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Photograph of 1974 Brownsville High School Women's Tennis Team

Caption: Doris Faulk and Elma Lind assumed the supreme dignity of comprimising B. H. S.'s girls tennis representatives. Unfortunately these young ladies were defeated in doubles (county meet) but Elna showed them what we could do when they really…

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Caption: Championship track team, 1921

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A photograph of a business flooded during hurricane Beulah in 1967.

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The purpose of the weeks worth of butterflies and migration lessons is to inform students about the world that is around them, from as close as their backyard, to their school campus, even to a location that is just driving distance away from them.…

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A photograph of a butterfly.

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Article in Valley Morning Star about the new addition to the Harlingen Capitols

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Article in Valley Morning Star about the new baseball season

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Caption: Cards Undefeated

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An article about the cases against police officers being dismissed. The officers were charged with the murdering of five Mexican prisoners. The cases were dismissed because there was not enough evidence, even though there were several witnesses that…

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Coach Teresa Casso Collects Vela Award

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2010 RGV All - Star Sports Awards

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McAllen High Coach Inducted at Banquet

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[newspaper] "The Day of the Dead, Celebrating Death: The living remember their dead with merriment, music, food," by Pamela Coleman for The Monitor (1992-10-30)
[newspaper] "The Day of the Dead, Celebrating Death: The living remember their dead with merriment, music, food," by Pamela Coleman for The Monitor (1992-10-30). The article features the variety of ways people honor, celebrate the dead and includes…

Newspaper article, "Juneteenth marks belated end of slavery in Texas," by Brig Lopez III for The Monitor (1997-06-18)
A newspaper clip about the importance of the Juneteenth celebrations, and the history behind it.

Certificate from the Republic of Texas, County of Nacogdoches
Signed attestation of Jose Luis Chirino's citizenship

[Program] Charro Days 1941 : Brownsville, Texas, February 20 - 23
Program for Charro Days 1941

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The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the experiences of Charro Days
since its creation in the Rio Grande Valley. The first Charro Days celebration took place in the
border of Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas in…

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Lucy Duurantes with classmates photographed in a parade during a Charro Days celebration.

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A photo of Lucy Durantes and a classmate during a Charro Days parade. They can be seen in costumes.

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A picture of a couple dancing during the Charro Days celebrations.

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A photograph of a girl in a carriage during the 1939 Charro Days celebration in Brownsville, Texas. The carriage is attached to a goat.

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Caption: The varsity cheerleaders stand at attention while the national anthem is played during the Bi-district football game against the Corpus Christi Ray Texans

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An image of two children playing in flooded streets caused by Hurricane Beulah in 1967.

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The Texas citrus industry first took off in the Rio Grande Valley in the late 1800s. John H. Shary was a land developer and colonizer from Nebraska who became involved in the development and growth of the region after he took a tour of an orchard in…
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