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[Photograph of House on North Beach]

Description: Photograph of two women and a man standing by the ruins of a house after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of photo, "Taken at that house left on North Beach. Mama wasn't quite ready but you can see that big tree trunk that came from nobody - knows - where."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of House Surrounded by Debris]

Description: Photograph of a two-story house surrounded by debris from the Corpus Christi hurricane of 1919. Shingles and siding are torn from the house. Boards and bales of cotton are strewn about the area. Caption on the back reads, "The house and surrounding shoreline in no.19."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Lichtenstein's Home]

Description: Photograph of a house damaged in the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of the photo, "Lichtenstein's house, notice the oil streaks, also how it leans against our little old shack."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Sand Bank Near Homes]

Description: Photograph of two homes with a sand bank behind them after the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Ours and Lichtenstein's houses showing the sand bank. A very poor picture and entirely too small to tell much about. Notice that the high board fence isn't needed now we have a bank instead."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Simpson and Miller Homes After Hurricane]

Description: Photograph of a couple homes left standing after the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "This is in the block back of our house. All this was covered with houses. The dark streaks you see are oil streaks. X is the Simpson's house and XX Miller's."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of House and Sand Bank]

Description: Photograph of a house with a large sand bank behind it. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Back of our house taken from the sand bank that was washed up there. You know how pretty and level it was there before the storm."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Lichtenstein's house]

Description: Photograph of a house damaged in the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of the photo, "Lichtenstein's house after the storm. See how it was washed over against our house. Notice that our house is without a foundation. Notice the oil on our porch posts. These pictures are so small they don't tell half of the story."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Mrs. Hendrix Porch After Hurricane]

Description: Photograph of a woman standing on her back porch looking over the debris and wreckage left by the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of the photo, "A back yard across the street from us. Mrs. Hendrix and little girl. My friend you heard me speak of so often. She is standing on her back porch."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Miller Residence]

Description: 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 th… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Hurricane-Ravaged Homes]

Description: Photograph of a number of homes that sustained damage during the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "X back of the Miller's house next door to us. XX little cottage back of Miller's and us. Out in the middle of the street, now on top of that big bank of shell."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Two-Story Home]

Description: Photograph of a two-story home with large porch and balcony on the front. A small tree stands directly in front of the house.
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Debris on Chaparral Street]

Description: Photograph of homes, hotels and debris in Corpus Christi after the 1919 hurricane. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "On Chaparral. X the Tatum house on the corner where the street cars turned to go to Nueces Bay Heights and Hillcrest. XX the Williams Hotel - the new brick hotel neat Rankins."
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Chaparral Street with trees down]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History
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[News Clip: Flood]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: September 1, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hurricane Allen]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: August 9, 1980
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a couple with a cake]

Description: Photograph of a woman and a man posing in front of a cake. The woman stands on the left with her arms crossed in front of her and looks off to the right, away from the camera. She wears a white, satiny top tucked into dark pants. Her dark hair is loosely curled and she wears a watch on one wrist. A man stands next to her, holding her waist. He wears a dress shirt tucked into pleated slacks and smiles at the camera. A decorated cake sits on a doily on a small covered table in front of them. Some… more
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Reverend Alberto Luna and Wife Exiting House]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Alberto Luna and his wife exiting a house. Rev. Luna is dressed in slacks, collared shirt, and tie while Mrs. Luna is wearing a long, tan dress coat. The house behind them is white with wood siding and is described as being a manse. In front of the couple is a chain link fence surrounding the lawn. A large palm tree is in the left foreground.
Date: 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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