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Postcard depicting the "New Capitol of Texas." Front exterior drawing, with men and horses in front of building. Image is bordered by Texas heroes, the storming of the Alamo and the old capitol building in Houston.

Portrait of five adults in a car driving by the City Park entrance sign, undated. "May not be Austin, as per Beverly Sheffield" is written on verso.

President sent a force into Mexico over concerns that unrest there was spilling over into southwest US with raids of Pancho Villa. Moore sent this postcard home while he was stationed there before going overseas. It doesn't appear to be Moore in the image

Color postcard image of the St. Elmo Motel. Caption reads, "One Mile South of the Capital City 00 U.S. 81."

Tinted postcard image of the exterior of the Confederate Home for Men.

Color postcard of the exterior of the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas.

Postcard featuring a view of the bandstand at East Avenue Park. A moontower can be seen in the background.

Postcard featuring interior view of unidentified hotel dining room and pool area

Postcard featuring the San Jose Motel

Color postcard showing the front of St. Mary's Academy building.

Postcard with view of old East Avenue with horse-drawn carriages and people in the street. Caption reads "Remember this Austin scene? An old scene taken on East Avenue. Bill Thompson is a man with the gun in the driver's seat."

Postcard with view of Congress Avenue looking north to the Capitol building

Color postcard view of a "Pretty driveway in the Hyde Park Addition."

Black and white image of "Proposed New Buildings For The State School For The Blind".

Black and white postcard with view of the State Institution for the Blind.

Color postcard depicting the Austin Woman's Club building known as Chateau Bellevue. Built in 1874, Chateau Bellevue is romantic and elegant, with French Romanesque arches, beautiful courtyard grounds, a spacious ballroom, ornate hand-carved woodwork and stunning stained glass windows. Chateau Bellevue has been the headquarters of the Austin Woman's Club since 1929 and the Junior Austin Woman’s Club from 1940- 2019. The mansion was built by Harvey and Catherine North in 1874. The Norths were newcomers to Austin when construction began. It didn’t take long for Austin society to realize that the Norths were wealthy and cosmopolitan. Before coming to Austin, Harvey North was a merchant in New Orleans. He took his family on long visits to Europe, giving credence to the idea that Bellevue’s castle imagery evoked European castles. By 1876, North’s fortunes in Austin real estate began to falter. Just two years after building “Bellevue Place”, it was up for sale. Catherine North finally sold the mansion to Augusta Gaines and William Pendleton in 1881. The mansion sold for only half the amount it cost the Norths to build. In 1892, Major Ira Evans bought Bellevue Place and turned the home into a castle, with the help of noted Texas architect, Alfred Giles. Starting with North’s wooden porch (replaced with limestone in the 1920s) Giles extended the home toward the west with a series of graceful rusticated limestone arches. He fortified the rooftops with crenelations and added a side entrance of exquisitely carved limestone.

Postcard showing the International and Great Northern Railroad Depot at 222 Congress Avenue. Horse-drawn carts are in the street in front of the building.

Verso of postcard of the Austin dam dated 1899 addressed to Julia M. Pease

Black and white postcard with a view of the Austin Dam before it failed in 1900. The Austin Dam failure, also referred to as "The Great Granite Dam" failure, was a catastrophic dam failure near Austin, Texas that killed several dozen people in 1900. The destruction of the dam drained the Lake McDonald reservoir and left the city of Austin without electrical power for a number of months. The city managed to complete the great granite dam in 1893 at a site just northwest of town. Standing sixty feet high and stretching nearly 1200 feet across the river, it was then one of the largest dams in the world. A. P. Wooldridge and other boosters of the project had originally envisioned harnessing the river to drive mill machinery directly, but the engineers they called in soon steered them toward the new technology of the day, and the powerhouse erected on the east bank of the river was filled with electrical dynamos that supplied current to Austin’s new network of electric streetcars, as well as to the “moonlight towers” the city acquired in 1895. The shores of the lake that formed behind the dam—named “Lake McDonald” for John McDonald, the mayor who had whipped up support for the project—attracted new residents and developers, while the waters of the lake itself drew those seeking respite from the Texas heat.

Front of a black and white postcard documenting the Austin Dam in 1899 addressed to Julia M. Pease

Postcard with view of East 6th Street Austin, Texas. You can see streetcars and people riding horses in the street.