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The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/runyon/

Description:
A collection of over 8,000 photographs (including glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards) of South Texas and the Mexican border, taken by commercial photographer Robert Runyon. Features images of the Mexican Revolution, Fort Brown, and the Rio Grande Valley. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject. Also contains a brief biography of Runyon and maps of the lower Rio Grande region. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Publisher:
Library of Congress

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Mexican-American Border Region -- Photographs
People
Photographers -- United States
Runyon, Robert, 1881-1968
Texas -- History

LII Database Information:
Record 13867 created by Tom McGibney on 08/22/2001
Last modification on 10/16/2009
Published: 08/22/2001  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13867