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[Man Eating]

Description: Photograph of a man sitting at the end of a long table eating a plate of food. The room might be a classroom; there are signs on the wall on the left reading "ones," "tens," and "hundreds."
Date: July 15, 1959
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[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
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[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
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Young Women Baking]

Description: Photograph of young women wearing aprons and standing in a row behind a counter. One young woman puts ingredients into a bowl. Sugar, butter, cloves and other ingredients as well as baking equipment are on the counter. Instructions (possibly for something with pumpkin?) are written on a blackboard behind the women.
Date: September 30, 1958
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Elderly Couple]

Description: Photograph of an older couple standing with a table between them. On the table is a cake with candles, possibly a birthday cake or anniversary cake.
Date: June 10, 1959
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Women on a Couch]

Description: Photograph of a group of women sitting on a couch in a living room, with two of them holding their children in their laps. Calendars, pieces of art and other notes are pinned to the wall behind them.
Date: March 1954
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[4-H Club Style Show]

Description: Photograph of a girl walking across a stage wearing a dress. A sign hangs below the stage and reads "Tour Topics." A string of flags hangs above the stage and each has the 4-H logo and says "4-H Clubs."
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Man and a Boy]

Description: Photograph of a man opening a freezer inside of a building, with a child standing next to him. The interior walls of the building are not finished.
Date: October 1954
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Children on Stage Holding Signs]

Description: Photograph of children standing on a stage in the front of a room holding signs that say "candy," "cookies," "cake," and "pie," with people in rows of chairs facing them. A banner for 4-H is on the wall behind them.
Date: March 12, 1962
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Christmas Party]

Description: Photograph of people conversing at a Christmas party, with a man dressed as Santa standing next to a white Christmas tree in the background. Possibly at the Travis County Negro Extension Service building at 1154 Lydia Street, Austin, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Display of Hand-Sewn Items]

Description: Photograph of a woman standing in front of a display of clothes, fabric, a sewing machine and sewing patterns. A sign above the display reads, "Good sewing techniques + proper equipment = well finished, fitted garment."
Date: May 24, 1960
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[4-H Members Giving Presentation]

Description: Photograph of a young woman speaking at a podium in the front of a room. Two other girls are standing to her right and two boys are taking their seats to her left, all 4-H members. A screen is visible in the background. The shoulder of an audience member is visible in the lower left corner.
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Girl Holding Clothes]

Description: Photograph of a young woman holding up shirts and dresses on hangers, with an open closet behind her. Shelves full of books are next to the closet. A school-room style chair with attached desk is in the foreground.
Date: June 22, 1962
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Woman Sewing]

Description: Photograph of a woman working at a sewing machine, with three more women watching her. There are broken windows in the wall behind them, and boxes on a high shelf.
Date: September 1, 1960
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Woman in a Home]

Description: Photograph of a woman in an apron standing in the middle of a cluttered room, with a china cabinet, telephone, sewing machine, and chairs visible. The photo is taken looking through the doorway of a bedroom into the other room. The walls are not fully painted and there are patches on the ceiling.
Date: March 27, 1962
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Woman Teaching]

Description: Photograph of a woman speaking and pointing to a large pad of paper in front of a room with people sitting around a large table. The top of the paper reads "Travis Co. Population."
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Women at Church]

Description: Photograph of women sitting in chairs behind pews in a church building eating plates of food. There is decorative garland hanging from the ceiling in the doorway.
Date: October 1954
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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