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[Client Card: Mrs. Gordon E. Chandler] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Gordon E. Chandler]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Gordon E. Chandler, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes numerous bronze cast busts of various individuals such as Charles Coburn, Justice Harlan Stone, Michael, etc.
Date: 1949-05/1956-09
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

1949 Livestock Show, Travis County

Photograph of young men standing in a row with their calves at the 1949 Travis County Food and Livestock Show at Rosewood Park in Austin, Texas. Two men with sticks appear to be inspecting the cattle. A group of spectators is in the background.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ross Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boys with Beef Calves]

Photograph of young men and boys standing in a row with their beef calves at the 1949 Travis County Livestock Show at Rosewood Park in Austin. Spectators stand behind them and cars are visible in the distance.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ross Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[State Fair of Texas Exhibitor's Ticket for Lizzie Smith] (open access)

[State Fair of Texas Exhibitor's Ticket for Lizzie Smith]

Exhibitor's ticket for the State Fair of Texas. The light orange ticket bears the signature and photograph of Lizzie Smith. In the photo, Smith wears a dark dress and eyeglasses and stands in front of a painted lake scene. Squares on the top of the ticket are filled with numbers from eight to twenty-three, and the first three have been marked with a hole punch. The letters "SFT" have been punched into the card and a red stamp pressed into its back.
Date: October 10, 1949
Creator: State Fair of Texas
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Medical Association Application: Leopoldo Lemus, MD] (open access)

[Medical Association Application: Leopoldo Lemus, MD]

Application submitted by Dr. Leopoldo Lemus for membership in the State Medical Association of Texas. It includes background related to education, specialties, and other professional information.
Date: 1949~
Creator: State Medical Association of Texas
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Family Outside Their Home]

Photograph of a family with two small children and a dog outside of their wooden house. Laundry is hanging to dry on lines. Other wooden houses in the background. Dirt, patches of weeds, and small trees surround the houses.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Interior view of a Home]

Photograph of a kitchen with a small stove and pots hanging on the walls, as seen from a bedroom. The door between the two rooms is made of a cardboard. Most likely this was the home of an African American family in Austin.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[View of a Kitchen]

Photograph of a small kitchen with a small stove, oven, and table. The walls are covered in newspaper. The floor is uneven and stained. This was most likely the kitchen in the home of an African American family.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1949 Fire]

Photograph of three firemen silhouetted by a large fire.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[1949 Inauguration Event Schedule] (open access)

[1949 Inauguration Event Schedule]

Card with a schedule of events for the 1949 inauguration written on it. The events range from Saturday, January 18 to Thursday, January 23, and include dinners at the Mayflower Hotel and a buffet luncheon at the White House.
Date: [1949-01-18..1949-01-23]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[1949 Inauguration Ticket] (open access)

[1949 Inauguration Ticket]

Ticket to the 1949 inauguration ceremonies. The ticket reads: "President's Platform. Inauguration Ceremonies. January Twentieth, 1949. Admit the Bearer to the Senate Wing of the Capitol and through the Rotunda Door to the President's Platform" and is signed "Carl Hayden, Chairman, Committee on Arrangements." The back of the invitation is signed "Joseph C. Duke, Sergeant at Arms, U. S. Senate."
Date: January 20, 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Basketball on Multiple Use Court at Grauwyler Park]

Photograph of a basketball game taking place on the multiple use court, where one can play tennis, volleyball, dance, skate, and other activities. A large plane flies overhead. The total cost of the park is $7,500 including lights.
Date: October 1, 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dance at Randall Park]

Photograph of several young people dancing while holding hands to form a circle.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Men in Fire Department Truck]

Photograph of four unidentified men from the Bryan Fire Department sitting around a truck.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gatesville Messenger and Star-Forum (Gatesville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1949 (open access)

The Gatesville Messenger and Star-Forum (Gatesville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1949

Weekly newspaper from Gatesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 4, 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Firemen Eating Spaghetti]

Photograph of five firemen sitting at a table and eating spaghetti at a fire station in Beaumont, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Large Group of Men in Front of Building]

Photograph of a large group of men posing on the steps in front of a building, possibly a firemen's training school.
Date: 1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marjorie Buss Hansen and Family]

Photograph of Marjorie Hansen kneeling in a grassy field, holding one young boy with a girl and two more boys standing to her right. All four children are approximately the same size.
Date: September 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men at Texas Fire Instructors Department Conference]

Photograph of a group of men posing together at a Texas Fire Department Instructors Conference. The men in the first row are W. R. Willis, W. J. McBride, H. R. Brayton, A. L. Rathke, W. J. Henderson, B. J. Korman, G. C. Adams, Skipper Lucky, and an unknown man. Those in the second row are Dagger Dickerson, Eugene Ray, two unknown men, H. B. Whitworth, John Woody, August Oertli, and G. Frank Williams. Those in the third row are Otis Muenster, A. L. Cartwright, and Bob Dodson, and several of the men in fourth are E. W. Parker, D. C. Musiek, Hugh Brinkley, Paul B. Conley, and Benjamin Huron. The men in the fifth row are Alfred Myers, Oscar Goodrich, Harvey Peyton, Monk Owens, and Cisco Black, Shorty Foust, Irwin Sprekles, and Harry Kerr. Those in the top row are Gene Sappington, John O'Brien, Frank McKinney, and Dan Butler.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Beaumont Fire Department]

Photograph of the men of the Beaumont Fire Department posing in uniform in front of the Central Fire Station. Those in the front row are Frank Varnado, George Corrigan, Austin Manuel, Ruie Akin, Steve O'Connor, Frank Estes, J. N. Richardson, John D. Southwell, R. N. Tullos, C. A. "Red" Chriswell, and Louie Carter. The men in the middle row are Jake Buck, Vic Duhon, A. B. O'Quinn, Bobby Chase, Bill Sharpe, John McNair, Oscar Wilkerson, Joe Curry, Ulysses Duggins, Leland Jones, A. A. Langford, Everett Pfleider, Albert Bostick, O. M. Joiner, Aubrey Dixon, and Ed Gross. The men in the third row are Camille Gonzales, A. J. LeBlanc, Ralph Shelton, Harold Heidecker, Don O'Dell, Vansler Fontenot, Harris N. Taylor, Aaron Long, Wesley Phillips, and Nick Hill.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Christmas Parade Float]

Photograph of a Christmas parade float being towed by a car. The parade has the text "A Merry American Christmas," with a woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty and a man dressed as Uncle Sam standing on it. The float was sponsored by Guy Mitchell Cleaners, Pure Milk Co., and Blue Bird Ice Cream.
Date: 1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ralph Petersen Near House]

Photograph of a young boy in a white button up shirt and grey pants standing in front of a one story house.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women with Chairs]

Photograph of two women standing behind and looking two cushioned chairs. A brick building is visible behind them.
Date: June 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History