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 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
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
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
The Cumberland road one and one-half miles west of Brownsville, Pennsy...
Photograph shows rural area with dirt road; few homes scattered along the road. Copyright 1910 by John Kennedy Lacock, Amity, Pa. Copyright registration title: Cumberland road: 1 1/2 miles west of Brownsville, Pa.
A group of women marching in a parade. Office of War Information Photo...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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.
A group of people walking down a street. Office of War Information Pho...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A black and white photo of a man in a hat. Office of War Information P...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of men riding on the backs of horses. Office of War Informatio...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Triple L Club dance
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dance for enlisted men, El Ran...
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Guardians of the peace. Dance ...
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. Tourists at Chamber of Commerce
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of men marching down a street. Office of War Information Photo...
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
High school band, Charro Days parade, Brownsville, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Liberty Belle and escort at da...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A group of people walking down a street holding hands. Office of War I...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of people walking down a street. Office of War Information Pho...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A group of people walking down a street. Office of War Information Pho...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A couple of people that are standing in the street. Office of War Info...
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
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.
Children's parade, Charro Days fiesta, Brownsville, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mexican general and American colonel shake hands after review of troop...
Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Brownsville market, Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, New York]
NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Bowman's Castle, Barn, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette Co...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a castle, view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
A portion of a colorful street mural in downtown Brownsville, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Lucia Quezada and Al Garza, Jr., 2002. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's Ame... More
The Stillman House Museum, among the oldest surviving structures in Br...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The home was built in 1850 by Henry Miller, owner of the Miller Hotel in downtown Brownsville. He rented it to his partner, Charles S... 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
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
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brown...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-C Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1800 S... 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
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
Capture of Genl. La Vega by the gallant Capt. May, at the Battle of Re...
No. 440, no. 250. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 901
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
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville...
Significance: The Lauer/Gerhard farmstead is a well-preserved example of a Pennsylvania German family farm. Its layout illustrates socio-historical continuity and spatial integrity through nearly 200 years, and... 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
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, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia
Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Valdez House, 815 East Fourteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...
Significance: The Valdez House, built in 1910, is a superb example of the type of small cottage typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The distinguishing feature of this sm... 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
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
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
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
Dundore Farm, State Route 183 & Church Road vicinity, Penn Township (...
Significance: This is a good example of a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German family farm. Although once very prosperous, the farm failed to adjust to agricultural modernization in the late nineteenth and ea... More