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Texas Blanco sheet

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Blanco, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing parts of Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Travis, and Hays Counties. The map indicates county lines, towns, roads, rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown by contours (interval 50 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000 On verso: Explanation and history of topographic maps of the U.S. and standard symbols used.
Date: 1940
Creator: Gannett, Henry; Thompson, A. H.; Douglas, E. M. & Fitch, C. H.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Basketball Team]

Description: Photograph of a basketball team. Five men stand in the back row, four kneel in the front row, and the coach sits on the ground holding a basketball in front of them.
Date: [1940..1959]
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Governor W. Lee O'Daniel - October 8, 1940]

Description: A letter addressed to Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, Austin, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, Post Commander, American Legion, Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, dated October 8, 1940. Carswell files to organize five companies of the Texas Defense Guard in Taylor County. Officers, as listed: Captain - Jesse Warren, Roscoe Blankenship, Stanley King, Thomas E. Brownlee, Thomas N. Carswell; 1st Lieutenant - Louis Agee, Edmund C. Yates, J. C. White, Dave Mauldin, Roy Johnson; 2nd Lieutenant - W. R. (R… more
Date: October 8, 1940
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Sidney C. Mason to T. N. Carswell - October 17, 1940]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Post Commander, Parramore Post No. 57, The American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from Sidney C. Mason, Lieut. Col., 142nd Infantry, Adjutant General's Department, State of Texas, Austin, dated October 17, 1940. Mason acknowledges the receipt of the application for authority to organize units of the Texas Defense Guard. He suggests that Carswell modify the program to consist of three companies at Abilene and one at Merkel thereby making one complete battalion… more
Date: October 17, 1940
Creator: Mason, Sidney C.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Governor's Mansion behind trees and under snow]

Description: Photograph of Texas Governor's Mansion grounds with snow, trees, greenhouse visible, south and front elevation. Seen from West 10th and Colorado Streets. The mansion was built by Abner Cook in 1855 and continuously occupied since 1856. The mansion was occupied by Governor W. Lee O'Daniel and his wife Merle in 1940 when this image was taken. The mansion was named a Texas historic landmark in 1962 and a National historic landmark in 1970.
Date: 1940
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Wood and corrugated metal building]

Description: People stand in front of a wood and corrugated metal building at a housing project. There is debris scattered on the dirt ground around them.
Date: January 20, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory, City of Austin
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Golfers putting on green at Municipal Golf Course]

Description: Photograph of a man in suit putting while another golfer looks on. Golfers stand and sit in the shade under trees in the background. The Austin Municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served its citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: February 1, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Golfers putting on green at Austin Municipal Golf Course]

Description: Photograph of a man putting while a man in a suit looks on. Men are standing in the background. The Austin Municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served its citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: February 1, 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Golfers teeing off at Austin Municipal Golf Course]

Description: Photograph of a group of men teeing off in front of the Municipal Golf course club house. The municipal Golf Course, constructed originally by the Lions Club in 1928 at 2901 Enfield Road, has served it's citizens since 1934 and has long been Austin's most popular course.
Date: February 1940
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Women's gym class at the Austin Athletic Club]

Description: Photograph of a women's gym class at Austin Athletic Club. These twenty-five women appear to range in age from their twenties to their mid to late thirties. They wear short-sleeved white blouses and dark colored shorts with high-top lace-up sneakers. They stand on the floor and first step of the wooden bleachers of the interior volleyball courts.
Date: [1940..]
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Women's gym class stretching at Austin Athletic Center]

Description: Photograph of a large women's gym class lying in three rows on the floor on their left sides with their heads propped on their left arms, right arm crossed in front of their torsos, legs straight and toes pointed: ready to stretch. Their coats and outer garments are strewn on the wooden bleachers on the right background. A basketball hoop and archery target is visible in the rear of the building.
Date: [1940..]
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 643

Description: Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from February 1940 to May 1940, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of sa… more
Date: 1940-02/1940-05
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Partner: Travis County Clerk’s Office

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 644

Description: Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from February 1940 to April 1940, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of … more
Date: 1940-02/1940-04
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Partner: Travis County Clerk’s Office
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