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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
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Water Cart]

Postmarked August 3, 1916 at Laredo, Texas, this card was sent to Concord, N.H.
Date: 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Water Vendors]

Three water vendor carts in front of what appears to be a water tank. Water vendors were called barrileros or aguadores. Correspondence reads, "At Laredo, Going over into Mexico this afternoon, so if I fail to send you a card, the Insurrectos have got me." This card was written and mailed to Miss Mollie Chaney in Longview, Texas on February 13, 1913 in Laredo, Texas.
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Water Vender]

A water vendor on the riverbank. Water vendors were called barrileros or aguadores.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mexican Water Cart]

A water cart drawn by two burros. Water vendors were called barrileros or aguadores.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

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

[Court House and Jail, Laredo, Texas]

Postcard dated April 4, 1912 that has a picture of the Web County jail and Courthouse.
Date: 1910~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mercy Hospital and Jarvis Plaza, Laredo, Texas]

Postcard of Jarvis Plaza in Laredo Texas. Mercy Hospital is visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

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

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

[Horses and Buggies]

Horse and buggies in front of the Market Plaza building in Laredo, Texas
Date: 1910~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Destroyed remains of International Bridge]

Image of bridge destroyed by cyclone of April 28, 1905. Viewed from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[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.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Convent building next to International Bridge]

Photograph showing a rear view of Convent Building next to the International Bridge.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

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

[International Bridge across the Rio Grande]

Photograph of the International Bridge across the Rio Grande between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sociedad Concordia Theater Building]

Building of the Sociedad Concordia in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Has the inscription "Teatro de la Sociedad Concordia, 1885-1906." This building occupied the present site of the Palacio Federal in front of Plaza Hidalgo.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wagon in front of store]

Wagon in front of L. Villegas store at the corner of Farragut St. and Flores Avenue
Date: 1910~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lady on Horseback, Laredo, Texas, c. 1910]

Photograph of Frederico Vidaurri and Herminia Lafon riding horseback, near the corner of an unknown building in Laredo, Texas around 1910.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street scene, Laredo, Texas, c. 1910]

Photograph of the market building on the left looking down Hidalgo Street, Laredo, Texas about 1910. A man in the foreground is smoking a cigar and looking at the camera.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Survey Map of Webb County]

Survey map of 19.73 acre tract in the Northwest corner of "porcion" 28, Webb County, Texas. Scale 1:2,400
Date: August 1954
Creator: Foster, E. J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Survey of Webb County]

Survey of the Southern part of Webb County noting geographic features as well as some man-made constructions (railroads, highways, pipelines, windmills, etc.). Scale 1:48,000
Date: March 1953
Creator: Foster, E. J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Coca-Cola Bottling Company Properties]

Plat showing the 1951 survey of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company properties in Laredo, Texas. In the lower-left corner, there is a legal statement made by the surveyor attesting to the accuracy of the map. Scale 1:240
Date: November 1951
Creator: Foster, E. J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Plano de los Dos Laredos

Plat of the 'two Laredos' (Laredo, Texas and New Laredo, Mexico) from January 1881. The map appears to be a cadastral map with numbered (and lettered) lots in both cities, likely showing ownership. Some streets are labeled as well as Fort McIntosh (noted as a "U.S. Military Reservation") in Laredo and the Campo de Marte in Nuevo Laredo.
Date: January 1881
Creator: Laroche, E. R.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History