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The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

January 21, 2022

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

Robert Runyon was an astoundingly prolific photographer of the Texas-México borderlands at the turn of the twentieth century. The University of Texas at Austin hosts over 14,000 photographs donated by the Runyon family, along with related manuscript materials. Much of the collection is available digitally, and the Briscoe Center for American History also houses Runyon’s […]

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