[Bagdad] Photograph of Bagdad, Tamaulipas and Clarksville, Texas

Creator

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Identifier

Folder 1 - 0154-Bagdad-BW

Creation Date

1860

Description

"Photo of oil painting of Bagdad dated 1860. The original is in Matamoros Hotel - only known picture of Bagdad. Buildings on right side of Rio Grande are probably Clarksville, [Texas] U.S. town destroyed completely by hurricane of 1867. However, on that area, about that time, there was also a U.S. Army Depot - the buildings there dated from war with Mexico."

Older expanded painting from 1848 notes that it is Matamoros: https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/mexico-illustrated-with-descriptive-letter-press-in-english-and-spanish-986077/

Physical Description

.JPG, Photograph, Black and white

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Recommended Citation

ELIBR0154 Miscellaneous Photographs Collection, UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. Accessed via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/miscphotosedinburg/