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[Two Boys in Front of Tree]

Photograph of two boys in skimmer hats in front of a tree. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Two Men on Bluff]

Photograph of two men standing on the edge of a bluff taken from a distance. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

Photograph of two men in bow ties and skimmer hats sitting at a small table on a porch. The man on right, the photographer, is reading David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott and holding the trigger release cord out of frame to take the picture, making this a self portrait of sorts. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Two Men Read on Porch, Smiling]

Photograph of two men in bow ties and skimmer hats sitting at a small table on a porch. The man on right, the photographer, is reading David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott and holding the trigger release cord out of frame to take the picture, making this a self portrait of sorts. The men appear to be laughing at the gag of taking a picture of themselves and are laughing, "breaking character" as they take the photograph. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photog… more

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Two Men With Tandem Bicycle]

Photograph of two men in front of a house standing with a tandem bicycle. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Two Women and One Man Stand in Park]

Photograph of two women and one man standing in a park or garden, photographed from behind. They stand under a tree on a kept lawn with a small footbridge on the right. The women wear white dresses and hats, the man a suit and hat. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Two Women Pose on Trail]

Photograph of two women in fashionable clothing standing on a trail outdoors, possibly in a park or other public space, surrounded by trees. Two men and white tents are visible in the background. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[View From Mt. Bonnell]

Photograph of the Colorado River and its surrounding landscape as seen from Mt. Bonnell in Austin. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[View of Colorado River]

Photograph of the Colorado River and its surrounding landscape from near Mt. Bonnell in Austin. Bluffs and brush can be seen in the foreground with the river and landscape in the distance. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Woman and Man in Canoe]

Photograph of a woman and a man in a canoe, likely on the Colorado River in Austin. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

[Woman Working at Desk]

Photograph of a woman working in an office at her desk. A book is open on a stand to her right. The image is partially obscured due to deterioration of the original photograph.

Date: 1900~/1920~

Creator: Boone, Alanson D.

Item Type: Photograph

Reminiscences of an ex-Confederate soldier : or, Forty years on crutches

A narrative of a soldier's experiences in the Civil War. T.H. Bowman was a soldier in Company A, William Wirt Adams's regiment of Mississippi Cavalry. He fought in Kentucky and Tennessee, and later settled in Texas.

Date: 1904

Creator: Bowman, T. H.

Item Type: Book

[Men at a Cotton Compress in Abilene, Texas]

Photograph of three men, Bob Rutledge, Phil Hanlon, and [unidentified] Hanlon, standing in front of many stacked bags of compressed cotton. They're holding and observing some of the cotton. They all wear suits and hats.

Date: 1906

Creator: Caldwell, Frank, 1883-1962

Item Type: Photograph

Austin Cotton Gin

Austin Cotton Gin was owned by W. T. Caswell and was located on the west side of Chicon St. Horse-drawn wagons with bales of cotton. Workers pose for photograph. Hand-crank loading cranes on platform.

Date: 1900~

Creator: Caswell, W. T.

Item Type: Photograph

Austin Cotton Gin

Austin Cotton Gin was owned by W. T. Caswell and was located on the west side of Chicon St. Horse-drawn wagons full of cotton. Workers pose for photograph.

Date: 1900~

Creator: Caswell, W. T.

Item Type: Photograph