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[Client Card: Mr. Amon Carter] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Amon Carter]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Amon Carter, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Bust of Mr. A. Carter", "Will Rogers Head" (6 copies; mounted on marble bases with name plates), "Will Rogers Head" (Mounted to verde antique marble base), "Remington" (repaired), "Small Head of Sid Richardson" (30 copies), "Head of Will Rogers" (Verde antique marble base), "Coming Trough the Rye" (2 copies, clean, repair), "Standing Figure with Flute" (2 copies, 8" base)
Date: 1949-10-21/1963-04-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
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

[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
[Client Card: Miss Nancy Brown] (open access)

[Client Card: Miss Nancy Brown]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Nancy Brown, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include "Ballet Figure" seated, and "Standing Nude Female Figure".
Date: 1949-09/1968-05
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
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

[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
[George Clountz Report Card, July 1, 1949] (open access)

[George Clountz Report Card, July 1, 1949]

Report card containing the scholastic merits of George Clountz from the Daily Vacation Bible School at Overton, Texas. The card includes religious quotes, grades, and information about the school. A yellow seal bearing the word "Honor" appears at the upper left corner.
Date: July 1, 1949
Creator: Perry, Restore S.
Object Type: Text
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
[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
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
[Client Card: Mr. James Lippitt Clark] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. James Lippitt Clark]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. James Clark Lippitt, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "African Buffalo" (2 copies; 16" x 13" x 13"), "Reclining Lioness" (2 copies; 26"), "Elephant" (2 copies; 16" x 13"), "African Head Relief" (9" x 6"), "Charging Rhino" (2 copies; 18" x 9" x 6"), "African Buffalo", "Plaque" (Mambetu), "African Dinka", "Plaque", "Relief" (African Natives; 2 copies), "Mountain Goat" (11"), "African Head" (4 copies), "Rhino" (2 copies; repatine), "Dog" (35" x 41" x 18"), "Ovis Poli Sheep" (17" x 17" x 6"), "Dog" (King Buck; 2 copies; 9.5" x 11"), "King Buck" (8 copies), "Small King Buck" (2 copies), "Ibex" (2 copies; 1 bronze cast, 1 plaster cast; 12" x 8"; repatine), "Kodiak Bear" (7 copies; 6 bronze casts, 1 plaster cast; 12"), "Rhino" (repair; repatine), "Kodiak Bear" (4 copies), "Ovis Poli" (17" x 17" x 6"), "Kodiak" (2 copies), and "Antelope" (repair; repatine).
Date: 1949-02/1959-07
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
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
[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 Fire]

Photograph of three firemen silhouetted by a large fire.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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

[Businesses in the Five Points Neighborhood]

Photograph of two-story business fronts along a street in the Five Points neighborhood in El Paso, Texas. The building on the right has "El Paso Conservatory" written over its top row of windows. Businesses in the first story include Douglass Bros. hardware store and Wayne M. Tinkler & Co.'s appliance store.
Date: 1949
Creator: Escontrías
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

[Five Points Neighborhood]

Photograph of a crossroads in the Five Points neighborhood of El Paso, Texas. Houses can be seen behind rows of trees. Cars can be seen along the central road. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date: 1949
Creator: Escontrías
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

[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