Matamoros (Mexico)

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Folder contains black and white aerial images of Brownsville and Matamoros, including the downtown, bend in the river, TSC tower, Brownsville High School, Palm Blvd. Some photographs show photographer/studio stamped on reverse.

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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.

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Contains five items relating to architecture in Matamoros , including three photos, one postcard, and a printed page.

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Contains five items relating to architecture in Matamoros , including three photos, one postcard, and a printed page.

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The collection found here consists of 169 digitized items from the Casa Mata Museum and Archives in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Included are American military records, town hall sessions, a business registry, correspondence, inventories, and Mexican army rosters saved by the mayors of Matamoros.

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Folder contains black and white aerial images of Brownsville and Matamoros, including the downtown, bend in the river, TSC tower, Brownsville High School, Palm Blvd. Some photographs show photographer/studio stamped on reverse.

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Contains five items relating to architecture in Matamoros , including three photos, one postcard, and a printed page.

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Contains five items relating to architecture in Matamoros , including three photos, one postcard, and a printed page.

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Black and white photograph view of Matamoros, Mexico from International Bridge with handwriting "Here children were shot in raid". (Photograph damaged by cutting)

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The collection consists of ten newsletters from organizations located in Brownsville, Texas. The newsletters chronicle the history and development of Brownsville and topics include art, architecture, businesses, higher education, historical accounts, events, notable people, preservation, transportation, and industry.

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Folder contains (1) black and white postcard of "Matamoros, Mexico - as seen from Brownsville, Texas 6-0-541"

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Contains five items relating to architecture in Matamoros , including three photos, one postcard, and a printed page.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains five items relating to architecture in Matamoros , including three photos, one postcard, and a printed page.

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...

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...

Scope and Contents This is an ongoing collection combining History Harvests from both Edinburg and Brownsville campuses. The objective of these History Harvests is to create a community collection from the area's families documenting local, regional, and national history to be held at the UTRGV University Library and made available for research, teaching, and educational exhibitions.Participants agree to give unconditional permission to publish items online. This collection consists of life in the...

Content Description From the Collection: The collection consists of thirteen letters written from Brownsville, Texas starting January 1866 to June 1866 by Acca L. Colby Purdy and her husband Warren G. Purdy to their family in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, there are two portrait images; one of Acca and the other of Warren. The correspondence narrates life in Brownsville and the nearby areas as well as the living conditions. Acca begins writing from Brownsville on January 18, 1866. She speaks of Major Plato who was the...

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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.