Photograph of firemen wading through water near equipment covered with sheets.

Photograph of Thomas A. Mayes, a Travis County Agricultural Agent with the Negro Extension Service.

Birthday greeting card with a red ribbon running through it. The card has a picture of an older woman surrounded with a wreath of flowers, and includes text: "Greetings from 'Mama Sue' on her ninetieth birthday, December 25, 1948."

Photograph of a boy kneeling next to a beef calf and holding a ribbon which says "Grand Champion Beef." He is at the annual Travis County Food and Livestock show in Rosewood Park in Austin.

Photograph of a young boy posing with his show pig and holding a first place ribbon at the Fourth Annual Travis County Food and Livestock Show.

Photograph of men and boys kneeling next to their beef calves in front of wooden pens at the 1948 Travis County Food and Livestock Show in Rosewood Park in Austin. Doris Miller Auditorium is partially visible in the background.

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Flight of Night."

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Bronze Incorporated (Leonard Grosse), including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include: plaque (2 copies; 56" x 16"), plaque (2 copies; 24" x 12"), "Lily Pads and Frogs," "Aviator" (2 copies), "Dutch Group" (24" x 13", 28" x 18" at the pails; base 35"), fountain, "Boystown Figs" (3 copies), "Bible" (66" x 44"), "Last Supper," "Boystown Figures" (2 copies), bookends (2 copies), modern sculpture (3 copies), "Christ," racing trophy (6.5" x 13.5" x 8.5"), several figures, abstract, William H. Peck plaque, Luther Bust (2 copies; 38" x 33"), "Eagle" (42"), "Bust of Colonel R. R. McCormick" (2 copies; 30"), "Monk and Lady" bookends, "Dead Dog," and "Christ Plaque" (60" x 34").

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Kenneth Campbell, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: soldier bust (2 copies), portrait head (23"), portrait bust (21"), "Bust of Chief Joseph" (25" x 19" x 11"), portrait bust (22" x 14" x 8"), female portrait bust (25" x 18"), portrait bust (14.5" x 7.5"), figures, portrait heads, and eagle (48" x 26" x 15").

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Annette Cave, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: Bear (2 copies; 5.5"), Colt (2 copies; 5.5"), Boxers, Railroad Workers, and Colt (2 copies).

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Mary R. Birch, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include "Head" (4 copies, chrome plate, 5"), "Horses Head" (7 copies, 6 bronze casts, 1 plaster cast).

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Henry Berge, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Portrait Head" (2 copies; 1 bronze cast, 1 plaster cast; 12.75"), "Von Paris Plaque" (18.5" diameter), "Grave Plate" (18.5" x 8.5"), "Portrait Head with Small Shoulders" (11.25"), "Plaque with Four Rosettes" (18" x 10"), "Small Plaque" (20.25" x 7.25"), "Plaque of Dr. Blaylock" (25.5" x 20.25"), "Female Portrait Bust" (15"), "Large Sea Urchin", "Plaque" (2 copies; 18" diameter), "Male Portrait Head" (12.5" x 7.5"), "Sea Urchin on a Shell" (7'; repair), "Portrait Head" (12.75"), "Portrait Head Von Paris" (12.75"), "Large Sea Urchin", "Wild Flower" (18"), "Plaque of M.A. Offit'" (15.5" x 20.5"), "Portrait Relief" (33.5" x 38.75"), "Portrait Bust" (25.5" x 16" at shoulder), "Plaque" (15.5"), "Frederick Plaque" (21.25" x 7.25"), "Portrait Plaque of Blumenthal" (21" x 26"), "Large Sea Urchin" (6'6.75"), "Plaque" (5" x 18.5"), "Portrait Plaque of Blumenthal" (15" diameter), "Portrait Plaque of Mr. Hampshire" (21" x 26"), "Blaustein Relief" (2 copies; 30" x 40"), "Plaque of J.C. Legg", "Plaque" (15" x 10.5"), "Plaque" (30.25" x 23"), "Grave Plaque" (20.5" x 7.5"), "Plaque" (Portrait in Relief; 38" …

Photograph of men standing in debris spraying water at the Burris Lumber Company fire.

Photograph of firemen spraying water at the Southern Land and Lumber Company fire in Beaumont, Texas. There is lumber on the ground, and more firefighters are visible in the background.

Photograph of a group of firemen standing on top of a pile of wood at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of a group of five men holding a water hose at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Weekly newspaper from Llano, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Application submitted by Dr. Everett Thomas Duncan for membership in the Texas Medical Association. It includes background related to education, specialties, and other professional information.

Photograph of men at a Texas Fire Department Instructors Conference, sitting in front of a building with cars in the background. Several men in the front row are identified as E. W. Parker, Monk Owens, Oscar Goodrich, B. J. Korman, Burns Caldwell, Frank Gallaway, Benjamin Huron, R. Roy Simmons, and Bill Willis. Those in the second row are Frank McKinney, Johnnie O'Brien, August Oertli, Paul Andrews, an unknown man, John Ballew, unknown, G. I. Powell, and three more unidentified men. Those in the third row are Glen Warranstaff, G. C. Adams, Bill McMeans, R. D. Mace, John Woody, four unknown men, Jerome Schawb, Henry D. Smith, Henry Timmerman, Morbert Koonce, Otis Muenster, and Paul R. Williams. Those in the back row are A. L. "Gus" Cartwright, L. O. Bynam, Dick Rowland, Adolf Solmkey, A. L. Rathke, and W. J. Henderson. One of the men in the fifth row is D. C. Musick, and three of the men in the top row are H. R. Brayton, Bob Dodson, and Harvey Peyton.

Photograph of firefighters spraying water at large piles of lumber on fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. A building is visible to the right.

Photograph of men standing in debris spraying water at the Burris Lumber Company fire.

Photograph of a teacher standing against a wall with eight students. The reverse side of the photo describes the people from the top left as: Lola Dane Smith, Jimmie Anderson, Teacher Okla Coburne, Bobbie Anderson (Baker), Bobby Smith, George Clountz, Bobby Tavis, Pete Anderson, and Kenneth Smith.

Photograph of a building on fire in the distance at the Burris Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. There are concrete cylinders in the foreground.

Photograph of a building on fire at the Burris Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.