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The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skyscraper

The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... More

Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Moses Austin(1761-1821) was a pioneer settler of Texas who, in 1808, founded the town of Herculaneum, MO, the first Anglo American to... More

The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of France kept a mission for two years during the period when Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1846. As the name suggests, it is now a historical house museum

The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of Fran...

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

Painting, "The Battle of San Jacinto," hanging in the Senate Chamber of the Texas State Capitol in Austin

Painting, "The Battle of San Jacinto," hanging in the Senate Chamber o...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Henry McArdle, 1895 (Source: tsl.texas.gov, 2014) Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. High... More

Swimming pool at Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that occupies the 1900 Goodall Wooten House

Swimming pool at Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that o...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built by local doctor and benefactor Goodall H. Wooten and his wife Ella and was noted for its Classical Revival architecture ... More

Courtroom eagle at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Courtroom eagle at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Lobby, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Lobby, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Courtroom door at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Courtroom door at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Side exterior, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Side exterior, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

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

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

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Stairs, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Stairs, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Adams House, built by W. T. Adams, the chief clerk of the Texas Department of Agriculture in 1911 as a one-story, L- shaped bungalow, was remodeled in Colonial Revival style in the 1930s in the Hyde Park neighborhood, just north of the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. The home became a bed-and-breakfast inn

Adams House, built by W. T. Adams, the chief clerk of the Texas Depart...

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Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Marble statue of David "Davy" Crockett, by Elizabet Ney, unveiled on this spot in the Texas Capitol South Foyer in 1903. Austin, Texas

Marble statue of David "Davy" Crockett, by Elizabet Ney, unveiled on t...

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Stairs from above. U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Stairs from above. U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... 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. The cove molding and mantels with mirrors date to the Joseph D. Sayers Administration, 1899-1903. Built in 1854, the building was des... More

Light at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Light at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

The historic Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin, Texas. A Romanesque-style building completed in 1886, the Driskill is one of the best-known hotels in Texas

The historic Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin, Texas. A Romanesque-st...

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Courtroom. U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Courtroom. U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

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

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

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Courtroom gate at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Courtroom gate at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Hall detail, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Hall detail, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... 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...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that occupies the 1900 Goodall Wooten House

Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that occupies the 1900 ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built by local doctor and benefactor Goodall H. Wooten and his wife Ella and was noted for its Classical Revival architecture ... More

The 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

The 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the...

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 old Paramount Theatre, left, and the adjacent, newer State Theater in downtown Austin, Texas

The old Paramount Theatre, left, and the adjacent, newer State Theater...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally called the "Majestic," the larger and more famous Paramount was erected in 1915 by Austin businessman Ernest Nalle, the so... More

Part of the back-entry hallway of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

Part of the back-entry hallway of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Aust...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Part of the 1914 addition, this area's width of this changed slightly during another restoration completed in 2012. Built in 1854, th... More

Outbuildings behind the William Braxton Barr House, a historic farmhouse built about 1898 in Austin, Texas

Outbuildings behind the William Braxton Barr House, a historic farmhou...

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

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

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

Painting, "The Settlement of Austin's Colony," by Henry Arthur McArdle, in the House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol. Stephen F. Austin is shown rallying his colonists against the Karankawa Indians around 1824, as an unnamed scout comes to the cabin door to sound the alarm

Painting, "The Settlement of Austin's Colony," by Henry Arthur McArdle...

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 1887 Moore-Flack House in Austin, Texas

The 1887 Moore-Flack House in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The first owner of the Victorian house, John M. Moore, was Texas secretary of state. Laura A. E. Flack, a prominent Austin businesswo... More

One of the original residences that has not been gentrified in Clarksville, an eclectic neighborhood in West Central Austin, Texas. The settlement was founded in the 1870s by freed African-American slaves

One of the original residences that has not been gentrified in Clarksv...

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The House of Representatives Chamber in the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas. Behind the Speaker's desk hangs an original flag from the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto

The House of Representatives Chamber in the Texas Capitol, Austin, Tex...

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 Daniel H. Caswell House in Austin, Texas

The Daniel H. Caswell House in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Daniel H. Caswell came to Austin from Nashville, Tennessee, about 1895. He purchased a cotton oil manufacturing company, bought and s... More

The William T. Caswell House in Austin, Texas. Caswell was a prominent Austin cotton merchant

The William T. Caswell House in Austin, Texas. Caswell was a prominent...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Standing next door to an even-grander house owned by his father, Daniel H. Caswell, this house was constructed circa 1904 by A.O. Wat... More

Painting of James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas, hanging in House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol

Painting of James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas, ha...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Freeman Thorpe, 1907. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... 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

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dating to 1939. In 1969 it moved to this location, which had operated as Sammie's Drive-In, Eli's Lounge, and Picante's Mexican restaurant

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dati...

