[Lena Armstrong Working with a Damaged Newspaper]

Photograph of Lena Armstrong holding a damaged piece of newspaper above a typewriter on a table at Belton Public Library. An unidentifiable person is standing next to her. Some framed art hang on the opposite wall that includes a door and a window.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Librarian at Book Return Counter]

Photograph of Lena Armstrong working at a counter with a "Return Books Here" sign and a row of books sitting on top the counter. Behind her are three bookshelves in a row; one has a clock on it. The back wall has three windows and a bookshelf with a framed portrait on top. Armstrong was director of Belton Library for over 50 years.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Librarian Virginia Kuse Helps Man Look Through Card Catalog in an Office Space]

Photograph of Virginia Kuse, Data Processing Supervisor at Austin Public Library, showing a card from a card catalog drawer while holding a stack of cards in her hand. An unidentified man looks at the card from his seat at a desk typing machine. Behind them is a wall covered with a card catalog system and shelves of office supplies and boxes.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Counter Decorated for Christmas]

Photograph of a library dual level counter decorated with a glowing Santa Claus face on the front and on top of the counter are a tissue paper honeycomb snowman and Santa Claus, a small white candle with greenery decorations, a sign reading Enjoy Your Library, and some miscellaneous papers and books. One unidentified woman is standing to the right of the counter reading a book. An illustrated mobile is hanging above the counter. Behind the counter is a brick wall with framed hanging art and a doorway to a small back room. Another unidentified woman is in the small back room holding books and touching a tall file cabinet. In the darker areas on either side of the photo are bookshelves and a cut-out of an elf holding a Seasons Greetings sign is by the bookshelves on the left.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Interior with Blue Bookshelves]

Photograph of a library's interior including two tables with chairs, a book display stand, a beige bookshelf, and two rows of blue bookshelves with illegible signs. Two unidentified children are in the lower left corner of the photograph near a seating area including a chair piled with bags.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Interior with Community Analysis Sign]

Photograph of a library's interior space with a plant, blue and yellow Community Analysis with illegible text, and the back of a book display shelf in the foreground. Tables with chairs, two unidentified people, and a card catalog are in the center of the room. Large yellow text is on the walls above bookshelves; unidentifiable letters are along the left wall and behind the pillar near the corner, and the center of the right wall reads "U - Z <-- FICTION."
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Office Space, Austin Public Library]

Photograph of an unidentified man and woman working at desks covered in papers, typewriters, and office supplies underneath a flight of stairs next to a window. Metal pillars separate the space, and library carts can be seen between the pillars. The office space was located in the basement of the Austin Public Library.
Date: [1977..1988]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Party #1]

Photograph of an unidentified group of people at a candlelit dinner party in the staffroom of the old Austin Public Library. There are four women standing around the kitchen countertop bar, three people are sitting at the table, and one woman is serving food at the table.
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Party #2]

Photograph of an unidentified group of people at a candlelit party in the Austin Public Library staff room. There are three women standing around the kitchen countertop bar, one person is mostly out of frame in the kitchen, three women are sitting at the table, and one woman is serving food at the table.
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library Work Spaces]

Photograph of two work desks filled with papers, telephones, books, and office supplies. The desks face a wall covered in art, papers, and cards. A stack of cardboard boxes and books are against the back wall next to the desks, and bookshelves are lined up in the area behind the desks.
Date: [1977..1988]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Library's Presidents Display]

Photograph of a library's display of Presidents of the United States along the back wall with decorations including, large posters of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, a stylized poster with red, white, and blue stripes and white stars, two scroll shaped posters, and ten small signs with silhouettes or images attached, and displayed books on short bookshelves. An unidentified woman is standing near a book cart behind the library counter which is in front of an window-like opening to another area with hanging cabinets and a desk covered with office supplies and a microfiche machine. The foreground shows a card catalog with a yellow flower arrangement on top.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Luling Public Library Exterior #1]

Photograph of Luling Public Library, a one-story brick building with white roof trim and entrance awning, benches by the entry, an illegible name sign, various trees obscuring the library entrance and the right of the frame, and a car parked on the street. The photo was taken from across the street intersection. Another building, possibly a house, is barely visible to the left of the library.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Madison County Library Exterior #1]

Photograph of the Madison County Library sign in the mostly empty and wet parking lot of the building. A blue pick-up truck is parked outside the library. The one story building has a glass and white trimmed entrance with a white inlay / shutters / sign on either side of the entrance.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Madison County Library Exterior #2]

Photograph of the Madison County Library building and parking lot; front wall is brick with white inlay / shutters / signs on either side of the white pillared entrance. Two cars are visible parked to the right of the library.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Woman Exchange a Book]

Photograph of David Earl Holt, APL Director, standing and exchanging a book with an unidentified woman sitting behind a desk in a hallway. The desk is surrounded by library carts with books, display books, and an artwork depicting a fox. Four unidentified people, display cases, and artwork continue further down the hallway.
Date: 1975~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Woman Exchange a Card #1]

Photograph of Congressman Jake Pickle and an unidentified woman exchanging a notecard in front of the Pflugerville Community Library. Two unidentified women stand in the doorway, and an unidentified man and woman stand to the left side of the photograph. Most of the people are wearing a large round lapel button.
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Woman Exchange a Card #2]

Photograph of Congressman Jake Pickle and an unidentified woman exchanging a notecard in front of the Pflugerville Community Library. An unidentified group of four women and a man stand behind them. Most people are wearing a large round lapel button.
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Woman Look Through Card Catalog]

Photograph of an unidentified woman looking through a card catalog drawer on a counter with note cards and an illegible sign sitting on top. A man holding a stack of books under his arm looks over her shoulder.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Woman Pose Together]

Photograph of an unidentified man holding a drink standing with an unidentified woman. An unidentified individual is to the right of the photograph. Behind them is a wall with a clock and a hot beverage dispenser on the countertop cabinetry.
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and Woman Speak Over a Desk of Books]

Photograph of an unidentified man speaking across a desk covered with stacks of books, papers, and miscellaneous objects to an unidentified woman holding a stack of books. Behind them the wood panelled room is filled with bookshelves. A piece of framed landscape artwork is sitting across the top of two bookshelves in the right of the frame.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man at a Library Party]

Photograph of an unidentified man standing with a plate of food at the table of a candlelit dinner party in the Austin Public Library staff room. Two unidentified women are in the kitchen in the background.
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man Looks Through a Bookshelf at the Dr. Eugene Clark Public Library]

Photograph of an unidentified man squatting to look at items on a bookshelf while holding an open bound item. The bound item in his hand reads Flying Index / 1969, possibly a copy of the Flying Magazine from 1969.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man Researches at the Library]

Photograph of an unidentified man reading a small booklet in his hands. He sits at a library desk covered with papers and backed by a large research book set. Behind him are library shelves, an unidentified person standing at a piece of furniture and windows looking outside to another multi-story building and sky.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man Speaking Outside the Pflugerville Community Library]

Photograph of Congressman Jake Pickle speaking under the Pflugerville Community Library sign to a visible group of three unidentified women and one unidentified man standing in the doorway, an unidentified woman standing to the right of the group, and an unseen group indicated by the arm of an unidentified individual. Bookshelves can be seen through the windows, and balloons are hanging from the corner of the awning (seen in the window reflection).
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History