Soldiers at fort, Brownsville, Tex - stereocsopic card
Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Harvesters in bean field
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Brownsville, Texas. Retired army officer registering men for Selective...
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dance for enlisted men
Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crowds watching children's parade, part of Charro Days celebration, Br...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandidos
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of men riding horses down a street. Office of War Information ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A black and white photo of a group of women. Office of War Information...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Seeing the show at El Rancho G...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A white tiger relaxes at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The zoological garden, which opened in 1971, is named after Gladys Porter, the daughter of Earl C. Sams, former president of the J.C.... More
By design there is a gap in the United States-Mexican border-security ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Scene along a winding, narrow lake in Brownsville, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, part of his "Wings of the City...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brow...
Survey number: HABS TX-3139 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Dorsey House, 113 Cherry Avenue, West Brownsville, Washington County, ...
Significance: Good example of a well preserved 18th century house. Survey number: HABS PA-5176
La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...
Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More
Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...
Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More
Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...
Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction
Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), B...
Significance: The Neale House was built before 1869 as the home of Wiliam Neale, one of Brownsville's best-known pioneer citizens. The house resembles the double log houses and frame houses erected by early Ang... More
Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...
Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Old Brownsville Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River & Water Street at S...
Significance: The Pennsylvania truss bridge spans the Monongahela River between Brownsville and West Brownsville. The bridge is heavily constructed of built-up members and eye-bars, and is a significant landmar... More
Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...
Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More
Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction
Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Rout...
Significance: The Matsell Cottage apparently dates to the 1850s. It is one of only two known nineteenth century log houses still standing in White County. As an example of a simple variety of the traditional Mi... More
Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...
Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More
Brownsville, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...
Significance: The Cross House is one of the best examples of the house form most typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These small wood frame structures are characterized ... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, ...
Significance: The Southern Pacific RR Passenger Station, built ca. 1929, is a particularly fine example of Spanish Mission Revival architecture. Its sharply defined form and open site make it one of Brownsville... More
Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...
Significance: Designed and built in 1912 by Tomas Tijerina, this house is notable for its fine brick detailing, characteristic of Rio Grande Valley architecture. The unusual buttresses were added to help the ho... More
Brownsville parlor, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...
Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More
El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...
Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More
Garza House, 1009 East Thirteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...
Significance: Built before 1894, 1009 East 13th Street resembles creole cottages in New Orleans which were once closely associated with Brownsville through shipping. The steeply pitched roof punctuated by dorme... More
Monongahela Railway Company Shops, Water Street & Seventeenth Street, ...
Significance: The Monongahela Railway Company Shops reflect the support needs of a railroad significant in the coal, coke, and steel industries of Southwest Pennsylvania in the twentieth century, particularly i... More
Monongahela Railway Company Shops, Water Street & Seventeenth Street, ...
Significance: The Monongahela Railway Company Shops reflect the support needs of a railroad significant in the coal, coke, and steel industries of Southwest Pennsylvania in the twentieth century, particularly i... More
From the business section, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Photograph shows streetcar on street of business district; children and adults attempting to board; people standing on sidewalk outside of shops.
Brownsville, Outbuildings, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox...
Survey number: HABS VA-810-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. A row of miners' homes in the Brownsville se...
Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Harvesters in bean field
Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A group of young girls marching down a street. Office of War Informati...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A group of people walking down a street. Office of War Information Pho...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Children
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of people riding horses down a street. Office of War Informati...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A group of people walking down a street holding flags. Office of War I...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Crowds watching children's parade, part of Charro Days celebration, Br...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A group of people standing around a truck. Office of War Information P...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Officer's dance, El Rancho Gra...
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A group of people walking down a street holding flags. Office of War I...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Sociedad Benito Juarez. Mexican section
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Cowhands prepare breakfast at the King Ranch located between Corpus Ch...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. King Ranch is one of the world's largest ranches. The 8... More
An up-close look at a giraffe at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The zoological garden, which opened in 1971, is named after Gladys Porter, the daughter of Earl C. Sams, former president of the J.C.... More
An up-close look at a giraffe at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The zoological garden, which opened in 1971, is named after Gladys Porter, the daughter of Earl C. Sams, former president of the J.C.... More
A tortoise at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The zoological garden, which opened in 1971, is named after Gladys Porter, the daughter of Earl C. Sams, former president of the J.C.... More
A tortoise at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The zoological garden, which opened in 1971, is named after Gladys Porter, the daughter of Earl C. Sams, former president of the J.C.... More
Creatures of all sorts and dimensions appear at Bobz World, a kid-orie...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Gazelles and giraffes on a moat-protected island at the Gladys Porter ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The zoological garden, which opened in 1971, is named after Gladys Porter, the daughter of Earl C. Sams, former president of the J.C.... More
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brow...
Survey number: HABS TX-3139 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...
Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More
Brownsville marsh, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...
Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More
La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...
Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More
La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...
Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More
El Globo Chiquito, 1054 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron Count...
Significance: El Globo Chiquito (Laiseca Store) is an excellent example of a modest, late nineteenth-century wood frame store. Built ca. 1887, the store's simple but rare twin-gabled form is relieved by shutter... More
Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron C...
Significance: The Field-Pacheo Complex is a commercial and residential complex covering half a block. The two-story, brick corner Field-Pacheco building was built after 1894 as a combination store and residence... More
Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), B...
Significance: The Neale House was built before 1869 as the home of Wiliam Neale, one of Brownsville's best-known pioneer citizens. The house resembles the double log houses and frame houses erected by early Ang... More
Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...
Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...
Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... More
Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...
Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More
Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction
Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction
Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, East Sixth & East Elizabeth Street...
Significance: Sacred Heart Church was the first Catholic church for an English-speaking congregation in Brownsville. Built in 1913 by San Antonio architect Frederick B. Gaenslen, the church counted many of Brow... More
Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...
Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, West Brownsville Junction Bridge, Spanning Mono...
Significance: This bridge's 401'-long Petit through truss is typical of long spans required on Monongahela River navigation. Its approaches feature an early installation of a reinforced concrete slab floor. Un... More
Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...
Significance: The Cross House is one of the best examples of the house form most typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These small wood frame structures are characterized ... More
Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Camero...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-1 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction
Garza House, 1009 East Thirteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...
Significance: Built before 1894, 1009 East 13th Street resembles creole cottages in New Orleans which were once closely associated with Brownsville through shipping. The steeply pitched roof punctuated by dorme... More
Monongahela Railway Company Shops, Water Street & Seventeenth Street, ...
Significance: The Monongahela Railway Company Shops reflect the support needs of a railroad significant in the coal, coke, and steel industries of Southwest Pennsylvania in the twentieth century, particularly i... More
Scenes on the Rio Grande / from sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. B...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
On the Rio Grande - Mexican cannon and "doubled" guard threatening the...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1876 Jan. 1). This record contains unverified data from caption card.
U.S. Army - 4th Infantry arriving in Brownsville, Texas
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Army, U.S. Units; Geogr.; U.S. Hist 1916.
Brownsville, Belmont Avenue pushcart market
NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
A black and white photo of a group of soldiers - FSA / Office of War I...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Brownsville, Texas. Mexican open air market
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A man and a woman standing on a ferris wheel. Office of War Informatio...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ferris wheel, luna park, attractions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mexican general and American commanding officer at Brownsville, Texas ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Committee member at El Rancho ...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Girls
Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Children's parade, Charro Days, Brownsville, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.