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[Bread on Conveyor]

Description: Photograph of several conveyor belts carrying loaves of bread through the Austin Baking Company factory. Various steps, ladders, and machinery can be seen amidst the conveyors, and fluorescent lights can be seen hanging from above.
Date: December 23, 1959
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Industrial Bakery]

Description: Photograph of loaves of bread on a conveyor belt in an industrial bakery at Austin Baking Company (Butterkrust). Rows of fluorescent lights hang overhead and more conveyor belts and machinery can be seen in the foreground. A worker in an apron and hat can be seen beneath the conveyor with the bread. Large, floor to ceiling shelves filled with more loaves of bread can be seen int he background.
Date: December 23, 1959
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Bread Oven]

Description: Photograph of a Butterkrust bakery (Austin Baking Company) bread oven. A very large machine stretches towards the back of the room that is intended for baking multiple loaves of bread. A worker can be seen in the background walking towards the end of the machine. In the foreground, unbaked bread loaves can be seen on a conveyor belt heading toward the front of the oven.
Date: January 18, 1960
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Colorado Machine Shop]

Description: Photograph of an industrial complex including Colorado Machine Shop and Lone Star Ice Works. On the dirt road in front of the buildings are men with horse-drawn wagons.
Date: unknown
Creator: Berner, George H. & Marks, H. R.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

W. T. Wroe Leather Factory

Description: Photograph of W. T. Wroe's leather factory located at 421-423 Congress Avenue. At center with mustache: Arthur (Otto?) Soebeck. 2nd from right: John Weber, shop foreman. Behind Soebeck in black sweater: M. O. Rhody.
Date: [1890,1930]
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Bakery Worker]

Description: Photograph of an Austin Baking Company factory worker operating the knobs for a machine. He stands to the right of the photo and is wearing a light colored shirt, apron at the waist, and a cap with the name of the bakery printed on the side. An industrial catwalk can be seen hanging from above in the background.
Date: December 23, 1959
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[News Script: Credit Insurance]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of State Insurance Board Chairman saying that Texans are being overcharged 20 percent on credit insurance.
Date: August 15, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[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
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Acock Laboratories interior equipment]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Acock Laboratories in east Austin near East Fifth Street. The machinery is dirty with use, and a fresh bag of Acock Brand product sits on one of the machines on the right.
Date: May 17, 1952
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Adams Extract Open House]

Description: 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
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Aerial view of Jefferson Chemical Plant

Description: Aerial view of Jefferson Chemical Plant, Austin, Texas, looking west. North Lamar Boulevard runs left to right in the center of picture. Airport Boulevard merges into Lamar from lower left. Justin Lane also is on left, just above Airport. The Crestview neighborhood is the background, with Burnet Road running left to right in background. Brentwood School in the center left and on the upper left on school is the drive-in theater. [Cloud or dust like in the background is the area running around … more
Date: October 3, 1951
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[News Script: Farah]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the lengthy labor dispute between Farah Manufacturing Company and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Union which got an unusual airing in Fort Worth.
Date: February 19, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Charcoal-Burning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a durable, more efficient charcoal-burning device which yields higher quality product and in greater quantity than those existing at the time.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: McGee, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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