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[Interior view of a Home]

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.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women and Girls Doing Crafts]

Photograph of girls sitting at a picnic table outside doing crafts together. Women are sitting at a table behind them. Trees are in the background.
Date: July 8, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[View of a Kitchen]

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.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Family Outside Their Home]

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.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Tooling Leather]

Photograph of women sitting at a wooden table outside and tooling leather items. Various supplies are on the table. Trees are in the background.
Date: July 8, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Doing Crafts]

Photograph of women sitting at wooden tables outside and doing crafts together. Various tools and supplies are on the tables. Trees are in the background.
Date: July 8, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[An aerial view of Acock Laboratories]

A distant aerial view of Acock Laboratories in East Austin. East Fifth street runs from left to right in the foreground. The Iglehart building is across the railroad tracks in the center. East 7th Street runs left to right in the upper left background is the baseball field [now Zaragoza Park]
Date: October 8, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[12th Air Force Headquarters]

Photograph of the headquarters of the 12th Air Force, a round building at Bergstrom Air Force Base. Cars are parked in the background.
Date: November 8, 1968
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Catering Truck Outside Terrace Motor Hotel]

Photograph of a server holding containers and trays beside a catering truck. The truck is outside the Terrace Motor Hotel Restaurant, located at 2100 South Congress Avenue.
Date: October 8, 1955
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Walgreens and the State Theater]

Photograph of the exterior of a Walgreen's drug store, located at 721 Congress Avenue, and the State Theater next door. People are visible on the sidewalks and cars are parked on the street.
Date: February 8, 1957
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Catering Truck and Server Outside the Terrace Motor Hotel]

Photograph of a server and catering truck outside the Terrace Motor Hotel, located at 2100 South Congress Avenue.
Date: October 8, 1955
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hotel at Lobo, Texas]

Photograph of a hotel in Lobo, Texas. A water tower is visible to the left of the building. Inscription on the back reads "$100,000 hotel, Lobo, Texas, S.P.R.R. 2-8-15, taken from train, only building in Lobo."
Date: February 8, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Troops at Spofford Junction]

Photograph of a line of troops on horseback near a railroad line. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Spofford Junction - 4/8/13 - 14 Cav. Troops leaving for Brownsville, Tex. via R.R."
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Horse Shoe Curve S.P.R.R. near El Paso, Texas

Photograph of the "horse shoe curve" in the S.P.R.R. (Southern Pacific Railroad), where the tracks make a U-turn. The photograph was likely taken from the front or rear end of a moving train.
Date: February 8, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Portarit at Camp Mabry, Austin]

Photograph of a group of people seated in a grassy area at Camp Mabry. The person on the far left is in a military uniform, holding a rifle. There are three women and one other man. Large tents and other men are visible in the background. The photograph is a cyanotype.
Date: May 8, 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers near El Paso]

Photograph of U.S. soldiers at a camp near El Paso, Texas. A line of soldiers are standing at attention for an officer. Inscription on the back indicates this photo was taken from a train, "S.P.R.R."
Date: February 8, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
O. Henry Book has Wealth of Fact (open access)

O. Henry Book has Wealth of Fact

Newspaper clipping containing a review of the "O. Henry Bibliography."
Date: January 8, 1939
Creator: O'Quinn, Trueman
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Congress Avenue with Capitol in snow]

Photograph of Congress Avenue covered in snow with a veiw of the capitol building. The street is slushy with dirty snow that hasn't been plowed, and cars parked along the side of the streets are covered in snow.
Date: February 8, 1967
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction of] Municipal Golf Course tool house

Photograph of construction of the Austin Municipal Golf Course tool house, made of white bricks. Scaffolding circles the walls, and the support for the roof is visible. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road and then donated to the city in 1936, has served its citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: April 8, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction of the Municipal Golf Course tool house]

Photograph of construction workers work on building the tool house at the Austin Municipal Golf Course. A ladder leans on a scaffolding leading to the roof. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road and donated to the city in 1936, has served it's citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: April 8, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Rosewood Park for Negroes

Photograph of a group of black children watching a youth prepare to dive from the diving board into the public pool at Rosewood Park.
Date: September 8, 1938
Creator: Ellison Photo Service, Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[American Cancer Society Conference]

Photograph of a group of attendees for an American Cancer Society conference walking near the entrance to a theater lobby. A vehicle can be seen in the foreground and a man can be seen touching a metal bin as he walks past. Various advertisements can be seen across the top of the theater entrance and a ticket booth can be seen in the right corner in the background.
Date: February 8, 1957
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Club Caravan Performance]

Photograph of a performance on stage at the Caravan Club, located at located at 2360 North Interstate 35. The singer on stage is Meg Myles, star of "Satan in High Heels" (1962). She is wearing a light colored, with a glittery belt at the waist. She can be seen standing with her arms stretched open wide while singing and looking at the camera. A pianist, bass, and saxophone player can all be seen playing behind her, all part of the Ken Ragsdale Orchestra.
Date: September 8, 1961
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Lucadia Pease from W.S. Porter (O. Henry)] (open access)

[Correspondence to Lucadia Pease from W.S. Porter (O. Henry)]

A letter to Lucadia Pease from W.S. Porter (O. Henry), who asks her for a loan with his printing office as collateral.
Date: January 8, 1895
Creator: Porter, William Sydney
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History