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["Always" Postcard: Part 1]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of a man and a woman standing next to a large tree, the woman is wearing a dress and the man is wearing a suit. There is a set of lyrics printed underneath the photo that read: "You ask me if this love of mine, Sweetheart will ever die, If time will change my feelings dear, I answer with a sigh : While life will last, while flowers bloom, While birds sing sweet their lay, The love so deep within my heart Will live each night and day."
Date: [1908..1910]
Creator: Bamforth & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

["Always" Postcard: Part 2]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of a couple holding each other and sitting on a bench under some trees. There are lyrics printed underneath the picture that read: "Always, always, I will love you always, Do not fear, my love is true, And I live alone for you. Always, always, I will love you always, Love like mine is ever thine, And it lives always."
Date: [1908..1910]
Creator: Bamforth & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

["Always" Postcard: Part 3]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of a man kneeling on one knee next to a woman in a dress and sitting on a bench underneath some trees. This card is the third in a set of romance cards entitled "Always." The lyrics printed under the photo are lengthy and are meant to describe the love for another person.
Date: [1908..1910]
Creator: Bamforth & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

[Auction Wagon, Abilene, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a horse-drawn auction wagon parked outside of a drug store in Abilene, Texas. A man is using the wagon as a stage to speak to a crowd around him. The auction is likely related to the cotton industry.
Date: 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Austin Fire Department Fire Truck]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of two firemen seated in an Austin Fire Department fire truck outside a two-story building with a balcony. The identification written on the side of the truck says "Colorado No. 2" and "Austin Fire Dept" on the front engine. There is an alarm bell and horn on the front of the truck; there are ladders and a water hose in the back of the truck.
Date: [1909..1912]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Bullring in Juarez, Mexico]

Description: Photograph of two men outside of a bullring in Juarez, Mexico. One man is identified as Jon Denton of Austin and the other is "Stewart". The bullring has various advertisements posted on it in English.
Date: May 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Burned Garage Building in Chicago]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of a large crowd milling about a fire-damaged building in Chicago, Illinois; the note on the back says this was a "garage fire." A ladder is propped at left of the front-facing side and several fire fighters appear to be inside the top story of the building.
Date: [1909..1912]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Class Prophecy for the 1907 Class of Texas Baptist University]

Description: Class prophecy describing a person's eventful day dream that included a woman creating pictures in the room of different individuals; the pictures continue to appear and then disappear and showing different women in different locations. The last line of the piece comes after the person had awoken: "I was forced to turn from the glamers into the future and come back to the tasks of the present."
Date: 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

Clay County Courthouse

Description: Photograph of the newly constructed Clay County Courthouse. A note on the photograph mount credits W.H. Wilson as its architect and Strain, Risley, & Swinburn as the builders.
Date: 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Contract Created for Virginia Leigh and Edward B. Leigh]

Description: Contract created after the death of George L. Leigh for the organization, operation, and ownership of the 320 acres of which he owned. The document explains, on page 3, which portions of the land and its assets will be owned by Virginia, Edward, and William Leigh; it also acknowledges that Virginia will assist Edward in fees to be paid for George's funeral, burial, and the administration of the land tract known as "Stoneleigh Ranch."
Date: November 22, 1901
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library

[Courthouse at Anson, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the courthouse at Anson, Texas. It is a two-story building with a tower in the center. A man is visible at the corner of the building and a horse is in the foreground, tied to a fence.
Date: January 10, 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Courthouse at Baird, Texas

Description: Photograph of the old Callahan County Courthouse at Baird, Texas. It is a two-story stone building with a statue of a person on top of a dome in the center of its roof. A small windmill is set up on the, near a telephone pole. A fence surrounds the building.
Date: 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Courthouse in Midland, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the courthouse in Midland, Texas, apparently under construction. The stone building has one level competed with wood framing beginning to be put in place for second story windows. Small trees partially obscure the building.
Date: 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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