urn:taro:utexas.cah.00960 Hawkins (Jerry A.) Photograph Collection, 1922-1960s Finding aid written in English. 4/22/08 Encoded with XMetal 3 by Linda Peterson according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions Descriptive Summary Hawkins (Jerry A.) Hawkins (Jerry A.) Photograph Collection 1922-1960s Materials are in English. 99-120; 2001-206 1 photo album, ca.1400 35mm color transparencies Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Access Restrictions:

Transparencies restricted due to format. Please contact repository for more information.

 Preferred Citation:

Hawkins (Jerry E.) Photograph Collection, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

 Creator Sketch:

Jerry A. Hawkins was born in Austin, Texas on October 23, 1922. From 1949 to 1976 he was a scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.

Scope and Contents:

Collection is in two parts. The first consists of one photo album of images of Austin children, primarily Jerry Hawkins, in different outfits (cowboy, sailor, clown, etc.), and with different outdoor toys (car, tricycles, bow and arrow, fishing pole, ball, kite, wagon, dolls, horse, blocks, train engine, real dog, scooter, book satchel, pistol and holster, real cannons). The second comprises slides taken by Hawkins at sites around the U.S. during the 1950's and 1960's including: Hemisfair in San Antonio; San Francisco; Albuquerque; Los Angeles; University of Texas Power Show in Washington and New York (1952); Oklahoma; Natchez, Mississippi; California; Arkansas; Louisiana; Florida; Auburn, Alabama; Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee, Redstone Arsenal in Alabama; and Holloman Air Development Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico

 Detailed Description of the Collection Photographs 3Y501c Photograph album Slides [restricted] 3Z319b California vacation, undated 3Z319c Albuquerque, Seattle, Texas (Hemisfair), 1960-1964 and undated

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 3Z319c Arnold Engineering Development Center, Redstone Arsenal, and Holloman Air Development Center, undated 3Z319c Auburn, Louisiana, 1962 3Z319c California, 1956-1967 3Z319c Florida, 1957-1960 3Z319c Louisiana vacation, undated 3Z319c Oklahoma trip, undated 3Z319c Natchez, Mississippi, 1959 3Z319c University of Texas Power Show, 1952

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 3Z319c Unidentified