Panoramic view of Aransas Pass, Texas, 1911 – 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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A window into the past: Panoramic view of Aransas Pass, Texas, 1911, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: [Panoramic view of Aransas Pass, Texas]
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Panoramic view of Aransas Pass, Texas, 1911
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Aransas Pass in 1911 was a young Gulf Coast town still measuring its safety against the Galveston hurricane of September 1900, which killed thousands and reshaped how every coastal community on the Texas shore thought about storms. Residents who had lived through that season or heard its accounts knew that a low, wind-exposed island town could be swept away in a night, and that knowledge shaped where people built and how they talked about the Gulf. Beyond the water, Texans followed the Mexican Revolution, which had begun in late 1910, and the border unrest it stirred up made news in local papers and political conversation. This image shows a town looking out at its own shoreline, aware of both the sea and the wider world beyond it.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | chambers, e. p. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,155 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Panoramic view of Aransas Pass, Texas] |
| Reference | TX 1911 Panoramic view of Aransas Pass |
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