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Web Site Reviews
The South Texas Border, 19001920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon
Collection <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/runyhome.html>.
Created by the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin;
maintained by the libraries and the Library of Congress. Reviewed Oct.
24, 2002.
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The transformation of south Texas from a border region to a transnational
site of military, economic, cultural, and political developments
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been the
subject of numerous scholarly books and articles over the last decade,
and this collection of over eight thousand photographs, postcards,
and other visual resources documents much of that histor--the Mexican
Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the
border, the development of commercial agriculture in the Rio Grande
valley of Texas, and the growth of towns and cities along both sides
of the border and in northeastern Mexico. The subjects covered in
this collection are as varied as the interests of its namesake,
the photographer Robert Runyon. |
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