The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a collection of over 8, 000 items, is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life's work of ...

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 ...