6th Cavalry Camp, Texas City, 1914 – Antique 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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6th Cavalry Camp, Texas City, 1914 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: 6th Cavalry Camp, mobilized at Texas City, Texas
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6th Cavalry Camp, Texas City, 1914
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Texas City, on the north shore of Galveston Bay, was a young railroad and shipping town in 1914, laid out only about two decades earlier by northern investors who hoped to use the bay as a deepwater outlet for Texas cotton and grain. Its growth depended on the rail lines that reached the waterfront and the freight handling that moved goods out to the Gulf. In 1914 the United States Army kept many cavalry units along the Texas side of the Rio Grande as the Mexican Revolution spilled across the border, so a regiment camped near town brought soldiers, horses and army payrolls into the local economy. Residents still measured coastal risk by the Galveston hurricane of 1900, which shaped how people in the region thought about storms and seawalls.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | medley & blandford |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,103 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 6th Cavalry Camp, mobilized at Texas City, Texas |
| Reference | TX 1914 6th Cavalry Camp, Texas City |
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