1920's

drawing of gold banner with P.V.C. (Prairie View College), small blue string at top left, Compass Rose logo top right

The Pinkie J. Harris Collection: HBCU Connections

Pinkie J. Harris was a Texas Educator who had a social, familial, and academic network that spanned Texas. The letters her and her son, Thompson…

Cropped image with "The Compass Rose" logo. Crop of the two men in this image: A Mexican woman and two Mexican men, photographed in Breckenridge, Texas, 1920. The three are standing, the woman to the farthest left, and the two men next to her, both wearing hats.

The Style of the Day: Fashion in 1920's Breckenridge, Texas

What did people in the 1920's look like? See some of our photographs of the Mexican-American community of Breckenridge, Texas, and learn about the…