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[Beverly Sheffield at Sing Song]

Photograph of Beverly Sheffield at a Sing Song production at Zilker Hillside Theater. He is on stage, standing in front of the band, speaking at a microphone.

Date: 1956

Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Item Type: Photograph

Opening of Pan American Recreation Center

Photograph of the side of the newly built Pan American Recreation Center at 2100 East 3rd Street. Swing sets are behind the building. The previous Pan Am Rec Center existed at 3rd and Comal Streets.

Date: September 1956

Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Item Type: Photograph

Opening of the Pan American Recreation Center

Photograph of the interior of the basketball court in the gymnasium at the opening of Pan American Recreation Center at 2100 East 3rd Street. A basketball hoop is visible on one wall and there are exposed metal beams along the ceiling.

Date: September 1956

Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.258107 -97.720709

[Pan American Recreation Center, exterior, at opening]

Photograph of the exterior rear of the Pan American Recreation Center at the opening on 2100 East 3rd Street. The ground is not yet seeded and playground equipment is visible behind a fence in the right.

Date: September 1956

Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation.

Item Type: Photograph

1st Southern Presbyterian Church

Exterior of Church, Brazos and 8th St. looking north.

Date: April 4, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.269750 -97.740539

[Adams Extract display]

Photograph of a D.G. Benjamin Advertising campaign for Adams Extract displayed at a local retailer. A grocer in a white shirt and apron and bow-tie holds up a box of Adams Best, priced fifteen cents. Adams Pure Almond and Pure Lemon extracts retail for twenty-nine cents. Adams Extract is a top-shelf item in the spice aisle above McCormick and Colman's spices and extracts.

Date: July 14, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

[Adams Extract Open House]

Photograph of a line of men, women, and children at the Adams Extract factory open house. Three factory workers stand at the machinery, while most men and women talk to each other in groups or wait for samples behind a rope.

Date: July 14, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Aerial view of 919 E. 32nd St. - St. David's Hospital

Aerial view of 919 E. 32nd Street and the surrounding area. On the upper right is Blue Star Memorial Highway (Now part of I.H. 35), below and running parallel is Airport Blvd, connecting Airport Blvd and the Highway is Middle Fiskville Road. Below Airport Blvd is the golf course on the left and right hand side of Red River, which runs from the lower left through the middle of the photograph. Concordia College is visible on the right-center.

Date: June 7, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

[An aerial view of the West Winds Motel]

An aerial photograph of the West Winds Motel. There is a 7-Eleven next to the motel. There are also several houses surrounding the area.

Date: June 7, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.303397 -97.715288

Aerials for Post Cards

Aerial view of St. David's Hospital showing building, parking lot and part of the grounds.

Date: July 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Allred Finance Banquet

Banquet for Allred Finance, includes Mr. Davis

Date: December 21, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Anderson High School [basketball team]

Photograph of the 1956 Anderson High School basketball team. The boys are lined up in one line according to height, facing left. They wear shiny warm-up track suits, which have numbers embroidered on the shoulders. Every other boy holds a basketball under his arm against his left hip. The photo was taken on the basketball court, under one of the baskets.

Date: March 1, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Anderson High School [building exterior and students]

Photograph of a group of students outside the entrance to Anderson High School. In the mixture of boys and girls, most students are exiting the building after school, while a few stand and talk to each other. One girl sits on the wall and reads from a notebook. The girls all wear long skirts, blouses, white socks and black shoes. The boys wears slacks and shirts, and one wears a jacket.

Date: March 1, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph