Brownsville Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection includes historical photographs of people, places, and events from locations across the Lower Rio Grande Valley, including but not limited to Brownsville, San Benito, Harlingen, Mercedes, Mission, and Rio Grande City. Photographs are in a variety of formats, including aerial, postcards, silver gelatin, etc.
Dates
- early 20th—21st Centuries
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is CLOSED for research use, as it is in process.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials in our collections may be protected by copyright. Publication, transmission, or reproduction of items protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Whenever possible, accurate information about the copyright status of material is provided in the item record and/or documentation for material in the collection. The Library does not own the copyright in much of the material in its collection and is therefore unable to grant copyright permission to publish those items. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine copyright or other use restrictions and obtain proper permission when publishing or distributing materials found in these collections. Researchers must make their own assessments of rights in light of their intended use. Additional information about copyright and fair use is available via the Library's Copyright Guide at http://utrgv.libguides.com/friendly.php?s=copyright.
Extent
4 Document cases (Hollinger cases)
Language of Materials
English
- Architecture--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley. Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Brownsville (Tex.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Harlingen (Tex.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Photographs Subject Source: Tgm
- Photographs--Aerial Subject Source: Local sources
- San Benito (Tex.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Title
- Brownsville Photograph Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Shannon Pensa
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Brownsville Campus Repository
University Library
1 W University Blvd
Brownsville Texas 78520 United States
(956) 882-7281
archives@utrgv.edu
