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[People washing cars at Joe's Quick Car Wash]

A view from across a street of Joe's Quick Car Wash. There are two men washing a car to the left. A bus is approaching on the right. A man is waiting at the bus stop.
Date: May 14, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Haschke Family House]

Photograph of two houses located at 100-102 East 17th Street in Austin, Texas. The house on the right belonged to the Haschke Family. A woman and child stand by the gate of the picket fence. Another person stands on the balcony.
Date: January 14, 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Staged Couple with Gift Shop]

Photograph of a staged couple posing next to the Stage Coach Inn gift shop. The couple can be seen standing to the right, with the man in a suit and the woman in a pale dress. The building to their left is a rustic cabin design, made with large wooden beams. A screen door can be seen on the left, and several signs hang from the building advertising the shop and its operating hours. Several vehicles can be seen parked in the background to the right.
Date: April 14, 1962
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Municipal Golf Course tool shed]

Photograph of the front of the Municipal Golf Course tool house with door open. Gravel. sand, and boards are visible on the right exterior under the windows of the tool house. The bottom rungs of a ladder are visible right inside the door of the tool house. Many tire tracks indicate how often the house is visited.
Date: July 14, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Identification Lab, Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Austin Municipal Golf Course] caretaker's house

Photograph of the caretaker's house at the Austin municipal golf course. The house is made of white brick with several screened windows and a screen door facing a concrete patio. A wooden ladder leans on the side of the house to the roof. Construction debris litters the grassless yard. A shed sits behind the house. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served its citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: July 14, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hut at the Municipal] Golf Course

Photograph of Small roofed structure with benches inside at the Austin Municipal Golf Course. The hut is surrounded by trees and uneven land. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served its citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: July 14, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rear of hut at Austin Municipal Golf Course]

Photograph of rear view of a small roofed structure with benches inside on the Austin Municipal Golf Course. The hut is surrounded by trees and uneven land with a green behind it on the right. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served its citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: July 14, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Indentification Photographic Lab., Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Water hazard on the number 8 hole

Photograph of the view facing the green behind a water hazard on the number eight hole at the Austin Municipal Golf Course. Golfers are visible on the green in the background. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served it's citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: July 14, 1939
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three men and a woman dressed in formal attire at an airport]

Four people wearing formal wear at an airport. There are three men dressed in suits and one woman wearing a dress. A man and a woman in the group are conversing about an object that they are both holding. There is a plane in the background labeled "Braniff Internation Airways." A woman and a young boy are leaning against a railing in the background.
Date: May 14, 1961
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The fourth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date: August 14, 1868
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Richard Niles Graham from A.E. Wood] (open access)

[Correspondence to Richard Niles Graham from A.E. Wood]

A letter to Richard Niles Graham from politician A.E. Wood, who thanks Graham for a campaign donation to his recent run for the state senate.
Date: September 14, 1928
Creator: Wood, A. E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Complaint against Dryden Holcomb for assaulting Richard Niles] (open access)

[Complaint against Dryden Holcomb for assaulting Richard Niles]

A complaint against a man named Dryden Holcomb for allegedly assaulting Richard Niles.
Date: December 14, 1825
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The eighth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date: September 14, 1870
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Capital National Bank [exterior]

Photograph of the original Capital National Bank building exterior. Signs on the building for Norwood Motoramp, McCall-Smith-Hiblew, and a storage facility are visible. Several pedestrians are visible in the street.
Date: January 14, 1952
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Capital National Bank opening interior]

Photograph of the empty interior of the Capital National Bank before the grand opening. A large, square, marble pillar is in the middle of the room. At the back left are the teller counters which are also marble. In the back right are desks and chairs. No customers are in the lobby. No tellers are at the windows. No bankers are at the desks.
Date: January 14, 1952
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Adams Extract Open House]

Photograph of a line of men, women, and children at the Adams Extract factory open house. Three factory workers stand at the machinery, while most men and women talk to each other in groups or wait for samples behind a rope.
Date: July 14, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Adams Extract display]

Photograph of a D.G. Benjamin Advertising campaign for Adams Extract displayed at a local retailer. A grocer in a white shirt and apron and bow-tie holds up a box of Adams Best, priced fifteen cents. Adams Pure Almond and Pure Lemon extracts retail for twenty-nine cents. Adams Extract is a top-shelf item in the spice aisle above McCormick and Colman's spices and extracts.
Date: July 14, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History