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- [Portrait of a golfer at Municipal Golf Course]
- Photograph of an unidentified golfer standing with putter in hand at the edge a green at Austin's Municipal Golf Course. A grove of short trees is behind him.
- Pressler's Beer Garden
- View of people sitting in Pressler's Garden, a German beer garden. They are at wooden tables beneath large trees. The saloon was located at 1327 West 6th Street, in Austin.
- Principal Entrance [University Junior High School]
- Photograph of principal entrance of the University Junior High School, "View looking east from San Jacinto Blvd., Showing entrance steps and Tower, Auditorium at left." A few people are on the steps.
- [Protesting Aqua Fest Boat Races]
- Photograph of a group of people protesting the boat races on Lake Austin (now Lady Bird Lake) that were a common during Austin's Aqua Fest. The protests were led by Austin's Latin American communities who did not like the loud noises produced by the boats as the raced by their community.
- [Rear of a small log cabin in the woods]
- Photograph of the rear of a small long cabin in a wooded area. The stone chimney stack is in the center of the wall and a small box for firewood sits to the left of the chimney. A small paned window with shutters is visible on the left side of the cabin.
- [Rear view of the Lester Palmer Municpal Auditorium]
- Photograph of rear exterior view of the Lester Palmer Municipal Auditorium with landscape, garage and driveway.
- [Rear view Seaholm Power Plant]
- Photograph of the rear of the Seaholm Power Plant from the river side. Raised dirt roadways are visible in the foreground, as well as the many power lines emanating from the plant. The Seaholm Power Plant was constructed at 800 West 1st Street (now Cesar Chavez) in the 1930s and was eventually demolished in the 1960s.
- [Replacement of Library Building]
- Exterior view of old library being replaced by the new one, intersection of W. 9th St and Guadalupe. The old building is being moved for relocation. The base of a moontower is visible at left.
- [Ricky Miramontez pinning tail on donkey]
- Photograph of Ricky Miramontez, a young Hispanic boy wearing a blindfold and party hat, playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey as a woman looks on.
- [Ricky Miramontez's Birthday Party]
- Photograph of Ricky Miramontez's Birthday Party.
- [Riverside Drive & IH-35]
- A view of southbound IH-35 looking north. The State Capitol Building, The University of Texas Tower, and Texas Memorial Stadium are all visible in the distance.
- A.S. Johnston High School
- Photograph of an aerial view of Johnston High School located at 1112 Arthur Stiles Road. Four cars are parked in the driveway in front of the school and five more are in the parking lots behind the school. The campus is surrounded by grassy fields.
- Saint David's Episcopal Church
- Photograph of the side exterior view of St. David's Episcopal Church.
- "Sam Houston" Mail Coach
- Photograph of a stagecoach with four horses. In the background are buildings with signs for Baker & Raymond Drug and Bookstore, and A.S. Roberts.
- [Sandal vendor at the Renaissance Market]
- Photograph of a vendor selling flipflops at the Renaissance Market off "The Drag" portion of Guadalupe Street near the University of Texas, Austin campus. Other vendors on the lot have taken down their booths and vacated, leaving the lot bare and full of bricks.
- [Scholz Garten]
- Photograph of the front of the Scholz Garten and Austin Saengerrunde building with cars parked in front on the street.
- School of Auto Mechanics
- Photograph of aerial view of the School of Automobile Mechanics at Camp Mabry, consisting of several rows of buildings and tents. Caption reads that it had "3,600 men on the rolls when the First World War ended on November 11, 1918. (200 acres)."
- [Schoolchildren gathered around a maypole]
- Photograph of elementary school children outside of school grounds. A maypole stands in the middle of the crowd.
- [Seaholm Power Plant]
- Photograph of an aerial view of the Seaholm Power Plant taken from south of the Colorado River (present-day Lady Bird Lake).
- [Seaholm Power Plant]
- Photograph of the Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, TX during the 1920s. Inscribed on the back of the photograph is "From left to right: "New" boiler room, turbine room, "Old" boiler room, which became the shop after equipment was removed and black stack torn down - 1927?". "Austin the Friendly City" is painted down the tall stack.
- [Seaholm Power Plant]
- Photograph of the Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, TX.
- [Seaholm Power Plant Steam Turbines]
- Photograph of interior view of Seaholm Power plant, looking east. Left to right: steam turbines, generators, exciters; front to back: 20,000 kilowatt generators; 20,000 kilowatt generators; 20,000 kilowatt generators; 40,000 kilowatt generators.
- [Servicewomen]
- Photograph of three servicewomen in uniform looking at a lily pond on the grounds of the State Capitol.
- [Sewing machine and mail bin in the Travis County Jail]
- Photograph of a sewing machine workstation at Travis County Jail. The sewing machine is a Kingston by Brother deluxe zag zag sewing machine and sits on a sewing table base with ruler markings. To the right of the sewing machine is an open wooden box sitting on a folding table. The box is labeled "MAIL IN-OUT" and is stuffed with sewing patterns (including one by Jiffy) and other printed paper materials, including the instructions for pattern number 8211. Cell bars separate the sewing workstation area from an eating and recreation area with a metal picnic style table and bench holding rolls of toilet paper, a percolator, an open bag of sugar and a cup. There is a wall-mounted sink on the far wall.
