4th Field Art & Engineers Texas City, 1914 – Historic Photograph 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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This rare historic image captures 4th Field Art & Engineers Texas City, 1914 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: 4th Field Artillery & Engineers Camp, Texas City, Texas, 1914
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4th Field Art & Engineers Texas City, 1914
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Texas City, on the north shore of Galveston Bay, was a young railroad and port town in 1914, having been platted in the early 1890s around a rail terminal and waterfront. Its economy rested on shipping cotton, grain, and other goods out through its docks, and its growth had been shaped by the 1900 Galveston hurricane, which pushed residents, business, and investment toward the mainland. In 1914 the Mexican Revolution kept the Army busy along the Texas border and on the Gulf coast, and units were moved, drilled, and quartered across the state. This photograph shows soldiers of the 4th Field Artillery and engineers gathered at Texas City, a reminder that the town's rail and dock facilities made it a useful staging point. Residents would have known the place as a busy shipping town that had come back from the storm years before.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | medley & blandford |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,061 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 4th Field Artillery & Engineers Camp, Texas City, Texas, 1914 |
| Reference | TX 1914 4th Field Art & Engineers Texas City |
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