[Men Near Galveston Beach]

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Photograph of two men including Dr. George Butte (left) standing on a sidewalk next to a carved stone pillar. Part of a large, two-story building on stilts is visible on the beach at right, which has an advertising banner hung on the wall. A third person is visible in the background at left, walking near another building.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm.

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Creator: Unknown. August 1917.

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The Moody Medical Library provides a place for medical students and faculty of UTMB to advance their study of medicine. The library contains “one of the world’s great historical collections of books and manuscripts in the history of medicine" in the Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections.

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Photograph of two men including Dr. George Butte (left) standing on a sidewalk next to a carved stone pillar. Part of a large, two-story building on stilts is visible on the beach at right, which has an advertising banner hung on the wall. A third person is visible in the background at left, walking near another building.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm.

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Handwritten on back: "Galveston Aug, 1917" (in ink) and "Dr. George Butte, left Felix's father" (in pencil).

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Rescuing Texas History, 2022

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  • August 1917

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  • May 15, 2024, 12:44 a.m.

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[Men Near Galveston Beach], photograph, August 1917; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1661230/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.

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