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[Single-Story Building and Landscaping]

Description: Photograph of a single-story, postwar building used as a club or restaurant. The structure is set on top of brick and stone landscaping that leads down to a sidewalk. An overhanging room extends out, with large curtained windows, a door, and a wooden staircase. A tree stands in the right-foreground, behind which is a water tower.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Lobby]

Description: Photograph of a lobby. At center are some chairs with a metal table and glass coffee table. Behind them in the background is a couch with more tables and lamps on either side of it. The couch is set against a set of windows, through which two parked 1950s-era cars are visible. A potted plant stands on the far right; a door is visible in the far left.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Herb Fields Band on Stage]

Description: Photograph of a band on stage with their instruments. From left-to-right is a man at a piano, a woman, a man behind drums, a man with a guitar, and a man with saxophones. The piano and a small stand on the right have the words "Herb-Fields" painted on them. A microphone stands at center stage; an amplifier cabinet with a potted plant is visible on the right.
Date: 1959~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Two Men in a Tailor Shop]

Description: Photograph of two men in a tailor shop. One man stands on the left behind a suitjacket on a stand, while the other sits at a table to the right behind a sewing machine. Various pieces of cloth are scattered around and hanging. Spools of thread and buttons are visible on the table. A pair of scissors and a coat hanger hang on the wall in the background.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Villa Capri Hotel]

Description: Photograph of the Villa Capri Hotel. In the right foreground is the hotel's lobby, including a carport with two 1950s-era cars parked in it. On the hotel's sign is a "AAA" certification. The rest of the street and some business on it are visible on the far left, running away from the camera to the horizon.
Date: 1959~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Portrait of a Catholic Bishop]

Description: Portrait photograph of a Roman Catholic bishop. He is displaying his episcopal ring on his right hand, dressed in a cassock with a pectoral cross, a fascia (sash), a pellegrina (cape), and a zuchetto (cap). An image of Jesus hangs on the wall in the background, flanked by floral-pattern curtains.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Finishing a Bus]

Description: Photograph of an assembly line of Ford buses. In the center three men work on a nearly completed, unpainted bus. In the background to the right is a line of buses in various states of completion with several laborers around them. In the background on the left various tools and pieces of machinery are visible.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Empty Kitchen]

Description: Photograph of a kitchen with tile flooring. To the left is an oven, stove, and sink with cabinets beneath a window. At center is a dishwasher with light-colored cabinets on either side and lining the wall above it. To the right is a door, next to which is a Frigidaire refrigerator.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Living Room with Fireplace]

Description: Photograph of a living room. On the left is a sand- or limestone fireplace with a potted plant, two cushioned chairs and two lamps. Next to the nearer chair is a table with an ashtray and a rotary phone. In the background is a curtain next to a glass door and two tall, wide windows, in front of which are two more chairs and a table with a potted plant on it. In the center-foreground is a coffee table with a ceramic ashtray and flowers in a vase.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Woman in Lobby]

Description: Photograph of a lobby in an unidentified building with a young woman standing at a desk in the right background. On the left is a coffee table surrounded by chairs and a couch, set against large windows. Another table stands next to the couch with a lamp on top; a potted plant stands on the floor next to that. In the center background a counter can be seen with the word "Information" lettered on one corner.
Date: 1956~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Portrait of a Woman and Young Men's Group]

Description: Portrait photograph of 38 young men posing with 1 woman in front of a drawn curtain. The subjects are arranged in four rows: the rearmost two are standing, while the second from front sits and the front kneels, plus one man front-and-center sitting cross-legged. The woman stands in the middle of the second row from back, wearing a belted dress. The men are all wearing suits and ties of varying shades and styles.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Buildings nears Austin]

Description: Photograph of unidentified buildings on a hill northwest of downtown Austin, Texas. In the center is a four story brick building rising from the middle of a matching single story section. To its right are low structures obscured by trees and a freestanding four story building with a covered walkway next to it. A single story building is visible nearby to the left, behind which on an adjacent ridge is a watertower. The hills are covered with short trees, with a road winding through them in the l… more
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Children Leaving School]

Description: Photograph of a line of children leaving a school building while their teacher stands in the door. They are walking down a concrete sidewalk, lined by a brick wall on the left side, with stones, saplings, and a bench lining the right. The school building is a brick, single-story, postwar design.
Date: 1957~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Modern School Building]

Description: Photograph of two wings of an unidentified, multi-story school building, taken from across the street. They are in a plain, brick, postwar design. Both have large windows, many with drawn curtains. On the street are parked two 1950s-era cars. Tree branches emerge from the top-right foreground.
Date: 1956~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Seaholm Power Plant]

Description: Photograph of four metallic exhaust stacks at Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas. A 1940s-era pickup truck and a coupe are parked in the foreground. Workmen can be seen walking at the base of the stacks.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Backyard with In-Ground Pool]

Description: Photograph of a backyard with an in-ground pool. A stone walkway leads down stairs from the left to the stone-lined pool. Various tables and chairs are set up around it while two tubes float on the surface. In the background is a modern, two-story house or set of apartments. Various shrubs line the wall behind and to the left of the pool, with two large oaks visible at center and right.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Two-Story House with Balcony]

Description: Photograph of a modern two-story house with a balcony and built-in carport, in which are two parked 1950s-era cars. Three cloth folding chairs are set up in the front yard with a bush in the foreground. The yard is surrounded by trees, including one which appears to have had a notch in the roof built around its trunk.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Small, Furnished Room]

Description: Photograph of a furnished room, arranged as a combined sleeping and living room. On the left under a window is a wide couch with a back cushion and pillows; next to that in the middle of the room is a metal table with a statuette, ashtray, and magazines on it. Behind the couch in the left corner is a lampstand, a chair, and a table with vase, all in front of a curtained window and a door leading to a balcony. A cushioned chair is pushed against some cabinets on the right.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Portrait of Two Children in Uniforms]

Description: Portrait photograph of a smiling toddler and older child. Both are seated on a surface covered by a sheet, with the toddler sitting on a folded blanket. The toddler is wearing a band jacket, skirt and boots; the older child is wearing a uniform with trousers, a belted jacket, tie, and a service-style cap.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Living and Dining Room]

Description: Photograph of a living and dining room in a single-story, postwar house. In the left foreground is a coffee table with ashtrays and a magazine on it. In the left background beyond the coffee table is a dining table set with four cushioned chairs and a fruitbowl. Behind that, against a stone wall, is a cabinet with a mirror and potted plants on top, as well as some small shelves with a metal pitcher. To the right of the dining table is a plaster wall, in which are some paper doors. To the right … more
Date: 1955~
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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