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[E. 4th Street, Austin, TX]

Photograph of the 800 blocks of E. 4th Street looking east. Austin Pipe & Supply Co. is on the south side of the street.

Date: March 27, 1959

Creator: City of Austin

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.263261 -97.733212

[T.A. Gullett School Construction]

Photograph of T.A. Gullett Elementary School under construction.

Date: 1956

Item Type: Photograph

[Adult Friendship Club at Hancock]

Photograph of several dozen people gathered at the Hancock Recreation Center. One couple in the background is dancing. Caption on the back reads: "Adult Friendship Club, Hancock."

Date: 1957

Creator: Recreation Department

Item Type: Photograph

[Aerial View of Power Plant from Across the Lake]

Photograph of an aerial view of Seaholm Power Plant, taken from across the lake. Roads and other buildings surrounding the plant are visible.

Date: [1951..]

Item Type: Photograph

[Aerial View of Seaholm Power Plant]

Photograph of aerial view of Seaholm Power Plant, surrounded by various other buildings.

Date: [1951..]

Item Type: Photograph

[Aerial view of the construction of Palmer Municipal Auditorium]

Photograph of the construction of the old Palmer Municipal Auditorium as seen from the air looking south toward Barton Springs Road at the top of the view, with Riverside Drive at the bottom. Portions of the Auditorium's concrete frame are completed, and the metal framework for the flyloft is under construction. Several commercial buildings are visible on Barton Springs Road. The site is littered with construction debris, and various construction support buildings are visible.

Date: 1957

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.260677 -97.750651

[Barton Springs After Flood]

Photograph of flooding at Barton Springs. Caption reads: "Picturesque and peaceful Barton Springs was turned into a raging torrent that left debris and destruction after this flood rolled in the morning of June 17, 1958."

Date: June 17, 1958

Item Type: Photograph

[Beverly Sheffield at Sing Song]

Photograph of Beverly Sheffield at a Sing Song production at Zilker Hillside Theater. He is on stage, standing in front of the band, speaking at a microphone.

Date: 1956

Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Item Type: Photograph

Brentwood Pool

Photograph taken from outside the chain-link fence around Brentwood community pool in Austin. A number of people are swimming the the pool or seated in chairs on the deck around the outside of the pool; a young man on a bicycle is balancing against the fence on the left side of the image. A long brick building is visible in the background and a small tree is planted in front of the pool.

Date: June 8, 1954

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.340729 -97.730321

Camp Mabry

Photograph of a building at Camp Mabry with cars and trucks parked outside.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

[Christmas Event at Hancock Recreation Center]

Photograph of a group of older adults seated for a Christmas event at Hancock Recreation Center. A wreath is visible along one of the walls of the room.

Date: December 20, 1951

Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory

Item Type: Photograph

[Couples Playing Dominoes at Hancock Recreation Center]

Photograph of three older couples playing dominoes. Caption on the back reads: "Adult Friendship Club the Hancock Recreation Center each Tuesday night."

Date: 1955

Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Item Type: Photograph

[Dancing at Hancock Recreation Center]

Photograph of couples dancing inside of Hancock Recreation Center.

Date: April 30, 1950

Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory

Item Type: Photograph

[Dining room interior of the Villa Capri Motor Hotel]

Photograph of Villa Capri Motel restaurant dining room, located at 2300 North Interregional Highway (East Avenue, now I-35), with a burnished steel sunken charcoal broiling pit, for cooking steaks, in the center. There are overhead chandeliers made of bundles of radiating brass rods that simulate sunbursts, or perhaps exploding atoms. On the far wall is a modern wall design made with colored panels. The vaulted ceiling has exposed beams. Four-top dining tables with white table cloths are set wi… more

Date: 1958

Creator: Mears, Dewey G.

Item Type: Photograph

[Disch Field]

Photograph of the outfield of Disch Field with a few baseball players on it. "Disch" is mowed into the lawn. The scoreboard is for Austin vs. Sherman. A body works shop is in the background.

Date: 1950~

Item Type: Photograph