[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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[A damaged commercial building after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: A multi-storied commercial building shows extensive damage to the top floor after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. A metal awning covers the sidewalk in front of the building. Building rubble is heaped in front of the building. An official stands at the far left in front of the building. The commercial building was on the north side of the 300 block of Texas Avenue.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[A drugstore after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: Huge clouds of dark smoke are visible behind and to the left of a commercial building with two store fronts visible. A sign in front of the store on the left reads, in part, "Public Drugs". Windows on the drugstore are boarded closed. In front of the store is a scales. The other store on the right is also boarded up. These buildings were located on the south side of the 300 block of Texas Avenue.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Downtown businesses before the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947
Creator: unknown
Description: A view of part of the business district in Texas City before the 1947 Texas City Disaster. Cars are parked along both sides of the street and are driving down the roads of a four-way intersection. Stores and businesses line the right side of the streets. On the left side a large flag pole stands near the corner. Down the left side of the street, a two-story building can be seen. People are walking or standing along the sidewalks in front of the stores. A bus is pulled up near one corner of the intersection. On the far right, the two nearest businesses have signs which read "Clar[r?]'s Liquor Store" and "Lucas Cafe." Further down the street are signs reading "Plaza Hotel" and "Nusbaum's."
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Stores on 6th Street in Texas City ]
Date: c. 1947
Creator: unknown
Description: Five cars are parked along a street in front of a long building holding small stores. The store signs read : "Jeweler Hetherington", "Westinghouse Appliances Farmer Bros.", "Allan's Shoes" and "Prescriptions Pharmacy." There is a woman standing looking into the window of the shoe store with other people nearby mostly hidden behind a car; a man in a suit and hat walks along the sidewalk in front of the pharmacy.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Near the Post Office and the Showboat Theater in Texas City]
Date: 1940 - 1949
Creator: unknown
Description: Looking north up 6th Street North in the downtown area of Texas City. Cars are parked on both sides of the road. Other cars travel in both directions on the street. A number of people can be seen standing on the corner or walking near the large multi-storied Post Office with the tall flag pole which stands on the corner of the street. Small businesses line both sides of the street. On the left side, beyond the Post Office on the corner, are signs identifying the first building as "Hetherington's Jewelry", and the second building as "Insurance" and "Shoes". On the right side of the street, about two blocks down is a tall multi-storied sign reading "Showboat", [i.e. the Showboat Theater]. A taxi is in the street near the Post Office building on the left corner.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[Clouds of smoke over the business district after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: Two lines of stores and small businesses line a wide street in the business district. Cars are parked at an angle to the curbs on both sides of the street. Very heavy black smoke blankets the far end of the street. Signs on the nearest two businesses on the left read "[C]ity [C]afe" and "Edwards Jewelry". The nearest business on the right displays a sign that says "Berkley's [illegible]".
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[A damaged commercial building after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: A commercial building shows damage to the top part of the building front after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. A sign made of shaped letters on the building front reads "Jack & Jill".
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[A damaged commercial building after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]
Date: 1947-04-16
Creator: unknown
Description: A large multi-storied commercial building shows heavy damage to the top floor. Building rubble is helped in front of the building. Glass has been blown out of the windows and cases of drinks in bottles are visible through the far left window. On the back of the photograph is written: "Cafe".
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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[A commercial building in Texas City]
Date: c. 1940 - 1950
Creator: unknown
Description: An unidentified two-story commercial building stands on the northwest corner of Texas Avenue and Third Street in Texas City. Line markers for parking places are visible in the foreground, so the building is in the business district, although the building on the left was a residence. Three identical signs are posted on the floor-to-ceiling ground floor windows on the left end of the building. To the left of the building, pipes and other materials lie on the ground near another two-story building. To the far right of the picture a sign reading "Frank's Taxi Service" hangs on the side of another building that was once a pawn shop. A car is driving down the street.
Holding Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library
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