A black and white photo of two people in a field, Cotton weighing near...
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
Side of barn of Mexican day laborer with pigeon cote. Near Santa Maria...
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Ice for sale. Harlingen, Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Girl in a Tiawana headdress
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A black and white photo of a lighthouse, Port Isabel, Texas. Abandoned...
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. Charro Days fiesta. Member of local businessmen's ...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Clinic pati...
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
Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...
Significance: Stillman House, built in the 1850s, is one of the oldest residences in Brownsville. The house is said to have been the residence of Charles Stillman who owned and developed the original townsite o... More
Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...
Significance: Stillman House, built in the 1850s, is one of the oldest residences in Brownsville. The house is said to have been the residence of Charles Stillman who owned and developed the original townsite o... More
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
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
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
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
James L. Landrum House, South side of U.S. Highway 281 (Military Highw...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The James L. Landrum House is both architecturally and historically significant at the local level. Completed in 1902, the house is historically significant as the residence o... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alonso Building, 510-514 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...
Significance: The Alonso Building is an interesting example of a brick, two-story, corner commercial structure in Brownsville. Built around 1890, it still retains its two-story gallery which creates a covered w... More
Kitchen table and stove of white migrant camp near Harlingen, Texas. S...
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
Camp of white migrants in the mesquite near Harlingen, Texas
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Corner in tent home of white migrants. Near Harlingen, Texas
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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.
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
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
Sabal palm trees on the grounds of the Rabb Plantation Home, southeast...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The area, including a Queen Anne-style mansion built by owner Frank Rabb, is part of palm and birding sanctuary, and palms, harvested... More
A lone palm tree borders a rich produce field in Cameron County, Texas...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
Southern Pacific-Cotton Belt, Freight Agents Office, Union Pacific Mil...
Significance: Located on the south side of Harlingen, Texas, the Southern Pacific (SP) Railroad's Freight Agent's Office is a one-story stucco building with a Spanish tile roof. Designed as a vernacular inter... 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
Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Children of white migrants. Harlingen, Texas
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
Child of white migrant worker building fire in heating stove in tent h...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Home and yard of Mexican day laborer who works in vegetable fields nea...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Son of white migrant worker putting on overalls in tent near Harlingen...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Son of white migrant worker near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
White migrant and wife repairing clutch in their car near Harlingen, T...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Enlisted men at El Rancho Gran...
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. Charro Days fiesta. Enlisted men at El Rancho Gran...
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. Mexican market
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandidos
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Hooking a r...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Stillman house, the home of James Stillman, owner ...
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
Gulls and other birds cavort in the air and in a spit of land in South...
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
Blooming cacti along the road between Brownsville and Port Isabel, Tex...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...
Significance: Stillman House, built in the 1850s, is one of the oldest residences in Brownsville. The house is said to have been the residence of Charles Stillman who owned and developed the original townsite o... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Castle Garden Bridge, Township Route 343 over Bennetts Branch of Sinne...
Significance: The bridge is a two-span, pin-connected, metal Pratt through truss bridge 212' in length. Erected by Nelson and Buchanan of Chambersburg , Pennsylvania, in 1901, with some members fabricated by th... 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
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
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
Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Br...
Significance: The Fort Brown Medical Laboratory was built in 1867. It is a good example of a utilitarian, permanent military structure built from local materials. William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the... 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
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
Alonso Building, 510-514 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...
Significance: The Alonso Building is an interesting example of a brick, two-story, corner commercial structure in Brownsville. Built around 1890, it still retains its two-story gallery which creates a covered w... More
Son of white migrant worker in tent home near Harlingen, Texas
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
Migrant workers talking near Harlingen, Texas
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. Winter tourists playing cards at the Chamber of Co...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Canning gra...
Picryl description: Public domain image of cooking, kitchen, food preparation, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Seeing the show at El Rancho G...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. USO (United Services Organizat...
Public domain photograph of a group of people, audience, meeting, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. A bandido shakes hands with a ...
Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. El Rancho Grande. The charro i...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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