[Winfred Gustafson and Winning Box Kite]

Photograph of Winfred Gustafson and his winning kite (for largest box kite) at the first kite flying contest.
Date: March 1929
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[St. David's Hospital]

Exterior of the St. David's Hospital building at 606 W. 17th. Building is now the Rio House Apartments.
Date: February 16, 1929
Creator: Jordan Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Indoor View of Plower Plant]

Photograph of power plant machinery.Caption on back of photo reads: "Foreground L-R: 500KW air-injector, 2000KW air-injector - takes non-condensable vapors out of condensor; 5000KW generator is behind photographer. Background L-R: two excitors, small Allis-Chalmers turbine generator. Mid-Bkgrd: larger Allis-Chalmers generator ?; rt bkgrd: "W" denotes Westinghouse turbine generator - relatively new (In 1934, another Westinghouse turbine generator was placed on a platform in left bkgrd.)"
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Kite Tournament at Lamar Park]

Photograph of a kite tournament at Lamar Park. Crowds of people are gathered in a grassy field. There are some kites in the air.
Date: 1929
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Old Red Campus building, John T. Allan Campus of Stephen F. Austin High School]

Photograph of Old Red Campus building, at the John T. Allan Campus of Stephen F. Austin High School, showing an oblique view of the front and side of the classical four-story building. The exterior walls of the first floor are constructed of stone and the upper three floors are dark brick. The front is symetrically arranged in three parts, with the central part inset from the outer parts. Porches stretch across the central part of the first and second floors, and a gable is centered above on the roof. There are punched windows on the upper floors of the front facade, while windows are ganged on the side facade. A portion of the facade, near the back of the building, has a curved wall. There is a three-story brick addition to the side of the building, and there are chute style fire escapes on both the main building and the addition. A parking lot lies to the front of the building, with several circa 1920s cars. A boy wearing knickers stands in the parking lot. The building was completed in 1900 from the plans of Burt McDonald and James Reily, and featured a domed rotunda. It was used as Austin …
Date: 1929/1930
Creator: Jordan-Ellison Photo Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Seaholm Power Plant]

Photograph of Seaholm Power Plant. A dirt road and power lines are in the foreground and there are buildings in the background with two smoke stacks. One of the smoke stacks reads "Austin The Friendly City".
Date: 1929/1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Kite Tournament]

Photograph of a kite flying tournament with cars parked in a row by a field and spectators watching. A small boy in the foreground holds the string of a kite.
Date: [1928..1938]
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory, Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men Stand in Formation]

Photograph of a group of men standing in a formation at the Texas School of Military Aeronautics. Several men hold bugles and a few have drums.
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Policeman directing traffic

Officer O. G. Hill directing traffic at 6th and Congress while holding a large umbrella.
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas School of Military Aeronautics]

Photograph of insignias on the wall of a building at the Texas School of Military Aeronautics.
Date: 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Guadalupe Street

Photograph of Guadalupe Street taken from the west approximately where the present-day "The Drag" is located. A street car is in motion along the street. Texas Bookstore, University Co-Op and Roach Brothers pharmacy are on the west side of Guadalupe Street.
Date: April 17, 1927
Creator: Boone
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Seaholm Power Plant]

Photograph of the Seaholm Power Plant. Caption on print: "L-R: 'New' boiler room, turbine room, 'old' boiler room--which became the shop after equipment was removed and black stack torn down." A smokestack reads "Austin the Friendly City."
Date: 1927~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Steam shovel in Barton Springs

View of construction of the pool at Barton Springs. A steam shovel and construction equipment.
Date: March 26, 1926
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Barton Springs Pool

Looking northwest out over the pool with diving board in view.
Date: 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Barton Springs Pool

View of the pool from the south bank.
Date: 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carver Branch Library

Photograph of a man wearing glasses is looking at a book whlie sitting at a table inside the Carver Branch Library. It is a wide view of the room and there are a couple of children checking out books in the background.
Date: [1926,1979]
Creator: University Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Kilian Hall - Concordia Lutheran College]

Photograph of people standing in front of Kilian Hall at Concordia Lutheran College. Writing on the back reads: "Killian Hall- administration building at Concordia. Cornerstone laid Sunday, June 27, 1926."
Date: 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas State Capitol]

Photograph of the Texas State Capitol building taken from the south.
Date: 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austin High School Band

Portrait of the Austin High School Band standing at the steps of the Capitol.
Date: December 2, 1925
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Barton Springs bathhouses

View of the bathhouses and cars from the parking lot north of the pool.
Date: June 17, 1925
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

[39th Annual Convention of Texas Funeral Directors Association]

Panoramicphoto of a group of people lined up on E. 7th Street in front of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel.
Date: May 1925
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas Rangers with Governor Miriam "Ma" Ferguson]

Group of men in suits with a woman standing on the steps of the Capitol.
Date: 1925-01-20/1927-01-17
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Barton Springs Pool

View of the pool from the north bank looking towards the diving board. A house can be seen in the background.
Date: 1925
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Barton Springs Pool

View of the pool from the north bank just east of the pool's boundary.
Date: 1925
Creator: Jordan Company
System: The Portal to Texas History