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Liberty Bell in Front of the Capitol

Description: Photograph of the United States Liberty Bell in front of the Texas state Capitol building. A sign on the Ford Liberty Bell Fleet truck reads "Save for YOUR Independence - Buy U.S. Savings Bonds."
Date: June 22, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Monument and Texas State Capitol Building]

Description: Photograph of a monument across from the Texas State Capitol Building. It reads: "This Memorial to the Builders of the Great State of Texas Erected A.D. 1938 by the Texas Historical and Biographical Record." A list of names follows. The Texas State Capitol building is in the background.
Date: June 25, 1942
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Confederate Monument at Texas State Capitol]

Description: Photograph of the Confederate Monument on the Texas Capitol grounds. A view of three of the "five bronze figures on a gray granite base representing the Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Navy, headed by the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis" (From Texas State Preservation Board). The monument reads: "Confederate Dead."
Date: January 1, 1945
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Statue of Governor J.S. Hogg

Description: A statue of Governor James Stephen Hogg in front of the construction of the "six-pack" of campus buildings at the University of Texas at Austin. The building under construction behing Hogg is Batts Hall.
Date: March 14, 1951
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Totem pole at Camp Mabry]

Description: Photograph of the totem pole at the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry. The totem pole was erected in 1949 by the Royal Canadian Air Force in honor of Texans who served in the RCAF during World War II. The totem pole itself was carved by Squamish Hereditary Chief Mathias Joe (1887-1966) of Vancouver Canada. The Camp Mabry Totem Pole is one of 3 poles carved by Chief Mathias Joe in the United States: 1 in San Francisco in front of the Cliff House at Ocean Beach, and 1 for Maurice Agly in… more
Date: July 18, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal & Mathias, Joe
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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