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Accession#:
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G-18221FF1-1 |
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Title:
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"Greater Galveston Causeway. Commenced September 21, 1909, to be completed June 1st 1911. Cost, $1,500,000.00. Height, 16 feet above mean low tide. Total length, 10,642 feet... It is Three Quarters of a mile from right hand of Photo to shore End of Causeway. Lift Bridge is in center of Causeway." |
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Author:
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J. M. Maurer, Galveston, Texas |
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Format:
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B/w photograph, postcard, colored; copy; 8.6 x 13.7 cm |
| Description: | "Greater Galveston Causeway. Commenced September 21, 1909, to be completed June 1st 1911. Cost, $1,500,000.00. Height, 16 feet above mean low tide. Total length, 10,642 feet... It is Three Quarters of a mile from right hand of Photo to shore End of Causeway. Lift Bridge is in center of Causeway." Painting copyrighted by J. M. Maurer, Galveston, Texas. |
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Date:
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1910 |
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Terms:
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Railroads; Locomotives; Passenger Trains; Galveston Bay; Paintings; Maurer, J. M. |
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labeled Greater Galveston Causeway
Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg
Library, Galveston, Texas. November 2001.