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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[History Event Documents - Mathews Metz Centennial Event]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=School--Elementary--Metz%0D%0AAustin+History+Center+%0D%0A100+Years%0D%0APictures">School--Elementary--Metz<br />
Austin History Center <br />
100 Years<br />
Pictures</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Folder with various History Event-related documents from the Mathews Metz Centennial Event. Includes the t-shirt design for the event, which features the Metz cobra (mascot). ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=January+2016">January 2016</a>]]></dcterms:date>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://metzarchive.org/items/show/431">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hundred Years Anniversary Artwork ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=School--Elementary--Metz%0D%0AStudent+Activities+in+Art%0D%0ACrafts%0D%0AAnniversary+">School--Elementary--Metz<br />
Student Activities in Art<br />
Crafts<br />
Anniversary </a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Student artwork celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Metz Elementary]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Metz+students">Metz students</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2016">2016</a>]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image ]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagenes Instantáneas &#039;81- Photography Exhibit Program]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=School-Elementary-Metz%3B+Photography+in+education">School-Elementary-Metz; Photography in education</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Program of events for the 1981 school photography exhibit entitled &quot;Imagenes Instantáneas&quot;. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Galeria Tonantzin]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=November+15-+December+15%2C+1981">November 15- December 15, 1981</a>]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Images Depicting Blue Tiles on the Outside of the School Building]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=School+Building">School Building</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[These images depict blue painted tiles on the outside of the newer Metz school building.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unknown">Unknown</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Image]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Images of the Outside of the School Building]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=School+Building">School Building</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[These images show different angles of the school building from the outside.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Image]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Inaugural Metz Building]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Though the school was initially started in 1916, the first Metz school building was not finalized for use until 1919.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unknown">Unknown</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1916">1916</a>]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[n/a]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Info Related to School Construction 1991]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elementary+school+buildings">Elementary school buildings</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This is a yellow folder with black text that reads &quot;*Info related to school construction 1991&quot;. It has multiple pieces of text crossed out, and a white label that is crossed out. It contains a floppy disk, and multiple large building plans which include: <br />
Site Plan<br />
Drainage and Erosion/Sedimentation Control Plan<br />
Irrigation Plan<br />
Grading/Tree and Natural Area Protection Plan]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Ponciano+Morales+III%2C+Clovis+Heimsath%2C+I.T.+Gonzalez+Engineers">Ponciano Morales III, Clovis Heimsath, I.T. Gonzalez Engineers</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=March+1991">March 1991</a>]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://metzarchive.org/items/show/803">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[James Lemuel Metz Photos Feb 2023]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elementary+school+buildings--United+States">Elementary school buildings--United States</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Photos taken of Metz Elementary School by James Lemuel in its empty state after being closed]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=James+Lemuel">James Lemuel</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=February+2023">February 2023</a>]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Photograph]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[James Lemuel Thesis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Undergraduate+Thesis%0D%0ASchool+Closes%0D%0AGentrification%0D%0ASchool+Segregation">Undergraduate Thesis<br />
School Closes<br />
Gentrification<br />
School Segregation</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An undergraduate thesis from April 25, 2023 - &quot;In 2019, the Austin Independent School District voted to close four elementary schools. The decision had already come under fire from local community members following its announcement. While the district spoke of declining enrollment and increasing educational costs as the driving force behind the closures, families and staff at the closing schools spoke of community and shared history as some of the main reasons for being against the closure. This study examines both these claims to compare how district officials and school community members employ different value systems and metrics to evaluate schools, using Metz Elementary, one of the four closed schools, and Sanchez Elementary, the school that Metz was consolidated into, as a case study. I conducted interviews with former Metz teachers and other community members to build my findings.<br />
<br />
First, I explore how Austin ISD justified the closures, focusing on their use of quantitative and financial metrics to manufacture the necessity for school closure. Then, using my interview findings, I examine how school community members develop very different views of schools, rooted in social and physical aspects, that inform their own responses to school closure. I end with a brief discussion on the racial implications of Metz’s closure and a look to the future of Sanchez Elementary&quot; (Lemuel).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=James+Lemuel">James Lemuel</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=April+25%2C+2023">April 25, 2023</a>]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Janice Lowry and Tom Robinson Talking in Peace Garden]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=School--Elementary--Metz">School--Elementary--Metz</a>]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Former first grade Metz Elementary School teacher Janice Lowry and her husband, Tom Robinson, talk to each other in the Metz Peace Garden. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Spring+2002">Spring 2002</a>]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Janice Lowry]]></dcterms:contributor>
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