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- [St. David's Hospital]
- Exterior of the St. David's Hospital building at 606 W. 17th. Building is now the Rio House Apartments.
- [Seaholm Power Plant]
- Photograph of Seaholm Power Plant. A dirt road and power lines are in the foreground and there are buildings in the background with two smoke stacks. One of the smoke stacks reads "Austin The Friendly City".
- [Old Red Campus building, John T. Allan Campus of Stephen F. Austin High School]
- Photograph of Old Red Campus building, at the John T. Allan Campus of Stephen F. Austin High School, showing an oblique view of the front and side of the classical four-story building. The exterior walls of the first floor are constructed of stone and the upper three floors are dark brick. The front is symetrically arranged in three parts, with the central part inset from the outer parts. Porches stretch across the central part of the first and second floors, and a gable is centered above on the roof. There are punched windows on the upper floors of the front facade, while windows are ganged on the side facade. A portion of the facade, near the back of the building, has a curved wall. There is a three-story brick addition to the side of the building, and there are chute style fire escapes on both the main building and the addition. A parking lot lies to the front of the building, with several circa 1920s cars. A boy wearing knickers stands in the parking lot. The building was completed in 1900 from the plans of Burt McDonald and James Reily, and featured a domed rotunda. It was used as Austin High School until 1925, when it became the John T. Allan Junior High School. Classes were held here until 1956, when the school was destroyed by fire. A State of Texas Subject Marker was placed on the site in 1981 by the Texas Historical Commission.
- [Kite Tournament at Lamar Park]
- Photograph of a kite tournament at Lamar Park. Crowds of people are gathered in a grassy field. There are some kites in the air.
- [Winfred Gustafson and Winning Box Kite]
- Photograph of Winfred Gustafson and his winning kite (for largest box kite) at the first kite flying contest.
- [Indoor View of Plower Plant]
- Photograph of power plant machinery.Caption on back of photo reads: "Foreground L-R: 500KW air-injector, 2000KW air-injector - takes non-condensable vapors out of condensor; 5000KW generator is behind photographer. Background L-R: two excitors, small Allis-Chalmers turbine generator. Mid-Bkgrd: larger Allis-Chalmers generator ?; rt bkgrd: "W" denotes Westinghouse turbine generator - relatively new (In 1934, another Westinghouse turbine generator was placed on a platform in left bkgrd.)"