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Barry Horn Postcard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BLIBR-0043
Content Description

This collection consists of eighteen letterpress halftone postcards pertaining to Cameron County and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The photographs were taken by Robert Runyon and the postcard booklet was made by Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, Illinois in 1927.

Dates: c. 1920s
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Brownsville Campus

Rotary Club of Darwen Correspondence

 File — Folder: 0029
Identifier: BLIBR-0029-Vertical
Content Description Photocopy of correspondence from Howard Peters, of the Rotary Club of Darwen, England, and "Rotarian James" of the Brownsville club. Included with the correspondence is a summation of letters written by members of a local Lancashire family, especially those of a young man by the name of James Horrocks (alias Andrew Ross), who came to America to escape a paternity suit, and lived for a time in Brownsville. Summation of Horrocks correspondence includes descriptions of U.S. Mail Steamship...
Dates: 1865 - 1871
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Brownsville Campus

Texas-Mexico Travel Album

 Collection — Box: BLIBR-0030
Identifier: BLIBR-0030
Content Description Collection of 117 photographs and real-photo postcards. Album begins with ten photographs of street scenes in New Orleans, followed by nine larger zide images of wild flower and plant life in the Rio Grande Valley and Brownsville, Texas. The next thirty-six images depict life along the Texas-Mexico border, including architecture, culture, the Rio Grande, and a July 4th beach outing. Ten images follow of family life in Oklahoma and Mississippi, and then the focus of the album...
Dates: 1917 - 1922
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Brownsville Campus

Yturria Family - Digital Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BLIBR-0051
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of digital files pertaning to the Yturria family. These photographs were utilized for the publication of the book titled, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Extraordinary Times of Francisco Yturria, written by Frank Daniel Yturria.

Dates: 1866 - 2006
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Brownsville Campus

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