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[Customs Officers and Guards #1]

Description: Photograph of a group of people standing outside a one-story brick building with the caption, "Customs Officers and Guards. Juarez, Mexico." There appears to be a main entrance to the right and a smaller doorway on an addition to the left; both doorways are decorated with Mexican flags and banners aw well as a framed picture of President Venustiano Carranza above the left doorway. Seven men are standing around the outside of the building including two in the main doorway (one holding a shotgun)… more
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Stein, William & Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: El Paso Public Library

Mexicali 1921 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mexicali in Mexico, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: December 1921
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Ciudad Jaurez 1905 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Ciudad Jaurez in Mexico, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: July 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Lunch Time at the Labor Camp # 1]

Description: Photograph of members of a labor camp enjoying a noon time meal. There are three large, square tables against a wall of bright windows. Each table is occupied by approximately six to ten diners and their plates of food. The ages of the diners are vary from very young to elderly. A few people, such as the woman closest to the foreground, are looking at the camera, however most are eating. On the back of the photograph there is visible handwriting that reads, "HARLINGEN B-10 Noon hour at Conventi… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Ciudad Porfirio Diaz 1905 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Ciudad Porfirio Diaz in Mexico, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: November 1905
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Plano pintoresco de la Habana con los numeros de las casas [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows street names, house numbers, buildings, fortifications, public institutions, and military facilities in Havana, Cuba; existing and proposed roads and railroads, division boundaries, cities, towns, and coastline detail for the island of Cuba. Includes table of distances, references, and note. Insets [Habana]: "Puerto y cercanias de la Habana." Illustrations: "Escudo concedido âa la isla en 1516," "Vista de la plaza de S. Francisco," "Toma del Morro de la Habana por los Ingleses 1762," … more
Date: 1860
Creator: Corning, E. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Perfil Cortado Sobre la Luka 1.2.

Description: Duplicated blueline map showing a profile of an area around the San Saba River, with pictorial representations. Text at the top includes an explanation of "Plano de el Presidio de San Saba, situado en 31°.38' de Latitud Bor'l. y 273°.27' de Longitud contada desde el Meridiano de el Pico de Tenerife." and additional notes.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Mexican-Themed Float in a Holiday Parade]

Description: Photograph of a Mexican-themed float trailing behind a pick-up truck in the first annual League City Holiday Festival of Lights parade. The float decor features a string of colored lights and banners that read, "Paso Del Rey" and "Feliz Navidad." A mariachi band riding the float is playing music. The procession is traveling down Farm to Market Road 518 and Highway 3, eventually culminating in Walter Hall Park.
Date: December 11, 1987
Creator: Kiecke, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Mexican-Themed Float in a Holiday Parade]

Description: Photograph of a Mexican-themed float in the parade for the first annual League City Holiday Festival of Lights. The float's decor includes a banner that reads, "Feliz Navidad," a Mexican flag, and stringed colored lights. A mariachi band riding the float is playing music. A toddler-aged girl and a partially visible woman are also passengers.
Date: December 11, 1987
Creator: Kiecke, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes. Dedicado a la Catholica Magestad de Don Fernando VI Rey de España, y de las Yndias, por sus mas rendidos, y fieles vasallos, Thomas Lopez, y Juan de la Cruz [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows the settlements and details of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida and Mexico to the northern portion of South America, for a portion of the Pacific coast of New Spain, and for the West Indies. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1755
Creator: López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carta general para las navegaciones á la India oriental por el Mar del Sur y el grande oceano que separa el continente Americano del Asiatico: construida segun las derrotas, observaciones y trabajos de los mas celebres navegantes españoles y publicada por orden del Exmo Sr D. Guadalupe Victoria, primer presidente de la república [Sheet 1].

Description: Map routes of early voyagers and the dates when islands were discovered. Includes: Coast of North America from Panama to Alaska; and the Gulf of Mexico. Depth shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:11,500,000].
Date: 1825
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Photcard of Robert Cruz and Luz Hernandez

Description: Photo postcard picturing Luz Hernandez and Robert Cruz fondly looking at one another. They were married and had sons named Steve and Manuel. The back of the postcard has correspondence in Spanish. This photo was included in a report by Salvador Roman, Jr. for a history class at Marfa High School in 1975.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Marfa Public Library

A map of South America : containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Granada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia [Sheet 4].

Description: Map shows geography, coastal detail, and settlements in the northeastern part of South America. Inset: "A chart of Falkland's Islands named by the French Malouine Islands and discovered by Hawkins in the year 1593." Relief shown pictorially. Depths by soundings. Scales [ca. 1:8,000,000] and [ca. 1:1,530,000].
Date: 1794
Creator: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Luz and Manuel Cruz in Chihuahua, Mexico

Description: Photographic postcard from March 19, 1921 picturing Luz Cruz and her son Manuel while on a trip to Chihuahua, Mexico. There is correspondence on the back in Spanish. This photo was included in a report by Salvador Roman, Jr. for a history class at Marfa High School in 1975.
Date: March 19, 1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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