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Austin History Center General Collection Photographs
[Aerial View of the Texas State Capitol Building]
Date: 192*
Creator: Boone Photo Co.
Description: Photograph of an aerial view of the Texas State Capitol building and surrounding area.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123905/
[Aerial View of Zilker Park]
Date: unknown
Creator: Southwestern Aerial Survey
Description: Photograph of an aerial view of Zilker Park.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123879/
[Alfonso Ramos Band plays for a wedding reception at the San Jose Community Center]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of the Alfonso Ramos Band playing at the San Jose Community Center in the Montopolis neighborhood of Austin. The band includes saxophone, drums, bongo drum, trombone, and trumpet. A man in tan suit is singing or talking into the microphone as other band members talk or wait. Five little girls, some wearing white dresses, and two little boys sit on the edge of the stage and watch the dancers. Women, wearing foral bridesmaid dresses, dance with men in suits.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125005/
[Altar Boys at St. David's Episcopal Church]
Date: 1943
Creator: Depwe, Stanley
Description: Photograph of two altar boys kneeling at the altar of St. David's Episcopal Church.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123991/
[Altar of St. David's Episcopal Church]
Date: unknown
Creator: Jensen-Raymer
Description: Photograph of the altar of the St. David's Episcopal church.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123997/
[Anna Duval Bank's Spring Dance Recital]
Date: 1946
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Anna Duval Bank's Spring Dance Recital with a row of five young girls, including Sharon Ward (second from the front) and Elizabeth Ann Curry (third from the front), wearing drummer costumes and sitting on wooden chairs. They are holding drums decorated with cartoon characters on their laps. Champ Howell, a young boy wearing a similar costume, sits at the end of the row.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124166/
[Arch construction of the Negro Recreation Building, now Doris Miller Auditorium, in Rosewood Park]
Date: December 10, 1943
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab, Austin
Description: Photograph of the construction of an arch at the Negro Recreation Building, now Doris Miller Auditorium, in Rosewood Park. A man in a fedora sits astride a semi-circular laminated wooden truss, working on joining it at the center. This truss, and two completed trusses in the background are framed against the sky. The trusses are supported by posts, and temporarily joined together with wooden cross braces. The top of a wooden scaffold is visible in the lower right corner of the image.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124740/
[Ariel view of Camp Swift including Headquarters, Post Finance Office, U. S. Post Office and north cantonment area]
Date: 1942/1945
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of an aerial view of Camp Swift Headquarters, Finance Building, U. S. Post Office and a portion of the north cantonment area. The long wooden buildings are arranged parallel to each other, with the two-story Headquarters building in the center and the one-story Finance and Post Offce buildings to each side. A flag pole with flag is visible in the foreground, and the cantonment area buildings are in the background. Camp Swift was located in Bastrop County, 28 miles east of Austin. It was established in 1942 and named for Eben Swift, a World War I commander. It was the largest Army training and transshipment camp in Texas during World War II, and also housed German prisoners of war. After the war, much of the site was returned to former owners, but the government retained a portion for a Texas National Guard facility and a medium security prison.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124749/
Austin About 1839 or 1841.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a print in the book "Austin Yesterday and Today". The Daughters of the Republic of Texas own the original artwork.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123885/
[Austin City Plan, 1840]
Date: unknown
Creator: Bill Malone Photography
Description: Photograph of an illustration by Edward Hall of a city plan for the Texas Government buildings in Austin. Architectural renderings of buildings can be found on the top half of the illustration. Handwritten on the photograph is a list of buildings that are seen in the plan including: the President's House, Capitol Hill and Bullock's Tavern.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123887/