Susanna Moehr - Family Picnic
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: Black woman standing beside table.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34177/
Susanna Moehr - Family Picnic
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: Large family gathering outside under the trees. Dorothy Flury Moehr is seated front center with man's hand on her shoulder. She was a teacher at Austin High and at Reagan High for many years.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34176/
Austin American Statesman
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: View of office -- desks with chairs in front.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33236/
Austin American Statesman
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: View of an empty office.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33238/
Austin American Statesman
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: Exterior view of The American Statesman building which was located at 7th and Colorado Streets in 1947.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33237/
Austin American Statesman
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: View of office with five people at work.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33239/
Austin American Statesman
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: View of office at Austin American Statesman - drawers and filing cabinets.
Holding Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33240/
[An honor guard carrying in a casket at the mass burial service for victims of the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: unknown
Description: An honor guard including two civilian and two military pallbearers carry a flower-draped casket at the mass burial service on for the victims of the 1947 Texas City Disaster on June 22, 1947. Two rows of veterans standing at attention line the walkway. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "Honor guard (Veterans?) casket being borne to burial site."
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11700/
[Mourners at the mass burial service for victims of the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: unknown
Description: Mourners at the mass burial service held on June 22, 1947. Rev. F. M. Johnson of the First Baptist Church is standing on the far right. The two women in the middle of the picture are believed to be Angela Garza on the left and Mrs. Saragosa on the right."
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11701/
[Carrying a coffin in preparation for the mass funeral service for victims of the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-06-22
Creator: unknown
Description: Identical coffins decorated with floral sprays are lined up on the porch of the temporary morgue building at Camp Wallace in Hitchcock. Four men dressed in suits carry one coffin to waiting hearses. On the back of the photograph is written: "This is a scene at Camp Wallace in Hitchcock, where the unclaimed bodies were stored in cold storage awaiting identification. The individual caskets were loaded into individual hearses loaned by over 50 funeral homes in southeast Texas. The man carrying casket on right front is John Irwin's brother - don't know name."
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11622/