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Photograph of a baseball team from Austin, Texas. The photograph is cabinet card format.

1891

Happy New Year Sunday Service program for Ebenezer (Third Baptist) Baptist Church. Scan of program includes schedule of Sunday service and programming in addition to Reverend L.L. Campbell's essays "A Covenant" and "A Confession of Faith."

1898-01-01

First Baptist Church at the corner of Red River and 14th Streets, circa 1897

circa 1897

Exterior view of St. Patrick's Catholic Church at 200 E. 9th Street, facing north from Brazos Street and directly at its southern wall, circa 1890s. The brick wall features a Christian cross in recessed mortar at top center near roof, and a pointed arch window above double doors with stoop.

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One horse-drawn fire wagon on West 8th street, circa 1892. Original is AR.X.016(A-79)

circa 1892

Exterior view of the Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church with the congregation gathered in front, circa 1890s. A few carriages are visible to the left of the group of people. This image was created by S.B. Hill

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View of the now demolished Central Fire Station #1, circa 1890s. Numerous flags and banners hang from the building. Horse-drawn fire engines are in front of the building.

View of a stone bridge over Barton Creek. A horse-drawn cart is partially visible on the bridge and three people stand on the bank of the creek, waving.

1894-11-25

Bridge over Barton Creek

1894-12

View of a bridge across Barton Creek just above the pool in Zilker Park. Some people sit on the edge of the bridge and one person is down below in the creek bed.

Front elevation from southeast, dark columns, grounds are minimal, no fence, balcony is extended

1898

In this view looking northwest the columns are dark, front upper windows are shuttered, A double tier fountain is located to the southeast of the front porch, the grounds are natural, and a picket fence is visible in back

1894

Copy. Traced July 1914 by H. M. Bramlette. Scale: 1"=2000 varas.

1894-09

"Scale 800 ft. to 1 in." ; R.J. Hill, assignee of P.C. Taylor." ; Photocopy.

1897

Real estate advertisements around map border; duplicate copy printed on mylar and stored with rolled maps

1891-03

Map of Hyde Park and Hyde Park Addition, Austin, Texas. See L-24(OS) c.1 for description of verso

1891

A reproduction of Koch's 1887 Austin Bird's eye view, with Hyde Park inserted in the upper right hand corner of the map. For a description of the verso, see L-24(OS) c.2

1891

Newly concreted railroad tracks on Congress Avenue looking south. The concrete crew is working on the tracks in the distance. Horses and carts are visible near in front of the shops, including Condit Davis and Fink and a bakery in the foreground

circa 1890

The concrete team works on the east railroad track toward the capitol. The crews are working hard in the background while horses and carts line up to visit the clothing and shoe shops that line the road. A trolley car is visible in the distance.

circa 1890

A crew of African-Americans digs a ditch where the second railroad line will lie. They use shovels and pickaxes in front of a row of shops including C.B. Moreland Wall Paper store and the Postal Telegraph service.

circa 1890

A crew of African-American workers hard at work on the railroad intersections at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue looking north while foremen and others look on. Shops along the west side of the street are visible including a dentist and book store.

circa 1890

Smelting crew pouring white hot liquid metal over the rails. Two men grip the bucket handles and tilt them and the bucket so that a third man can push the molten metal out, joining the rails together.

circa 1890

An African-American railroad crew working on the second line in front of a line of hardware and home goods shops. The trenches have been dug and the brick stripped out from the roads where the rail lines will lie.

circa 1890

African-American workers lay down rail line on one side of East Sixth Street. Pedestrians look on from beneath the shop awnings. Shop signs for a candy store, millinery and a druggist are visible.

circa 1890

Photograph of students in front of the Austin Home Institute girls' dormitory. Writing on back reads: " The girls' dormitory at the Austin Home Inst. that was on E. 12th. All buildings were burned and this is the only picture that I had of the school. Eleanor Digger Middleton. I was in this dorm. from 1891 finished in 1893."

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