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- [Aerial view of Capitol grounds and governor's mansion]
- Photograph of an aerial view of the grounds near the state Capitol and governor's mansion.
- Austin City Hall
- Looking northeast at the Austin City Hall building at the northeast corner of Colorado and 8th St.
- Austin High School 9A class of 1920
- Photograph of the Austin High School 9A class of 1920 seated outside one of the campus buildings.
- Austin High School 9B Class of 1920
- Photograph of the Austin High School 9B class of 1920. The group is posed outdoors with trees visible behind them. There are approximately 90 students.
- Austin High School Hayne Society, 1920
- Photograph of the Hayne Society at Austin High School in the fall/winter of 1920. The club consists of 11 young, male students seated and standing in two rows in front of a wall of shrubbery. Leaves are on the ground.
- [Brackenridge Elementary School]
- Photograph of Brackenridge Elementary School, located at 319 West Elizabeth Street, a segregated school for Negro children. The building was a one story wooden structure with board and batten exterior walls, 6/6 wood windows, and a plain, square-columned porch entrance. The wooden doors are topped by transom windows. This school for colored children was first listed in the 1909-1910 Austin City Directory, and a school by that name was operating as late as 1965.
- Bull Creek - 1920
- Photograph of Bull Creek, taken from a high angle on top of a hill.
- Deep Eddy, Austin Tex
- Photograph of spectators and swimmers at Deep Eddy Bathing Beach.
- [Group of Children at Governor's Mansion]
- Photograph of First Lady Willie Hobby, seated on the steps of the Governor's Mansion, surrounded by a group of children. Included are Marie Hanna Bernheim; Roy Rather, Jr.; Margaret Soreano Beverly; Kathleen Crawford; Catherine Teten Nash; Mary Watt Avery; Mary Louise Hill Sparks; Virginia Horton Roberdeau; Helen Phinney Avery; George Sparks; and Frances Seybolt Rather.
- [Group Portrait of Men]
- Photograph of 23 men in suits. Some men are unidentified, but most of the names are listed on the back (L to R by row). Names includes Cott Alexander, Warren Taylor, George Watkins, Melvin Stones, Ed Mosure, Walter Hanna, August Zeppin, Guy Collette, Max Sxhmitz, Emmett Rose, Guy Ross, M. McSwain, W.H. Richardson, Jr., W.C. Love, Ernest STubbs, O.L. koock, Harry Land, and Frank Caldwell.
- O. Henryana
- This work was published posthumously.
- [Minnie Fisher Cunningham for US Senate]
- Minnie Fisher Cunningham (far right) and two others in front of car holding sign that reads: "Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham for United States Senator."
- [Portait of a Young Woman]
- Photograph of a formal portrait of an unidentified young woman. She wears a white dress and has a ribbon in her hair. There is a painted backdrop behind her.
- Ruins of Ft. Croghan
- Photograph of a man standing in the ruins of Fort Croghan in Burnet County. The ruins consist of a very low stone wall and other stones strewn about a field.
- [Six men in front of a "Enfield Special" railroad car at the Southern Pacific station in Austin, Texas]
- Photograph of six men in suits and hats posed in front of a private railroad car in the Austin Southern Pacific terminal at 301 Congress Avenue. A banner hung on the car says: "ENFIELD SPECIAL FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS TO WASHINGTON D.C. VIA S.P. LINES", and the same information was recorded on the bottom of the negative. The depot was constructed in 1902 as the Houston and Texas Central depot, and an addition was added to the east side in 1935.
- Songs of the Y.M.B.L., Austin, Texas
- Songbook for the Young Men's Business League of Austin. Includes lyrics for America; 'Tucky Home; 'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon; Peggy O'Neill; Pack up Your Troubles; and others.
- [Texas State Capitol]
- Photograph of the Texas State Capitol taken from the southeast. The photograph was copied from the 1920 "Cactus".
