Water-supply -- Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Reconnaissance level study of water supply and wastewater disposal needs of the colonias of the Lower Rio Grande Valley - report, 1987
File — 15, Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Study carried out by the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council.
Dates:
1987
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
