Galveston disaster merchants drying goods after flood – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Galveston disaster merchants drying goods after flood. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Galveston disaster merchants drying goods after flood
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The Galveston hurricane of September 1900 left much of the city's downtown under water, and this stereo card shows the aftermath of that storm, with merchants spreading damaged goods out to dry. Such scenes were common in the weeks after the disaster, when business owners tried to salvage stock from ruined storefronts. The card was issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, one of several firms that sold stereoviews of the event to a national audience eager for news of the storm. Its surviving copyright notation and publisher credit make it a useful record of how commercial photographers packaged a regional catastrophe for the parlor table.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | D19978 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Hurricanes--Texas--Galveston--1900. Disasters--Texas--Galveston--1900. Floods--Texas--Galveston--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271087 |
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