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    Texas City disaster area, 1949 post-explosion photographs

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    Date
    circa 1949
    Description
    Photographs taken from the air. Photographer unknown.
    Citation
    "Texas City disaster area, 1949 post-explosion photographs." (1949) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21675.
    Abstract
    Photographs of the Texas City, Texas waterfront which was devastated by the April 16, 1947 disaster which occurred when a French ship carrying fertilizer on Galveston Bay caught fire and exploded. The nearby Monsanto styrene plant and other petroleum refineries, homes, warehouses, ships and buildings were largely destroyed. At least 576 were killed and 4,000 injured, with the town being almost completely destroyed.
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    Rice University
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21675
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    Managed by the Digital Scholarship Services at Fondren Library, Rice University
    Physical Address: 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
    Mailing Address: MS-44, P.O.BOX 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892