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The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a
collection of over 8,000 items, is a unique visual resource documenting
the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon
family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass
negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards,
representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon
(1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document
the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the
Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the
border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of
the Rio Grande Valley.
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Special Presentations
The Mexican
Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros
*
Home Page for
this Collection at the University of Texas*
The digitization and presentation of these materials by The General Libraries at the University of
Texas at Austin were supported by an award from the Library of
Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition.
Links marked
* are to
web pages mounted at the awardee institution. The
digital images are also mounted at the awardee institution.
The source materials for this collection are housed at the Center for American History
at the University of Texas at Austin.
For information about acquiring permission to copy any of this material,
please read the Center for American History's copyright
information.
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