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Walker's Austex [beef stew pie display]

Description: Photograph of Walker's Austex Beef Stew Pie display at a local retail fair. The display is a giant beef stew pie with cans of Austex beef stew lining the booth walls. Signs for the product claim "Austex Beef Stew Pie: It's Quick, It's Inexpensive, It's Easy to Serve. Just fill a pie shell with one can Austex Beef Stew" and "An Austex Budget Meal costs less than 50 cents to make an Austex Beef Stew Pie."
Date: March 22, 1952
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.262475 -97.753630

[Athol Estes home]

Description: Photograph of the home of Athol Estes, wife of William Sydney Porter, known in literary circles by his pen name O. Henry. The two-story house is white, and trees and a birdbath are visible on the small front lawn. Two young children hold hands on the front walk. A car is parked on the street in front of the house. The narrow driveway on the left side of the house appears ill-cared for.
Date: March 4, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.276423 -97.745254

Sani-Products for Texas [employee and customers]

Description: Photograph of a Sani-Products for Texas employee handing out products to customers in front of the company truck. A man and woman accept a bag of potato chips from the employee. The truck's rear doors are open, and the truck is packed to the roof with boxes of Sani-Products potato chips and corn chips boxes.
Date: January 22, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Men examining brickwork at St. Paul's Lutheran School]

Description: Photograph of three men examining the brickwork at St. Paul's Lutheran School. The engraved stone says "St. Paul's Ev. Luth. School 1890-1930." The photograph was taken 23 years after the last date on the engraving. One of the men holds a box that is covered in brick dust while the other two look on. They have not yet opened the box.
Date: May 9, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Construction at Holy Cross Hospital]

Description: Photograph of expansion construction on the grounds of Holy Cross Hospital. The grounds have been broken and cleared, though construction has not yet begun on the structure to appear at this location. A couple of cars are at the construction site. A man with a wheelbarrow and two other men appear near the hospital buildings.
Date: 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Austin Country Club [exterior]

Description: Photograph of the exterior entrance and parking lot of the Country Club of Austin, located on East Riverside Drive on the east end of Felix Avenue. Cars are lined up in the parking lot on this sunny day. A woman exits the building while another woman stands at the entrance.
Date: 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Watson-Lewis [furnished living room]

Description: Photograph of a living room furnished by Watson-Lewis Home Furnishings. A matching sofa and love seat sit on opposite sides of a large coffee-table with cushions in the center of the room. At the window is a table with two bright table lamps and an urn.
Date: November 8, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Watson-Lewish [furnished dining room]

Description: Photograph of a dining room furnished by Watson-Lewis Home Furnishings. Through a sliding slatted doors, a dining room table and four chairs are visible in the center of the room. A crystal chandelier hangs above the table. On the left near the far side of the room is a sideboard with silver candlesticks and dinnerware. Above the sideboard hangs a gilded mirror. A fifth dining chair sits in against the right-hand wall. The curtains are drawn against the sliding glass doors at the rear of the ro… more
Date: November 8, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Y.W.C.A. Sports Day

Description: Photograph of three young women in a candid scene from the Y.W.C.A. Sports Day. Two young women wear shorts and sneakers, and a third woman wears a skirt and heels. One young woman holds a bat and another holds a softball.
Date: March 26, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Y.W.C.A. 40th Anniversary

Description: Photograph of three women, depicting the multiple generations and diversity of the Y.W.C.A. on its 40th Anniversary. Two older women, including an African-American woman, stand on either side and behind a younger woman. The women appear to be standing in a large "Y" from a sign. L to R: Mrs. Van Williams, Chair of World Fellowship for the East Austin Branch of the Y.W.C.A.; Y-Teen Anne Murrow; and Mrs. Clark Cramer, Chair of the Young Adult committee.
Date: April 22, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Summertime Activities [at the Y.W.C.A]

Description: Photograph of three young women gathered around the back of a van at the Y.W.C.A. The women are dressed for summer in shorts and short-sleeved blouses. Two of the women carry portable canvas chairs, and one woman sits on the curb with a canvas duffel bag. Cars are visible driving and parked in the street behind them.
Date: July 1, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Bathing beauty]

Description: Photograph of a young woman posing on the riverbank. She is wearing a bathing suit and holding a beach towel over her head and shoulders. She is standing on a rocky river bank and smiling at the camera. A bridge and a dam are behind her.
Date: March 10, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Minister's Visit to St. David's Hospital]

Description: Photograph of a group of eight men standing around a birthing table at St. David's Hospital in Austin, Texas. Two of them men on the left, behind the table wear religious clothing, and one man on the right wears a doctor's white coat. A specialized light fixture hangs from the ceiling above the table.
Date: September 12, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Passengers on Board Trans-Texas Airways Plane]

Description: Photograph of a Trans-Texas Airways pilot and a family of passengers standing alongside the plane, as if about to board. The pilot holds a ticket which the father and one son look at. The mother and a younger son look on. "Trans-Texas Airways" and a logo are painted on the side of the plane.
Date: May 27, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Trans-Texas Airways pilot and staff]

Description: Photograph of the flight crew for a Trans-Texas Airways flight in front of their plane. The pilot is smiling with his arms around two of the female cabin staff who are also smiling and holding bouquets of roses. It is the day after St. Valentine's Day.
Date: February 15, 1955
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Our Lady of Guadalupe [graduating class of 1953]

Description: Photograph of the graduating class of 1953 of Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Austin, Texas. The class is composed of twelve young women and five young men, all proudly holding their diplomas. They are posed in two rows, women seated in the front row and men and women standing in the second row. All wear dark gown and mortar board caps with white tassels.
Date: May 15, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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