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[Photograph of Galveston Island Hurricane]

Description: Photograph of the Galveston Island hurricane. The Ursuline Convent and Ursuline School, built by Nicholas Clayton in Galveston, can be seen with wreckage in the foreground. It stood on the block bounded by 25th Street and 27th Streets, between Avenue's N and O.
Date: 1900
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[A portrait of Col. Hugh B. Moore]

Description: A professional full-length portrait of Col. Hugh B. Moore. He is dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and dark bow tie, with the jacket unbuttoned, and wears a hat on his head. He holds a partially smoked cigar in his left hand.
Date: [1900..1913]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Colonel Hugh Benton Moore, Captain A. B. Wolvin and others at the Texas City docks around 1907]

Description: A group of seven businessmen stand on the Texas City dock. Behind them can be seen a large cargo ship docked. To the left of the picture, stands a warehouse building. An automobile is parked near the men. The driver, in long white coat, hat and gloves stands by the front left fender. The first man in the line of seven, with the numeral "1" written underneath on the photograph, is identified as Captain Wolvin of Duluth; he leans on the right front of the car. Col. Hugh B. Moore, carrying a c… more
Date: 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Texas City Post Office in 1908]

Description: A photographic print of the Texas City Post Office in 1908. The second building from the left along a dirt road, the post office is a two story wooden building with a flat roof and a porch. To the left of the post office is a large two story house with a fenced hard. To the right of the post office, down the road from the post office are several two story buildings. On the photograph, in front of the building with the flat roof, is written :"P. O."
Date: 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[An ice cream social at the First Methodist Church in Texas City around 1909]

Description: Three young ladies, dressed in white shirtfronts, lockets and long white skirts are sitting on chairs in a room eating ice cream. A young man, dressed in a dark suit jacket and plaid pants, eats ice cream from a large ladle. The ice cream tin and an extra plate sit on a wooden chair in front of the young ladies. The room holds other wooden chairs and a podium, behind the people. A map of the United States and a framed certificate are on the back wall. The room appears to be either a church… more
Date: [1906..1909]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Board of Trade Building in early Texas City]

Description: A photograph of the Texas City Board of Trade building in the early 1900's. The building is three stories high with Texas City National Bank and Goodson Drugstore on the ground floor at the right of the building. On the front of the building are large letters spelling "BOARD OF TRADE". On the side of the building with the bank and drugstore entrances and the letters "T C E L & W C O". Five automobiles and parked around the building. A number of men dressed in suits and hats are gathered out… more
Date: [1907..1908]
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Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Bob Wedell]

Description: Bob Wedell, dressed in a white shirt, dark pants and tie, stands with one hand on his hip outside. Behind him can be seen a house, some trees and a fence. There is a black area on the print from the left center to the center bottom of the image.
Date: [1900..1903]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

Plan of the city of Galveston showing proposed sea wall and raising of grade.

Description: Map shows early twentieth century street names and layout of the city of Galveston, Texas and the location of a proposed sea wall. Includes diagram of a cross section of the proposed sea wall, text describing the flooding history of Galveston Island, and estimated cost of the project. Insets: "Cross Section of Proposed Sea Wall," "10th Street," "25th Street," and "39th Street." Relief shown through diagrams. Scale [ca. 1:18,000].
Date: 1902
Creator: Clarke & Courts.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Postcard of Main Street in League City]

Description: Postcard photograph of League City's Main Street (now Second Street) looking west toward the railroad station. The O. V. King house is third on the left. The postcard includes a short letter on the back and a Benjamin Franklin one cent stamp.
Date: 1901
Creator: Schlueter, F. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library
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