[News Script: 10PM Sports update] (open access)

[News Script: 10PM Sports update]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 12, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Filipino Americans Collaborating]

Photograph of members of the Filipino American Community gathered around a large tapestry. They are sewing onto the large cloth. There are craft supplies, scissors and a pin cushion on the fabric so that they are easily accessible. In the background, they are many people watching them work. Most, if not all, of members of the Filipino American Community shown are women.
Date: 1996
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: 'All agog' for JFK] (open access)

[Clipping: 'All agog' for JFK]

Newspaper clipping discussing the 50th anniversary marking the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, and how Austin was thrilled that the president would be stopping by after his visit of Dallas.
Date: November 22, 2013
Creator: Beach, Patrick
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[El Día de los Muertos Play] (open access)

[El Día de los Muertos Play]

Pamphlet of information about El Día de los Muertos, a play by James E. Garcia. The information included is a brief history about Día de los Muertos and the people behind the play, such as the actors, the director, the choreographer and others.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Men and a Woman in the Kitchen of the Blue Willow Tea Room]

Photograph of two men and a woman working in a kitchen. They are all wearing light-colored uniforms. The woman is wearing a dress, and putting muffins into an oven. One of the men is holding a plate, ready to serve, and the other is preparing a plate.
Date: January 30, 1947
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Anderson High School [building exterior and students]

Photograph of a group of students outside the entrance to Anderson High School. In the mixture of boys and girls, most students are exiting the building after school, while a few stand and talk to each other. One girl sits on the wall and reads from a notebook. The girls all wear long skirts, blouses, white socks and black shoes. The boys wears slacks and shirts, and one wears a jacket.
Date: March 1, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. John's Nursery

Photograph of a group of about 50 African-American children posing in front of a white-washed adobe building. The boys in the center hold a sign that says "St. John / Nursery". The girls all wear dresses and the boys wear shirts and slacks. Some boys also wear suspenders and bow ties. The building has a central door, windows on either side of the door with floral curtains visible, and vents above each window. A wood picket fence is visible in the foreground.
Date: 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[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.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[African-American cowboys branding calves, calf still steaming from branding]

Photograph of African-American cowboys branding calves. Cows in foreground. Three African-American cowboys have a calf down, still steaming from branding. Pen fence in background.
Date: 1922
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Portrait of Men and Women]

Photograph of a group of men and women dressed up and standing in front of a house. One man is wearing a chef's hat, and another man and two women are wearing all-white suits. Two men in the front row have ribbons on their lapels, though the text on the ribbons is not legible. The address number if the house is 1510.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Anderson High School

Photograph of girls dancing in a gym at Anderson High School. The women are all wearing uniforms.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[4-H Members Giving Presentation]

Photograph of a young woman speaking at a podium in the front of a room. Two other girls are standing to her right and two boys are taking their seats to her left, all 4-H members. A screen is visible in the background. The shoulder of an audience member is visible in the lower left corner.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[L.C. Anderson High School class of 1960]

Photograph of Anderson High School graduating class of 1960. The school was originally named E. H. Anderson and later renamed L. C. Anderson. The school, located at 900 Thompson Street, was Austin's all-black high school for many years until students were integrated following desegregation.
Date: 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Interior view of the Negro War Recreation Council Building with 3 women and 3 Soldiers around a table]

Photograph of the interior of the Negro War Recreation Council Building, located at 702-14 East Avenue (now I-35) in the former city market building, showing a group of African Americans, including 3 women and 3 soldiers in uniform. Four of the women and men are seated in couples at a table, while the remaining soldier is sitting on the table as the woman stands in front of it. All of the women are nicely dressed; one has a fur collar and hat, and one has flowers in her hair. The building, which also served as a bus depot, has several wooden benches, roughly constructed of lumber. Several of the windows to the rear of the photograph are decoratively painted with stars, patriotic shields and the letter "V". Three single glass globe pendant light fixtures are visible hanging from the open vaulted ceiling. The market building was originally constructed as a 1935 Public Works Administration (PWA) project, which opened in June 1935.
Date: January 6, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anderson High School Students With the Homemakers Shield]

Photograph of four Anderson High School students with the New Homemakers of America Shield. They are all wearing light-colored clothing.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anderson High School Cheerleaders Standing on Bleachers]

Photograph of Anderson High School cheerleaders posing on school bleachers. They are all wearing their uniforms, and are organized in nine rows.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cosmetology Class]

Photograph of a cosmetology class at the old Anderson High School. Several students stand in front of tables with busts and wigs. All of the students are African American females.
Date: 1967
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anderson High School Pep Squad Stands on a Stage]

Photograph of a group of 11 students from the Anderson High School Pep Squad standing on a stage. They are all wearing a dark-colored top, but half of them are wearing dark-colored skirts, and the other half are wearing light-colored skirts.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore (open access)

Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore

Volume of essays about African-American folklore, including reminiscences of African-American folk culture in Texas, studies of specific genres of folklore, information about Texas-African food-ways, studies of specific performers, information about songs and other folklore. The index begins on page 353.
Date: 1996
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Three Anderson High School Student Playing Football]

Photograph of Anderson High students playing football. One of them is looking through his legs, and wearing the number 57, one of them is on their knees wearing the number 16, and one of them is wearing number 14 and kicking the ball. They are all in the middle of a football field, with a hill in the background.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hellen Mae Davidson, Bertha Hutchins, and Mrs. Viola Andrews]

Photograph of three women sitting at a table sewing. A handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Hellen Mae Davidson, left, Bertha Hutchins, center, and Mrs. Viola Andrews, all of Del Valle community, says leather craft is an enjoyable and profitable hobby."
Date: June 16, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to Ed Idar Jr. - 1955-12-21] (open access)

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Ed Idar Jr. - 1955-12-21]

Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter to Ed Idar Jr. from John J. Herrera dated December 21, 1955 addressing the political issues with the American GI Forum poll tax drive in the Valley, Texas. "I don't see anything wrong in the efforts of the American Gi Forum conducting this type of civic drive in the Valley. I think it should have been done long ago." Herrera writes that the Latin American people of Mexican descent should all be able to vote and pay the poll tax in preservation and contribution to the "American way of life."
Date: December 21, 1955
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anderson High School Y-Teens Club Stands Outside Their School]

Photograph of Anderson High School Y-Teens Club standing outside their school. They are all standing around the Y-Teens logo
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Coaches in Letterman's Jackets]

Photograph of William Pigford, Raymond Timmons, Jack McDonald, and Lawrence Britton standing in a field. All four of the men are wearing Letterman's jackets with the word "Coach" on it.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History