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Austin History Center General Collection Photographs
[Brackenridge Elementary School]
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Brackenridge Elementary School, located at 319 West Elizabeth Street, a segregated school for Negro children. The building was a one story wooden structure with board and batten exterior walls, 6/6 wood windows, and a plain, square-columned porch entrance. The wooden doors are topped by transom windows. This school for colored children was first listed in the 1909-1910 Austin City Directory, and a school by that name was operating as late as 1965.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124573/
Deep Eddy, Austin Tex
Date: 1920~/1929~
Creator: Guzley
Description: Photograph of spectators and swimmers at Deep Eddy Bathing Beach.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123863/
[Minnie Fisher Cunningham for US Senate]
Date: 1920~
Creator: Jordan Company
Description: Minnie Fisher Cunningham (far right) and two others in front of car holding sign that reads: "Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham for United States Senator."
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124403/
[Six men in front of a "Enfield Special" railroad car at the Southern Pacific station in Austin, Texas]
Date: 1920~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of six men in suits and hats posed in front of a private railroad car in the Austin Southern Pacific terminal at 301 Congress Avenue. A banner hung on the car says: "ENFIELD SPECIAL FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS TO WASHINGTON D.C. VIA S.P. LINES", and the same information was recorded on the bottom of the negative. The depot was constructed in 1902 as the Houston and Texas Central depot, and an addition was added to the east side in 1935.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124064/
[Texas State Capitol]
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Texas State Capitol taken from the southeast. The photograph was copied from the 1920 "Cactus".
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124089/
[Two small conjoined pyramid-roofed buildings at the end of a path lined by vegetation next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course]
Date: 1920~/1930~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of at two small woodframe pyramidal roofed buildings, joined with a hyphen, which sit at the end of a vegetation-lined path next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course. One building is a board and batten structure with a 4/4 window. There is a large tree to the left of the buildings, and a 1920s-era car to the left of that. A man stands to the right of the buildings near the path or road.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125033/
[Tornado over Capitol]
Date: May 4, 1922
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of tornado above Capitol building looking northwest.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123852/
[Tornado over Courthouse]
Date: May 22, 1922
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a tornado over the Travis County Courthouse.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123853/
Governor's Mansion Under Snow
Date: February 1923
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Texas Governor's Mansion afer a recent snowfall in February, 1923.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124111/
[Boys' woodworking class at John T. Allan Junior High School]
Date: 1925/1930
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a boys' woodworking class at the Old Red Campus building of the John T. Allan Junior High School, formerly Stephen F. Austin High School. The room is crowded with work stations, where the boys are engaged in making various projects such as wooden stools and picture frames. The rounded masonry wall has arched windows, covered by translucent roller shades for indirect light. There are frames mounted between the windows displaying various tools and examples of metal work. The exposed wood truss ceiling has several belts and pulleys mounted on it. Examples of finished wooden stools stand on a wooden file case to the left in the photograph. Pictured are: Rufus Watterson, Malcolm Williams, Willie Earnest, Durwell Johnson, Sid Colquitt, Vincent Murray, Windom Burke, Louis Blenderman, Ernest Von Rosenberg, Harry Hafer, Henry Murray, Homer Wedig, ____ Yates, Francis Patton, Henry Paggi, ____ Brady. The teacher is Mr. N. S. Hunsdon. The building was completed in 1900 from the plans of Burt McDonald and James Reily. It was used as Austin High School until 1925, when it became the John T. Allan Junior High School. Classes were held here until 1956, when the school was destroyed by fire. A State ...
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124195/