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[Llano Parade]

Description: Photograph of man standing on the street, wearing a law enforcement uniform including a gun in a tooled holster. He is holding a hat behind his back. Decorative flags are visible over the street and the Llano County Courthouse is in the background.
Date: June 6, 1946
Creator: Douglass, Neal

[Railroad near Kingsland]

Description: Photograph of a train on the Austin and Northwest Railroad line on a hillside, taken from a treeline above. People are visible at the front, back, and windows of the train, and two buildings are in the distance below. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Near Granite Mountain [illegible] Burnet and Marble Falls, about 1882 near Kingsland. A&NW RR."
Date: 1882

[Railroad near Llano]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of people and horse-drawn carriages gathered around an A&N Locomotive No. 1 train on a railroad in a forest. A note on back reads "Mr. Will Todman from England, Time Keeper for Quarries at Llano, Texas. Quarrying granite for consturction of the State Capitol at Austin. 50,000 tones narrow gauge R.R. A. & N.W. Near Llano -- before R.R. was finished to an Austin Band was was hired to play -- Group Moore F. [illegible], (Major Ramsdell)." The Austin and Northwestern Railroad … more
Date: [1864..1881]
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