Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) staff and research assistant piece together the fragile El Independiente newspaper published in Devine, Texas in 1912. El Independiente is one of 200 periodicals selected for digitization as part of the Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region, a grant-funded effort supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH).