Mobilization Camp Texas City, 1913 – 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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Mobilization Camp Texas City, 1913 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Mobilization Camp, 23rd, 26th and 27th Regiments, Texas City, Tex.
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Mobilization Camp Texas City, 1913
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Texas City in 1913 was a young port on the west shore of Galveston Bay, founded in the early 1890s by investors from Minnesota who hoped to rival Galveston across the water. Its economy rested on shipping the cotton and rice grown on the coastal prairies behind it, and the town was still small enough that a single new institution could change daily life. The mobilization camp brought uniformed men, horses, and supply wagons into streets that normally saw farmers, dockworkers, and rail crews. Residents would have known their town as a Gulf shipping point still finding its footing, and a camp of soldiers was a sharp reminder that state military concerns reached even small harbors.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | maurer, joseph m. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,127 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mobilization Camp, 23rd, 26th and 27th Regiments, Texas City, Tex. |
| Reference | TX 1913 Mobilization Camp Texas City |
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