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[Group of People on Galveston Beach]

Description: Photograph of four women and three men standing in a group on the beach at Galveston. Two of the women are standing together at right, with one of the men crouching behind them; the others are standing a loose line on the sand. A single-story side-gabled building is partially visible behind them at right and there are grasses and plants growing around the building and along the edge of the sand at left.
Date: unknown
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Infantry Bivouac, Army Exhibition, Galveston]

Description: Postcard of an army encampment (a bivouac) at an Army exhibition in Galveston, 1914. Tents are pitched across a grass field, with soldiers seated in groups or walking around them. Larger wooden encampments are visible in the left background, possibly built to resemble the Alamo with barred windows and arched walls. Soldiers stand on the structure, looking out from above. Other Army buildings are in the background at right.
Date: 1914
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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