Irrigation--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John H. Shary Collection
Collection — ELIBR-0002
Identifier: ELIBR-0002
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of business and personal files from John H. Shary, the largest collection of which is the United Irrigation Company series. The collection primarily contains business files, correspondence, internal memos, legal proceedings, maps, blueprints, and newspaper and magazine clippings.
Dates:
1908 - 2001; Majority of material found in 1912-1952
Rio Grande Valley 20th Century Studio Photographs Collection
Collection — ELIBR-0174, Box: 1
Identifier: ELIBR-0174
Content Description
The collection found here consists of 53 photographs of agricultural activity in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and the McAllen, Texas region, c. 1920. 39 of the photographs are 8 x 10, mounted on card stock and backed with linen, bearing the "Edrington" studio name. The remaining photographs are 5 x 7 and mounted on card stock. Four bear the "Ziebell, McAllen" studio...
Dates:
1920s
Texas Water Improvement District Photographs
Collection — 0196
Identifier: ELIBR-0196
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...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1925; 1947-12-06
