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[Board of Trade Building in early Texas City]

[Board of Trade Building in early Texas City]
Description:

A photograph of the Texas City Board of Trade building in the early 1900's. The building is three stories high with Texas City National Bank and Goodson Drugstore on the ground floor at the right of the building. On the front of the building are large letters spelling "BOARD OF TRADE". On the side of the building with the bank and drugstore entrances and the letters "T C E L & W C O".
Five automobiles and parked around the building. A number of men dressed in suits and hats are gathered outside the building.

Creator: Unknown
Location:
Creation Date: 1907 - 1908
Partner(s):
Moore Memorial Public Library
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Collection(s):
Rescuing Texas History, 2006
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Creator:
Unknown
[Board of Trade Building in early Texas City]
Original Creation Date: 1907 - 1908
Coverage:
Place
United States - Texas - Galveston County - Texas City
Era
New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression, 1877-1939
From 1907 to 1908
Description:

A photograph of the Texas City Board of Trade building in the early 1900's. The building is three stories high with Texas City National Bank and Goodson Drugstore on the ground floor at the right of the building. On the front of the building are large letters spelling "BOARD OF TRADE". On the side of the building with the bank and drugstore entrances and the letters "T C E L & W C O".
Five automobiles and parked around the building. A number of men dressed in suits and hats are gathered outside the building.

Note:

[This photograph was also published on page 22 in Texas City : Images of the Twentieth Century by Collier A. Campbell and Susie M. Moncla, published by The Donning Company Publishers in 1999. The caption there is listed as "Board of Trade Building, now Mainland Building, 1907-1908."]
Physical Description:

1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 7 in.
Language: No Language
Subject(s):
Partner:
Moore Memorial Public Library
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Collection:
Rescuing Texas History, 2006
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Identifier:
  • LOCAL-CONT-NO: TCIM-18
  • ARK: ark:/67531/metapth15189
Resource Type: Photograph
Format: Image

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