanotype.
- Young Ladies' Basketball Team, 1902
- Photograph of University of Texas' Young Ladies' Basketball Team. 9 unidentified women pose for a group portrait, with one woman in the center holding a basketball with "1902" written on it.
- Cedar Choppers
- Scene with cedar choppers. Men and boys are in a car and a truck. A house and trees are partially visible in the background.
- [Racing in Hyde Park]
- Photograph of Barney Oldfield in his racing car, the "Green Dragon" at the old fair grounds in Hyde Park, Austin, Texas.
- [Congress at 7th]
- Photograph of a concrete crew working on Congress Avenue at 7th Street, looking north. Several businesses, including Nixon Commercial College, are visible along the left side of the street.
- Austin Cotton Gin
- Austin Cotton Gin was owned by W. T. Caswell and was located on the west side of Chicon St. Horse-drawn wagons with bales of cotton. Workers pose for photograph. Hand-crank loading cranes on platform.
- Austin Cotton Gin
- Austin Cotton Gin was owned by W. T. Caswell and was located on the west side of Chicon St. Horse-drawn wagons full of cotton. Workers pose for photograph.
- University of Texas grounds
- Three women sitting among the bluebonnets on the Campus grounds. In the background are the Woman's Building built 1903 on the left and the old Chemical Laboratory built 1891. Both buildings were destroyed by fire; the Woman's Building burned in 1959 and the Chemical Laboratory in 1926.
- Unveiling of Confederate Monument at Capitol
- People gathered on the Capitol grounds including two men on top of a power line pole.
- Congress Avenue looking north
- Looking north along Congress Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets.
- [View of Austin from the South]
- Photograph of an aerial or high point view of Austin from the south looking north across the river toward the Capitol building.