Texas Historic Bridges along the Gulf Coast

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Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas, with Railroad Bridge in background. Copied from original stereograph. Photographers stamp on back: “Barr & Wright, Photographers, / Houston, Texas.” Courtesy of Captain T.K. Treadwell. UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

International Bridge, Brownsville, Texas, 1913 . Photograph shows the 1910 International Bridge across the Rio Grande River. Courtesy of the Texas Southmost College Library. UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

Aransas Pass, Texas, ca. 1930 . Train used to carry cars from Aransas Pass, Texas to Harbor Island, where cars then boarded ferry for Port Aransas. Locomotive was originally a model-T Ford truck converted to run on rails. Courtesy of F.A. Schmidt. UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.