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[Beverly Sheffield at Sing Song]

Description: Photograph of Beverly Sheffield at a Sing Song production at Zilker Hillside Theater. He is on stage, standing in front of the band, speaking at a microphone.
Date: 1956
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

[Couples Playing Dominoes at Hancock Recreation Center]

Description: Photograph of three older couples playing dominoes. Caption on the back reads: "Adult Friendship Club the Hancock Recreation Center each Tuesday night."
Date: 1955
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

[Musical Comedy Seventeen performed at the Zilker Hillside Theater]

Description: Photograph of musical comedy "Seventeen" performed on stage at the Zilker Hillside Theater in Austin. A cast of young men and women sit on the steps of a set that looks like a two-story house.
Date: September 1959
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Opening of Pan American Recreation Center

Description: Photograph of the side of the newly built Pan American Recreation Center at 2100 East 3rd Street. Swing sets are behind the building. The previous Pan Am Rec Center existed at 3rd and Comal Streets.
Date: September 1956
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Opening of the Pan American Recreation Center

Description: Photograph of the interior of the basketball court in the gymnasium at the opening of Pan American Recreation Center at 2100 East 3rd Street. A basketball hoop is visible on one wall and there are exposed metal beams along the ceiling.
Date: September 1956
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.
Location: 30.258107 -97.720709

Pan American Recreation Center Boxing Room

Description: Photograph of one side of the Pan-Am Rec Center Boxing Room. Boxers and trainers exercise by stretching, shadowboxing, and beating punching bags. The sparring ring is visible in the foregrond. Jackets hang on hooks on the left. Clock on the back wall reads about 6:50.
Date: January 28, 1959
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

[Pan American Recreation Center, exterior, at opening]

Description: Photograph of the exterior rear of the Pan American Recreation Center at the opening on 2100 East 3rd Street. The ground is not yet seeded and playground equipment is visible behind a fence in the right.
Date: September 1956
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Pan American Recreation Center Wood Shop

Description: Photograph of an instructor showing a boy how to use a saw on a piece of wood at the Pan Am wood shop.
Date: March 30, 1959
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Pan American Recreation Center's Skating Class

Description: Photograph of the Pan American Recreation Center's skating class in the Zavala Gym. A line of seven boys, aged 9 through 12 hold on to each other's shirts while skating in a line through the gym.
Date: March 30, 1959
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

[Storytime at the Pan American Recreation Center library]

Description: Photograph of a young woman reading a story to five children at the Pan American Recreation Center library. The woman and five children sit at a circular table with full stacks in the background. A second book lies unopened on the tabletop. An illustration of an elephant reading a book decorates the library wall.
Date: [1959..1969]
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

[Front exterior of Governor's Mansion with trees]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Governor's Mansion front elevation and south elevation showing the grounds and walkway, the stairs of which are bisected by a sidewalk. The upper porch is screened and partially obscured by a tree on the front lawn. The mansion was built by Abner Cook in 1855 and was continuously occupied since 1856. The occupant here in 1955 was Governor Alan Shivers. The mansion was declared a Texas historical landmark in 1962 and a national historic landmark in 1970.
Date: 1955
Creator: Boone Photo

[Aerial view of courts and seats at Caswell Tennis Center]

Description: Photograph of an aerial view of all six tennis courts, spectator stands, and parking at the Caswell Tennis Center on Shoal Creek at 24th and N. Lamar. Two men's doubles matches are visible in the back two courts. Spectators crowd in the shade under the awning. Residential neighborhoods are visible behind the tennis courts in the background.
Date: June 20, 1950
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin

[Christmas Event at Hancock Recreation Center]

Description: Photograph of a group of older adults seated for a Christmas event at Hancock Recreation Center. A wreath is visible along one of the walls of the room.
Date: December 20, 1951
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory

[Girls at Santa Rita Housing Project]

Description: Photograph of four young girls standing in front of Santa Rita houses. They wear dresses and hold baskets, possibly Easter baskets.
Date: April 8, 1950
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory

[Planting Tree at Brentwood Elementary]

Description: Photograph of a group of 3 women and 3 men posing next to a tree that had just been planted at Brentwood Elementary School.
Date: March 1952
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory

[Seaholm Power Plant Intake Facility]

Description: Photograph of the lake side view of the Seaholm Power Plant Intake facility. The Art Deco concrete facility was designed by Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company and was built in two phases in 1950 and 1955 by Odom Construction Company. The facility operated as a power plant until 1989 and was finally decommissioned in 1996 by the city of Austin. The intake facility is located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake and the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail.
Date: December 1, 1950
Creator: City of Austin

[Municipal Auditorium and Seaholm Electric Plant aerial view]

Description: Photograph of an aerial view of Seaholm Electric Plant on the far side of the river and the Municipal Auditorium on the near side of the river. A railroad bridge and Lamar Boulevard bridge are visible.
Date: [1959..]
Creator: City of Austin Electric Engineers

[John Nance Garner Birthday Gathering]

Description: Photograph of Sam Rayburn, Harry S. Truman, John Nance Garner, and Lyndon B. Johnson gathered around a press table. On the table is a microphone and a gingerbread house made for Garner's birthday.
Date: November 22, 1958
Creator: Dodd, J. A.

1910 Auto with Capitol Building

Description: Old fashioned couple stands next to 1910 automobile with the State Capitol in the background
Date: May 4, 1959
Creator: Douglass, Neal

[1959 Dairy Princess Crowning]

Description: Photograph of the crowning of the 1959 Mid-Texas Milk Producers Association Dairy Princess. A group of 17 female contestants stand in a row behind a banquet table with a punch bowl full of milk. All of the contestants pose with glasses of milk in front of a sign that says "June's Best Meals Start With Dairy." Other signs on the wall behind them are obscured. In the foreground a long dining table is set.
Date: May 8, 1959
Creator: Douglass, Neal
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