Photograph of construction on the U.S. court house and post office, a four-story brick building, taken from across the street. The pavement in front of the building is torn up with some wooden scaffolding visible on the right and in the foreground several workers can be seen sitting on the sidewalk on the other side of the street. On the left part of a storefront can be seen and there are several street lamps and telephone lines visible in front of the building.

Photograph of the North side of the Brownsville U.S. court house and post office, a large four-story brick and stone building with three rows of rectangular windows and thee archways in the middle of the ground floor. There is a crane next to it on the right and on the left there is a long temporary structure running parallel to the road.