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[Flooded International Bridge, Laredo, Texas]

Airplane dropping lifesavers to men marooned on a flooded bridge.
Date: September 3, 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[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
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History