[Correspondence to E.M. Pease from Lucadia Pease] (open access)

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

A letter to E.M. Pease from Lucadia Pease, who expresses her happiness that they have bought a house. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.
Date: June 9, 1859
Creator: Pease, Lucadia
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from Lucadia Pease to Juliet Niles] (open access)

[Correspondence from Lucadia Pease to Juliet Niles]

A letter to Juliet Niles from her sister Lucadia Pease, who says that the family has (at least temporarily) decided to call their home "Wood Lawn." Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.
Date: November 9, 1860
Creator: Pease, Lucadia
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Rutherford B. Hayes] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Rutherford B. Hayes]

A draft of a letter from E.M. Pease to President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Date: March 9, 1877
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Burning Capitol

View of the Capitol as it burns looking north from the corner of 11th and Congress.
Date: November 9, 1881
Creator: Hillyer, H. B.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sewanee vs. [University of] Texas, 1899

Photograph of Texas vs. Sewanee. Bleachers seat from 150 to 300. Clark Field. Spectators (almost entirely men) crowd the bleachers and the sidelines on both sides of the field. The University of Texas began its football program in 1893 managed by Albert Lefevra, playing two games in the fall and two in the spring. The following year, the team hired its first official head coach, R.D. Wentworth.
Date: November 9, 1899
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Julia Maria Pease from Dave Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence to Julia Maria Pease from Dave Pease]

A letter to Julia Maria Pease from Dave Pease, a former slave.
Date: September 9, 1915
Creator: Pease, Dave
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anderson Mill on Cyprus Creek]

Photograph of two men posing on a wall by the Anderson Mill on Cypress Creek. One of them is standing on the wall, and one of them is sitting.
Date: August 9, 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Photograph of building under construction
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Photograph of building under construction
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Photograph of building under construction.
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Photograph of a three-story building under construction, with workers seated outside the front of the building a construction company sign in the lower-right part of the image. A church is visible in the background and a small wooden building is situated on the street in front of an empty lot between the church and the building. Vehicles are parked on both sides of the street.
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Photograph of building under construction
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Photograph of building under construction
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
O. Henry's Pen Name (open access)

O. Henry's Pen Name

Letter entitled, "O. Henry’s Pen Name," on the possible origin of his pseudonym.
Date: January 9, 1937
Creator: Boissard, George A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mansfield-Marshall Ford Dam Construction]

Group photograph of "U.S. Royal Boots on Marshall Ford Dam. Brown & Root - McKenzie Construction Co., Austin, Tex."
Date: March 9, 1938
Creator: Ellison Photo Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Widening of Woodrow Avenue]

Photograph of the widening of Woodrow Avenue. A young boy is watching the men work.
Date: June 9, 1939
Creator: City of Austin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

New Sanitation Truck

Photograph of the new City of Austin Sanitation Division sanitation truck. The truck in the photograph is a 1939 General Motors dump truck.
Date: January 9, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A. Garland Adair Standing]

Photograph of Garland Adair, curator of the Texas Memorial Museum, standing. He is wearing a suit and holding his glasses in his hands.
Date: October 9, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A. Garland Adair Standing]

Photograph of Garland Adair wearing a suit, hat, and glasses. He is standing in front of a hanging garment bag that reads "Kelly Smith Cleaner Dyer-Hatter."
Date: October 9, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Camp Mabry - Building #5

Photograph of a building #5 at Camp Mabry.
Date: January 9, 1942
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Camp Mabry -- Building #6

Photograph of the exterior of Camp Mabry Bulding #6.
Date: January 9, 1942
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Camp Mabry -- Building #6

Photograph of the interior of Building #6 at Camp Mabry.
Date: January 9, 1942
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Camp Mabry - West End

Photograph of a line of seven buildings at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. The buildings have stone walls on the ends and wooden or metal siding along their lengths. Text at the bottom of the image says "West End."
Date: January 9, 1942
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gay Coleman

Photograph of man dressed in a suit standing in front of bookcase. The Capitol building is visible in the background through the window.
Date: July 9, 1943
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History