Elgin-Butler Brick Company drawings, 1959-1980.

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Elgin-Butler Brick Company drawings, 1959-1980.

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The Elgin-Butler Brick Company, with central operations at a 1,000-acre site in Butler, five miles east of Elgin, and sales headquarters in Austin, is a fifth-generation family-owned business that ships bricks nationwide and internationally. Approximately 660 sheets of drawings of projects for which Elgin-Butler Brick supplied brick materials from 1959-1980 reveal the company's varied brick designs and diversity of clients.

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"The Elgin-Butler Brick Company, with central operations at a 1,000-acre site in Butler, five miles east of Elgin, and sales headquarters in Austin, is a fifth-generation family-owned business that ships bricks nationwide and internationally. In 1871 the Texas and New Orleans Railroad arrived at the site in Bastrop County, and the community that grew up came to be known as Butler, after an Irish immigrant bricklayer, Michael Butler, who was the first to make bricks from the nearby c...