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[Automobile in Austin]

Description: Photograph of an automobile parked at the curb in front of a house in Austin. The vehicle has a woman in the driver's seat, and two children in the back.
Date: March 1913
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Back Lakeside Power Station "Before"

Description: Photograph of dirt ground and buildings, one of which has two smoke stack like features on top of it. In the front is a wheelbarrow full of dirt and also visible are small piles of darker colored dirt on the ground. On the top, two doors can be seen open on the second story of the building on the right.
Date: 1926~/1931~
Partner: Edison Museum

Back of Lakeside Power Station "After"

Description: Photograph of building on the right with other buildings in background. The ground is comprised mostly of dirt.
Date: 1926~/1931~
Partner: Edison Museum

Back of Lakeside Power Station "Before"

Description: Photograph of a building, wagon, construction material (including two half cylindrical objects), railroad tracks, and a man with a pickax.
Date: 1926~/1931~
Partner: Edison Museum

[Bahl Family Outside Portrait]

Description: Portrait of the Bahl family taken outside in front of some trees, seven members are standing behind the two grandmothers sitting in chairs. The names are listed on the photograph and from left to right, top row to bottom row: "Josephine Bahl, Blondina Bahl Baugh, Leda Bahl, John Philip, John Philip Herlin Bahl, Katharine Hessdoerfer Bahl, Barbara Griesbaum Hessdoerfer, James Philip Baugh, Barbara Roedler Hessdoerfer.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

[A Band Concert on the U.S.S. Texas]

Description: Photograph of a band concert being held on the deck of the U.S.S. Texas. The band is grouped together in a tightly bunched group of chairs while those not in the band are either laying on the deck, leaning on the railing, or walking by the performance.
Date: unknown
Partner: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

[Barn at Beasley Crossing]

Description: Photograph of a small barn. The building is made up of log walls and a plank roof. A typed note on the back of the photograph says, "Original barn built by Judge John Beasley at Beasley Crossing on Colorado River in 1847." Judge John Beasley came to Erath County in 1860 from Stoddard County, Missouri, and later moved to McCulloch County. Beasley was the first County Judge and was on the committee to select Brady as the county seat.
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Battle Ship South Carolina

Description: Photograph of the Battleship South Carolina at Galveston, Texas.
Date: July 20, 1912
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Beaumont Cityscape #1]

Description: Photograph of a view of the city of Beaumont, Texas. Several buildings can be seen, including one with a clock tower.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont Cityscape #2]

Description: Photograph of a view of the city of Beaumont, Texas. Several buildings can be seen, including one with a clock tower. A wall and utility poles can also be seen on the bottom as well as a smoke producing factory on the left.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont Cityscape #3]

Description: Photograph of the city of Beaumont, Texas from a body of water. A few tall buildings are visible as well as darker clouds on the top. In the foreground is a body of water and smaller buildings.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont Shops #1]

Description: Photograph of various shops in Beaumont, Texas. They are not in the middle of the city, as the city's tallest buildings can be seen in the background. While there are paved roads, the bottom portion of the photo is a grassy area. There is a water tower on the left and various signs. Also visible are various cars, including a delivery truck on the road.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont Shops #2]

Description: Photograph of various shops in Beaumont, Texas. They are not in the middle of the city, as the city's tallest buildings can be seen in the background. While there are paved roads, the bottom portion of the photo is a grassy area. There is a water tower on the left and various signs. Also visible are various cars.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont, Texas Buildings #1]

Description: Photograph of buildings in Beaumont, Texas. There is a large building with a clock tower on the right and smaller buildings in the foreground. There are clouds in the sky and the picture is generally dark.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont, Texas Buildings #2]

Description: Photograph of buildings in Beaumont, Texas. The tallest one in the picture is on the right and has a clock tower. In the darkened foreground are smaller buildings.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

[Beaumont, Texas Buildings #3]

Description: Photograph of buildings in Beaumont, Texas. The tallest one is on the left and has a clock tower. There are also other smaller buildings.
Date: unknown
Partner: Edison Museum

Beauties of San Antonio River

Description: Photograph of the San Antonio River. The silhouettes of three individuals are visible in the bottom left corner of the image. The other side of the river has buildings behind a wooden fence. The back of the photograph has a printed history of the city of San Antonio.
Date: 1889
Creator: Jacobson, M. E.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

"Big Foot Wallace"

Description: Photograph of "Big Foot" Wallace (William Alexander Anderson Wallace, 1817-1899). The photograph is cabinet card format.
Date: [1880..1899]
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Bill Pordom's Line Crew

Description: Photograph of a group of nine men wearing hats standing by a truck. Most of them are looking at the camera. Two men are holding cigarettes.
Date: 1947
Partner: Edison Museum

[Biplane]

Description: Photograph of a grounded biplane in a field near St. Edward's University in south Austin.
Date: April 7, 1918
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Biplanes]

Description: Photograph of a line of biplanes with a large crowd of observers in the background. The field is near St. Edward's University in south Austin.
Date: April 7, 1918
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Birth Announcement and Photograph]

Description: Photograph of a baby girl with dark hair, visible from the chest up. An accompanying page has an image of a infant in the left hand corner. Text in the middle of the page reads, " Monica Yvette Roscles, Aug. 14, 1978, 6 pounds 2 ounces, my happy parents are Robert & JoAnn Roscles." On the front of the announcement there is text in a circle that reads "Announcing." and numerous lines are coming from the circle.
Date: July 14, 1978
Partner: Hispanic Heritage Center of Texas

[Black Smoke Billowing From Burning Fence]

Description: Photograph of huge, black clouds of smoke billowing from a burning fence. In front of the burning fence is a short length of scrub grass, and at the foreground, there is a chain-link fence with barbed-wire on top.
Date: unknown
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum
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