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[View of a Kitchen]

Description: Photograph of a small kitchen with a small stove, oven, and table. The walls are covered in newspaper. The floor is uneven and stained. This was most likely the kitchen in the home of an African American family.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Group at Dinner]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and women sitting at a table with plates and cups in front of them. The woman on the far left is Mrs. Mildred Holliway and the second man from the right is Mr. Lloyd Kerley.
Date: March 6, 1964
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Meat Display]

Description: Photograph of cuts of meat displayed on a butcher paper wall, with ribbons on some of them, and jars of preserved food on a table below them. Signs on the wall say, "Kill and cure the A&M way and save from waste," and "Hands off." According to a handwritten note on the back of the photo, it was taken at Rosewood Park in Doris Miller Auditorium, probably for the Travis County Annual Food and Livestock Show.
Date: 194X
Creator: Ross Studio
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Home-Canned Food Display]

Description: Photograph of a man and woman standing in front of a display of home-canned food and quilts. A sign above the display reads, "Texas Standard."
Date: June 10, 1959
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Green & White Grocery Store]

Description: Photograph of the Green and White Grocery store building, taken from a building across the street. The store was located at 1201 East 7th Street in Austin.
Date: July 15, 1958
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Group Portrait of Men and Boys]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and boys in a park, with some wearing ties with the 4-H logo. The eleventh man from the left on the back row is identified as Thomas A. Mayes, Travis County Agricultural Agent.
Date: unknown
Creator: Howard, Edward C.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Style Show]

Description: Photograph of two girls standing on a stage at a style show wearing fancy white dresses. A sign on the curtain behind them reads, "There's magic in the right know how." A woman sits at a table with a microphone at the back of the stage.
Date: June 1954
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Group Portrait of Young Men and Women]

Description: Photograph of a group of ten young men and women standing in front of a house. One of the boys holds a basketball. Another young boy is partially visible at the edge of the photo.
Date: April 18, 1958
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Teenagers on a Baseball Field]

Description: Photograph of a group of six teenage boys standing in a field, with one boy wearing a baseball glove. Two other boys are behind them, playing.
Date: April 18, 1958
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Children on Stage Holding Signs]

Description: Photograph of a group children standing on a stage holding signs reading "Fruits," "Vegetables," "Cheese," and "Milk." One students holds a drawing of a tooth. A 4-H poster is on the wall behind them. Several people are in the audience in the foreground.
Date: March 12, 1962
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Style Show]

Description: Photograph of a girl walking on stage during a style show wearing a floral print dress. A sign on the curtain behind her reads "There's magic in the right know how."
Date: June 1954
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Men Butchering Meat at Victory Food Show]

Description: Photograph of give men butchering meat, with cuts of meat displayed on the walls behind them. A banner on the wall above the meat reads "First Annual Travis County Victory Food Show, March 17-18." According to a handwritten note on the back of the photo, the third man from the left is T. A. Mayes. About six people are on the opposite side of the table watching the men.
Date: March 1944
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

T. A. Mayes

Description: Photograph of Thomas A. Mayes, a Travis County Agricultural Agent with the Negro Extension Service.
Date: 1948~
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Girls Holding Leather Crafts]

Description: Photograph of two girls standing together and holding leather crafts. Some supplies are visible on the table in front of them.
Date: June 16, 1958
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Boys and Men with Beef Calves]

Description: Photograph of men and boys kneeling next to their beef calves in front of wooden pens at the 1948 Travis County Food and Livestock Show in Rosewood Park in Austin. Doris Miller Auditorium is partially visible in the background.
Date: 1948
Creator: Ross Studio
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Family Outside Their Home]

Description: Photograph of a family with two small children and a dog outside of their wooden house. Laundry is hanging to dry on lines. Other wooden houses in the background. Dirt, patches of weeds, and small trees surround the houses.
Date: August 8, 1949
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[People and a Cow at the Food and Livestock Show]

Description: Photograph of a woman with a cow, and four men standing on either side of them. A sign on the building behind them reads "Second Annual Food and Livestock Show, March 21 and 22, 1946." One man holds a sign reading "13." The show took place at Rosewood Park in Austin.
Date: March 1946
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Beef Calves at Food and Livestock Show]

Description: Photograph of people showing their beef calves. A handwritten note on the back of the photo describes it: "Fourteen heavy weight beef calves weighing 819 pounds and over showed in Travis County's Third Annual Food and Livestock Show on the 26th and 27th of March 1947. These calves were sold at auction in Austin for an average of 29 cents per pound." The livestock show took place in Rosewood Park.
Date: March 1947
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Children on Stage]

Description: Photograph of children sitting at a table on a stage with a young woman apeaking at a podium in front of them. A poster on the wall behind them has the 4-H logo and motto and reads "To Make The Best Better." Several people are in the audience in the foreground.
Date: March 12, 1962
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Mrs. Dena Collins with Turkeys]

Description: Photograph of a woman kneeling down in a room full of turkeys. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Mrs. Dena Collins, Home Dem. Club member and poultry demonstrator, Pilot Knob Community, Travis Co."
Date: May 6, 1958
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Children at a 4-H Event]

Description: Photograph of children signing in at a table with a 4-H banner on the front of it, at the entrance of a building.
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Display of Clothing]

Description: Photograph of a display of handmade clothing. A sign on the display reads, "Texas Blind Deaf and Orphan School."
Date: May 24, 1960
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Men Butchering Meat at Victory Food Show]

Description: Photograph of men standing at a counter butchering meat, with many cuts of mean displayed on the wall behind them. A sign on the wall above the meat display reads "First Annual Travis County Victory Food Show, March 17th and 18th."
Date: March 1944
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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