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[Lobby of First National Bank, Austin, Texas]

Photograph of the lobby of First National Bank, including the bank teller window behind a grill. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) is the teller. Another man stands behind the front counter, one is seated in back, and a customer is at the teller window. The man behind the open counter is listed as Brackenridge.

Date: [1890,1900]

Item Type: Photograph

Order form for Rolling Stones, the last of twelve 12 volumes of O. Henry Complete Works

Advertisement order form for “Rolling Stones,” Doubleday, Page & Co. editions (leather and limited manuscript)

Date: unknown

Creator: Doubleday, Page & Co.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Athol Estes Porter Autograph book

Autograph album belonging to Athol Estes, includes 10-line two stanza poem. First letters of first five lines acrostically spell Athol (first letters of lines) and Estes (last letters of lines). Signed "W.S.P."

Date: September 25, 1885

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Book

[Effie Roach Hofer Autograph Album]

Autograph album belonging to Effie Roach Hofer. It includes page a 10-line verse poem entitled "Poetry," with drawing of fiddle and pointing finger and hand, signed "W.S. Porter/Secretary Jolly Brothers."

Date: August 2, 1885

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Book

[Letter from O. Henry to Belle Palm]

Letter detailing programme for a musical event to be held on October 1, 1886, in which Belle Palm is on the program and O. Henry is the Musical Director.

Date: September 23, 1886

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Letter

O. Henry's Wedding

Original copy of statement by Lawrence K. Smoot, as recorded by Ralph Bickler, a court reporter, and furnished to [Trueman] O‘Quinn, relating the events surrounding the marriage of William Sydney Porter and Athol Estes at the Smoot home one July evening in 1887, with Lawrence as an “unofficial” witness when he was about 12 years of age. The date of the wedding was actually July 1, 1887 as a notice of the marriage appeared the next day in the Austin Daily Statesman.

Date: unknown

Creator: Bickler, Ralph A. & Smoot, Lawrence K.

Item Type: Book

[Lawrence K. Smoot]

Lawrence K. Smoot at his desk in the Texas Supreme Court, where for many years he was the editor (usually called ‘Reporter’) of the Supreme Court’s official publications of the Court’s opinions.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Presbyterian Church]

The Presbyterian Church at Lavaca and Sixth Streets where William Sydney Porter and Athol Estes sang in the choir.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Smoot House]

The Smoot home at 1316 West Sixth Street, where William Sydney Porter and Athol Estes were married by Dr. R. K. Smoot, pastor of the Southern Presbyterian Church where Will and Athol sang in the choir.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph