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First Baptist Church Member in a Suit and Hat

Description: Photograph of a member of First Baptist Church wearing a suit and hat. The man is walking through a room; other people are partially visible behind him, sitting in chairs.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Member Wearing a Hat

Description: Photograph of a woman wearing dressy clothes including a hat and jewelry. She is a member of First Baptist Church and is walking through a room. Other people are partially visible behind her, sitting in chairs, as well as a vending machine against the back wall.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Member Wearing a Hat

Description: Photograph of a woman who is a member of First Baptist Church wearing a hat. She is standing behind a table, holding a piece of paper. There are decorated tables and other people visible in the background.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Member Wearing a Hat

Description: Photograph of a woman who is a member of First Baptist Church wearing a hat. She is standing in the middle of a room; other people are sitting at a table and are partially visible behind her.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Members

Description: Photograph of a group of members of First Baptist Church in Austin, TX. They are standing in a row in a room and most of them are wearing coats. Decorated tables are partially visible behind them.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Members

Description: Photograph of members of First Baptist Church. The group includes women and children, standing in a line; the women are dressed up and the young boys are wearing suits. Behind them, several people are sitting at a table.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Members Having a Meal

Description: Photograph of a group of members of First Baptist Church enjoying a meal at the church. The people are seated at long tables in a room and various objects are visible on the tabletops.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Members Having a Meal

Description: Photograph of members of First Baptist Church enjoying a meal at the church. They are seated at long tables; bulletin boards are visible on the wall behind them.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church Members Wearing Hats

Description: Photograph of a man and a woman who are members of First Baptist Church. Both of them are wearing jackets and hats and they appear to be in a room standing in front of a soda machine.
Date: unknown

First Baptist Church - Picnic

Description: Photograph of a group of people at a picnic honoring Rev and Mrs. Pius in 1922. Pictured are: Rev. and Mrs. Pius, Annie Roberts, La and Bueland Murphy, Ruth A. Pius, Mollie Perry, Rena Belle Leonard, Tracy Lewis, Janie Perry, Edna Stevenson, Rev. J.B. Knox, Lewis Mitchell, Mamie Smith, Birdie Lee, and Bessie Dotson.
Date: unknown

Five Members of First Baptist Church

Description: Photograph of five members of First Baptist Church posing together. The one man in the group, identified as Milton Gooden, is seated with four women standing behind him.
Date: unknown

Frank Strain Family

Description: Photograph of a family including a man and woman seated with a young girl as well as two older girls and young boys standing around them. Frank Strain (Mahala's second oldest child) is pictured with his wife and five children. Frank Strain was the porter on the first train to make a trip to Austin, a Houston and Texas Central train from Houston.
Date: unknown

Frank Strain Residence on Speedway Blvd.

Description: Photograph of Frank Strain's residence on Speedway Blvd; the house and portions of the surrounding yard are visible. Frank was one of the oldest members of Metropolitan. He is a janitor for North Austin white school. The home is surrounded by the richest white citizens in Austin. He has been offered a handsome price for this place on the account of its surroundings but he is holding it for a higher price, which he feels confident he will get.
Date: unknown

G.W. Norman School Faculty

Description: Photograph of the faculty from the G.W. Norman Elememtary School in Austin, TX around 1970. The 3rd lady on the left is Ida Hunt. She would become principal of Blackshear Elementary School. Also, Mr. Allen standing in the back was the current principal at the time, and also taught at Blackshear, in Austin, under F. R. Rice.
Date: 1970~

Grandma Dedrick

Description: Photograph of Grandma Derick, a member of Wesley Chapel M.E. Church in Austin, TX. She provided the sacrament bread for Old Weslay
Date: unknown

H.T. Kealing

Description: Portrait of a man, labeled "Prof. H. T. Kealing" in handwritten text at the bottom of the photograph. H.T. Kealing (1860 - 1918) was a principal, teacher, writer, editor, and distinguished Methodist Episcopal layman. He was among the first generation of blacks to attend school during the Reconstruction. Kealing Junior High School in Austin was named for him.
Date: unknown

Hobart Taylor, Jr.

Description: Hobart Taylor, Jr. was educated in Houston and at Prairie View A&M College and traveled to Washington D.C. as the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. He later became a special counsel to President Johnson and in 1965 was appointed a director of the Import-Export Bank.
Date: unknown

Hortence Webster

Description: Photograph of a young girl (identified as Hortence Webster) in a light-colored dress, posed on a flight of stairs. She is sitting on a patterned rug near two houseplants. Hortence Webster, the great granddaughter of Mahala Murchison, the first African American to live in Austin.
Date: unknown

J. F. Dawkins

Description: Portrait of Austin attorney J.F.Dawkins, wearing a three-piece suit.
Date: unknown
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