Fort Brown Mexican Border War Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: BD-0032

Staff Only

Content Description

This scrapbook contains photographs of scenes around Brownsville, San Benito, and Point Isabel. Photographs depict soldiers daily living while in camp or in the march during the Mexican Border War of 1916. The photographs were taken during the summer and fall of 1916.

Dates

1916-07-21 - 1916-12-16

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

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

54 Items : b&w ; 8.86 GB; .tif files

Language of Materials

English

Subjects

Education Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Fort Brown (Brownsville, Tex.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Frontier and pioneer life--Rio Grande Valley. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Revolutions--Mexican-American Border Region--History--19th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
San Benito (Tex.) Subject Source: Local sources
Soldiers--American Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
Transportation--Texas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings