Collection
Austin History Center General Collection Photographs
47
Chalberg Collection of Prints and Negatives
32
Frank Caldwell Collection
9
Rescuing Texas History, 2015
9
Ralph Bickler Papers
8
O. Henry Project
8
Rescuing Texas History, 2016
8
Texas History Collection
6
Niles-Graham-Pease Papers
4
City Directories
2
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[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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tornado]
Photograph of a tornado that has yet to touch down.
Date:
May 4, 1922
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
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.
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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.
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Music Memory Contest Winners]
Photograph of group of 37 students at Baker Elementary School, the Music Memory Contest Winners 3 times in a row. Mercy Ramsey is 2nd from left in 1st row. Two boys in the front hold a large trophy, the boy on the right has been identified as William Erwin McIntosh.
Date:
[1923..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stephen F. Austin Hotel
Looking down from the southwest corner of 7th and Congress looking northeast. Photo shows the Hotel before construction of the addition.
Date:
1924~
Creator:
Jordan Company
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stephen F. Austin Hotel under construction
Hotel under construction. The hotel is on the corner of 7th and Congress Streets.
Date:
1924
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Austin City Hall
Looking northeast at the Austin City Hall building at the northeast corner of Colorado and 8th St.
Date:
1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
St. David's Episcopal Church
Looking northeast at the church building at 304 E. 7th St. Two cars are parked in front.
Date:
April 1, 1923
Creator:
Jordan Company
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Capitol
View of the south side of the Capitol building.
Date:
1920~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History