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[Train near the grain elevator after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A line of damaged freight cars runs horizontally across the image in front of a large grain elevator. The topmost edge of the nearest end of the grain elevator is missing, and damage is evident at other places on the structure. In front of the train tracks stand two large power poles. One pole has snapped into several drooping pieces. In the foreground, metal debris and a hose lie scattered over other sets of tracks. Wooden and metal debris are visible on the embankment leading up to the tr… more
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

Troops at Texas City, Tex.

Description: A large number of soldiers in uniform are gathered in small groups in a field engaged in a variety of tasks. A group of three soldiers is standing in the foreground with hands on hips or in pockets, looking at something off to the right of the photo. Another soldier stands near them facing away from the camera. Wording on photo front: "Troops at Texas City Tex."
Date: [1913..1915]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

Twenty-sixth Infantry Band now at Texas City

Description: Twenty three soldiers in uniform stand in two rows in a semicircle holding brass and woodwind musical instruments. Metal music stands are arranged in front of the soldiers. Another soldier stands facing the camera in front of a music stand while holding a musical conductor's baton in one hand. Wording on photo front :"26t Inf. Band. Texas City Higby Photo."
Date: [1913..1915]
Creator: Higby
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Two locomotives and power plant debris after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two damaged steam locomotives sit amid metal and wooden debris from the power plant and shop buildings damaged in the concussion from the explosions. A large smokestack is visible behind the rightmost locomotive, but the structure next to it is heavily damaged with only the metal structural frame standing. To the right rear, only parts of one wall of a building remain standing; the rest of the building has been destroyed down to within a few feet of the foundation level. Behind the leftmost l… more
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[The U.S. Coast Guard fighting a fire during the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A Coast Guard ship sprays fire on debris in the harbor near the Seatrain loading crane. Debris covers the water in the foreground, and covers the piers and dock area. A large multi-storied building stands with most of its metal framework exposed. Heavy smoke covers the area. The number "64309" can be seen on the prow of the ship.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[A view of the port area after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A view of the shoreline structures near the warehouses in the port area after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. This picture is taken from out on the water of the bay looking toward the warehouse buildings. At the far right are the destroyed docks and pier structures. Parts of the metal framework of the warehouse buildings are visible. A large cloud of white smoke comes from the area near the warehouses. Heavy black smoke covers the horizon behind the white smoke clouds.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[A view of the port from a residential area after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: This photograph was taken from above street level from the post office located at the NW corner of 6th Street and 3rd Avenue, looking toward the port. At a four-way intersection with a stoplight, two policemen direct traffic. Some refinery facilities and the grain elevator are visible in the distance and clouds of dark smoke flow from left to right. Approximately 20 cars are visible, driving along the streets or parked along the roadsides. Two women walk down a street. Three men stand at a … more
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[A view of the Union Carbide storage terminal after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Behind a wall, round storage tanks stand in rows, showing compression damage with sides and roofs dented, warped and crushed. Behind the round tanks, a spherical tank with a spiralling staircase can be seen. In the foreground, four sets of parallel railroad tracks cross the pictures. Pieces of pipes, valves, railroad ties and other debris are scattered over the ground. A wheeled vehicle sits on one set of tracks and two sets of buckets or scoops sit between two sets of tracks.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.370267 -94.942259
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Waiting outside John Sealy Hospital for news about survivors after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Groups of people are gathered on both sides of the street leading to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, waiting for word on survivors of the 1947 Texas City Disaster. A nurse stands in front of the entrance. The caption on back of the photograph reads: "Anxious relatives wait outside John Sealy Hospital in Galveston".
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[A water tower, pipeline, damaged structure and train cars after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: In the foreground, a pipeline crosses an open field. A watertower stands at the far left of the picture. Four rail boxcars and at least three tanker cars sit in a line. The tops of damaged tanks are visible behind the rail cars. A large one-story structure, heavily damaged, stands at the right of the picture. Debris is scattered across the field. Heavy clouds of black and white smoke rise in the background.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[William R. Blocker and friends sitting in a tree in the summer of 1914]

Description: Five young men sit in a large banch of a tree. The men are dressed in long-sleeved white shirts with ties; one is wearing a suit jacket. On the back of the photograph is written: "Summer 1914." The gentleman are listed as "Paul Hayes, Elisha Myers, W. R. Blocker, Henry Foster[l?], J. F. Elliott." (W. R. Blocker is the man in the middle of the group).
Date: 1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[William R. Blocker Portrait]

Description: A portrait of William R. Blocker, dressed in a dark, three-piece suit with a white shirt and tie. In the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph is raised lettering reading "Bartlett Clarendon Tex". On the bottom of the portrait, written in cursive writing is "Bill Blocker." The photograph is accompanied by an envelope on which is written "When Will was at Clarendon College, 1922-23, 1923-24."
Date: [1920..1929]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[The Wilson B. Keene after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: The ruined hull of the Wilson B. Keene lists heavily toward shore after the explosions. The two-story warehouse on its right is heavily damaged. Down the shore line, piles of debris can be seen, as well as another heavily damaged building on the shoreline. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "The Wilson B Keen (sic) half submerged at the main slip".
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[The Wilson B. Keene after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: The ruined hull of the Wilson B. Keene sits in the harbor after the explosions. The right side of the deck is tilted toward the dock and is partially submerged. Debris covers the water around the ship. Piers and docks on the other side of the slip are destroyed. On the right side, a group of rescue workers is working between the ship and the badly damaged warehouse next to it.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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