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[Damaged houses after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A badly damaged house leans to one side after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. The roof structure is missing, doors and windows have been blown out, and boards and beams have fallen down. Building supports and boards are piled in the yard to the left front of the house. At the far right of the photograph, another house can be seen with visible damage.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged houses after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Damaged houses after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. In the middle of the picture, a one-story house shows considerable roof damage to the front half of the house. The front facade is missing most of the boards, and the doors and windows have been blown out. On the far right, a one story building shows visible leaning in the front half. On the far left, a two-story building shows missing boards on the front and left sides.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged houses after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two houses showing damage after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. The house on the left has been almost totally demolished, with only portions of some walls still standing. The house on the right has visible damage to the top front of the structure, and to window openings. A ladder leans against the front of the house. On the back of the photograph is written: "Note the hull of building on left".
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged houses after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two one-story houses, damaged by the explosions, face a residential street. The house on the left has a partially collapsed roof. Both houses have visible damage to windows and doors. The door has been blown off the house on the right, and a car sits in front of it in on the dirt driveway. Behind the houses, at the left can be seen some storage tanks. Huge clouds of thick dark smoke rise from behind the houses. Debris lies scattered in the road and yards of the houses.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged houses after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two houses standing back-to-back show damage after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. The one story house on the left is raised on cinder blocks and has a window screen hanging off the window. Boards are nailed vertically across the end of the porch where porch supports are missing. The house on the right sits on the ground. Windows have been blown out and the front part of the roof has collapsed. Parts of the middle and rear roof areas have been peeled back or are missing.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged Monsanto building after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: The heavily damaged Monsanto building after the explosion. On the left is part of the Seatrain loading crane with little visible damage. In between is a crawler type crane with its boom pointed toward the Seatrain crane. In the distance on the far left, one of the refinery towers is visible. In the distance on the far right is another crane and beyond it more heavily damaged structures.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged pipelines and railroad tracks near the port after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A railroad freight car loaded with wooden forms sits amid the debris near the port after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. On the left, the support for the elevated pipelines near the port have collapsed, and pipelines lie on the ground. Metal, concrete and wooden debris are scattered along the pipeline route and the railroad tracks. In the distance can be seen the destroyed pier and dock structures. On the back of the photograph is written: "Loading Dock".
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged railroad cars after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: On the far left, railroad freight cars are standing on a set of railroad tracks. Part of the side of the second railroad car has been damaged, and is detached at the top. To the right are huge heaps of debris piled near the trains covering the foreground. A large section of metal framework, probably from a warehouse roof or the covered conveyor system, is twisted and bent, and rests on top of the debris.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged railroad cars and storage tanks after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A line of damaged freight cars stands amid metal and wooden debris. The top of a crane is seen beyond the train cars behind a large pile of debris. In the far background is a storage tank farm, with visible compression damage on a number of the tanks. On the horizon, in the direction of the port, are heavy clouds of white and black smoke. In the foreground three military personnel stand looking at the damage. On the reverse side of the photograph is written: "From John P. Blazetic with 32… more
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged railroad tracks near the docks after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two damaged open-top freight cars (gondolas) loaded with rectangular wooden forms sit on a elevated wooden train track. The tracks appear to be on a wharf structure extending out to a dock. Wooden debris is densely scattered in the foreground in front of the tracks and is evidently floating in water in a channel. The front end of the track structure has collapsed and the front car is tilted downward. The forms in the freight cars have also been damaged. Two men are looking down from the r… more
Date: April 16, 1947
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[A damaged refinery building after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A one-story commercial building shows roof and window damage after the 1947 Texas City Disaster. In front of the building are a series of small tanks and valves. Crossing the photograph at the front is a large raised pipeline with a noticeable break near mid-picture. In the background, to the left are round storage tanks. At the far right in the background is a water tower on stilts.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[A damaged storage tank after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A large round metal storage tank shows compression damage with the top and edges pushed in. In the background are other storage tanks from the tank farm. Several of these storage tanks show compression damage. Two large raised tanks on towers, perhaps water towers, are also in the background. Small pieces of metal debris are scattered in the field in the foreground.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged storage tanks after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: Two storage tanks sit on a strip of land between two retention basins full of water. One tank, in the middle of the picture, has exploded and is completed destroyed. Another tank to its right is heavily dented with compression damage especially visible along the top. In the distance are other refinery structures and other storage tanks. To the far left is a long piece of metal debris, possibly from the destroyed storage tank, with the number "325" on the debris.
Date: April 16, 1947
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[Damaged storage tanks after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A closeup view of a damaged round storage tank after the Texas City Disaster. The sides and top have been crushed in. Twisted interior metal supports can be seen in the gap. Behind this damaged tank are five other tanks in rows. One of those tanks near the top of the picture shows visible crushing along the top. In the far left corner, parts of the refinery structures can be seen.
Date: April 16, 1947
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