- Texas State Capitol
- View of the south side of the Capitol building.
- [Two small conjoined pyramid-roofed buildings at the end of a path lined by vegetation next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course]
- Photograph of at two small woodframe pyramidal roofed buildings, joined with a hyphen, which sit at the end of a vegetation-lined path next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course. One building is a board and batten structure with a 4/4 window. There is a large tree to the left of the buildings, and a 1920s-era car to the left of that. A man stands to the right of the buildings near the path or road.
- [Waller Creek at 6th Street]
- Waller Creek looking at the 6th Street bridge from 5th Street.
- The windows of old St. David's
- Booklet describing the stained glass windows of St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin.
- [Congress Avenue]
- Photograph of Congress Avenue looking north. Cabaniss Hardware and Dewey Garage are visible at right, as well as cars and some advertisements painted on the buildings. The Capitol is visible in the distance. Streetcar rails are in the center of the road.
- Capitol Directory, Austin, Texas
- "Names, street addresses, telephone numbers and department of employment of persons permanently located in the state capitol and the state land office building on February 1, 1921."
- The Crucible
- A poem entitled "The Crucible" by O. Henry turned into a song by Alexander McFayden.
- Austin street and avenue guide and Travis County rural route directory with logs of the road
- "The Street and Avenue Guide consists of two sections. The first section comprises the numbered streets in numerical order. The second section comprises the streets by name in alphabetical order."
- [Baker Elementary School Students]
- Photograph of students in front of Baker Elementary School. They are sitting and standing in front of the two-story stone school building.
- Barton Springs Pool
- View of the pool from the north bank looking west toward the diving board.
- Letters to Lithopolis
- This work is a collection of letters from O. Henry to Mabel Wagnalls.
- Polk's Morrison & Fourmy Austin City Directory, 1922
- "Containing a miscellaneous directory of state, county and city governments, a postoffice [sic] directory, educational institutions, churches, banks, incorporated companies, secret and benevolent societies, etc., etc., a street guide and householders directory, an alphabetically arranged list of business houses and private citizens giving full name, occupation or pursuit and address, also a complete classified business directory 'The Buyers' Guide'."
- [Seaholm Power Plant]
- Power plant buildings showing the smokestacks, employee cars and railroad tracks on 3rd Street.
- Seaholm Power Plant
- Looking west at the power plant buildings from the railroad bridge over 3rd St.
- Seaholm Power Plant
- Looking west at the power plant buildings from the railroad bridge over 3rd St.
- [Seton Infirmary]
- Front of building with cars in the driveway.
- [Tornado Damage]
- Photograph of damage caused by a tornado on May 4th, 1922 in Austin. A collapsed building is visible in the foreground with damaged buildings in background, possibly on the St. Edward's University campus.
- Tornado Damage
- Fallen water tower at unknown location. Damaged caused by tornado on May 4th, 1922.
- Austin Dam Flood Scene
- Water raging through the inoperable Austin Dam.
- [May 4, 1922 Tornado]
- Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado funnel in the sky.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Tornado over Courthouse]
- Photograph of a tornado over the Travis County Courthouse.
- [Seaholm Power Plant]
- Power plant building looking south from 3rd Street, with smokestack in view.
- [American Legion Men In Costume]
- Photograph of a group of men from Travis Post 76 dressed in costumes for the American Legion Fool's Parade. The one on the far left is wearing a dress with a colander on his head, the next is wearing a sign that reads, "A Bath in Austin is 99% Chlorine Water". Next to him, a man is wearing a dress and a wig and holding a sign that is partially cutoff reading "Looking for the new hotel." and the final two are wearing suit jackets without pants.
- [American Legion Parade]
- Photograph of a group of individuals wearing various costumes, walking in an American Legion parade through a residential area. One man is in a cart pulled by a mule. There are three signs that read, "Travis Post 76 Austin, Tex.," "Travis Post American Legion," and "Looking for the New Hotel."