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[Brooks Drugs: Food Parlor Counter]

Description: Photograph of a food parlor within the interior of the Brooks Central Drugs store in Brownsville, featuring a long counter bar with raised cushioned seats nearby. Upon the counter are napkin dispensers, sugar dispensers, and salt and pepper shakers, and behind it is a mirror spanning the length of the left wall and shelves of foodstuffs, promotional signs, and stainless-steel implements such as cabinets, shelves, and sinks. Above the mirrors are fluorescent lights and large text signs for produ… more
Date: January 19, 1947
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.901922 -97.498858
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brooks Drugs: Parlor Booth Seats]

Description: Photograph of booth seats within the interior of the Brooks Central Drugs store in Brownsville, occupying several rows along the back of the drugstore, along the right half of the image. The booths, which vary in width, each have a numbered black square table with salt shakers and sugar containers. A wide mirror is placed the back wall, where other parts of the store are visible, and above it are text signs for product categories: "salads" and "sea foods". The end of a long parlor counter is vi… more
Date: January 19, 1947
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.901922 -97.498858
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Courthouse and Post Office Foundation]

Description: Photograph of construction of the foundation of the Brownsville U.S. court house and post office, showing a large building site dug into the ground with another building on the street above in the background. In the foreground there is a large puddle with pieces of lumber scattered around it and part of a crane on the far right. Farther back tho horses are standing and two construction workers are standing in front of the site wall while several other men are sitting on the ground above in fron… more
Date: October 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Post Office and Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of construction on the Brownsville U.S. courthouse and post office, a building consisting of two incomplete stories and no roof. The left part of the building is only a single floor and has a large pole on top of it while the part on the right has two floors. In front of the building on the left several people are standing in the street in front of the sidewalk, which is covered in debris, and on the right cars are parked on the side of the street. Next to the post office on the ri… more
Date: October 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Concrete Footing Reinforcement]

Description: Photograph of a footing reinforcement for a concrete pile cap in the Brownsville post office. It consists of a large square panel with four rows of four round objects covered with metal rods in a criss-cross pattern. A text on the front of the photograph reads "'Rogers' Photo 12-17-1931."
Date: December 31, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Courthouse and Post Office Foundation]

Description: Photograph of construction of the foundation of the Brownsville U.S. courthouse and post office showing a large site dug into the ground with buildings visible on the street in the background. In the foreground the site is mostly empty except for what appears to be a machine on the left and a puddle on the right. Behind the site several people are watching from the street above, where various cars, trees, and buildings are also visible. A text on the front of the photograph reads "A. Rogers Pho… more
Date: October 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Footing Reinforcement]

Description: Photograph of a footing reinforcement for a concrete pile cap in the Brownsville post office. It consists of a large square panel with four rows of four round objects covered with metal rods in a criss-cross pattern. A text on the front of the photograph reads "'Rogers' Photo 12-17-1931."
Date: December 17, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Foundation of Brownsville Post Office]

Description: Photograph of construction of the foundation of the Brownsville post office consisting of a large building site dug into the ground with a city street visible in the background. In the foreground a pile of large pipes can be seen in the building site and behind it on the left there is what appears to be a steam-powered machine and a tall structure of some kind. On the left several barrels are visible on the ground above the site and behind the site there is a wooden wall with trees and houses p… more
Date: December 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Post Office Foundation]

Description: Photograph of construction of the foundation of the Brownsville post office featuring a large construction site dug into the ground with several other buildings partially visible in the background. In the foreground a construction worker is standing in one corner of the site and behind him a steam-powered machine and large structure are visible. On the left there is a puddle and a pile of large pipes. In the foreground on the left a young man wearing a hat watches from the street above and a te… more
Date: December 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Post Office Foundation Looking Northeast]

Description: Photograph of construction of the foundation of the Brownsville post office consisting of a large building site dug into the ground with a city street visible in the background. In the foreground a pile of large pipes can be seen in the building site and behind it on the left there is what appears to be a steam-powered machine and a tall structure of some kind. On the left several barrels are visible on the ground above the site and behind the site there is a wooden wall with trees and houses p… more
Date: December 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Post Office Foundation Looking Southwest]

Description: Photograph of construction of the foundation of the Brownsville post office featuring a large construction site dug into the ground with several other buildings partially visible in the background. In the foreground a construction worker is standing in one corner of the site and behind him a steam-powered machine and large structure are visible. On the left there is a puddle and a pile of large pipes. In the foreground on the left a young man wearing a hat watches from the street above and a te… more
Date: December 1, 1931
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Wall Decorations]

Description: Photograph of two separate wall ornaments. The first, marked "26" looks like the top of a column with a curled figure in the middle and a flat top. The second, marked "31," looks like a gate with several decorative rods running up and down and a half arch border decorated with curled figures and diamond shapes. Attached to the photograph is a typewritten text that reads "U.S. Ct. Ho; Cu. House; and Post Office Brownsville, Texas May 31st-1932."
Date: May 31, 1932
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 25.902415 -97.499261
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

Oral History Interview with Arthur Aicklen, September 12, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral history with Arthur Aicklen. Aicklen joined the Navy in 1940. He served as a machinist. He was also stationed on Padre Island, Texas before being assigned to a fleet oiler, the USS Taluga (AO-62). They transited the Panama Canal on their way to Honolulu and other points in the Pacific. When the war ended, Aicklen visited Yokahama during the occupation. He also describes the kamikaze attack off Okinawa.
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Aicklen, Arthur
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Arthur M. Alpert to Harris Kempner Oppenheimer, April 5, 1962]

Description: Letter from Arthur M. Alpert to Harris Kempner Oppenheimer regarding the memo and mentions that he couldn't find the chart of the canal from Houston to Brownsville, but he found the one from Port Arthur to Brownsville so he included that under a different cover which is a total of one dollar.
Date: April 5, 1962
Creator: Alpert, Arthur M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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