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[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
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Front of J. C. Penny's]

Description: Photograph of a J. C. Penny's with three fire engines in the parking lot. The store sits on 5301 Inwood Plaza, the corner of Inwood and Lover's Lane, which became Eckerd Drug as of 2002.
Date: March 21, 1955
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

[Group of Women]

Description: Photograph of young women standing in two rows facing each other, and one woman standing in the middle in front of a desk. They are at the Travis County Negro Extension Service building located at 1154 Lydia Street, Austin, Texas.
Date: October 21, 1955
Creator: Studtman Photo Service
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter to J. L. Halbert - January 21, 1865]

Description: Letter to J. L. Halbert, dated January 21, 1865, from an unnamed widow. The letter is a reply to Halbert, after he wrote to her about her deceased husband. In the letter she describes her feelings towards her husband and about his death in the war (Civil War). Included with the original letter is a typed transcript.
Date: January 21, 1865
Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College

[Man Outside a House]

Description: Photograph of a man standing outside of a house with his hand on the door handle and a paintbrush in his other hand. A wooden chair sits next to the house and a water tank is visible behind the house.
Date: November 21, 1964
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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