1900 Storm Online Manuscript Exhibit

Martin Nicholson Papers

MSS #68-0009

 Accession#: 
68-0009
 Title: 
Martin Nicholson Papers
 Author: 
Nicholson, Martin
 Format: 
Manuscript, 1 item, 5 postcards + envelope
 Description:  Nicholson's account relating his Storm experiences to his wife and daughter.  Martin was a night jailer for the Galveston County Jail.  He lived at 1809 Avenue N 1/2.  Text reproduced in Casey Edward Greene and Shelly Henley Kelly, Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c2000), 42-45. 
 Date: 
Sep 14, [1900]
Terms: 
Water; Houses; Avenue M 1/2 - 1809; Mud; Cisterns; Martial Law

Documents
1st postcard
2nd postcard
3rd postcard
4th postcard
5th postcard

Funding for the 1900 Storm Photo Exhibit was provided by a TexTreasures grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the  Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

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Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. December 2001.