2nd Div.Texas City, 1914 – 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: 2nd Div.Texas City, 1914, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade, 11th & 22nd Inf's.), Texas City, Texas, 1914
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2nd Div.Texas City, 1914
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Texas City, on the north shore of Galveston Bay, was a young company town in 1914, laid out in the 1890s to serve as a rail and shipping outlet on the Gulf Coast. Its railroad yards and docks handled cargo moving between the Texas interior and the wider Gulf, and its growth depended on the rail line and the bay trade rather than on the older island city of Galveston. The title "2nd Div." suggests a numbered unit of the state militia, the kind of organization Texas drew on that year as tensions with Mexico ran high along the border and in the Gulf. For residents, the town was a place of wharves, rail sidings, and a steady flow of workers and soldiers passing through, and the photograph records a moment when military organization and civic life were closely intertwined.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | medley & blandford |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 969 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade, 11th & 22nd Inf's.), Texas City, Texas, 1914 |
| Reference | TX 2nd Div.Texas City 1914 |
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