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Postcard shows pre-1900 Storm East End
By Casey Greene
Correspondent
Published November 8, 2009
Editor’s Note: This item was submitted by Casey Edward Greene, head of special collections at Rosenberg Library, who thanked Richard Eisenhour, a postcard expert who’s from Galveston and who now lives in Austin, for pointing out some of the features of the card.
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GALVESTON — This extraordinary postcard, from the Forshey Collection at the Rosenberg Library’s Galveston and Texas History Center, shows the East End of Galveston, circa 1899.
Visible at the extreme left is John Sealy Hospital, 816 The Strand.
To its right is the Ashbel Smith Building (“Old Red”), Strand between 9th and 10th streets, of the School of Medicine of the University of Texas.
Behind the Ashbel Smith Building is St. Mary’s Infirmary, 721-27 Market St.
Visible on the horizon are the Lucas Terrace apartments at 6th Street and Broadway, which fell in the 1900 Storm.
This image graphically illustrates how little depth Galveston had to absorb the 1900 Storm.
Large-scale death and destruction in that hurricane occurred in a very small area.
The storm swept away buildings south of Broadway to the beach, including Lucas Terrace, so that little was left but a plain.
The East End Flats are visible to the left and behind John Sealy Hospital.
In the foreground are reclaimed land and railroad tracks belonging to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway. The canal or drainage ditch is unidentified.
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