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[Debris on Chaparral Street]

Description: Photograph of homes, hotels and debris in Corpus Christi after the 1919 hurricane. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "On Chaparral. X the Tatum house on the corner where the street cars turned to go to Nueces Bay Heights and Hillcrest. XX the Williams Hotel - the new brick hotel neat Rankins."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Downtown Corpus Christi after the flood]

Description: Photograph of downtown Corpus Christi after the hurricane of 1919. Debris is being cleared in front of the Nueses Hotel, a furniture company and Lichtenstein's store. Inscribed on the back of the photo, " Clearing away wreckage down-town on Chapaeral St. Lichtenstein's have their things out trying to dry them. X is the Nueces Hotel. This is where the water was up in the lobby."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer, September 14, 1949]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer discussing about the Texas Prudential Insurance Company's convention honoring to agents who have sold the specified volume of life insurances and few other invited guests and requesting Dan and other San Antonio family to join.
Date: September 14, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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[News Clip: Hurricane Allen]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1980
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Selena trial]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1995
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The park under water]

Description: Photograph of the park in downtown Corpus Christi which is flooded after the hurricane of 1919. Inscription on the back of the photo, "The park - after people were able to take a few pictures before the water was all down. X is the old Winona Hotel sitting with one end out in the street."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Flood Waters Around Old Winona Hotel]

Description: Photograph of the remains of the old Winona Hotel in standing water after the Corpus Christi hurricane of 1919. Inscription on the back of the photo, "The four rooms of the old Winona Hotel that were left standing - sitting out in the street. Of course the streets run the way the arrows point even though you can't tell it and the park is there - if you can get it figured out about XX. See the bed upstairs in the room!"
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Given's house and Seaside Hotel]

Description: Photograph of a house and a hotel that sustained damage from the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Sept. 1919 - Cor. Chap. and Taylor Sts. Royal Givens house (on corner) and all that's left of Seaside Hotel - the bay is to the right of the picture."
Date: September 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Hotel Wreckage]

Description: Photograph of buildings along the shoreline surrounded by debris after the Corpus Christi hurricane of 1919. Inscription on the back of the photo reads, "Somewhere among the wreckage there is a paved street running back to the bay and this street ran along by the Seaside Hotel where the pretty salr cedar arbor was and back toward the Pavilion Hotel out over the bay. At the X is the Nueces Hotel and what you see on this side is the Horne (?) Apartments. This takes in about two blocks and over. A… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History
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