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aw! and awesome resource.
DH and I were out yesterday looking at apartments. One lobby had these awesome photos of Austin back in the 1920s, 1930s, etc. A photo of Barton Creek with ladies wearing the "old style" suits, The Capitol with Model T Fords parked right out front, Congress Ave with a dirt road, etc. DH loves stuff like that so he asked where they found those and the lady working happend to know that the owner got them at some "Austin Historical Something"....
So after a bit of googling we found the Austin History Center: www.cityofaustin.org/library/ahc and they sell old photos of Austin to the public. You can buy some of their "favorites" from their website. DH and I decided to go down there today (any excuse to go downtown on a beautiful day!) and see what else they had.
Come to find out they had hundreds and hundreds and hudreds of photos from the 1800s through today of Austin and you can pick whatever you want and they will have them printed for you in any size. DH and I have been desperate for art for our living room and we love photography so we went hog wild!!!
We ended up buying 4 prints, each 16''x20'' and we'll get them matted and framed to hang together over our couch. One is of the Paramount Theatre in the 1930s with the old cars parked outside, One of the 360 bridge, One of Congress and the Capitol at night in 1920, and One of the UT tower in the 1930s! Then we bought a 24''x36'' print of the 360 bridge to have matted and framed and we plan to hang over our bed. We ended up spending way more money than we anticipated - but what a great thing to offer and I'm happy that it goes back to the Library system in Austin.
Out of the 5 we bought, only one is featured on their website:
but they have other great ones like this:
The people working at the History Center were awesome and we can't wait to get out photographs displayed!!!
Re: aw! and awesome resource.
Thanks for posting! I hadn't heard of this, but we definitely have a few bare rooms in our house that this would be perfect for! ***running off to website to check it out now ***.
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ha, nice, aren't archives awesome?!
(I'm an archivist; it's an unsung profession so I'm loving this post!)