I was just curious if anyone knew of or had any pictures of the Colorado River before it got dammed up by LCRA.

I have mental pictures - saw the Austin dam go down in 1935 and the Montopolis bridge go down.

Go to the Austin library site - believe they have all the pictures available at that time.

Always like these pics...1935

Wow

It's crazy to believe that is possible when you see the current state of some of the Highland Lakes (i.e. Buchanan in particular)

My usual rec is earthexplorer.usgs.gov.
It requires a free login to initiate downloads. However that area doesnt seem to have any available aerials of that age.

The next best bet is probably the national archives. This can take a lot of research but there are tons of pre-war reconnaissance training missions that captured aerials of what at the time were very rural areas.

I assume above that you want vertical/mapping style photos.

Side note....if you can find aerials like I describe above they almost certainly will be unrectified and will have end lap and side lap appropriate for stereo viewing. Such images would be quite striking in that area.

This was just posted on facebook:

Colorado at Austin

^ great pics !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=colorado+river&t=dc_subject&fq=dc_type%3Aimage_photo

From UNT site.