'Highway Scene in Lower Rio Grande Valley, Southern Texas'

Title

'Highway Scene in Lower Rio Grande Valley, Southern Texas'

Subject

public scene; road; palm trees; photograph; rio grande; southern texas; postcard

Description

This postcard from the 1930s shows a black-and-white photograph of a highway lined with large palm trees. A caption printed at the bottom of the image indicates that the photograph was taken in southern Texas, in the lower Rio Grande Valley.


Transcription:

They are lots of this kind of roads hear. It is awful pretty where it is fixed up.

It is pretty isnt it.

Source

The Ora Bontrager Postcard Collection (BPC)

Date

circa 1930

Format

Paper
13.8 cm x 8.8 cm

Language

English

Type

Postcard

Identifier

BPC 002.1.0, 002.2.0

Files

Bontrager Postcard Collection 002.1.0.jpg
Bontrager Postcard Collection 002.2.0.jpg

Collection

Citation

“'Highway Scene in Lower Rio Grande Valley, Southern Texas',” The Ora Bontrager Postcard Collection, accessed April 24, 2024, https://bontragercollection.omeka.net/items/show/2.