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Favorite Photographs

We have a selection of customer and staff favorite photographs which are available for sale in our Reading Room. These ready-to-go prints are 8x10 inches and are printed on Ultra-Premium Glossy Epson photo paper. They come with a caption printed on a separate sheet. Each print is $30 plus sales tax ($2.48). Click on a thumbnail below to view a larger image.

 

House floating down Colorado River during the 1935 flood.   Exterior of the Night Hawk restaurant with the University of Texas tower in the background.   Overflow crowd at the University of Texas Memorial Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, 1924 for the annual UT versus Texas A&M football game.

 

Women standing in front of the Travis County Courthouse on June 26, 1918, after registering to vote.   Ben Garza, shown in the center wearing an apron, started his meat market business in 1908 when he was nineteen years old.   Beer trucks belonging to the Lightsey Carroll Company Distributors parked in front of the Texas Capitol.

 

Miriam A. 'Ma' Ferguson sitting at a desk in 1925.   Congress Avenue looking north toward the Capitol from between 4th and 5th Streets (circa 1910).   Driskill Hotel at the corner of 6th and Brazos Streets.

 

Looking north up Congress Avenue toward the Capitol Building from 5th Street; taken in 1913. Includes a streetcar.   Treaty Oak, a live oak tree located in Baylor Park between 5th and 6th Streets.   Two twisters hit Austin May 4, 1922.

 

Varsity Theater built in 1936 on the "Drag" in Austin. Night image with lighted blade signage.   Ms. Mandy sitting while smoking a pipe.   Deep Eddy surrounded by trees in 1925.

 

Exterior of Scholz Garden with August Scholz standing in front of the building.   Group of Texas Rangers posed for a photograph in 1892.   Goddess of Liberty statue in 1888, before it was installed on top of the Texas Capitol.

 

Exterior of the 9th Street entrance of the Austin History Center.building   Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife Claudia “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson wearing cowboy hats and leather jackets.   A view from 19th Street (now MLK) looking north up University Drive toward the UT Tower.

 

Mount Bonnell with a view of the Colorado River in the background.   People swimming at Barton Springs.   Group of African Americans on June 19, 1900 celebration of Emancipation Day.

 

Entrance of Hyde Park subdivision with a street car and horse and buggy in the forefront.   Illustration of Austin from 1844 including buildings.   Congress Avenue at night looking north toward the Capitol. Seems to have been taken several floors up from the Scarborough Building at 6th and Congress.

 

Cowboy doing a rope trick on the back of a horse.   Capitol in snowfall on February 21, 1964.   Exterior Paramount Theater at night with the blade sign lit.

Portrait of Jane McCallum.   Portrait of O. Henry.   Moonlight Tower at the corner of 9th and Guadalupe Streets in 1945.

  Bull Creek with low waterfall and trees.   People deplaning on the tarmac at the Robert Mueller Airport with the control tower in the background.