Photograph labeled Building a trestle
 Accession#: 
 G-17713FF3.3-1
 Title: 
 "Building a trestle to take the place temporarily of the ruined causeway"
 Author: 
  
 Format: 
 B/w photograph; 7.7 x 10 cm
 Description:  "Building a trestle to take the place temporarily of the ruined causeway.  Notice the rods that were supposed to hold the two walls of the causeway together.  Galveston sand, mixed with water, is darn'd hard stuff to keep in place.  It runs like so much water.  At the left is the broken watermain."  Verso stamped:  Morris-Carter Photo Supply Co., Galveston, Texas. 
 Date: 
 [Aug 1915]
Terms: 
 Bridges - Trestle; Utilities; Water Supply; Pile Drivers; Railroads; Work Trains; Galveston Bay; Morris-Carter Photo Supply Co.

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Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. June 2002.