Mission

File — Container: ELIBR-0154, other: Drawer 1, Folder: 24

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Folder includes historic photographs of Mission, Texas. One Mission Hotel postcard postmarked 1909-08-06 addressed to "Mr. Ernest Givens, Brownsville, Texas." Nine (9) unused postcards of the Mission Tourist Camp. Two (2) photographs of downtown Mission, c. 1912 and c. 1930s

Dates

1850s—2000s

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is NOT open for research use due to ongoing processing. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley assumes no responsibility.

Extent

11 Photographic Prints (Postcards) : Silver gelatin, black and white ; 3.5" x 5.5"

1 Photographic Prints (Mounted on cardstock) : Black and white ; 4.5" x 3"

1 Photographic Prints (Card photo) : Warm silver gelatin, black and white ; 9.5" x 7.5"

Language of Materials

From the Record Group: English

Subjects

Architecture--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley. Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
Mission (Tex.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
Photographs Subject Source: Tgm