[Bridge over Barton Creek]

Photograph of a bridge over Barton Creek.
Date: December 1894
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[St. John's Elementary School]

Photograph of the St. John's Elementary School, now closed.
Date: December 22, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[St. David's Episcopal Church]

Photograph of the exterior of St. David's Episcopal church. There are many people standing outside of the church.
Date: December 19, 1867
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas League Ball Park Flooded by Colorado River]

Photograph of the Texas League Ballpark in South Austin flooded by the Colorado River in December 1913.
Date: December 3, 1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Copy of Photograph of 1919 Texas State Capitol]

Copy of a photograph loaned by Mrs. Gill Paggi of the Texas State Capitol.
Date: December 1967
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library interior of Austin High School with students reading at tables, Austin, Texas]

Photograph of students reading at long wooden tables in the Austin High School library, located at 1202 Rio Grande. The students are seated in wooden chairs with vertical back slats. The circulation desk is visible at the back of the room, and there are two framed prints on the walls. There are four pendant schoolhouse lamps on the ceiling, and a ceiling fan over the circulation desk. The name Mameye Robison is written on the foreedge of a book stacked on a table near the front of the photograph.
Date: December 11, 1934
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Municipal Auditorium exterior during construction]

Photograph of Municipal Auditorium, exterior view during construction. The skeleton of the dome is visible above cars parked around the site.
Date: December 13, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Seaholm Power Plant Intake Facility]

Photograph of the lake side view of the Seaholm Power Plant Intake facility. The Art Deco concrete facility was designed by Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company and was built in two phases in 1950 and 1955 by Odom Construction Company. The facility operated as a power plant until 1989 and was finally decommissioned in 1996 by the city of Austin. The intake facility is located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake and the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail.
Date: December 1, 1950
Creator: City of Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Governor's Mansion]

Photograph of the front entrance of the Texas Governor's mansion.
Date: December 1949
Creator: Studer's
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Governor's Mansion]

Photograph of a partial view of the Texas Governor's mansion, possibly taken from the back lawn.
Date: December 1949
Creator: Studer's
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Governor's Mansion]

Photograph of a side view of the Texas Governor's mansion.
Date: December 1949
Creator: Studer's
System: The Portal to Texas History

[East 8th Street at Sabine]

Photograph of E. 8th St. looking east from Sabine St. after paving. Cars and businesses, including East Produce, line the sides of the street.
Date: December 21, 1944
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train on Waller Creek Bridge]

Photograph of the front view of a steam train paused on the Waller Creek bridge in Austin. Buildings can be seen on both the right and left hand side of the bridge. There are passengers visible on the platform to the left of the train. On the back of the photograph there is a note that reads "With a little steam left this forerunner of a soon-to-be speeding civilization has stopped on the little Waller Creek bridge in Austin to let the passengers from Houston and other points out a the Depot House, Christmas day, 1871." Also on the back there is a note that reads "504 E 5th(?) Houston & Texas Central."
Date: December 25, 1871
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lohman's Crossing Bridge Construction

Photograph of construction of Lohman's Crossing bridge, showing man walking toward vehicle which is partly submerged in water.
Date: December 3, 1932
Creator: Studer, San Antonio, TX
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lohman's Crossing Bridge Construction

Photograph of Lohman's Crossing Bridge construction. Men work on laying the foundations for the new bridge over the Colorado River. The bridge is now under 140 feet of water.
Date: December 3, 1932
Creator: Studer, San Antonio, TX
System: The Portal to Texas History

Men on Lohman's Crossing Bridge Under Construction

Photograph of Lohman's Crossing Bridge construction. Men work on laying the foundations for the new bridge over the Colorado River. The bridge is now under 140 feet of water.
Date: December 3, 1932
Creator: Studer, San Antonio, TX
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Side View of Construction of Seaholm Power Plant]

Photograph of the construction of part of the Seaholm Power Plant, surrounded by various construction materials and machinery.
Date: December 4, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

84th QM Co. - Picnic, Camp Mabry

Photograph of a group of soldiers and civilians pose during a picnic at Camp Mabry.
Date: December 7, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Outdoor Recreation Achievement Award for Town Lake]

Photograph of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Les Gage (Co-Chairman, Town Lake Beautification Committee) and Mrs. John Burns (Co-Chairman, Town Lake Beautification Committee) receiving an award for beautification work at Town Lake.
Date: December 8, 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Christmas Program - Rosewood Recreation Center]

Photograph of a large group of children singing at a Christmas program at Doris Miller Auditorium at Rosewood Park. Some of the audience is visible in the foreground.
Date: December 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Arch construction of the Negro Recreation Building, now Doris Miller Auditorium, in Rosewood Park]

Photograph of the construction of an arch at the Negro Recreation Building, now Doris Miller Auditorium, in Rosewood Park. A man in a fedora sits astride a semi-circular laminated wooden truss, working on joining it at the center. This truss, and two completed trusses in the background are framed against the sky. The trusses are supported by posts, and temporarily joined together with wooden cross braces. The top of a wooden scaffold is visible in the lower right corner of the image.
Date: December 10, 1943
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab, Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction of the Rosewood Recreation Center, now Doris Miller Auditorium, in Rosewood Park]

Photograph of construction of the Negro Recreation Building in Rosewood Park. Three men stand on the back of a 1930s flat bed truck, as they use a crane mounted on the truck to lift half of a laminated wooden semi-circular arched truss into place. Two of the trusses are already completed in the background. The scaffolding used to support workers joining the trusses at their centers stands to the back of the truck. The trusses are joined by cross members, and the half truss erected to the left in the photograph is supported by a post, awaiting the other half of the truss. Two wooden saw horses and several stacks of bags of cement(?) are on the ground under and near the trusses. This photograph appeared in the 1944 Annual Report of the Austin Recreation Department, on page 48, labeled "New Gymnasium - Auditorium at Rosewood".
Date: December 10, 1943
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tiny Tot Christmas Party]

Photograph of a Tiny Tot Christmas Party at Hancock Recreation Center. Santa Claus hands out candy canes to a group of children.
Date: December 1966
Creator: Parks and Recreation Department
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Christmas Event at Hancock Recreation Center]

Photograph of a group of older adults seated for a Christmas event at Hancock Recreation Center. A wreath is visible along one of the walls of the room.
Date: December 20, 1951
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
System: The Portal to Texas History