The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection
of the South Texas Border Area
The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection contains more than 8,000 photographs that document the history and development of the South Texas border area during the early twentieth century. The collection includes photographs of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown during the 1910s, and a unique visual record of the social and economic growth of the Lower Rio Grande Valley during that period. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin in 1986, the collection also includes glass negatives, nitrate negatives, lantern slides, prints, and postcards representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. |