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[Lucky Corner filling station]

Description: Photograph of the Lucky Corner filling station. The station was a Conoco service station owned and operated by the Langford brothers, Jimmy and Billy Langford, until they retired and closed the station. Handwriting on the back of the photograph identifies some of the people pictured, and states that the station was operated by Harrison and was at the intersection of U. S. Highway 83 and 15th Street in Wellington, Texas. There are also notes about the history of the building on the back of the p… more
Date: 1936
Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Photograph of Construction Site]

Description: Photograph of a construction site with various pieces of construction equipment. Below the construction site are support structures holding up the site. Text on the front reads "Dec. 1936" and "H.C. Carter, Res Engr.".
Date: December 1936
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Partner: Texas Department of Transportation

[Construction on U.S. Highway 79]

Description: Photograph of construction on U.S. Highway 79 (previously Highway 43) in Williamson County, Texas. A Marion shovel in the background is loading gravel base course with 1 1/4 yard and there are two dump trucks on the right of the photograph carrying the gravel. Several workers are visible near the shovel. Text on back of photograph reads: "Hy. 43 Wilson Co. Proj. 204, Loading gravel Base material with 1 1/4 yd. Marion shovel rented from Joe Mocken, Austin, Summer 1936."
Date: 1936
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Partner: Texas Department of Transportation

Austin American Statesman Building 7th & Colorado

Description: Photograph of a three-story building under construction, with workers seated outside the front of the building a construction company sign in the lower-right part of the image. A church is visible in the background and a small wooden building is situated on the street in front of an empty lot between the church and the building. Vehicles are parked on both sides of the street.
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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