Photograph of a kitchen with a small stove and pots hanging on the walls, as seen from a bedroom. The door between the two rooms is made of a cardboard. Most likely this was the home of an African American family in Austin.

Photograph of a small kitchen with a small stove, oven, and table. The walls are covered in newspaper. The floor is uneven and stained. This was most likely the kitchen in the home of an African American family.

Photograph of a man showing a pig in the to a crowd of people formed into a circle.

Photograph of a family with two small children and a dog outside of their wooden house. Laundry is hanging to dry on lines. Other wooden houses in the background. Dirt, patches of weeds, and small trees surround the houses.

Letter from A. W. Huge to George Beto regarding a grant for a garage and storage house.

Letter from F. H. Stelzer to Martin Neeb regarding an official response to Stelzer's request for funding.

Letter from F. H. Stelzer to George Beto regarding an additional $10,000 being granted to Lutheran Concordia College of Texas for building purposes.

Sanatorium for tuberculosis located on Tannehill Lane. Austin, Texas.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Status of lien and priority of State, county and county-wide school district taxes against real and personal property sold on foreclosure of State's motor fuel tax lien , by Receiver, in Cause No. 63.565, State of Texas v. Hurricane Petroleum Corporation, 95th District Court, Travis County, Texas.

Photograph of Charlie Lung and his wife walking away from the altar at their wedding. Lung is wearing a dark-colored suit, and Mrs. Lung is wearing a light-colored dress.

Photograph of Governor Beauford Jester, Lieutenant Governor Alan Shivers, and Speaker of the House Durwood Mansfield meeting in an office. They are seated around a desk.

Photograph of a fireplace with a mantle. There is a bear rug on the ground in front of the fireplace, and there are two decorative horses on the mantle. Above the mantle is a stuffed elk head.

Photograph of four members of a wedding party meeting with a man, preparing for a wedding.

A form letter addressed to all Parole Board Chairmen and Members, from Albert M. Collier, Governor's Assistant in Charge of Parole System dated May 8, 1945. Collier discourses on problems regarding the parole system particularly the leniency shown to parolees in the past. He advises that parolees having been negligent in reporting and leaving the county in which paroled without permission stressing that this must be immediately discontinued. He advises that parolees must report not less than once a month.

A letter addressed to Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, Austin, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, Post Commander, American Legion, Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, dated October 8, 1940. Carswell files to organize five companies of the Texas Defense Guard in Taylor County. Officers, as listed: Captain - Jesse Warren, Roscoe Blankenship, Stanley King, Thomas E. Brownlee, Thomas N. Carswell; 1st Lieutenant - Louis Agee, Edmund C. Yates, J. C. White, Dave Mauldin, Roy Johnson; 2nd Lieutenant - W. R. (Ruck) Sibley), Clyde Fulwiler, Allen A. McGehee, Joe Williamson, O. P. Beebe. Signatures included: Will W. Hair, R. M. Wagstaff, Paul McCarty, H. C. West, R. T. Gray, Sid McAdams, W. P. Wright, R. G. Boger, J. D. Perry, W. O. Boney, D. H. Vaughn, Carl P. Hulsey.

A commission by the Governor of the State of Texas, appointing Thomas Norwood Carswell to the rank of Major, in the Texas State Guard Reserve Corps, dated October 5, 1948 and signed by K. L. Berry, The Adjutant General.

Letter from H. W. Underwood recommending Helen Corbitt for a position in the Navy based on her work in the Women's Reserve and at the Home Economics Tea House at the University of Texas.

Letter from Mrs. Kempner to Mrs. Reed requesting a list of her officers and board members.

Letter from Mrs. Kempner to Mrs. Whitlock reporting on the Austin, Houston, and Galveston units.

Letter from Mrs. Kempner to Mrs. Perry about ribbons she is sending to the Austin unit and thanking her for the pictures she sent.

Letter from Mrs. Kempner to Mrs. Perry about needed surgical dressings and a copy of a letter she is sending to Dr. Leake.

Letter from Austin to members of the American Women's Voluntary Services telling them to tune into a radio program to receive information about the program.

Letter from Mrs. Perry to Mrs. Kempner about a report that was sent to them, thanking her for the offerings of the positions, and informing her that Mrs. Harmon will not be able to accept her offer.

A letter to Carl B. Compton regarding the whereabouts of Caroline Wogan Durieux's lithographs.