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[Family Outside Their Home]

Description: Photograph of a family with two small children and a dog outside of their wooden house. Laundry is hanging to dry on lines. Other wooden houses in the background. Dirt, patches of weeds, and small trees surround the houses.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Interior view of a Home]

Description: Photograph of a kitchen with a small stove and pots hanging on the walls, as seen from a bedroom. The door between the two rooms is made of a cardboard. Most likely this was the home of an African American family in Austin.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[View of a Kitchen]

Description: Photograph of a small kitchen with a small stove, oven, and table. The walls are covered in newspaper. The floor is uneven and stained. This was most likely the kitchen in the home of an African American family.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

"Austin Pioneers" Baseball Club

Description: Photograph of group portrait of the "Austin Pioneers" Baseball Club. Manager Hank Ona is at top left. E. P. Knebel is at right. Top row left to right: Mgr. Hank Ona, P.-Ralph Kennedy, C.-Bill Monahan, P.-F.M. Younger, C.-Bob Clodfelter, P.-Al Lawrence, 3 b.-George Estock, P.-Dave Sarver, 1 b.-Emery Hresko, Of.-E. P. Knebel. Second row left to right: ss.-Fred Campbell, 2 b. Eddie Bachman, 3b.-Eddie Rzendzain, cf.-Wade Tate, P.-Elwood Moore, lf.-Dick Brown, P.-Alex Burkhart, P.-James Godfrey. Fro… more
Date: 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Boys with Beef Calves]

Description: Photograph of young men and boys standing in a row with their beef calves at the 1949 Travis County Livestock Show at Rosewood Park in Austin. Spectators stand behind them and cars are visible in the distance.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ross Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Beverly S. Sheffield at desk]

Description: Photograph of Beverly Sheffield sitting at his desk. He holds a fountain pen above some papers. Sheffield wears a short-sleeved, button-up shirt and has glasses. A phone sits at his left elbow. His desk sits near a wall with two windows and a radiator. His name plate reads "B. S. Sheffield."
Date: July 29, 1948
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab, Ausin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Boy with a Cow]

Description: Photograph of a boy kneeling next to a beef calf and holding a ribbon which says "Grand Champion Beef." He is at the annual Travis County Food and Livestock show in Rosewood Park in Austin.
Date: 1948
Creator: Ross Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Young Boy and a Show Pig]

Description: Photograph of a young boy kneeling next to a show pig and holding a ribbon that reads "1st Place, Travis County Fourth Annual Food and Livestock Show, 1948, Swine, Sponsored by the Austin Negro Chamber of Commerce with Austin Chamber of Commerce Assisting." The boy wears a cap with the symbol for 4-H clubs. The event took place at Rosewood Park in Austin.
Date: 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Beef Calves]

Description: Photograph of a row of young men standing with their beef calves. A handwritten note on the back of the photo describes it: "Fourteen heavy weight beef calves weighing 819 pounds and over showed in Travis County's Third Annual Food and Livestock Show on the 26th and 27th of March 1947. These calves were sold at auction in Austin for an average of 29 cents per pound." The livestock show was held at Rosewood Park in Austin.
Date: March 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Beef Calves at Food and Livestock Show]

Description: Photograph of people showing their beef calves. A handwritten note on the back of the photo describes it: "Fourteen heavy weight beef calves weighing 819 pounds and over showed in Travis County's Third Annual Food and Livestock Show on the 26th and 27th of March 1947. These calves were sold at auction in Austin for an average of 29 cents per pound." The livestock show took place in Rosewood Park.
Date: March 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[600 Block of Congress Avenue]

Description: Photograph of businesses along the 600 block of Congress Avenue at Christmas: the Baptist Cervice Center, Zales, Rapp Brothers, Western Union, and McKinnon's. Cars line the streets and holiday lights stretch across the street. Men, including two sailors in discussion, stand on the corner of Congress Ave and West 6th Street.
Date: December 1946
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.268631 -97.743161

[Queen Theater at Christmas]

Description: Photograph of the Queen Theater at 700 Congress Avenue at Christmas. The featured listed on the marquee is "First Yank Into Tokyo". West 7th Street flanks the theater on the left and Lerner Shops, Rhealee, and McLellan's flank the theater on the right. A bus and a couple of cars are parked in front of the theater. Christmas lights stretch across Congress Avenue.
Date: December 1946
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Women sewing]

Description: Photograph of women sewing in a room in the old Pan American Recreation Center on 3rd and Comal Streets. Most women sit at sewing machines while four women crowd together on a bench and sew or embroider by hand. four women stand at a table in the back for cutting fabric A young boy of a bout five sits on footrest in the foreground. There is Mexican art on the walls and the only door to the room is open. The Pan American Recreation Center was opened in June 1942 as the first Latin American Rec… more
Date: November 20, 1946
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Dress fitting at Pan American Recreation Center]

Description: Photograph of a woman standing with her right arm lifted while a seamstress works on the waistline of her dress. More women are working on sewing machines or sewing by hand. Several women measure and cut fabric in the back. This sewing room was in the old Pan American Recreation Center at 3rd Street and Comal Street. The Pan American Recreation Center was opened in June 1942 as the first Latin American Recreation Center in Austin and run under the auspices of the Federated Latin American Club… more
Date: November 19, 1946
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
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[Austin Beverage Company exterior]

Description: Photograph of the exterior of the Austin Beverage Company factory and warehouse located at 1923 E. Seventh Street. Six cars and company trucks are parked in front of the main entrance. Seven drivers and company executives pose around the vehicles.
Date: October 24, 1946
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Austin Beverage Company [warehouse interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Austin Beverage Company warehouse/distribution center at 411 Chicon Street. The trucks bear advertisements for the beverages they transport including "Jax Special Pale Brew" and "Blatz Pilsener Beer". Crates marked "Canada Dry" sit at the right of the image, ready to be loaded onto the empty truck at the left.
Date: October 24, 1946
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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