Resource Type

Interior of old stone house

Interior of home showing table, chairs, beds, lighting and decorations.
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cows Grazing]

Photo of cows grazing. Austin, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Exterior of house]

Photo of exterior of old stone house. Austin, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Disch Field Aerials]

Disch Baseball Field Aerial. Austin, Texas.
Date: August 20, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mr. and Mrs. Swenson and others]

Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Swenson and others. Myrna Merle Swenson's parents, the Cliftons, are the couple in front. Austin, Texas.
Date: August 18, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unidentified girl and Mr. and Mrs. Clifton]

Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton and a young girl. Austin, Texas.
Date: August 18, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Graves of Adolph and Sophia Filter]

Black and white photograph of two graves with a large, stone grave marker in between. The graves belong to Adolph and Sophia Filter. There are floral wreaths at the head of each grave. The tombstone between has a cross at its top. There are trees visible in background of the picture.
Date: August 1948
Creator: Fox Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas & Pacific Train #901]

Photograph of Texas & Pacific train #901 in Fort Worth, Texas. There is a large building visible in the background. Text below the image says "Fort Worth, Texas Aug. 1948" and "H. K. Vollrath."
Date: August 1948
Creator: Vollrath, H. K.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train Engine #905 and Cars]

Photograph of train engine #905 and attached cars on railroad tracks, viewed from a front side angle. "Texas & Pacific" and "905" are visible on the side of the car. Additional tracks lay to the side in front. Part of another train car sits on the tracks in the right background. Handwritten text below the image says, "Longview, Texas Aug 6 1948."
Date: August 6, 1948
Creator: Carlson, R. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0610]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Handcuffed, A.L. WIlson Jr., vice-president of the capitol Hill Oklahoma National bank, is ignored as William Gill Jr., Oklahoma City manager, left, and Lewis Meekins, president of the North Fort Worth Kiwanis club, get acquainted."
Date: August 28, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1000.0439]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 24, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Soldier with machine gun at target practice]

Photograph of a young man, a soldier, laying down on the ground at a machine gun at a practice range.
Date: August 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers pose in front of military tank]

Photograph of eighteen soldiers posing in front of a military tank during the summer of 1948. One man, facing away from the camera, stands at the entrance to the tank. Two other tanks flank the group.
Date: August 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Myrtle Waldman and Her Children]

Black and white photograph of a mother and her children posed outdoors for a picture in front of a house. The mother, Myrtle Waldman, is visible from the chest up; on her lap is a sizable blanket where her infant daughter is laying. To her left, Myrtle's other daughter is seen peeking from behind the blanket, visible from the chin up. The trunk of a tree and a few bushes are in the background.
Date: August 15, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Andrew Berndt and Myrtle Waldman]

Black and white photograph of a woman and a man (identified as Myrtle Hansen Waldman and Andrew E. Berndt) standing in a grassy area near an automobile. The two individuals are both wearing hats. Near Myrtle's feet are a basket and a suitcase. Andrew is standing directly next to the car. A dirt road is visible behind them.
Date: August 1, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Family Relaxing in Their Yard]

Black and white photograph of a woman and two men sitting on lawn chairs in the yard of a house that is partially visible behind them. The woman, identified as Anna Nielsen, is wearing a dress and glasses and has her hair in a bun; she is checking her fingernails. To her immediate right is her husband, Peter, who is leaning forward in his chair with his arms on his knees. Beside him is Alfred Nielsen, the couples' nephew; he is leaning back in his seat with his hands behind his head.
Date: August 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Myrtle Waldman

Black and white photograph of Myrtle Waldman standing outdoors and smiling for the camera in the yard of a wooden-sided house that is visible in the background. She is wearing glasses and a dress with an asymmetrical button placket. The back of a wooden chair is partially visible on the bottom left corner of the picture; she has her hand placed atop its back.
Date: August 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Woman and a Man Posing for a Picture Outdoors]

Black and white photograph of an unidentified woman and man standing together in the yard of a white house with several windows. A tree trunk is visible to the left of the them. In the background, a few people are relaxing in wooden Adirondack lawn chairs. One of the figures is Alfred Hansen.
Date: August 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a panoramic view of a 640 acre tract. A land utilization [L.U.] project where 206 acres were seeded in June 1948 to Martin Milo for stubble in which to seed side oats grama grass in the spring of 1949. Once cultivated, this land suffered moderate wind erosion during the wind-blown dust bowl years of the 1930s. TX-44, 635.
Date: August 23, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lee Plumley

Photograph of Lee Plumley examining blue grama.
Date: August 27, 1948
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0924.0374]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jack of All Trades --- Rotund Rabbit Musick is shown here tinkering with the electrical system on his beautiful new Kurtis-Kraft Offenhauser with which he has high hopes of victory in the added distance 30-lap June Championship Classic at the Fairgrounds Speedway Tuesday night."
Date: August 23, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri-Pacific Lines - Depot Opening

Two men standing by railroad tracks. Tips Engine Works is in background.
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Douglass, Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of drilling Lehman lovegrass on range. Soil Unit 2. Almost no vegetation.
Date: August 24, 1948
Creator: Rechenthin, C. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History