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Pool at Zilker Park

Description: Photograph of the pool at Zilker Park. Inscription on back of photo reads "Lily Ponds built w/relief labor 1935 Annual Report"
Date: January 30, 1936
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory - City of Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Rosewood Park swimming pool]

Description: Photograph of the empty swimming pool at Rosewood Park for Negroes. The photograph shows the shower in the middle left where swimmers can wash off grass and dirt before entering the pool. The diving board is visible behind the shower indicating this is a photo of the deep end of the pool. A lifeguard sits in the lifeguard chair at the far end of the pool. A swing set is partially visible behind the diving board and a some trees.
Date: May 19, 1936
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Barton Springs Lifeguards]

Description: Photograph of 9 lifeguards at Barton Springs with James A. Garrison, superintendent of Parks and Recreation. L-R: Garrison; C.L. Kelly; Bennie Estrada; Neville Hargrave; Jimmy Terrell; Leonard Baker; Jack Toomey; Sterling Wilkerson; Otto Ludwig; Joe Prowse.
Date: 1936~
Creator: Boone Photo Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Rosewood Park pool]

Description: Photograph of the swimming pool at the Rosewood Park for Negroes. The pool was built by J.F. Johnson Construction and is seventy feet wide by seventy five feet long, and runs three feet to seven feet and six inches deep. The photo is of the shallow end of the pool. Two cars are parked in near the pool. A lifeguard sits underneath a rules notice.
Date: May 19, 1936
Creator: Ellison Photo Service
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Swimmers at Rosewood Park pool]

Description: Photograph of swimmers at the swimming pool at the Rosewood Park for Negroes. Because of an extensive remodeling and enlargement program, Rosewood Pool opened its swimming session on June 19, but even with this late start, attendance for the rest of the season totaled 73,155. The completed pool measures 70' x 125' plus an adjacent wading pool that is 20' x 40', giving a combined total of 9,550 sq. ft. A water filtering system was installed with a 3-gallon per minute filter rate. The pool has a … more
Date: 1936~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Bathers at Deep Eddy]

Description: Photograph of Deep Eddy swimming pool looking northwest towards the dressing rooms. People swimming, others sitting on the edge of the pool. View from the deep end of the pool. Deep Eddy began as a natural swimming hole in the Colorado River and was expanded into a man-made swimming pool in 1915 by A.J. Eilers, Sr. Deep Eddy pool is the oldest swimming pool in Texas and is operated and maintained by the City of Austin.
Date: 1936
Creator: Austin Police Department Identification Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Main Building and baseball field at Rosewood Recreation Center]

Description: Photograph of Rosewood Recreation Center, showing the historic Bertram-Huppertz home which became the clubhouse and bath house once the park was established for black citizens. The City acquired the 1875 home of Rudolph Bertram, and adjacent land at 2300 Rosewood Avenue, from his daugheter Emmie Bertram Huppertz (Mrs. Charles Huppertz) in 1928, for the purpose of creating a segregated park for the African American community. The development included a swimming pool for Negros. A grand stone sta… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Statues at Lee Park]

Description: Photograph of the bronze statue "Robert E. Lee on Traveller" depicting two men on horseback, on a stone pedestal with the name "Robert E. Lee" engraved on the front end. The statue is at the top of a short flight of stairs in Turtle Creek Park and there are trees and a partial structure visible in the background.
Date: [1936..2015]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[The bronze statue "Robert E. Lee on Traveller"]

Description: Photograph of the bronze statue "Robert E. Lee on Traveller" depicting two men on horseback, on a stone pedestal with the name "Robert E. Lee" engraved on the front end. The statue is at the top of a short flight of stairs in Turtle Creek Park and there are trees and a partial structure visible in the background.
Date: [1936..2015]
Creator: Rogers, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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