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[Guadalupe Street]

Description: Photograph of Guadalupe Street, looking south from 29th street, before street railway tracks were removed. A Humble service station is on the left side of the street and several other businesses including a laundry are on the right. The UT tower is visible in the background.
Date: June 18, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.295357 -97.742774

[Removal of Railroad Tracks from E. 1st St.]

Description: Photograph of East 1st Street, showing brick immediately after rails have been picked up and method of loading rails. Houses on either side of the street are visible on both sides of the street. Workers and their vehicles are in the background.
Date: May 20, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Last streetcar in front of Palm School, Austin, Texas]

Description: Photograph of an Austin Street Railway Company streetcar in front of the Palm School on First Street (now Cesar Chavez), reportedly taken on the last day of streetcar service in Austin. A group of children and a few women, possibly students and teachers, are standing on the sidewalk in front of the school, waving at the streetcar. There is a blurred car in the foreground, about to pass the streetcar on the right, and another car is behind the streetcar on the right side of the photograph. The A… more
Date: February 7, 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.261426 -97.737442

[Gaston Avenue]

Description: Photograph of Gaston Avenue looking east to McCallum Drive; Pemberton Heights subdivision. Houses are visible on both sides of the street and in the background; also in the far background is the UT tower.
Date: January 25, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.294807 -97.752197

Lifeguards of Barton Springs

Description: Photograph of Barton Springs lifeguards. ID on back. Seated L-R: J. Garrison; C. Kelly, B; Estrada, N. Hargrave, J. Terrell, L. Baker, J. Toomy, S. Wilkerson, O. Ludwig, J. Prowse. Back Row L-R: B. Rundel, C. Extram, D. Gross, B. Wright, unidentified, Bev Sheffield.
Date: 1940
Creator: Boone
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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