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[Handmade Clothing Display]

Description: Photograph of a display with handmade clothing. A poster on the display reads, "Be thrifty, sew it yourself," and has a drawing of a woman sewing. A sign below the display reads, "Texas Blind Deaf and Orphan School."
Date: May 24, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Woman Lecturing to Class]

Description: Photograph of a woman lecturing a group of students in a large classroom. There is a projector on behind her, and several of the students hold guns in front of them. The man in the first row, seventh from the left has been identified as Charles Laughlin.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Old Base Chapel]

Description: Photograph of the old Bergstrom Air Base chapel, which was later converted to the base education office. A group of people stand outside the building.
Date: 1975~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Interior View of Georgetown School Classroom]

Description: Photograph of the interior view of a Georgetown School classroom. A group of young children can be seen mostly from behind sitting at small student desks. A teacher in a light colored dress can be seen sitting on one of the desks while she holds an open book. A line of storage lockers with lunchboxes can be seen on the wall to the right, and several large, open windows can be seen to the left in the background.
Date: September 16, 1954
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Wooldridge School, 4-B Grade

Description: Group portrait of a class of elementary students at Wooldridge School in Austin. A note on the back of the photograph indicates that the boy in the back row, ninth from left is John Barry Caldwell at 9 years old.
Date: October 19, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

East Austin School Children

Description: Photograph of East Austin school children in the lower 4th grade. The names of everyone in the photograph are listed on the back. Miss Mary Johnson is the teacher. The photograph is cabinet card format.
Date: November 30, 1894
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Lounge Study Area]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Flawn Academic Center that is slightly dark and underexposed, but a sitting area with a dark couch and two chairs can be seen in the right foreground with a glass coffee table. To the left on a lighter flooring, a long table with several chairs around it can be seen, along with a cabinet of books on the far left wall. On the right back wall, a long cabinet with dozens of thin drawers can be seen, along with several busts resting its surface.
Date: [1964-11-20..1964-11-21]
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.286544 -97.740302
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Sorority House Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Gamma Phi Beta building located at 2622 Wichita Street. In the foreground, a staircase can be seen with intricate metal work on the railings. In the mid-ground is a sparse seating area, and in the background is a room with a lower ceiling, where long dining tables and multiple chairs can be seen. Much of the molding and decorative architecture around the rooms is done in a Greek revival style.
Date: November 1, 1960
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

School attended by O. Henry

Description: Postcard with an illustration of a small, one-story building surrounded by a fence with a forest in the background; text beneath the image says, "Little School House Where O. Henry Went to School." Printed text on the back of the postcard reads: "This is the only school that O. Henry (Wm. Sydney Porter) ever attended. He was taught by his Aunt, Miss Lina Porter, and left this school when he was only fifteen."
Date: 1937
Creator: Bridges, Earley W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

D.E. Hall School of Domestic Economy

Description: Photograph of a group of women sitting out front of the D.E. Hall of Domestic Economy. These women were associated with the Young Women's Christian Association as indicated by notes on the back of the photograph. Stamped on one of the boards of the school is [CALC]ASIEU LUMBER referring to Calcasieu Lumber Company which was established in Austin,Texas in the early 1880s.
Date: [1910..1920]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Austin High [School] R.O.T.C., 1968

Description: Photograph of Austin High R.O.T.C. in 1968. (This is a portion of a panoramic AR.U.006(235) Panoramic Collection; section 4 of 6). Austin High School opened in 1881 and was the first public high school in Texas. In 1968 the campus was located at 1212 Rio Grande Street.
Date: August 1968
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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