The Texas Collection, Baylor University
Aerial of Downtown Waco and the Liberty Building, c. 1950
This aerial photo from circa 1950 shows the restored Liberty Building (corner of Sixth and Austin Avenue) in the lower center portion of the photograph. Note that across the street from the Alico Building (tallest in picture) stands the R.T. Dennis Furniture store (white color) and to the far right, the Tom Padgitt Building on Austin and Franklin Avenues, respectively. The two latter structures were some of many destroyed in the May 1953 Waco tornado.
Digital image scanned from a (cropped) 4x5 negative located in the Fred Marlar records, folder 3026, at The Texas Collection, Baylor University. Rights: Some rights reserved. Please see our Duplication Fee Schedule and email txcoll@baylor.edu if a high-resolution file of this image is needed. Visit www.baylor.edu/lib/texas/ for more information about our collections.
Aerial of Downtown Waco and the Liberty Building, c. 1950
This aerial photo from circa 1950 shows the restored Liberty Building (corner of Sixth and Austin Avenue) in the lower center portion of the photograph. Note that across the street from the Alico Building (tallest in picture) stands the R.T. Dennis Furniture store (white color) and to the far right, the Tom Padgitt Building on Austin and Franklin Avenues, respectively. The two latter structures were some of many destroyed in the May 1953 Waco tornado.
Digital image scanned from a (cropped) 4x5 negative located in the Fred Marlar records, folder 3026, at The Texas Collection, Baylor University. Rights: Some rights reserved. Please see our Duplication Fee Schedule and email txcoll@baylor.edu if a high-resolution file of this image is needed. Visit www.baylor.edu/lib/texas/ for more information about our collections.