Texas City Disaster Photography of Fire, Rescue, and Recovery, Photo Archive, April 1947
Texas City disaster press photographs recording emergency treatment, industrial fire, body recovery, and civic mourning in Texas City, Texas, in the immediate aftermath of the April 16, 1947 port explosions. The SS Grandcamp, loaded with 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer manufactured from surplus WWII munitions material and bound for.....

