Galveston disaster trying to find where their home stood – 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 Galveston disaster trying to find where their home stood, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Galveston disaster trying to find where their home stood
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The 1900 Galveston hurricane struck the Texas coast on September 8, 1900, and this stereoview captures one of its quieter aftermaths: survivors picking through the wreckage of their neighborhoods to figure out where their houses had stood. The card was published by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, a firm that sold stereographs to a public eager for images of distant events, and it was registered for copyright, which helped it reach a wide audience. Because the storm flattened much of the low-lying island city and killed thousands, scenes like this one became a grim record of how the disaster felt at street level.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | D19960 U.S. Copyright Office. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Hurricanes--Texas--Galveston--1900. Disasters--Texas--Galveston--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,243 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271088 |
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