Texas Water Improvement District Photographs
Content Description
57 photographs and one negative. One photograph captioned to verso: "H.C.W.I.D. No. 4 Installing a 37.5 - 20 a the Highway relift. May 7th. 1925." Depicts installation of a steam shovel for a Hidalgo County Water Improvement District Project in South Texas, along the Rio Grande. This belongs to a series of photographs with similar purple stamps from a San Antonio photographer depicting steam shovel operations, laborers, and ditch digging in the 1920s. the steam shovel has a sign on it reading "Trinity Farm Construction," a Dallas based company. A handful of photographs (six) with Austin photographers stamps depict "development, using drainage water, on Dan Est Lands East of San Benito, 12-6-47."
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1925
- 1947-12-06
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use. 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
57 Photographic Prints : Black and white photographs ; 3 1/2 x 5 inches
1 Items : Film negative ; 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches
Language of Materials
English
Condition Description
Good
- Hidalgo County (Tex.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Irrigation--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- San Benito (Tex.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Water-supply -- Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Source
- Jeffrey Rovenpor Rare Books (Organization)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Adela Cadena, Manuel Rodriguez, and Deandra Cavazos
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus Repository
ELIBR 1.104
University Library
1201 West University Drive
Edinburg TX 78539-2999
(956) 665-2726
archives@utrgv.edu