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[Photograph of Remains of Loyd's House After Hurricane]

Photograph of Loyd's House in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “The remains of Loyd's house. You know it was there where the pretty salt cedars were before you go out on the pier to Loyd's Bath House where the Seashore Club was. Taken from the south side."

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Magnolia Petroleum Co. and Hurricane Debirs]

Photograph of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, a two-story home and debris from the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "On Mesquite Street near the State Hotel."

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Miller Residence]

Photograph of the Miller residence with damages sustained in the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Front view of our house and the Miller house. X points to the wreckage that you don't see from the picture showing the backs of the houses and the sand bank as it is hid by the bank of sand. XX our house. XXX the Miller home. Notice how the mud has caked and cracked at XXXX. What you see in the yard there just above the no. 13 is a pool of oil that ruined th… more

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

[Debris after the hurricane]

Piles of debris after the hurricane in 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of the photo,"X is the old Japonica washed up on the side of the bluff on South Broadway. This is down near the Municipal Pier."

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

[Orchard and garden]

Photograph of an unidentified orchard and garden in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. The garden is not flooded at time of photograph. Flowers are visible in foreground, strawberries to left, and about ten different kinds of trees including pepper and acacia. River is visible from back door looking north.

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of House]

Photograph of a house that has been heavily damaged by a hurricane in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1919. Several windows, fences, and pieces of the house are broken and strewn about the area.

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Goods Drying Outside Furniture Store]

Photograph of businesses in downtown Corpus Christi after the 1919 hurricane. Clothing is hung on lines to dry in front of the furniture store. Horses and wagons stand in the street beside the businesses, Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Sept 1919 - East side of Chap. just north of Lichenstein's (old store) - goods hung out to dry."

Date: September 1919

Item Type: Photograph

[Chaparral and Taylor Streets]

Photograph of debris and damage left from the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, " Sept. 1919, Corner of Chaparral and Taylor Streets - Looking toward bluff - the wrecked house in the foreground was the Cross Studio."

Date: September 1919

Item Type: Photograph

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[Photograph of Remains of Loyd's House After Hurricane]

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[Photograph of Goods Drying Outside Furniture Store]

[Chaparral and Taylor Streets]