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John Dungan Returning from France in 1919
Photograph of a large group of soldiers in rows coming down a ramp out of a multi-story building at Newport News, Virginia. They are disembarking from France after returning WWI. One of the soldiers is identified as John Dungan, cousin of Lloyd Booth.
Date:
1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chaparral and Taylor Streets]
Photograph of debris and damage left from the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, " Sept. 1919, Corner of Chaparral and Taylor Streets - Looking toward bluff - the wrecked house in the foreground was the Cross Studio."
Date:
September 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Goods Drying Outside Furniture Store]
Photograph of businesses in downtown Corpus Christi after the 1919 hurricane. Clothing is hung on lines to dry in front of the furniture store. Horses and wagons stand in the street beside the businesses, Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Sept 1919 - East side of Chap. just north of Lichenstein's (old store) - goods hung out to dry."
Date:
September 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of House]
Photograph of a house that has been heavily damaged by a hurricane in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1919. Several windows, fences, and pieces of the house are broken and strewn about the area.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Orchard and garden]
Photograph of an unidentified orchard and garden in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. The garden is not flooded at time of photograph. Flowers are visible in foreground, strawberries to left, and about ten different kinds of trees including pepper and acacia. River is visible from back door looking north.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Debris after the hurricane]
Piles of debris after the hurricane in 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of the photo,"X is the old Japonica washed up on the side of the bluff on South Broadway. This is down near the Municipal Pier."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Miller Residence]
Photograph of the Miller residence with damages sustained in the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Front view of our house and the Miller house. X points to the wreckage that you don't see from the picture showing the backs of the houses and the sand bank as it is hid by the bank of sand. XX our house. XXX the Miller home. Notice how the mud has caked and cracked at XXXX. What you see in the yard there just above the no. 13 is a pool of oil that ruined things. Of course this was taken quite a little while after the storm. You see only the remains of what was once a beautiful lawn. The little tree you see at the side or our house and the Palm in front are all that kept it from floating away."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Magnolia Petroleum Co. and Hurricane Debirs]
Photograph of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, a two-story home and debris from the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "On Mesquite Street near the State Hotel."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Remains of Loyd's House After Hurricane]
Photograph of Loyd's House in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “The remains of Loyd's house. You know it was there where the pretty salt cedars were before you go out on the pier to Loyd's Bath House where the Seashore Club was. Taken from the south side."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Ice Factory Ruins]
Photograph of the remains of the ice factories in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “What is left of one of the ice factories. Notice the bales of cotton washed up here."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cars overturned on the beach]
Photograph of overturned cars on the beach in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, "Cars left on the beach after the storm. You see how clean it is swept. So many places are swept so clean or are so wrecked that you actually can't tell what they were or hardly tell where you are."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Damaged Corpus Christi Neighborhood After 1919 Hurricane]
Photograph of a damaged neighborhood in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “The block (now a sandy bank) back of Miller's. Lichtenstein's & our houses. You know it was full of houses."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chaparral Street north of drug store with storm debris]
Photograph of Chaparral Street, flooded with a large pile of debis. Plaza Hotel stands to the right. Inscription on back of photo reads, "Chaparral St. just north of the city Drug Store. X shows the Plaza Hotel (the one across from the park) out in the middle of the street. You know there were buildings all along where the vacant spots are now. The picture covers two blocks. X the Horne Apartments."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Wreckage Near North Beach]
Photograph of wreckage out toward North Beach in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Back of our house]
Photograph of a damaged house in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “Back of our house. Notice the windows also, where our kitchen used to be. We used to have to go up several steps to get into it, but not now."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Damaged two-story building]
Photograph of a heavily-damaged two-story brick and concrete building. Inscription on the back of the photo, "You can see how close this is to the bay - just across a paved street - and see how bare it is all around. This was full of buildings, notice the thick brick walls covered with a concrete layer. This is just across the street south of the Nueces Hotel."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Streetcar Overturned in Road]
Photograph of an overturned streetcar in the middle of the road in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Caption says, “About five blocks north of where we lived. This was taken after Christmas.
Date:
December 1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Local Homes After Hurricane]
Photograph of a number of houses off their foundations in the aftermath of the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Notice this picture of the high sand bank that washed up back of us. You can see how high it is by the way it hides our house at X. O is the Rainey and Simpson house. XO the Hendrix house (mama's friend you know). Notice how the porch floor banisters and porch columns are missing there. XX is the wreck of the Miller home (you know he is the man we sent the telegram to) and XX are the houses that were across the street at the side of the Miller home." Written on the front of the photo, "Roy Miller Res."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hardin Court Grocery and Market]
Photograph of a concrete building that is half gone after the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Written on the front of the building is "Dignified Helpful Credit Co." and "Hardin Court Grocery and Market" Inscribed on the back of the photo, "What is left of Hardin Court. You know this was a concrete building here. This was so full of houses in here that you could barely see between them. Of course the street has been cleared. These were all taken three weeks after the storm you know and not half as bad as it was."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of North Beach After Hurricane]
Photograph of debris on the north beach in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Remains of Loyd's House]
Photograph of debris and boards near the Bay Front after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Between Chaparral Street and Bay near Loyd's pier and bath house near the Methodist Church. X what is left of Loyd's house. You know what a pretty salt cedar arbor there was too." Written on the front of the photo, "Bay Front"
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Japonica, Run Aground]
Photograph of the Japonica sitting on the beach in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chaparral Street with trees down]
Photograph of houses on Chaparral Street by the Seashore Club. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Down by the Seashore Club (Loyd's Pier). Notice the pretty salt cedar from the arbor, also another if those big tree trunks. There have been streets here but not now." Written on the front of the photo, "Chaparral St."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Downtown Corpus Christi after the flood]
Photograph of downtown Corpus Christi after the hurricane of 1919. Debris is being cleared in front of the Nueses Hotel, a furniture company and Lichtenstein's store. Inscribed on the back of the photo, " Clearing away wreckage down-town on Chapaeral St. Lichtenstein's have their things out trying to dry them. X is the Nueces Hotel. This is where the water was up in the lobby."
Date:
1919
Creator:
Shirkey, Marie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History