Keywords: Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Rio Grande City, Texas LCCN2014631830.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Built to resemble the shrine in Lourdes in the South of France The Rev Gustav Gollbach a German born priest who was the pastor of the neighboring Immaculate Conception Catholic Church built much of the grotto himself The mountain is decorated with plants from the desert surrounding Rio Grande City and the rocks were gathered from nearby Roma and the petrified wood from Escobares The concrete posts were formed to look like the branches from trees ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014631830 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/27600/27630a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 27630 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 27630 26 22 8695 0 N 98 49 1513 0 W alt 61_source exif_heading 267 39 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |