Resource Type

[Women Looking at a Display]

Photograph of women looking at a display on a table with a basket of flowers, leather purses, and other crafts.
Date: May 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman in a Garden]

Photograph of a woman working with a long pole (a hoe?) in a garden. A wooden house is in the background.
Date: May 6, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Women]

Photograph of four women wearing dresses and standing together. They are likely at the Travis County Negro Extension Service building located at 1154 Lydia Street, Austin, Texas.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman and Turkeys in a Garden]

Photograph of a woman in a garden watering plants with turkeys walking around the plants. Small trees and brush are visible in the background.
Date: May 6, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students in a Classroom]

Photograph of a group of students in a classroom. Boys sit at desks and girls stand against a wall behind them. A few girls hold plates and other girls hold boxes of food. A poster and student artwork are hanging on the wall behind them.
Date: May 9, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Child in Costume]

Photograph of a woman in a polka dot dress putting a robe on a child wearing a paper crown, probably in preparation for a play or theatrical production.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman with a Table Display]

Photograph of a woman standing behind a table with a variety of crafts and a large basket displayed on it.
Date: May 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Gardening]

Photograph of two women standing in a field, leaning over and pulling vegetables out of the ground. A house and a telephone pole are visible in the background.
Date: May 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women in a Field of Crops]

Photograph of four women standing in a field looking at vegetable plants. Two women are pointing to plants. A car is parked alongside the field. Telephone poles are in the background.
Date: May 25, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Gardening]

Photograph of a woman kneeling down in a garden tending to plants. A wooden fence is in the background.
Date: May 27, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Cooking]

Photograph of a woman cooking or preserving food in a kitchen, with a younger woman watching her in the background. Several jars of preserved food are on the table in front of them. This was likely from a demonstration on food preservation.
Date: May 27, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Handmade Clothing Display]

Photograph of a display with handmade clothing. A poster on the display reads, "Be thrifty, sew it yourself," and has a drawing of a woman sewing. A sign below the display reads, "Texas Blind Deaf and Orphan School."
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Sewing]

Photograph of four women sitting and standing around a table with a sewing machine making clothes. There is extra fabric and tools on the table and chairs around them.
Date: May 10, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Gardening]

Photograph of a woman standing between rows of vegetables in a garden. She uses a hoe or similar tool. A small wooden house is visible in the background.
Date: May 6, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Girls in a Kitchen]

Photograph of a group of young women standing around an island in a large kitchen. This was likely at a cooking class or demonstration.
Date: May 9, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Display with Paintings and Hats]

Photograph of a display with religious paintings, small doll hats, and silver trays. The exhibition was likely in Doris Miller Auditorium in Rosewood Park in Austin.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Gardening]

Photograph of two women leaning over and pulling a root vegetable out of the ground in a field. A wooden house and fields are visible behind them.
Date: May 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Women]

Photograph of four women standing together and laughing. Most likely they are at the Travis County Negro Extension Service Program building located at 1154 Lydia Street, Austin, Texas.
Date: May 24, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Outside a House]

Photograph of a woman standing on the porch of a wooden house and pointing away from the camera. In the lower right corner the trunk of a car is partially visible with things sticking out of it.
Date: May 10, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman at a Style Show]

Photograph of an older woman wearing a dress and holding a purse while walking on stage at a style show.
Date: May 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[S. A. Winn Standing on a Porch]

Photograph of Mrs. S. A. Winn, a home improvement demonstrator, standing on the steps of a porch in front of a house.
Date: May 6, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Concordia Graduates in Front of Kilian Hall]

Photograph of a group of Lutheran Concordia College graduates standing in front of Kilian Hall. The young men stand in three raised rows and are wearing caps and gowns. Some hold sheets of paper.
Date: May 30, 1951
Creator: Studtmann Photo Service
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ernestine Thompson receiving community service award from D.A.R.

The Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.)representative, Nancy Tanner, honors Ernestine Thompson with the Community Service Award at the W.H. Passon Historical Society on May 21, 2006. Ernestine collected artifacts for the Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum.
Date: May 21, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

First Baptist Church - Group to Consider a New Church

Photograph of twelve people from the First Baptist Church congregation. They are posed in two rows with those in front sitting in chairs and the back row standing behind them. The photograph appears to have been taken outside, in front of a building. When First Baptist Church was at it's 14th and Red River Streets location in 1930, Rev. Levi Stanmore selected 10 groups to discuss, review the survey given to them, and at a later date give their group reports to him about "considering a New Church". This is group #9, the Deaconesses.
Date: May 14, 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History