Photograph of seven young men and five young women standing in a line in front of a porch railing on the side of a brick building. The young women are in the center wearing skirts and light-colored blouses, four of the young men are on the left, and another three are on the right. Most of the young men are wearing shirts and slacks except for the man on the far left, who is wearing a suit and tie, and another man on the far right, who is wearing a coat. The two young women in the center are identified as Lucy Tate and Ariel Rendall and the two young men on the far left are identified as Ralph Schmeling and Leonard Hobbs.

Photograph of Brownsville Public School faculty members posing sitting in several rows on the steps leading up to a porch in front of a brick building. Most of the teachers are women, wearing light-colored dresses or skirts and light-colored blouses, except for two men wearing dark suits and ties, who are sitting in the middle of the second row. On the far right someone wearing a dark-colored suit is visible standing behind the railing on the porch and on the left there is a window.

Photograph of a group of high school students standing in several rows on the steps leading up to a porch in front of a brick building. The young men, wearing light-colored shirts or shirts and ties, are standing on the left and the young women, wearing light-colored dresses or skirts and blouses, are standing on the right. Professor Hallmark, a man with a mustache wearing a dark suit, is standing in the middle of the back row. In the second row the second young man from the left is Ralph Schmeling and the third young woman from the left is Sarah Hobbs.

Photograph of three men wearing light-colored shirts and dark pants standing behind a table with three liquor bottles on it. The two men on the right are holding shot glasses in their right hands and the man on the left is holding a beer glass in his left hand. The man in the middle has a long light-colored beard and the other two men have mustaches.

Photograph of Brownsville Public School faculty members posing sitting in several rows on the steps leading up to a porch in front of a brick building. Most of the teachers are women, wearing light-colored dresses or skirts and light-colored blouses, except for two men wearing dark suits and ties, who are sitting in the middle of the second row. The man on the right is Mr. Hallmark. In the first row the second woman from the right is Etta Kowalski, in the last row the third woman from the left is Bessie Cocke, in the first row the first woman from the right is possibly Rita Clearwater, and in the last row the fourth woman from the left is possibly Theresa Clearwater.

Photograph of Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas. Automobiles and horse drawn carriages are pictured in the street with buildings on either side. On the left side of the photo a sign outside a store reads "Willman's Drug Store". Handwritten text on the back reads "1904 or 1905".

Photograph of a man wearing a straw hat and suspenders standing in a grain field next to a girl in a light-colored dress to his right. A dog is standing on the girl's right side and above it is a handwritten text that reads: "Lon. Hill. Irrigated Farm Harlingen, Tex. Sorghum Planted May 4. Phots. July 25, '08." On the bottom of the photograph the same text is type-written.

Photograph of Lon C. Hill and William Jennigan Bryan sitting in chairs with a line of other unidentified men standing behind them and a house and trees in the background. The man on the right is wearing a suit and hat, the man on the left is wearing a coat and cowboy hat, and the other men are wearing dark suits and several are also wearing hats.

Postcard of Brownsville, Texas in 1904. On the left side of the image buildings line a street with trees lining the right. Horse drawn carriages are visible on the street. Handwritten text on back reads "Brownsville, 1904".

Magazine clipping of an image that has printed text across the top and bottom that says, "Harlingen Sorghum--Planted May 4,1908, Photographed July 25,1908." The photograph includes Lon C. Hill and a young girl standing in front of the long grain, and the young girl has one arm resting on a dog. The reverse has text from a Gulf Coast Magazine article.

Photograph of nine children posing with their teacher standing in two rows in front of a small wooden building with a field visible in the background. In the front row are four young boys and two young girls, identified as John Mc Bee, Hickerman Hill, Emmett Anglin, Ross Anglin, Sunshine Hill, and Elizabeth Mc Bee, and behind them are a young man, a woman, and two young women identified as Frank Mc Bee, Miss John M. Phipps, Anna Dickson Annie R. Hill.

Reprint photograph of a group of men in dark color suits with two sitting down and the rest standing up behind them. Text under the photographs separate the photographs as "before buying land" and "after buying land from Conway & Hoit. Mission, Tex". There is handwritten text on the back that reads "Hoyd = This is re-print taken in 1908. Just found original in files. Yours truly, Jas. Bryan." "Jim Hill, Wm. J. Bryan, Hoit x Conway standing back".

Photograph of a young girl, dog, and man standing in a cotton field with trees and houses visible in the background. The girl standing in the foreground in front of the field, wearing a light-colored dress with the dog on the left and the man, wearing suspenders and a hat, is standing behind her in the field. A text on the front of the photograph reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm Harlingen Tex. Cotton Planted Apr. 20. Photo July 25 '08. Producing 1 1/2 Bales Per Acre."

Photograph of seven unidentified men wearing light-colored shirts and hats standing in the middle of a cotton field. In the foreground on the right one man is facing towards the camera, as are the three men behind him. On the left two men are spaced farther apart, standing behind horses that are facing the other direction. Trees and telephone poles are visible in the background and a text on the front of the photograph reads "Lon Hill Irrigated Farm Harlingen Tex. Cotten planted May 4. Photo July 25 08. Producing 1 1/2 bales per acre."

Postcard of a man wearing suspenders and a straw hat standing in the middle of a cotton field with a young girl in a light-colored dress and a dog. The girl is standing in the foreground with the dog on the left and the man is behind her on the left. More fields and houses are visible in the distant background and a text on the front of the postcard reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm. Harlingen, Tex. Cotton Planted APr. 20. Photo. July 25, 08. Producing 15 Bales per acre."

Postcard of a man wearing a straw hat and suspenders standing in a grain field next to a girl in a light-colored dress to his right. A dog is standing on the girl's right side and above it is a text that reads: "Lon. Hill. Irrigated Farm Harlingen, Tex. Sorghum Planted May 4. Phots. July 25, '08."

Photograph of Gordon Hill with a gun and standing next to a deer he shot. The deer has been hung up on a tree next to Hill. Handwritten text on the back reads "Gordan with a deer he shot near the house 1906".

Photograph of two oxen drawing a cart filled with firewood with brush visible in the background.

Report of the Committee on Commerce detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 6600 authorizing the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company to construct bridges across the Rio Grande around Brownsville, Texas.

Compiled documentation about the Brownsville (Tex.) Affair including the transcript of the proceedings of the court-martial of Major General Charles W. Penrose.

Compiled documentation about the Brownsville (Tex.) Affair including testimony gathered by the Committee on Military Affairs from soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Regiment on the events of the Brownsville Affray.

Map of sections of Brownsville, Texas related to the investigation of the Brownsville Affray. It shows the trajectory of several bullets as they passed through locations on the map.

A cross-section map, with a vertical and horizontal section depicting the trajectory of a bullet. It shows portions of Brownsville, Texas related to the investigation of the Brownsville Affray.

Report of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs detailing the information and testimony gathered by the committee in its investigations of the Brownsville Affray. It includes the views of Joseph B. Foraker and Morgan G. Bulkeley on the testimony in support of the conclusions reached by the committee.