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Black and white photograph. Border Patrol campsite. "And I want to tell you they were real (he) men. And they did a good job regardless of the assignment." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1012/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Six Photographs. Five photographs of Catholic church buildings and one photograph of a village in Mexico. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1015/thumbnail.jpg

Hand-drawn sketch. "Each mule was carrying eighty bottles of tequila or about 164 pounds. Mule in the smuggling business." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1017/thumbnail.jpg

Hand-drawn sketch. Native American sitting on a rock holding a rifle with a horse right beside him. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1018/thumbnail.jpg

Hand-drawn sketch. "An old ranch house in Starr County known as Rancho Solo, thirty miles from everywhere. While working in this area horse back on one occasion we spent several days in this building during a storm." "pencil drawing by Peavey." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1019/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photograph. "In the early days there was plenty of wild life deer. Were here for the taking anytime, we never had such things as game laws, in Jim Hogg county we had antelope plenty of wild turkey, doves and quail were everywhere in the winter season ducks and geese were plentiful along the coast line and they were easy to take." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1022/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photograph. Border Patrol horses "cooling off" in a river. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1023/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photograph. Texas Rangers with their horses. A old Spanish home is seen in the background. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1037/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Four photographs. Depicted: Mier Expedition 1936 stone; Building where 304 soldiers of the Republic of Texas under Captain Fisher and Cameron in 1841 were held prisoners (location of the historical story with the drawing of the black and white beans); Roma, Texas in 1917, lovers leap, a ledge of rock projecting from the bank of the Rio Grande about 70ft above the water. "JRP not about ready to jump" ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1040/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Two Photographs. "On June 2, 1913, from the top of the bridge with a pair of binoculars I watched the fighting all day, when Lucio Blanco over ran the town of Matamoros again when Felix Rodriguez with 500 men was defeated at Matamoros I was again on the top of this bridge". 1918 photograph of a U.S. Army Liberty engine airplane. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1067/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Tariff of rates for Brownsville, Texas, Fourth Class, June 15th, 1905 pamphlet. Photograph of U.S. Customs and Immigration office of 1921, Hidalgo, Texas. "Left to right Mounted Guard Peavey U.S.I.S. Hidalgo, Inspector Newman, U.S.I.S. John Herreld Inspector in charge U.S.I.S. Walter Clark U.S. Customs, a stranger in the rear." "On May 22, 1917 we eloped in this buggy and were married". Father's day ad for the Echoes From the Rio Grande book. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1071/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Depicted: Former U.S. Post Office in downtown Brownsville, Texas; Peavey, age 22 in 1914 at a sugar plantation near Brownsville "My first job time-keeper on a large sugar plantation near Brownsville, Texas."; Jacket of the Echoes From the Rio Grande book. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1072/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Black and white postcard. One photograph. One Postcard. One reproduction. Depicted: Cunningham & Co. postcard. "On the right is the Cowan residence into which the negro raiders fired twenty shots, August 13th 1906 Brownsville, Texas"; Jacket of book, snake skin reproduction; Echoes From the Rio Grande film snippet directed by Hart Perry.; "Streets in the old city of Brownsville 1905"; "This little Baldwin wood-burning, narrow gauge railroad locomotive, built in Manchester? and was put in.Brownsville.able.a little later, a distance of 22 miles a narrow gauge to the top speed was 20 miles per hour this RR was in operation until 1925 and was known as the Rio Grande Railroad it was a wood burner it would puff out steam and smoke just like the big fellows and it had a bell and whistle." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1080/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Depicted: Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz Interurban (Ferrocarril Urbano de Matamoros) rail car hauled by a mule. "This mule car was used to carry passengers from the river to Matamoros as late as 1923"; "Prospective land buyers looking the Valley over with a land agent 1905 to buss a two-cylinder Franklin [Franklin automobile]."; U.S. Customs station at Hidalgo, Texas in 1910. ".roof of this building was covered with palm fans" "the frame building on the right was the office of the doctor an employee of the immigration service."; illegible receipt. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1082/thumbnail.jpg

Black and white photographs. Five photographs. Depicted: Our Lady of Visitation church in Santa Maria "Santa Maria church built by the Oblate fathers in 1873; Spanish ruins near Santa Maria; 12th street in Brownsville, Texas. "Twelth street Brownsville showing the narrow gauge rail road tracks they were placed there in 1872 and were used as late as 1925."; "Busy street near the old Market Square house in Brownsville, 1905." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1083/thumbnail.jpg