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Kitchen table and stove of white migrant camp near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

Kitchen table and stove of white migrant camp near Harlingen, Texas. S...

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Kitchen table and stove of white migrant camp near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

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

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Cameron County, TX

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

Harlingen, Texas. Barbecue stand

Harlingen, Texas. Barbecue stand

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

Castle Garden Bridge, Township Route 343 over Bennetts Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek, Driftwood, Cameron County, PA

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

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Harvesters in bean field

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

Castle Garden Bridge, Township Route 343 over Bennetts Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek, Driftwood, Cameron County, PA

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

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Girls

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.

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Young girl

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Young girl

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Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dancing the jarabe tapatia at Triple L Club dance

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dancing the jarabe tapatia at ...

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. Dance given by Mexican girls called the Live, Love and Laugh Club, or the Triple L Club

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dance given by Mexican girls c...

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

Farmhouse of small farmer near Santa Rosa, Texas. Tractor and rusting farm implements are in the yard, showing the changes in farming methods and also demonstrating that even the small farmers are using the new tractors and other mechanized equipment

Farmhouse of small farmer near Santa Rosa, Texas. Tractor and rusting ...

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

White migrant mother piecing a quilt. Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

White migrant mother piecing a quilt. Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

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Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Member of Mexican orchestra at El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Member of Mexican orchestra at...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas

Cotton weighing near Brownsville, 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

Side of barn of Mexican day laborer with pigeon cote. Near Santa Maria, Texas

Side of barn of Mexican day laborer with pigeon cote. Near Santa Maria...

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Corner in tent home of white migrants. Near Harlingen, Texas

Corner in tent home of white migrants. 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

Bench of potted plants at side of home of Mexican day laborer. Near Santa Maria, Texas

Bench of potted plants at side of home of Mexican day laborer. Near Sa...

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

Decorations on wall of living room. Mexican home near Santa Maria, Texas

Decorations on wall of living room. Mexican home near Santa Maria, Tex...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ice for sale. Harlingen, Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

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

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Girl in a Tiawana headdress

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. El Rancho Grande. The charro is a local restaurant keeper

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. El Rancho Grande. The charro i...

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

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Clinic patient

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

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Member of local businessmen's committee dressed as Mexican bandido

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.

Port Isabel, Texas. Abandoned lighthouse

Port Isabel, Texas. Abandoned lighthouse

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

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Nurse taking a boy with a fractured leg out for air

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Nurse takin...

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. Jitterbugs at El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Jitterbugs at El Rancho Grande

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas

May 1894. 5 Sheet(s). Texas fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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 County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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, TX

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 County, TX

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 County, TX

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), Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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 vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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 Highway), approximately 850 feet east of FM 2520, San Benito, Cameron County, TX

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, TX

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 Streets, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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 County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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 County, TX

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

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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, TX

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, TX

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, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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

Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas

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

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

White migrant and wife repairing clutch in their car near Harlingen, Texas

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.

Articles of furniture in white migrant tent near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

Articles of furniture in white migrant tent near Harlingen, Texas. See...

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

Home and yard of Mexican day laborer who works in vegetable fields near Santa Maria, Texas

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 near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

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

Son of white migrant worker putting on overalls in tent near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

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

Child of white migrant worker building fire in heating stove in tent home. Harlingen, Texas

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

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Triple L Club dance

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Triple L Club dance

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. Dance for officers. El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Dance for officers. El Rancho ...

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. Mexican market

Brownsville, Texas. Mexican market

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Hooking a rug

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 of one of the greatest fortunes and banking houses in America

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

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean crop on large farm

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean crop on large farm

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandidos

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

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Enlisted men at El Rancho Grande

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 (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

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 (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

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 Grande

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

Harlingen, Texas. Abandoned shack

Harlingen, Texas. Abandoned shack

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

Blooming cacti along the road between Brownsville and Port Isabel, Texas

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

Gulls and other birds cavort in the air and in a spit of land in South Bay, below the long causeway that connects Brownsville and Port Isabel in Cameron County, Texas

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

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Emporium, Cameron County, Pennsylvania

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Emporium, Cameron County, Pennsylvania

May 1892. 7 Sheet(s). Pennsylvania fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabi... More

Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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, TX

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, TX

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 County, TX

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 County, TX

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 County, TX

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), Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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, TX

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, TX

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 Sinnemahoning Creek, Driftwood, Cameron County, PA

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, Cameron County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Cameron County, TX

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, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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 County, TX

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

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

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, TX

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, TX

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, TX

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, Cameron County, TX

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

Daughter of white migrant in tent home near Harlingen, Texas (see 32108-D)

Daughter of white migrant in tent home near Harlingen, Texas (see 3210...

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

White migrant mother in tent home near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

White migrant mother in tent home near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

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

Building a fire in tent home near Harlingen, Texas. See general caption 32108-D

Building a fire in tent home near Harlingen, Texas. See general captio...

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

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