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A History of Music in Austin
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Images from 1944
Negro War Recreation Council Building on East Avenue (now I-35), 1944.
[
Interior view of the Negro War Recreation Council Building with 3 women and 3 Soldiers around a table
], photograph, January 6, 1944; accessed December 7, 2020, University of North Texas Libraries,
The Portal to Texas History
; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.
Appears in…
“The New Audiences: Demographics in Austin, 1930-1950” from The Wild Side of Life: The Rise of the Honky Tonks, 1940-1950