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[Negro Poultry and Stock Show at Rosewood Park]

Photograph of the scenery at a Negro poultry and stock show at Rosewood Park.

Date: March 22, 1946

[Negro Poultry and Stock Show at Rosewood Park #2]

Photograph of the view at a Negro poultry and stock show at Rosewood Park in 1946. A few people are seen in the center of the hall looking at the hens in cages and some others are in the back observing equipment placed on tables.

Date: March 22, 1946

Item Type: Photograph

[Air Day Queens]

Photograph of a group of ladies identified as the Air Day Queens and a gentleman is standing to their right. A few airplanes are seen in the background behind them.

Date: August 1946

Item Type: Photograph

[Students in a Classroom]

Photograph of students in a class learning at the Texas School for the Deaf. There are eight students sitting in desks and another student standing at the front of the room with the teacher. The teacher is pointing to a picture of a cow.

Date: April 29, 1946

Creator: Mears, Dewey G.

Item Type: Photograph

[Students and a Teacher Gathered Around a Sheep]

Photograph of a group of male students and a teacher gathered around a sheep in a field at the Texas School for the Deaf. The students are wearing dark-colored clothing, and on of the students is using a forceps-like tool on the sheep.

Date: April 29, 1946

Creator: Mears, Dewey G.

Item Type: Photograph

[Girls' 4-H Campsite]

Photograph of tents in a field with a lot of trees. According to a handwritten caption below the image, it is the campsite for a girls' 4-H camp in Travis County.

Date: July 1946

Creator: Ross Studio

Item Type: Photograph

Congress Avenue [street scenes]

Photograph of Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas lined with businesses: Congress Hotel, Victory Bar, Austin Studio, Massey's Furniture Store, Richardson Company, and Texas Public Service Company. Cars line the street, including a military covered jeep parked in front of the hotel. Passersby wear coats and holiday lights stretch across the avenue. An advertisement for 7-Up is painted on the side of one of the buildings.

Date: 1946

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

[Hall Level Works]

Four women making levels in a workshop.

Date: December 24, 1946

Item Type: Photograph

[Anna Duval Bank's Spring Dance Recital]

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.

Date: 1946

Item Type: Photograph

Soldiers on Parade in Austin, Texas

Photograph of American troops on parade through downtown Austin. The soldiers are riding in the back of 6x6 "deuce and a halfs" (CCKW350) which are towing 105mm howitzer cannons. The unit is probably part of either the 36th Infantry Division or the 2nd Infantry Division.

Date: March 29, 1946

Creator: Ellison Photo Service

Item Type: Photograph

Wooden Arch Hangar at Robert Mueller Airport

Photograph of a wooden arch hangar at Robert Mueller Airport, built summer 1943. Writing on the back of the photograph reads: "The glued, laminated wood arches were built onsite. The curve was formed to templates laid out on the floor and constructed of 1" X 10" yellow pine plank. They were bolted together at the center and hoisted in place to receive the roof joists. Built by J.M. Odom Construction Co. Work supervised by Charles Morton, chief estimator."

Date: June 19, 1946

Item Type: Photograph

[First Mexican Baptist Church]

Photograph of exterior view of the First Baptist Church located at 1110 Karen Street, Austin. A sign above the door reads "Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana."

Date: 1946

Item Type: Photograph

[Boys making model airplanes at the Pan American Recreation Center in Austin]

Photograph of a group of six Latino youth making balsa-wood airplanes from a Comet brand "Air-Age Educational Kit" at the Pan American Recreation Center (Pan American Community Center), 300 Comal Street, in Austin. The boys are working at two picnic tables placed end-to-end. Several other people, including a girl, two boys, a man and a woman, stand behind the table either observing or assisting. There is a Mexican tourism poster featuring a woman, with her hair in braids, holding a basket of fr… more

Date: November 19, 1946

Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory, City of Austin

Item Type: Photograph

Construction of Calcasieu Lumber Company

Photograph of the construction of Calcasieu Lumber Company offices, located at 301 W 2nd St. The photograph emphasizes the segregated restrooms in the foreground.

Date: February 13, 1946

Item Type: Photograph

[Firm Foundation Publishers]

Portrait of George Wallace Showalter. Firm Foundation was located at 104-108 E. 9th and 901 Congress Ave. Listed as "General Distributor of Religious Literature."

Date: August 27, 1946

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph