Officers 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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A window into the past: Officers Texas City, 1913, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Officers, 4th and 6th Brigade, 2nd Div., Texas City, April 1913
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Officers Texas City, 1913
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Texas City, on the western shore of Galveston Bay, was a young town in 1913, only about two decades past its founding in 1891 by Minnesota investors who hoped to make it a deepwater port and rail terminal. Its prospects depended on the railroads that carried cotton, grain, and other goods to the Gulf, and on the larger city of Galveston across the bay, which set the pace for commerce on the coast. A group of officers posed together for this panoramic photograph, a sign of the civic and fraternal organizations that governed and steadied a community still building its streets, schools, and wharves. Such portraits recorded who held local authority at a time when the town was still defining itself.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | maurer, joseph m. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,153 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Officers, 4th and 6th Brigade, 2nd Div., Texas City, April 1913 |
| Reference | TX 1913 Officers Texas City |
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