Page 12, Brownsville Raid's Cowan residence, 1872 Baldwin wood-burning, narrow gauge railroad locomotive, Elizabeth St. Brownsville, Snippet of Echoes From the Rio Grande film

Creator

John R. Peavey

Identifier

LRGV_141

Description

Black and white photographs. Black and white postcard. One photograph. One Postcard. One reproduction.

Depicted: Cunningham & Co. postcard. "On the right is the Cowan residence into which the negro raiders fired twenty shots, August 13th 1906 Brownsville, Texas"; Jacket of book, snake skin reproduction; Echoes From the Rio Grande film snippet directed by Hart Perry.; "Streets in the old city of Brownsville 1905"; "This little Baldwin wood-burning, narrow gauge railroad locomotive, built in Manchester? and was put in...Brownsville..able..a little later, a distance of 22 miles a narrow gauge to the top speed was 20 miles per hour this RR was in operation until 1925 and was known as the Rio Grande Railroad it was a wood burner it would puff out steam and smoke just like the big fellows and it had a bell and whistle."

Physical Description

.JPG, 1 Photograph, 1 Postcard, 1 Reproduction, 2.3 MB

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Page 12, Brownsville Raid's Cowan residence, 1872 Baldwin wood-burning, narrow gauge railroad locomotive, Elizabeth St. Brownsville, Snippet of Echoes From the Rio Grande film. Scrapbook of John Peavey reflecting his days as a U. S. Border Patrolman. John Randall Peavey Collection, ELIBR-0006. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus. UTRGV Digital Library. https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/80