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"The Hiker" statue, Austin, Texas

"The Hiker" statue, Austin, Texas

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Carol M. Highsmith - Texas Capitol dome, Austin, Texas

Carol M. Highsmith - Texas Capitol dome, Austin, Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 1856 section of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 185...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1854, it was designed by prominent architect Abner Cook and has been the home of every Texas governor since 1856. Credit lin... More

Interior view of the LBJ suite of offices, J.J. Pickle Federal Building located in downtown Austin, Texas

Interior view of the LBJ suite of offices, J.J. Pickle Federal Buildin...

Built in 1965, the building houses a suite of offices, including the "LBJ Suite" used by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his term in office. Architect: Page-Southerland-Page and Brooks-Bar-Graeb. Photographe... More

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an artsy neighborhood below the Texas capital

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Littlefield Fountain, the sculptor Pompeo Coppini's 1933 memorial in Austin, Texas, to University of Texas students and alumni who died in World War I

Littlefield Fountain, the sculptor Pompeo Coppini's 1933 memorial in A...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fountain bubbles beneath the school's signature Texas Tower from 1937, designed by Paul Philippe Cret. Sadly imprinted in the towe... More

Atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin

Atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Aust...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Wayen Slanina-Wertz and his goat kid at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Wayen Slanina-Wertz and his goat kid at Rodeo Austin, the city's annua...

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"Hi, How Are You," while one of the simplest murals in Austin, Texas, is also one of the city's favorites

"Hi, How Are You," while one of the simplest murals in Austin, Texas, ...

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Texas longhorns on the move at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Texas longhorns on the move at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a w...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Barrel racing at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Barrel racing at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo....

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas

The Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum, designed by the local firm Verner Johnson, opened in 2001. It is named after onetime Texas Lieutenant Governor Bob Bulloc... More

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Door hardware in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas

Door hardware in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

Wayen Slanina-Wertz and his goat kid at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Wayen Slanina-Wertz and his goat kid at Rodeo Austin, the city's annua...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Sam Houston Bedroom on the second floor, southeast corner, of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The Sam Houston Bedroom on the second floor, southeast corner, of the ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bed was purchased during the administration of Governor Houston, 1859-61. Built in 1854, it was designed by prominent architect A... More

The east entrance to the Texas Capitol extension, Austin, Texas

The east entrance to the Texas Capitol extension, Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Located on the north side of the statehouse, the Extension is a four-level underground structure which was completed in 1993. It was ... More

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ran...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs mansion in Austin, Texas

The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs mansion in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Umlauf garden centers on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf donated the... More

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Umlauf garden centers on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf donated the... More

Children and their rabbit at the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Children and their rabbit at the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Motorcycles parked outside the Dirty Dog Bar on East Sixth Street, locally known as "Dirty Sixth," in Austin, Texas

Motorcycles parked outside the Dirty Dog Bar on East Sixth Street, loc...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

We're not quite sure how to describe this oversized outdoor chicken in eclectic South Austin, a neighborhood of Austin, Texas. It is true that, for reasons not fully known, large-chicken art is popular across Texas. But maybe not this large

We're not quite sure how to describe this oversized outdoor chicken in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ran...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

A fine patch of prickly pear catctus in Salado, Texas, a town between Waco and Austin

A fine patch of prickly pear catctus in Salado, Texas, a town between ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. ...

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Part of a 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Part of a 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Cowhand Robert Vaughn aboard his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Robert Vaughn aboard his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Umlauf garden centers on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf donated the... More

Barbecue Pit at the original Salt Lick BBQ, a barbecue restaurant in Dripping Springs, in Hays County, Texas, south of Austin

Barbecue Pit at the original Salt Lick BBQ, a barbecue restaurant in D...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1967 by Thurman Roberts, Sr. and his wife Hisako T. Roberts, The Salt Lick quickly grew in popularity and went from being o... More

An American bison at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

An American bison at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cat...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Lone Star detail from the speaker's desk in the House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Lone Star detail from the speaker's desk in the House of Representativ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his horse Rebelito at the working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his hors...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library, in Austin, Texas

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Pr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2014, it is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Library hous... More

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Mother longhorn and her calf at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Mother longhorn and her calf at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a ...

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A stream that runs through the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

A stream that runs through the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Tomb of John Connally at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

Tomb of John Connally at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

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Bull riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Bull riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. A...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. The fellow in the fedora, introduced to the audience only as "Johnny," is Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, himself an accomplished guitarist

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Rodeo competition at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Rodeo competition at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rod...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Scenes from the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Scenes from the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The John Bremond House, the spectacular centerpiece of what's known as the "Bremond Block" in downtown Austin, Texas

The John Bremond House, the spectacular centerpiece of what's known as...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Excelsior Hotel, Austin Street, Jefferson, Marion County, TX

Excelsior Hotel, Austin Street, Jefferson, Marion County, TX

Significance: This hotel, while changing ownership many times, has remained in continuous operation since the 1850's. The original frame portion is similar to many roadside inns built in the mid-nineteenth cent... More

