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[Capt. J. W. Howard, C. D. Jones, Ben Thompson, Fred A. Sterzing, Maylor W. A. Saylor, and Dr. R. H. L. Bibb Photograph]
Photograph of Capt. J. W. Howard, C. D. Jones, Ben Thompson, Fred A. Sterzing, Mayor W. A. Saylor, and Dr. R. H. L. Bibb wearing suits and uniforms in front of a light background.
Date:
1900~/1930~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recipe for Matzo Balls]
Typed recipe on a card labeled "Driskill Hotel, Food Service Department--Recipe" listing ingredients and instructions. It is labeled at the bottom as "Matzo Balls," containing chicken fat, matzo meal, parsley, salt, and eggs.
Date:
194X
Creator:
Corbitt, Helen
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. W. Underwood to Chief of Naval Personnel, December 8, 1943]
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.
Date:
December 8, 1943
Creator:
Underwood, Herbert Whitwell
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recipe for Swiss Steak]
Typed recipe on a pre-printed card for the "Home Economics Tea House" at the University of Texas at Austin. In lists general instructions for cooking Swiss Steak, with salt and pepper, bacon fat, onions, carrots, and tomatoes. Some of the instructions have been corrected in pencil, and there is a note written at the bottom: "Cover [...] Tomatoes salt, and accent."
Date:
194X
Creator:
Corbitt, Helen
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recipe for Canadian Cheese Soup]
Typed recipe on a card labeled "Driskill Hotel, Food Service Department--Recipe" listing ingredients with amounts for three different batches (1, 8, or 16 servings) and instructions. It is labeled at the bottom as "Canadian Cheese Soup," containing stock, carrots, celery, milk, butter, cornstarch, onions, flour, spices, and Rarebit of Cheddar cheese sauce.
Date:
194X
Creator:
Corbitt, Helen
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mary Mowinckle Johnson to Camila, February 13, 1975]
Photocopy of a letter from Mary Mowinckle Johnson to a woman named Camila. The letter goes into details about Johnson's time as a teacher at the Eanes Rock Schoolhouse and she also inquires about the Marshall family and states that there are probably books about them in the Travis Country Library.
Date:
February 13, 1975
Creator:
Johnson, Mary Mowinckle
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Notes from an Interview with Mike Molberg]
Typewritten notes from an interview with Mike Molberg. Molberg talks about his time at Eanes School and what a typical day was like for the students who attended as well as a list of women who taught at Eanes School and what time periods they were teaching. At the top right of the document "VF People: Eanes Area - 1975 (Molberg)" is written in pen with "Johnson" written under it in pencil.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Eanes History Center
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Barton Family Tree and Bob Barton Obituary]
Photocopy of a family tree chart for the Barton family. The chart is both typed and handwritten and lists the husband, wide, and children in order of birth. There is also an obituary from the San Marcos Daily Record for Bob Barton Sr.
Date:
1874~
Creator:
Eanes History Center
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Students]
Photograph of a group of students standing outside and leaning on a wire fence. Behind the students there is a set of bleachers and a tree and on the back of the photograph "APR 1940" and "R 5 8" is printed.
Date:
April 1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Children in a Wagon]
Photograph of children in a wooden wagon. The child in the center of the photo is holding a long pole of some sort and wearing a hat, all of the children are looking straight towards the camera.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eanes Rock Schoolhouse Class]
Photograph of Eanes Rock Schoolhouse students in class. The students are seated at their desks and facing the photographer with the teacher standing in the back in front of the black board. There is handwritten text on back of photo that says: "Kay Ort Orell (student). Old Rock school house, her 1956 class."
Date:
1956
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Essay about Jackson Cemetery]
Photocopy of an essay titled "Jackson Cemetery, Travis County, Texas" and under that "Its Value as an Historical Landmark". The essay goes into the creation of the cemetery and how the lot was purchased as well as the fact that much of the information from the essay comes from interviews conducted by Melissa W.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Eanes History Center
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students in a Car Trunk]
Photograph of three Eanes Rock Schoolhouse students in the trunk of a car. The boy on the right has on a brown bowler hat and seems to be looking at a woman who is only partially in the frame of the picture and on the back of the photograph "R70" is printed.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eanes Rock Schoolhouse Students Outside]
Photograph of Eanes Rock Schoolhouse students having lunch outside. They are seating in front of a pile or rocks with trees in the background, on the background of the "1930s Students having lunch in the Eanes Cafeteria" is written in blue pen.
Date:
1930
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students in a Wagon]
Photograph of Eanes Rock School House students on a field trip to San Antonio to see the Alamo. The students are piled into a wagon that is stopped at a gas station and on the back of the photograph "Eanes History Center" is handwritten in pen as well as "R70" is printed.
Date:
April 1940
Creator:
Eanes Rock School House
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Students Having Lunch]
Photograph of of Eanes Rock School House students about to eat lunch outside. The children are lined up and looking towards the camera and there are trees in the background of the picture.
Date:
April 1940
Creator:
Eanes Rock School House
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Four Eanes Rock Schoolhouse Students]
Photograph of four Eanes Rock Schoolhouse students standing in front of the Eanes Rock Schoolhouse building. There are two girls in dresses and two boys in shirts and pants in the picture as well as a dog and man bending down in the background. The photograph is torn on the top right corner and there are brown stains on the left of the border of the photograph.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Dyker, Betsy London
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students at the Alamo]
Photograph of a group of Eanes Rock Schoolhouse students on a field trip to San Antonio, the students are standing in front of the Alamo. On the back of the photograph, "R70" is printed.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten Account of the Boat Parade]
Photocopy of a handwritten account by Mary Mowinckle of the July 4, 1981 Boat Parade on Lake Austin for the Neighborhood Section of the Austin American-Statesman Newspaper. She recounts going to the parade with her father, his friend, and her mother.
Date:
July 4, 1981
Creator:
Depwe, Dorothy
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Essay by Laura Castro]
Photocopy of an essay on how the Dellana family came to reside in Rollingwood, Texas. Castro talks about Condado Dellana's immigration from Italy to the United States and how he eventually moved to Texas to help build the capitol building in Austin. Years later, Condado discovered a cave in Rollingwood that produced extremely good fertilizer due to the guano from the bats that lived in the cave. He eventually bought the property that the cave was on and started selling the fertilizer to nurseries around the state.
Date:
February 27, 1976
Creator:
Castro, Laura
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Illustration of Lost Creek Log Cabin]
Art print depicting an illustration of the Lost Creek Log Cabin in a state of disrepair. In the foreground of the picture, there is a stone chimney that is falling apart as well as the wooden structure of the building that is also falling apart. Under the drawing, "Lost Creek Log Cabin circa 1872" is printed and to the left "69/100" is handwritten in pencil. In the right corner, Curtis has signed her name.
Date:
1983
Creator:
Curtis, Mary
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Students in a Wagon]
Photograph of Eanes Rock Schoolhouse students on a wooden wagon. One student is trying to climb into the wagon, while the others seem to be looking at something off frame to the left. There appear to be parents outside of the wagon holding onto the smaller children and in the background of the photograph there is a stone building and several trees. On the back of the photograph, "R70" is printed.
Date:
April 1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Blue Book Essay about the Beard Family]
Essay about the Beard Family contained within a Blue Book. On the front of the book 'Beard Info' is written in red pen and inside the essay is written in pencil but edited in black pen.
Date:
November 1954
Creator:
Eanes History Center
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Westlake Hills History: The Johnson Family]
Photocopy of an article about the Johnson family, particularly Charles Johnson and his wife, Emilia Johnson.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The Portal to Texas History