Texas City disaster records
This collection contains images taken at two different time periods after the Texas City disaster in 1947.
The worst industrial accident in U.S. history took place on the morning of April 16, 1947 when a French freighter carrying fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) on Galveston Bay caught fire and exploded, causing disaster on shore at the nearby Monsanto styrene plant and damaging other petroleum refineries, homes, warehouses, ships and buildings. At least 576 were killed and 4,000 injured, with Texas City being almost completely destroyed.
The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Search the finding aid/inventory for the Texas City Disaster records, MS 529.
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