Mary Ann Patterson, ex-slave, Austin

Mary Ann Patterson, ex-slave, Austin

420004. District no. 27. Picture no. 371. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More

Lundberg Bakery, 1006 Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Lundberg Bakery, 1006 Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The Lundberg Bakery is an important commercial and historical landmark in Austin. Built in 1875-76, it first housed successful bakery business of Charles Lundberg, and continued to be used as a ba... More

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-39 Survey number: HABS TX-328 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000750

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-39 Survey number: HABS TX-328 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000750

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-39 Survey number: HABS TX-328 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000750

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-39 Survey number: HABS TX-328 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000750

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX

Humphrey-Erskine House, 902 North Austin Street, Seguin, Guadalupe Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-39 Survey number: HABS TX-328 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000750

Ehrigson Cotton Gin, Shelby, Austin County, TX

Ehrigson Cotton Gin, Shelby, Austin County, TX

Significance: When cotton farmer William Ehrigson built his gin in 1917 near Shelby, Austin County, Texas, he was the only ginner in the immediate vicinity. Using an 80 horse power steam engine fired with cord ... More

Reed Hall, 3200 Bowman Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Reed Hall, 3200 Bowman Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: It was a prominent example of Tudor Revival estate design in Austin, and the primary residence of Roberta Reed Dickson Crenshaw (1914-2005), a local philanthropist. Unprocessed Field note materia... More

Reed Hall, 3200 Bowman Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Reed Hall, 3200 Bowman Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: It was a prominent example of Tudor Revival estate design in Austin, and the primary residence of Roberta Reed Dickson Crenshaw (1914-2005), a local philanthropist. Unprocessed Field note materia... More

Reed Hall, 3200 Bowman Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Reed Hall, 3200 Bowman Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: It was a prominent example of Tudor Revival estate design in Austin, and the primary residence of Roberta Reed Dickson Crenshaw (1914-2005), a local philanthropist. Unprocessed Field note materia... More

Houghton Carriage House, 1111 Guadalupe Street, rear of 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Houghton Carriage House, 1111 Guadalupe Street, rear of 307 West Twelf...

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French Legation to Republic of Texas, Seventh & San Marcos Streets, Austin, Travis County, TX

French Legation to Republic of Texas, Seventh & San Marcos Streets, Au...

Survey number: HABS TX-33-C-1 Building/structure dates: ca. 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Texas State Capitol, Eleventh Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Travi...

Significance: A fine pink granite building with Renaissance detailing. Design chosen by Napoleon le Brun in a competition. Myers, the architect, also designed the capitol of Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.... More

Simms-Vance House, 1802 San Gabriel Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Simms-Vance House, 1802 San Gabriel Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27 Survey number: HABS TX-33-C-3 Building/structure dates: 1860 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1883 Subsequent Work

504 West Fourteenth Street (House), Austin, Travis County, TX

504 West Fourteenth Street (House), Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The residence of 504 West Fourteenth Street is typical of the small stone houses built in Austin during the late nineteenth century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-... More

504 West Fourteenth Street (House), Austin, Travis County, TX

504 West Fourteenth Street (House), Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The residence of 504 West Fourteenth Street is typical of the small stone houses built in Austin during the late nineteenth century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-... More

Taylor-Hunnicutt House, 405 West Twelfth Street (moved from Guadalupe Street), Austin, Travis County, TX

Taylor-Hunnicutt House, 405 West Twelfth Street (moved from Guadalupe ...

Significance: The Taylor-Hunnicutt House was built in 1872 by Dr. Matthew A. Taylor, a leading Austin physician, businessman, and investor. Dr. Taylor's widow married Hicklin P. Hunnicutt and the house remained... More

Laguna Gloria, 3809 West Thirty-Fifth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Laguna Gloria, 3809 West Thirty-Fifth Street, Austin, Travis County, T...

2001 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: The historic Laguna Gloria property at 3809 W. Thirty-fifth Street in Austin, Texas, is the former home of influential aesthete, preservationist, and b... More

Zilker Park Club House, 200 Clubhouse Road, Austin, Travis County, TX

Zilker Park Club House, 200 Clubhouse Road, Austin, Travis County, TX

2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It was originally built as a Boy Scouts of America Clubhouse. Workers from the Civil Works Administration erected it in 1934. The Clubhouse and the surroundin... More

Neill-Cochran House, 2310 San Gabriel, Austin, Travis County, TX

Neill-Cochran House, 2310 San Gabriel, Austin, Travis County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3391 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orsay Tenant House, 310 East Fourteenth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Orsay Tenant House, 310 East Fourteenth Street, Austin, Travis County,...

Significance: The Orsay Tenant House is typical of the simple small stone houses built in Austin in the mid to late nineteenth century. Only a few of these simple buildings remain in the Capitol area. Unproces... More

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County...

Significance: The John H. Houghton House was one of the larger, more elegant residences built in the late nineteenth century in the Capitol area. Its original owner, John H. Houghton, a prominent Austin busines... More

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County...

Significance: The John H. Houghton House was one of the larger, more elegant residences built in the late nineteenth century in the Capitol area. Its original owner, John H. Houghton, a prominent Austin busines... More

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County...

