2nd Div. less 5th Brigade, Texas City, 1914 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with 2nd Div. less 5th Brigade, Texas City, 1914, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade), Texas City, Texas, 1914
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2nd Div. less 5th Brigade, Texas City, 1914
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Texas City, on the north shore of Galveston Bay, was a young railroad and shipping town in 1914, built around its rail yards and wharves. That spring, the Veracruz and Tampico incidents with Mexico had pushed the United States Army to gather troops along the Gulf Coast, and the regulars of the 2nd Division were assembled in and around Texas City in the same period. The men in this photograph, with the 5th Brigade absent from the formation, would have been part of a force waiting to see whether the crisis across the border would turn into a campaign. For local residents, the sight of thousands of uniformed soldiers on the prairie beside the bay meant crowded streets, business for merchants and boarding houses, and a town suddenly aware of its place in national affairs.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | medley & blandford |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 942 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade), Texas City, Texas, 1914 |
| Reference | TX 1914 2nd Div. less 5th Brigade, Texas City |
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