- [Sheriff Captain Tony J. Casarez and a female guard in the cellblock hallway of the Travis County Jail]
- Photograph of Sheriff Captain Tony J. Casarez, standing in the hallway between the cells at Travis County Jail. He has a mustache and is wearing a white shirt and tie, blue jeans and boots. His upper body is turned toward the camera, and he is smiling. A uniformed female officer is behind Casarez. She has her back to the camera and is walking away. Her hair is cut in a shoulder-length bob. There is a row of lights with protective grills on the ceiling.
- [Sheriff Standing Beside Row of Cars]
- Photograph of a sheriff standing along a row of sheriff vehicles parked on the street with his hands on his hips and looking off to the side.
- [Shoal Creek - Split Rock Pool]
- Photograph of Shoal Creek with boulders and a bluff in the background; a house sits high up on the hill. Writing on the back reads "Split Rock Pool. South 29th."
- Shorty and the Corvetts
- Photograph of Shorty and the Corvetts (promotional photo). Nine musicians pose, holding their guitars and saxophones.
- [Side view of Blackshear Elementary School, located at 1712 East 11th Street]
- Photograph of the side of Blackshear Elementary School, a two story brick building with a flat roof located at 1712 East 11th Street and constructed in 1936. The school was named for Edward Lavernia Blackshear, a former administrative supervisor of Austin's African-American schools. There are groups of 5 windows on the first and second floor, with decorative brickwork on the wall between the floors. A one-story entrance, with two sets of wooden double doors, sits to the left of the two-story section. To the right, hands hold a chalk board sign that reads, "2-14 1-BLACKSHEAR".
- [Site of Shipe Stables in Hyde Park]
- Photograph of the intersection of two dirt roads and a man standing in front of the empty lot that was to be the location of Shipe Stables in the Hyde Park subdivision.
- [A small Conjunto band in the Montopolis Neighborhood]
- Photograph of three male Conjunto musicians taking a break, as they visit with an audience of six other people, possibly Latinos. One man has an electric amplifier for his acoustic guitar, and two of the three are holding Schlitz beer cans. The audience includes a young woman standing in the doorway, a mature woman sitting on a wooden chair with a young girl on her lap, and a mature man facing the group. The group appears to be in front of a pre-fabricated building.
- [Small conjunto band, including a guitar and an accordion, play next to a building in the Montopolis neighborhood]
- Photograph of a small conjunto band playing next to a building in the Montopolis neighborhood of Austin. A man stands on the right side, wearing cowboy boots and playing an accordion. A seated man seated in the middle plays an acoustic guitar and sings into a microphone. A third man sits on the left in the background. An electric cord, used to power an amplifier, the microphone, and the guitar is plugged into an electric socket just below the eaves. Three cans of Schlitz beer sit near the chairs.
- Southwest View of Capitol
- Photograph of the Texas State Capitol building taken from the southwest.
- [Southwestern Aerial Survey of Austin, TX]
- Photograph of a southwestern aerial survey of Austin, TX looking west from East Avenue.
- [Southwestern Aerial Survey of Austin,TX]
- Photograph of Austin, TX taken by Southwestern Aerial Survey. The photograph looks north from near East 4th Street. East Avenue and Red River Street are labeled on the photograph.
- [Southwestern Aerial Survey of Austin, TX]
- Photograph of a southwestern aerial survey of Austin, TX looking north towards the Capitol building from 4th Street.
- [Southwestern Aerial Survey of Austin,TX]
- Photograph of a southwestern aerial survey of Austin, TX pre-1933. The Travis County Courthouse, between Guadalupe Street and San Antonio Street and Wooldridge Park across from the courthouse are in the photograph. Part of the Texas State Capitol building is in the top left portion of the photograph.
- [Sprinkle, Texas]
- Photograph of farmers and workers with horses and donkeys on a road in Sprinkle, TX. Barr is the gentleman seated in one of the horse and buggies. This photograph was used in the essay, "History of Sprinkle, Texas" by Lulu Pearl.
- [St. David's Episcopal Church]
- Photograph of the exterior of St. David's Episcopal Church, taken from the intersection of San Jacinto and East 7th Street.
- [St. David's Episcopal Church]
- Photograph of the exterior of St. David's Episcopal church.
- [St. John's Elementary School Students]
- Photograph of three young girls playing in front of the St. John's Elementary School building.
- [St. Mary's Catholic Church]
- Photograph of the front exterior of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
- [Stage Coach in Manchaca Springs]
- Photograph of Manchaca Springs stage stop on route from Austin to San Antonio. Men pose on and around a stage coach pulled by four horses in front of a building.
- State Capitol Austin, Texas
- Photograph of the Texas State Capitol taken from the south.
- [State Capitol Austin Texas]
- Photograph of a view north at front of Capitol with cars lining the driveway. Taken from top of building on Congress Avenue.
- [State Capitol - House of Representatives]
- Photograph of the House of Representatives, inside the State Capitol building, taken from the upper level balcony.
- [Stephen F. Austin High School exterior]
- Photograph of the exterior view of Stephen F. Austin High School. Tree branches across the upper right corner of the image obscure the view.
- [Street Vendors near UT Campus]
- Photograph of the Renaissance Market near "The Drag" by the University of Texas, Austin campus. There are street vendors and market goers lining the street. There is Subaru station wagon parked on Guadalupe Street and a dalmatian watching the photographer.
- Student Protest March
- Photograph of student protesters marching on Congress Ave with flags and signs. Photo used in Headliners Club Austin American-Statesman sesquicentennial exhibit, 1986.
- [Students at Brackenridge Elementary School]
- Group photograph of students and teacher at Brackenridge Elementary School. All of the students and the teacher are African American.