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

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

The Daniel H. Caswell House in Austin, Texas

The Daniel H. Caswell House in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Daniel H. Caswell came to Austin from Nashville, Tennessee, about 1895. He purchased a cotton oil manufacturing company, bought and s... More

One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin, Texas

One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in dow...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Two of the friezes are inscribed with the dates 1885 and 1915. Between them is a frieze with the name Joseph Nalle. The theater was b... More

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lake Austin, a thin and winding reservoir created in 1939 by the damming of the Colorado River, not to be confused with the Colorado ... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lake Austin, a thin and winding reservoir created in 1939 by the damming of the Colorado River, not to be confused with the Colorado ... More

The Conservatory, part of the 1914 addition on the west side of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The Conservatory, part of the 1914 addition on the west side of the Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The room stands where the original back porch was located. Built in 1854, the mansion was designed by prominent architect Abner Cook ... More

The State Dining Room, looking towards the west wall of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The State Dining Room, looking towards the west wall of the Texas Gove...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This wall was the back of the house until the 1914 addition. Built in 1854, the mansion was designed by prominent architect Abner Coo... More

The Elisabet Ney Mansion, a museum located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, Texas

The Elisabet Ney Mansion, a museum located in the Hyde Park neighborho...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1893, for German-born sculptor Elisabet Ney, the limestone building is singular piece of vernacular architecture. After ... More

Part of the back-entry hallway of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

Part of the back-entry hallway of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Aust...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Part of the 1914 addition, this area's width of this changed slightly during another restoration completed in 2012. Built in 1854, th... More

Marble statue of Sam Houston by Elizabet Ney, unveiled on this spot in the Texas Capitol South Foyer in 1903. Austin, Texas

Marble statue of Sam Houston by Elizabet Ney, unveiled on this spot 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 Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives & Library Building in Austin, Texas

The Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives & Library Building in Austin, Tex...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was dedicated on April 10, 1962. Built of granite from the same quarry that supplied materials for the Texas State Capit... More

Artistic canopy at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

Artistic canopy at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly known as the AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria, it was the home of Clara Driscoll, whose philanthropy in 1903 prevented the sal... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886, is (in 2014) the oldest operating hotel in Austin and one of the best-known hotels i... More

Two of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in downtown Austin, Texas, from the mid-1850s to 1910

Two of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in down...

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

One of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in downtown Austin, Texas, from the mid-1850s to 1910

One of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in down...

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

Outdoor sconce on Battle Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas

Outdoor sconce on Battle Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. Au...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed in 1909-10 by the New York architect Cass Gilbert, Battle Hall is (as of 2014) the only academic building on campus listed o... More

Sculpture in the swimming-pool courtyard of Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that occupies the 1900 Goodall Wooten House

Sculpture in the swimming-pool courtyard of Hotel Ella, a boutique hot...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sculptor: name not given. It was built by local doctor and benefactor Goodall H. Wooten and his wife Ella and was noted for its Class... More

View at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

View at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two site...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly known as the AMOA- Arthouse at Laguna Gloria, it was the home of Clara Driscoll, whose philanthropy in 1903 prevented the sa... More

The Daniel H. Caswell House in Austin, Texas

The Daniel H. Caswell House in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Daniel H. Caswell came to Austin from Nashville, Tennessee, about 1895. He purchased a cotton oil manufacturing company, bought and s... More

Ruins of Salado College, a small college that operated in Salado, Texas, a town between Waco and Austin, from 1860 to 1885

Ruins of Salado College, a small college that operated in Salado, Texa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The "college" taught courses from the elementary-school level up to college level and held many classes in people's homes. The proper... More

View at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

View at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two site...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly known as the AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria, it was the home of Clara Driscoll, whose philanthropy in 1903 prevented the sal... More

The State Theater in Austin, Texas

The State Theater in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Orginally built in 1935 by Interstate Circuit Inc. The theater was converted from an existing building by architect W. Scott Dunne. C... More

Ruins of Salado College, a small college that operated in Salado, Texas, a town between Waco and Austin, from 1860 to 1885

Ruins of Salado College, a small college that operated in Salado, Texa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The "college" taught courses from the elementary-school level up to college level and held many classes in people's homes. The proper... More

Artwork on the grounds of the French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of France kept a mission for two years during the period when Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1846. As the name suggests, it is now a historical house museum

Artwork on the grounds of the French Legation Museum, 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

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lake Austin, a thin and winding reservoir created in 1939 by the damming of the Colorado River, not to be confused with the Colorado ... 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

A remarkably detailed and ornate artistic relief considering its location: on the facade of a trailer-park eatery in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood below the Texas capital city

A remarkably detailed and ornate artistic relief considering its locat...

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 Stagecoach Inn in Salado, a small town on the historic Chisholm cattle-drive trail between Waco and Austin in Texas

The Stagecoach Inn in Salado, a small town on the historic Chisholm ca...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Constructed during the 1860s, the building was known as the Salado Hotel and as "Shady Villa" before its current name was adopted in ... 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

One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin, Texas

One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in dow...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Two of the friezes are inscribed with the dates 1885 and 1915. Between them is a frieze with the name Joseph Nalle. The theater was b... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

A view of Lake Austin from Mount Bonnell, above Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lake Austin, a thin and winding reservoir created in 1939 by the damming of the Colorado River, not to be confused with the Colorado ... More

Outdoor art installation at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

Outdoor art installation at the 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Glo...

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 Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

The Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Elijah E. Myers and completed in 1888 as the winning design from a national competition, features structural ex... More

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Aus...

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 Front Entry Hall, with original staircase, in the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The Front Entry Hall, with original staircase, in the Texas Governor's...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The door next to the staircase is the location of the original back door and now opens to the 1914 addition to the building. Built in... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... 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

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.

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

A Texas-sized obstacle at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas. We cannot confirm that it includes the rear portion of a Texas armadillo

A Texas-sized obstacle at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austi...

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

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