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[1949 Inauguration Event Schedule]

Description: Card with a schedule of events for the 1949 inauguration written on it. The events range from Saturday, January 18 to Thursday, January 23, and include dinners at the Mayflower Hotel and a buffet luncheon at the White House.
Date: [1949-01-18..1949-01-23]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[1949 Inauguration Ticket]

Description: Ticket to the 1949 inauguration ceremonies. The ticket reads: "President's Platform. Inauguration Ceremonies. January Twentieth, 1949. Admit the Bearer to the Senate Wing of the Capitol and through the Rotunda Door to the President's Platform" and is signed "Carl Hayden, Chairman, Committee on Arrangements." The back of the invitation is signed "Joseph C. Duke, Sergeant at Arms, U. S. Senate."
Date: January 20, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

1949 Livestock Show, Travis County

Description: Photograph of young men standing in a row with their calves at the 1949 Travis County Food and Livestock Show at Rosewood Park in Austin, Texas. Two men with sticks appear to be inspecting the cattle. A group of spectators is in the background.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ross Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Boys with Beef Calves]

Description: Photograph of young men and boys standing in a row with their beef calves at the 1949 Travis County Livestock Show at Rosewood Park in Austin. Spectators stand behind them and cars are visible in the distance.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ross Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Businesses in the Five Points Neighborhood]

Description: Photograph of two-story business fronts along a street in the Five Points neighborhood in El Paso, Texas. The building on the right has "El Paso Conservatory" written over its top row of windows. Businesses in the first story include Douglass Bros. hardware store and Wayne M. Tinkler & Co.'s appliance store.
Date: 1949
Creator: Escontrías
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Client Card: Miss Nancy Brown]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Nancy Brown, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include "Ballet Figure" seated, and "Standing Nude Female Figure".
Date: 1949-09/1968-05
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Client Card: Mr. Amon Carter]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Amon Carter, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Bust of Mr. A. Carter", "Will Rogers Head" (6 copies; mounted on marble bases with name plates), "Will Rogers Head" (Mounted to verde antique marble base), "Remington" (repaired), "Small Head of Sid Richardson" (30 copies), "Head of Will Rogers" (Verde antique marble base), "Coming Trough … more
Date: 1949-10-21/1963-04-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Client Card: Mr. James Lippitt Clark]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. James Clark Lippitt, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "African Buffalo" (2 copies; 16" x 13" x 13"), "Reclining Lioness" (2 copies; 26"), "Elephant" (2 copies; 16" x 13"), "African Head Relief" (9" x 6"), "Charging Rhino" (2 copies; 18" x 9" x 6"), "African Buffalo", "Plaque" (Mambetu), "African Dinka", "Plaque", "Relief" (African Nat… more
Date: 1949-02/1959-07
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Client Card: Mrs. Gordon E. Chandler]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Gordon E. Chandler, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes numerous bronze cast busts of various individuals such as Charles Coburn, Justice Harlan Stone, Michael, etc.
Date: 1949-05/1956-09
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Five Points Neighborhood]

Description: Photograph of a crossroads in the Five Points neighborhood of El Paso, Texas. Houses can be seen behind rows of trees. Cars can be seen along the central road. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date: 1949
Creator: Escontrías
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[George Clountz Report Card, July 1, 1949]

Description: Report card containing the scholastic merits of George Clountz from the Daily Vacation Bible School at Overton, Texas. The card includes religious quotes, grades, and information about the school. A yellow seal bearing the word "Honor" appears at the upper left corner.
Date: July 1, 1949
Creator: Perry, Restore S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Pottsboro 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Men at Texas Fire Instructors Department Conference]

Description: Photograph of a group of men posing together at a Texas Fire Department Instructors Conference. The men in the first row are W. R. Willis, W. J. McBride, H. R. Brayton, A. L. Rathke, W. J. Henderson, B. J. Korman, G. C. Adams, Skipper Lucky, and an unknown man. Those in the second row are Dagger Dickerson, Eugene Ray, two unknown men, H. B. Whitworth, John Woody, August Oertli, and G. Frank Williams. Those in the third row are Otis Muenster, A. L. Cartwright, and Bob Dodson, and several of the … more
Date: 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas
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