Significance: The John H. Houghton House was one of the larger, more elegant residences built in the late nineteenth century in the Capitol area. Its original owner, John H. Houghton, a prominent Austin busines... More

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County...

Significance: The John H. Houghton House was one of the larger, more elegant residences built in the late nineteenth century in the Capitol area. Its original owner, John H. Houghton, a prominent Austin busines... More

Angela Townsend House, 1802 West Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Angela Townsend House, 1802 West Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The Townsend House was a representative example of the post Civil War Greek Revival House as it was modified by Victorian influences. Survey number: HABS TX-3141 Building/structure dates: 18t3 I... More

Angela Townsend House, 1802 West Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Angela Townsend House, 1802 West Avenue, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The Townsend House was a representative example of the post Civil War Greek Revival House as it was modified by Victorian influences. Survey number: HABS TX-3141 Building/structure dates: 18t3 I... More

Albert Schafer, eight year old newsboy who usually begins at 8:00 A.M. Sundays. Sells some on week-days. Is a cripple. Makes one to two dollars a day.  Location: Austin, Texas.

Albert Schafer, eight year old newsboy who usually begins at 8:00 A.M....

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Bremond House, West Seventh & Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Travis County, TX

John Bremond House, West Seventh & Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Travis C...

Significance: The John Bremond House is one of six residences located on the same city block and built either by a Bremond or Robinson, prominent Austin businessmen of the last century. This block was a neighbo... More

Land Office, 108 East Eleventh Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Land Office, 108 East Eleventh Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The Old Land Office Building is the oldest known public building in Austin and was the second Land Office Building constructed in the City. O. Henry, the noted short story writer used the building... More

Land Office, 108 East Eleventh Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Land Office, 108 East Eleventh Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The Old Land Office Building is the oldest known public building in Austin and was the second Land Office Building constructed in the City. O. Henry, the noted short story writer used the building... More

Land Office, 108 East Eleventh Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Land Office, 108 East Eleventh Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Significance: The Old Land Office Building is the oldest known public building in Austin and was the second Land Office Building constructed in the City. O. Henry, the noted short story writer used the building... More

Kane, Warren & Gay / H. B. Hillyer's Artillery Rooms, Austin, Texas.

Kane, Warren & Gay / H. B. Hillyer's Artillery Rooms, Austin, Texas.

Photograph shows three men, two in civilian dress and one in military uniform. Notation on verso: In commemoration of _____.

Bird's-eye view of the handsome state capitol at Austin, Texas

Bird's-eye view of the handsome state capitol at Austin, Texas

Stereo copyrighted by Standard Scenic Company. No. 3413. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Texas National Guard, Brig. Gen'l. Wolters Com'd'g., Camp Mabry, 1921

Texas National Guard, Brig. Gen'l. Wolters Com'd'g., Camp Mabry, 1921

J249513 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. O. Goldbeck; July 15, 1921. Stamped on verso: "Copies of this picture will be mailed post paid to any part of the United States upon receipt of price $.50. Re... More

Tex Austin & Edw. T. Clark, 4/3/24

Tex Austin & Edw. T. Clark, 4/3/24

A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tex Austin & Edw. T. Clark, 4/3/24

Tex Austin & Edw. T. Clark, 4/3/24

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American troops in North Africa sample the wares of a fruit vendor. Left to right: Sergeant Hardy Patillo of Austin, Texas; Captain Louis Dubcak of Lexington, Texas; Sergeant Adan Garza of Laredo, Texas; and Private First Class Herbert Lipsey of Dade City, Florida

American troops in North Africa sample the wares of a fruit vendor. Le...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Senor Vigues, wife and 5 children - live in this homemade shack opposite American-Mexican "Jim Crow" housing project, "Santa Rita"

Senor Vigues, wife and 5 children - live in this homemade shack opposi...

Photograph shows Mexican American man and three children standing at dilapidated shack opposite the Santa Rita Courts in Austin,Texas, first public housing development completed under the Housing Act of 1937, w... More

Exterior view, J.J. Pickle Federal Building located in downtown Austin, Texas

Exterior view, J.J. Pickle Federal Building located in downtown Austin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office building, commercial building, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Interior view of the LBJ suite of offices, J.J. Pickle Federal Building located in downtown Austin, Texas

Interior view of the LBJ suite of offices, J.J. Pickle Federal Buildin...

Built in 1965, the building houses a suite of offices, including the "LBJ Suite" used by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his term in office. Architect: Page-Southerland-Page and Brooks-Bar-Graeb. Photographe... More

The John Bremond Jr. House, one of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in downtown Austin, Texas, from the mid-1850s to 1910

The John Bremond Jr. House, one of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The William Braxton Barr House, a historic farmhouse built about 1898 in Austin, Texas

The William Braxton Barr House, a historic farmhouse built about 1898 ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Set on Sprinkle Road and now part of a wedding and event operation, the mansion was built for cotton merchant Willian Braxton Barr an... More

The old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visitor Center, in Austin, Texas

The old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The oldest surviving state government office building in the city, it was the first building designed by a university-trained archite... More

Exterior details at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Exterior details at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

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