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[Train at Gainesville, Texas depot]

Description: Engine No. 306, an American type 4-4-0 locomotive, heads the Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's train No. 31 westbound, which is standing at Gainesville, Texas' depot enroute from Denison to Wichita Falls on June 23, 1940.
Date: June 23, 1940
Creator: Mizell, Charles M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Melchor Ocampo" in Fraile]

Description: A combine second and first class coach, No. 7 named "Melchor Ocampo" is the rear-end car on the Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's passenger train which has made a station stop at the small town of Fraile on February 23, 1960. Along these narrow gauge rails in the early 1920s bandits frequently staged holdups of trains carrying payrolls in gold and silver to the mines at Concepcion del Oro.
Date: February 23, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Train at Concepcion del Oro]

Description: Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's Engine No. 7 has taken a long drink an a summer afternoon at the water tank located in the yards at Concepcion del Oro, preparing to head an ore consist. This was a mining town for many years where ore trains departed on frequent schedules for the Mazapil Smelter at saltillo, Mexico.
Date: February 23, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Santa and Child]

Description: Embossed color postcard depicting Santa Claus and a small child. He holds a sack in his hands and the child holds fruit and gifts in its hands. Correspondence on the back reads, "Dear Baby, A Merry X'mas & Happy New Year to Your Mud, Daddy & yourself. From Big Erloo, Erloo, and Baby Dorothy." It is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, 528 Mill St. Paris, Texas. It is postmarked Oklahoma, Okla. on Dec 23, 1908.
Date: December 23, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

Group photo

Description: Photograph of a group of men posing at one end of a table. Five of the men are seated around the head of the table; nine more men are standing in a semi-circle behind them. There are dishes and cutlery on the table.
Date: September 23, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Byron Utecht at Typewriter]

Description: Photograph of Byron Etecht wearing a three-piece, dark-colored suit with a cigarette in his mouth, seated behind a typewriter and looking at the keys. He is in an office; behind him there are a desk covered in papers with a clock on a wooden platform (right), a small bookcase filled with books (center) and a photo hanging on the wall (left).
Date: November 23, 1941
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Rio House Apartments

Description: Interior view of the living and dining areas of an apartment. Wallpaper is rather ornate with bird cages and birds as the pattern.
Date: November 23, 1959
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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