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[Espejo Farm, Bermuda Onions, Laredo, Texas]

Photograph of an Bermuda onion harvest at the Espejo farm in Laredo, Texas. A letter on the back is addressed to Mrs. N. L. Green about the author's visit (to place unknown) and plans to leave again.

Date: 1918

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Mexican Water Cart]

A water cart drawn by two burros. Water vendors were called barrileros or aguadores.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Hamilton Hotel, Laredo, Texas]

Postcard with a postmark from June 28, 1911 in Kansas City. The photograph on the front shows the Hamilton Hotel in Laredo, Texas before 1906. There is a letter written on the back of the postcard in pencil.

Date: June 28, 1911

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Flores Street near City Hall]

Postcard of streetcars and cars on Flores Street in front of City Hall. The Strand Theater building is on the leftmost side. On the back of the postcard, there is a letter addressed to Mrs. F. MacArthur (Blanche) from Annie Lane asking her to send a photograph of the two of them together.

Date: July 1918

Creator: Lane, Annie

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Oxen carts in front of pawn shop]

Postcard of several men with loaded oxen carts in front of a pawn shop, Laredo, Texas.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[International Bridge over the Rio Grande]

Postcard with a southwest view of the International Bridge over the Rio Grande, from Laredo, Texas. There is a short letter on the back of the postcard mentioning a "new baby boy." Notes were added later regarding the identities of the parents, the baby, and the addressee who was a cousin of the writer.

Date: unknown

Creator: Ernst, C. J.

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Buildings near Rio Grande River]

Photograph of the International Bridge across the Rio Grande River. View from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. In the background the building with a tower was the old convent building.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[St. Peter's Church, Laredo, Texas]

Photograph of a church on the corner of a street in Loredo, Texas. There is a note from "Nettie" written under the picture. Postmarked June 27, 1907. The church was mislabeled as a cathedral.

Date: 1907

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[International and Great Northern Railway Depot]

Photograph of people, cars, and wagons in front of a railroad depot, identified at the bottom as "I. and G. N. Ry. Depot, Laredo, Texas." Postcard is dated 7/15/1920. There is a letter on the back of the postcard addressed to "Henry" that refers to an attack that day on Nuevo Laredo by revolutionaries.

Date: July 15, 1920

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[International Bridge over the Rio Grande]

Postcard of a bridge across a river, labeled, "International Bridge over the Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas." Several unknown buildings are visible on either end of the bridge. There is a letter on the back written 3/3/1917 that says, "Wanted to get across this bridge but on account of Typhus Epidemic on other side could not do so. Will cross at Brownsville. Wish you were along." (The epidemic mentioned was in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.)

Date: March 3, 1917

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Oxen Carts, Laredo, Texas]

Postcard of men with loaded oxen carts in front of a pawn shop in Laredo, Texas.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[International Bridge, Laredo, Texas]

Postcard of the International bridge over the Rio Grande, at Laredo, Texas. There's a letter on the back of the postcard addressed to Mr. Frank Gallager.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library