Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Hurricanes -- Texas -- Galveston -- History -- 20th century.; Floods -- Texas -- Galveston -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; Quarries and quarrying -- Vermont.; Granite -- Vermont.; Galveston (Tex.) -- Storm, 1900.; Galveston (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: September 8
Description: Provides information and links on the hurricane occurred on September 8, 1900 in Texas, which decimated the city of Galveston. Also provides information on quarrymen in Barre, Vermont who whose union standards outpaced the nation's and were interviewed by writers from the Federal Writers' Projec in the early 1940s .
Notes: Title from HTML header (resource last updated September 2001; viewed on Aug. 14, 2003).
Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: The Galveston Storm; title: Take granite out of Barre, and it would be like taking the Capitol out of Montpelier.