Photograph of wrecked houses
 Accession#: 
G-17713FF9.1-1
 Title: 
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 Format: 
B/w photograph; 5.2 x 7.7 cm
 Description:  Wrecked houses.  "You can't argue with water when your soil is quicksand.  They pumped the soil in from the gulf, so of course it will flow away when water hits it.  This was a well built house, once."  Verso stamped:  Morris-Carter Photo Supply Co., Galveston, Tex.
 Date: 
[Aug 1915]
Terms: 
Street Scenes; Seawall Boulevard; Morris-Carter Photo Supply Co.

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Rosenberg Library > GTHC > 1915 Storm > Residential > Photograph of wrecked houses
Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. November 2001.