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[U.S. Custom House]

Description: Postcard image of a U. S. Custom House in Brownsville, Texas. The custom house is pictured to the left of the image a sign that reads "Stop U.S. Customs". On top of the building an American Flag is waving with a smaller flag underneath it. In the background of the image the Gateway Bridge connecting Texas to Mexico is visible.
Date: unknown
Creator: C. T. American Art Colored
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Four Men Wearing Cowboy Hats]

Description: Photograph of C. Dow, Marcos Hines, Tom Mayfield, and E. W. Anelin, four men wearing suits, cowboy boots, and cowboy hats posing in front of a stone building. A handwritten text on the front of the photograph labels the men from left to right: "C. Dow, Marcos Hines, Tom Mayfield, E. W. Anglin."
Date: unknown
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Lon C. Hill Sr's Home]

Description: Photograph of Lon C. Hill Sr's home in Harlingen, Texas. The home is viewed from a comer with large trees obscuring the light color trimmed house. One large palm tree is visible growing in the front yard. There is handwritten text on the back that gives a history of the house.
Date: unknown
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Steamboat in Field]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man standing on a large steamboat in a field. On the right the boat has a large smokestack and a label reading "Santiago." In the foreground shrubbery and some scaffolding can be seen and in the background a large building is partially visible.
Date: unknown
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Members of Hill Family]

Description: Photograph of (left to right) Lon C. Hill III, Miss Paul Hill, Homer Morrow Jr., Georgette Hill, and Owsley Hill posing outside in front of several trees. The children are wearing light-colored shirts and bandanas around their necks. Lon (far left) is wearing a cowboy hat and Owsley is sitting in a wooden chair in front of the others.
Date: unknown
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Lon C. Hill Sr and Friend]

Description: Photograph of Lon C. Hill Sir, and friend. Both men are pictured outside and wearing light color suits with dark color hats. Handwritten text on back reads "Lon C. Hill, Sr and friend".
Date: unknown
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Lon C. Hill and William Jennigan Bryan Sitting]

Description: Photograph of Lon C. Hill and William Jennigan Bryan sitting in chairs with a line of other unidentified men standing behind them and a house and trees in the background. The man on the right is wearing a suit and hat, the man on the left is wearing a coat and cowboy hat, and the other men are wearing dark suits and several are also wearing hats.
Date: 1908
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Brownsville, Texas]

Description: Postcard of Brownsville, Texas in 1904. On the left side of the image buildings line a street with trees lining the right. Horse drawn carriages are visible on the street. Handwritten text on back reads "Brownsville, 1904".
Date: 1904
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Reprint Photograph of a Group of Men]

Description: Reprint photograph of a group of men in dark color suits with two sitting down and the rest standing up behind them. Text under the photographs separate the photographs as "before buying land" and "after buying land from Conway & Hoit. Mission, Tex". There is handwritten text on the back that reads "Hoyd = This is re-print taken in 1908. Just found original in files. Yours truly, Jas. Bryan." "Jim Hill, Wm. J. Bryan, Hoit x Conway standing back".
Date: 1908
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Law Office of Hill & Dougherty]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Law Office of Hill & Dougherty. Four men are pictured sitting in chairs around a stove with desk coved in papers visible behind them. Texas on the back reads "Hill & Dougherty Law Office - 1898. Beeville, Texas. Lon C. Hill at at Desk, Jim Dougherty at his left, Will Jack at left of photo. Practiced law until 1903".
Date: 1898
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Portrait of School Children]

Description: Photograph of a class of school children wearing light-colored shirts and dresses posing sitting in three rows in front of a large brick building. A woman is standing behind the children in the middle and a man wearing overalls is standing in the back on the right.
Date: 1920
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas. Automobiles and horse drawn carriages are pictured in the street with buildings on either side. On the left side of the photo a sign outside a store reads "Willman's Drug Store". Handwritten text on the back reads "1904 or 1905".
Date: 1904/1905
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[School Children With Teacher]

Description: Photograph of nine children posing with their teacher standing in two rows in front of a small wooden building with a field visible in the background. In the front row are four young boys and two young girls, identified as John Mc Bee, Hickerman Hill, Emmett Anglin, Ross Anglin, Sunshine Hill, and Elizabeth Mc Bee, and behind them are a young man, a woman, and two young women identified as Frank Mc Bee, Miss John M. Phipps, Anna Dickson Annie R. Hill.
Date: 1907~/1908~
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Portrait of Gordon Hill]

Description: Portrait of Gordan Hill wearing a dark color suit jacket with a patterned tie. Handwritten text on back reads "Gordan Hill, Sept 1918. Born May 4, 1887. Died Oct 29, 1918".
Date: September 1918
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley
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