Resource Type

[Post Office Construction Site Looking North West]

Photograph of a construction site for a post office with tall ionic columns and window slots. Cranes are inside the walls, and buildings are in the background. "United States Post Office" is engraved above the columns.
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Liberty Hall]

Photograph of Liberty Hall's balcony and ceiling. The balcony has many seats with windows behind them, and the ceiling has support beams and wooden planks.
Date: 1912
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Paso del Norte Lobby]

Photograph of the Hotel Paso del Norte's lobby. A car, as well as a few pieces of artwork are on display. The photo captures the bottom portion of the hotel's famed glass dome, located right above the lobby. The corner of the hotel's front desk is seen to the center right. There are multiple archways throughout the room and light fixtures hanging from the ceiling.
Date: 1912/1930
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Interior Workroom Looking Eastward]

Photograph of the interior workroom of the United States Post Office in El Paso, Texas, under construction. There are many wood and metal scaffolds throughout the large, incomplete room and many wooden planks litter the floor. There is an archway to enter the room.
Date: July 1, 1918
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Construction Site Looking Eastward]

Photograph of the United States Post Office in El Paso, Texas. The building has bricks with many tall window slots on both visible sides. There are electrical wires strung across the top half of the picture, and bricks and rocks on the ground. Buildings are slightly visible just past the outer corners of the building.
Date: May 3, 1918
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Preliminary Site of Post Office Looking North]

Photograph of workers in a dug-out construction site, with horses excavating for a future post office. There are cars on the road near a landline pole. Buildings and a mountain are visible in the background.
Date: September 1, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Paso del Norte Staircase]

Photograph of the Hotel Paso del Norte staircase and archway leading from the hotel lobby. The photo provides an up close view of the archways' design and relief. There are chairs at the base of the archway, and the archway is made out of marble.
Date: 1912/1930
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Lobby, Looking Westward]

Photograph of the United States Post Office in El Paso, Texas. It has two large archways with decorated metal grates inbetween them. The archways have two grated doors right next to them. The floor has a square pattern, and two small counters are equally spaced on the floor in front of the archways.
Date: July 2, 1919
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[State School of Mines Dormitory]

Photograph of a dormitory in the school of mines. The building has three stories of rooms, with the top level having decorated window borders. The building is surrounded by a hill moving upward.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[El Paso High School Office]

Photograph of an office in an El Paso high school. The office has windows in the back wall are covered by rolling blinds, a safe in the back left corner, a clock next to the safe, filing cabinets around the room, and hard-top counter in the center of the room.
Date: 1913~/1916~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[School of Mines Group]

Photograph of the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy campus in El Paso, Texas. There are three buildings over dirt ground near a hill. The ground has arid shrubs.
Date: 1917~/1918~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mt. Sinai Old Temple Worship Room]

Photograph of the Mt. Sinai Old Temple worship room. There are rows of lecture style chairs, a pipe organ up top, and a pulpit.
Date: 1916
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Workroom Looking East]

Photograph of a room in the El Paso post office. It has a large archway in the middle of the room with a decorated metal grate in the middle of it. It has support columns on the left and right sides of the room, with white walls and wooden floors.
Date: June 2, 1919
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Eastern Star Room of Masonic Temple]

Photograph of the star room of a masonic temple. There are chairs in the middle of the room and lined against the walls. A long carpet is in the middle of the room, and light fixtures hang from the ceiling.
Date: 1913~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Main Lobby of Masonic Temple]

Photograph of the Masonic Temple main lobby. The interior has many wooden support beams holding up the ceiling. The room is filled with tables, chairs and rugs.
Date: 1913~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction Site Looking North]

Photograph of a construction site. A foundation has construction supplies, and buildings are in the background.
Date: November 2, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Krupp House in El paso]

Photograph of the Krupp house in El Paso, Texas. The building has gabled roof and a lawn of dirt. The visual design includes vertical dark and light stripes on the building sides. The porch on the left has columns and metal grates, and the entrance has an archway shape.
Date: 1916
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cohen House in El Paso]

Photograph of the front of the Cohen house in El Paso, Texas. The building has a vertical wood visual design on the second floor, a partial pyramid roof shape, two chimneys on the left and right of the roof, a porch with a short brick wall, two columns in front of the entrance, and landscaping. The steps move out to the sidewalk near the street.
Date: 1919
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction Site Looking South]

Photograph of a construction site where workers are building a foundation. Horses are standing in front of a cart, and buildings are in the background.
Date: November 2, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Workroom Looking South West]

Photograph of a room under construction in the El Paso post office. The workroom has four archways with wood frames put in place. There are various supplies neatly placed in piles throughout the room, as well as wooden planks. There are a few rectangular shaped door frames besides the arches.
Date: February 1, 1919
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[El Paso High Science Lab]

Photograph of a bio-science lab in an El Paso high school. There are work stations and storage units in cabinets around the room, with tile going halfway up the walls.
Date: 1913~/1916~
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dig Site Looking West]

Photograph of a construction site. There are landlines on the corners, and buildings in the background.
Date: September 1, 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lerner House]

Photograph of the Lerner house. The house has a gabled roof, windows slightly protruding from the roof, chimneys, a rugged brick design with support columns for the roof hanging over the porch, and sparse bushes around the edge of the house.
Date: 1915
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Back of El Paso Post Office]

Photograph of the back of a U.S. Post Office building in El Paso, Texas, taken from the northwest corner. It is a two-story white stone building with many tall windows along the north and west sides of the building, several of which have decorative designs above them. Handwritten text on the back of the photo says, "January 1st 1919, Looking East."
Date: January 1919
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History