Austin High School 9A class of 1920

Photograph of the Austin High School 9A class of 1920 seated outside one of the campus buildings.
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin High School 9B Class of 1920

Photograph of the Austin High School 9B class of 1920. The group is posed outdoors with trees visible behind them. There are approximately 90 students.
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin High School Hayne Society, 1920

Photograph of the Hayne Society at Austin High School in the fall/winter of 1920. The club consists of 11 young, male students seated and standing in two rows in front of a wall of shrubbery. Leaves are on the ground.
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Brackenridge Elementary School]

Photograph of Brackenridge Elementary School, located at 319 West Elizabeth Street, a segregated school for Negro children. The building was a one story wooden structure with board and batten exterior walls, 6/6 wood windows, and a plain, square-columned porch entrance. The wooden doors are topped by transom windows. This school for colored children was first listed in the 1909-1910 Austin City Directory, and a school by that name was operating as late as 1965.
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bull Creek - 1920

Photograph of Bull Creek, taken from a high angle on top of a hill.
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Deep Eddy, Austin Tex

Photograph of spectators and swimmers at Deep Eddy Bathing Beach.
Date: 1920~/1929~
Creator: Guzley
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Children at Governor's Mansion]

Photograph of First Lady Willie Hobby, seated on the steps of the Governor's Mansion, surrounded by a group of children. Included are Marie Hanna Bernheim; Roy Rather, Jr.; Margaret Soreano Beverly; Kathleen Crawford; Catherine Teten Nash; Mary Watt Avery; Mary Louise Hill Sparks; Virginia Horton Roberdeau; Helen Phinney Avery; George Sparks; and Frances Seybolt Rather.
Date: 1920~
Creator: Gazley Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Minnie Fisher Cunningham for US Senate]

Minnie Fisher Cunningham (far right) and two others in front of car holding sign that reads: "Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham for United States Senator."
Date: 1920~
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portait of a Young Woman]

Photograph of a formal portrait of an unidentified young woman. She wears a white dress and has a ribbon in her hair. There is a painted backdrop behind her.
Date: [1920..1929]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Six men in front of a "Enfield Special" railroad car at the Southern Pacific station in Austin, Texas]

Photograph of six men in suits and hats posed in front of a private railroad car in the Austin Southern Pacific terminal at 301 Congress Avenue. A banner hung on the car says: "ENFIELD SPECIAL FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS TO WASHINGTON D.C. VIA S.P. LINES", and the same information was recorded on the bottom of the negative. The depot was constructed in 1902 as the Houston and Texas Central depot, and an addition was added to the east side in 1935.
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas State Capitol]

Photograph of the Texas State Capitol taken from the southeast. The photograph was copied from the 1920 "Cactus".
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two small conjoined pyramid-roofed buildings at the end of a path lined by vegetation next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course]

Photograph of at two small woodframe pyramidal roofed buildings, joined with a hyphen, which sit at the end of a vegetation-lined path next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course. One building is a board and batten structure with a 4/4 window. There is a large tree to the left of the buildings, and a 1920s-era car to the left of that. A man stands to the right of the buildings near the path or road.
Date: 1920~/1930~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Congress Avenue]

Photograph of Congress Avenue looking north. Cabaniss Hardware and Dewey Garage are visible at right, as well as cars and some advertisements painted on the buildings. The Capitol is visible in the distance. Streetcar rails are in the center of the road.
Date: January 26, 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Baker Elementary School Students]

Photograph of students in front of Baker Elementary School. They are sitting and standing in front of the two-story stone school building.
Date: 1922~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[May 4, 1922 Tornado]

Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado funnel in the sky.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado]

Photograph of a tornado that has yet to touch down.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado Damage]

Photograph of a view of the steel tank at Penn Field damaged after the May 4, 1922 tornado.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado in Sky]

Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado forming in the sky.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado in Sky]

Photograph of storm clouds with a tornado in the sky.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: McCaskill, D.E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado in Sky]

Photograph of a tornado in the sky on May 4, 1922. Caption on back reads: "Cyclone at Austin, Texas; Ruth Granberry."
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado in Sky]

Photograph of a tornado in the sky on May 4, 1922, over downtown Austin. Writing on back reads: "Alta Heflin Wilder, photographer (?)."
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado, May 4, 1922]

Black and white photograph of a tornado in the sky that has yet to touch down. The roof of a building is visible in the lower left corner.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: McCaskill, D.E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tornado over Capitol]

Photograph of tornado above Capitol building looking northwest.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[View of tornado as seen from Congress Avenue downtown Austin, Texas]

Photograph of the May 4, 1922 tornado in Austin, Texas, as seen from a rooftop on downtown Congress Avenue. Visible in the foreground are: the Queen Theater at 700 Congress Avenue, the Walter Tips Building at 708-710-712 Congress Avenue, and the F. W. Woolworth & Company at 800-802 Congress Avenue. The side of the Paramount Theater is also visible. There is a painted sign, on a building in the foreground, for Maxwell House Coffee. The tornado is clearly visible in the dark sky to the northwest of downtown. The original of this image is PICA 25989, which has not yet been scanned.
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History