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[Photograph of Unknown Road #9]

Description: Photograph of unknown road. Within the image telephone poles line either side of the road as well as empty fields. On the right side there is a rail road crossing sign.
Date: November 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Partner: Texas Department of Transportation

[Photograph of Barricades at West End of Project]

Description: Photograph of barricades at the west end of a road construction project. On either side of the road telephone poles, and trees spaced out. Two wooded barricades are on opposite sides of the road with a sign to the right that reads "Slow" and "A WPA Project".
Date: November 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Partner: Texas Department of Transportation

[Photograph of Chandler Creek Construction]

Description: Photograph of construction on Chandler Creek. Two workers are visible around the construction with one to the right holding a flag. Along the left side there is construction equipment and two signs that read "slow".
Date: November 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Partner: Texas Department of Transportation

40 PBYs on Lake Worth

Description: Aerial photograph of forty airplanes floating on Lake Worth. According to Jeff Rhodes: "On 22 November 1940, Consolidated Aircraft Chief Test Pilot Bill Wheatley contacted newspaper publisher and Fort Worth, Texas, civic booster Amon G. Carter, explaining the company had been ordered to transfer 200 PBY Catalina patrol seaplanes (37 of the aircraft can be seen in this photo) from San Diego, California, to Britain and that the crews were in immediate need of a layover point. In just eight days, … more
Date: November 30, 1940
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

[Woman Holding Child]

Description: Photograph of a woman holding a child and standing in front of a fireplace and mantel. The photographer wrote the name "Raymond Brooks" on the negative envelope.
Date: November 7, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Young Woman Sitting]

Description: Photograph of a young woman in a dress sitting on a couch next to a piano. The photographer wrote the name "Raymond Brooks" on the negative envelope.
Date: November 7, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Camp Bowie]

Description: Photograph of the exterior of Camp Bowie. Sewer pipe in the foreground, completed buildings in the background.
Date: November 16, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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