Dorothea Lange was one of the greatest American documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Fronteras presents a note about her life and a sampling of her photographs about rural life in 1930s Texas.
by Erin Murrah-Mandril, UT Arlington. Courtesy University of Texas at San Antonio Special Collections. Adina de Zavala was dubbed “the angel of the Alamo” when she barricaded herself in the Alamo building in 1908 to…
Fronteras celebrates the Southwestern photographs of one of the New Deal’s greatest visual ethnographers. by Christopher Conway and Barbara S. Moore, UT Arlington. Selecting seeds in hardware store. San Augustine, Texas. Courtesy of the Library…
Dr. Charles Travis is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington. Fronteras: Congratulations on the publication of the book Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes…
For our newsletter series Fronteras Reprints, we republish nineteenth and early twentieth-century documents of historical and cultural interest. David Woodman Jr.’s Guide to Texas Emigrants (1835) was a popular book for emigrants planning to move…
