[Aerial view of the port after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: An aerial view of the port area after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. Storage tanks, some refinery facilities, the grain elevator, docks, slips, and dock warehouse areas are visible.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11704/
[Aerial view of the port after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-17
Creator: unknown
Description: An aerial view of the port area after the explosions. White smoke rises from the destroyed dock area. The Monsanto building, refinery facilities, storage tanks, and the grain elevator are visible. Many of the storage tanks have visible damage. Piers and docks show almost total destruction.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Inspecting the damage after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: Four men in suits, ties and hats walk down a road toward a truck near the grain elevator after the explosions. On the right are heaps of twisted metal including girders, pipes, corrugated metal and barrels. A power pole leans to the right. Several freight cars sit near the grain elevator. On the left side is a huge pile of debris including pipes. Some of the elevated pipelines are visibly damaged. In the distance on the left is a heavily-damaged multi-story building.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Looking toward the port from the Post Office after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: The flag at the Post Office flies at half mast while in the background clouds of black and white smoke rise from fires down near the port. Taken from a level above the ground floor, looking down the wide street alongside the post office, one can see to the grain elevator and the water tower in the far background. Cars are parked along the street. Signs of the stores and businesses lining the street read as follows: "Agee's Drugs", "J. R. Smith Co.", "Cookies, Grocery & Market, CocaCola."
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Aerial view of the port facilities and the grain elevator after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: An aerial view of the port area after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. A large cargo ship is moored at one of the slips. Three other smaller ships are on the water. Clearly visible are the grain elevator, the smoke stack, the Seatrain loading crane, the Longhorn II aground, damaged storage tanks and the destroyed warehouses and docks. One wall remains from the power house near the grain elevator, and the heavy damage to the Texas City Terminal building can be seen. The badly damaged hull of the Wilson B. Keene can be seen near the Texas City Terminal building. In the bottom right corner is a badly crushed storage tank.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Aerial view of the port facilities and grain elevator before the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-15
Creator: unknown
Description: An aerial view of the Texas City port before the 1947 Disaster. A large cargo ship is in one of the slips. The grain elevator with the conveyor system, the Seatrain loading crane, warehouses, and docks and piers are identifiable. In the background, part of the residential area of the city is visible.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11728/
[Rescue workers search for survivors at the Texas City Terminal building after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: A group of approximately 25 men are standing on a huge pile of debris near the grain elevator, looking through rubble. Metal girders, wooden beams and assorted debris is piled at least ten foot high. What appears to have been the roof structure of a building has collapsed on top of vehicles. Parts of at least two vehicles can be seen in the debris-- one on the far right has been crushed under the collapsed structure and on the one on the far left has been overturned with its wheels in the air.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Aerial view of the Monsanto plant and port facilities after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: An aerial view of the port after the explosions. The heavily damaged Monsanto building, the grain elevator, tank farms and storage tanks and the destroyed docks and warehouses are visible. Written on the reverse side of the photograph is: "The Monsanto plant (in right foreground) received extensive damage to office buildings and equipment. There was heavy loss of life among employees."
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11733/
[Aerial view of the grain elevator, the Monsanto building and the Wilson B. Keene after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: An aerial view of the grain elevator, the damaged Monsanto building, the Seatrain loading crane and the port area after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. The ruined hull of the Wilson B. Keene is partially submerged at Slip 1. In the lower left hand corner is a badly crushed storage tank. The Longhorn II resting on dry ground is visible near the middle of the picture.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11729/
[The grain elevator after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: The grain elevator, showing damage to the tower and the top of the end cylinder section, after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. In the foreground, stacks of a long rectangular product and a pile of pipes have been toppled. Corrugated metal debris and pipes are scattered in the foreground.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11715/