Alamo Plaza
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Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1904. Subject: Marred photo crop of US Post Office and Courthouse (1890).
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#1
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887-1891 Subject: The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House. Opened Dec. 20, 1886. 487 seats at the orchestra level; 343 in the balcony; and 500 in the gallery. Closed in the 1930s. Razed in 1954. Replaced by the H.L. Green department store. View is WNW from Alamo Plaza. Reuter building (1891) across Crockett Street to the south is not present. Note the round sign on the sidewalk in front of the building that reads Grand Opera House.
#2
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 7 April 1905. Subject: Crowd scene at Alamo Plaza. President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit of the Alamo during “Rough Rider” reunion in San Antonio. View is east from west side of Alamo Plaza.
#3
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Ascribed as Winter 1951. Subject: Alamo Chapel. View is ENE from west side of Alamo Plaza.
#4
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 21 Nov 1915 (theatrical release date) Subject: Scene from silent epic “Martyrs of the Alamo or The Birth of Texas.” Location filming at Hot Wells Resort, San Antonio.
#5
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Ca.1920. Subject: Alamo Chapel with tour buses at door, vehicle parking to left, and street lamp on corner. View is east from Alamo Street.
#6
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: unknown. Subject: Dreiss Building (Alamo Drug Store cornerstone of 1877). View is west from across Alamo street.
#7
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1889-1890 Subject: Alamo Chapel. Hugo &Schmeltzer (Grenet) Building (1877-1912) is present. Street construction is evident. View is NE from what will become Alamo Plaza Park.
#8
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1934-1939 Subject: Alamo Street, view is south from Alamo Plaza.
#9
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1893-1904. Subject: Photo crop of book photograph of US Post Office and Courthouse (1890), North side of Alamo Plaza. Subject view is NE.
#10
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1909-1912. Subject: Post card of Alamo Plaza. Subject view is north and elevated (probably from Gallagher Building1877).
#11
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1923-1926. Subject: US Post Office and Courthouse (1890). North side of Alamo Plaza. View is north from across Houston Street.
#12
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1927. Subject: Building at corner of East Houston and Bowie, built for Herpel-Gillespie Ford dealership in 1927. View is NW from street.
#13
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1935. Subject: The Menger Hotel(1859). John M. Fries, architect. J.H Kampmann, contractor. View is ENE (hotel front) from Alamo Plaza Park sidewalk.
#14
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Subject: Photo Crop of a photo of Watercolor sketch of Alamo ruins done in 1838 by Mary Ann Adams Maverick (1818-1898).
#15
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1913-1915. Subject: Photo crop showing the Alamo Plaza side of the Maverick Bank Building (1884). View is west from plaza.
#16
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo:1892-1908. Subject: Grand Opera House and San Antonio Club. View WNW from Alamo Plaza. See "Photo #1" for additional details of Grand Opera House. Note: cover over sidewalk width of building. Round Grand Opera House sign has been moved around to the side. New lateral electric light sign THE GRAND.
#17
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Present. Subject: Dullnig building. East Commerce at Alamo Street (plaza). View is NNW from intersection.
#18
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1922 Subject: Photo montage composed of crop of San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) in 1922 and crop of page from San Antonio Light newspaper in 1915. View of Grand Opera House is NNW from Crockett street. The lateral electric bulb light is gone and replaced with a much larger vertical electrical sign of one word GRAND. See "photo #1" for additional details.
#19
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Photo crop of a Goldbeck panoramic photograph. Alamo chapel and convento “Long Barracks”. View is ESE from a lower balcony of the Swearingen-McCraw (Maverick Bank) Building (1884). The Hugo & Schmeltzer building has been razed. The Clifton George Ford Co. is at the 700 block address of East Houston from 1910 to 1925. The “Food-Don’t Waste It” sign is a World War 1 (1914-1918) U.S. Food Administration message created by Frederic G. Cooper. See also "photo #140".
#20
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Pre-1915. Subject: Dullnig Block (1883). Older portion of building proclaims date of 1879. Southeast tower and 17 feet of eastern façade was lost to Commerce street widening project 1913-1915. Southwest tower remained until at least 1922.
#21
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890. Subject: Photo crop of Post Card. Marked “Mexican Chili Stands, San Antonio, Texas.” Subject card rendering depicts US Post office (completed August 1890) North side of Alamo Plaza. Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) is present to the east. United Shirt and Collar Company (formed 7 May 1890) advertisement at top of Hugo & Schmeltzer Building. Plaza fountain is shown surrounded by tables. Streetcar tracks at left. View is NNE from Alamo Street. Additional cut block in top left corner carries “www.thealamocity.com”.
#22
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1892. Subject: Reuter Building(1891). Designed by James Wahrenberger in the Victorian-Empire style for William Reuter. “Billy’s Saloon” first floor. Offices 2nd and 3rd floor, Elks Club and Knights of Pythias Lodge, 4th floor. View is SSW from Alamo Street. Catered to the crowds at the Grand Opera House across Crockett street with a type of electrical signal system that would give alert for intermissions and close of curtain. Operated by William Reuter and half-brother George Benseler who used the last name Reuter. First listed as Barkeepers (both) working for A. Scholz in 1877. Ran the saloon “Billy’s and Joe’s” at 8 Soledad during 1880s. Ran the “Two Brothers” Saloon in the Dullnig Building late 1880s. William died 17 August 1897 at age of 53. George died four months and 7 days later, 23 December 1897, unknown age.
#23
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Pre-1915. Subject: Dullnig Block (1883). Older building portion proclaims date of 1879. Southeast tower and 17 feet of eastern façade was lost to Commerce street widening project 1913-1915. Southwest tower remained until at least 1922. Slightly clearer copy of "photo #20".
#24
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1910. Subject: Asphalt paving being placed on Houston Street in front of US Post Office and Courthouse (Ref "photo #9"). North side of Alamo Plaza. View is ENE from Houston Street.
#25
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: the week of 8 January 1922. Subject: Photo crop (#109) of a book page of the West side of Alamo Plaza with a typed and incomplete ascription assigning a date of 8 January 1922. The first silent film version of the play “Baby Mine” was released in 1917 and is playing for one week beginning Sunday 8 January 1922 along with “Riding With Death” starring Buck Jones as can be partially seen under the street cover. The view is north from Crockett Street intersection. Buildings on West side are the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) on the NW corner, then the Wickes Building (1886), then the Crockett Block (1882), the Woolworth Building (1921) at the SW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza. The tallest building in the view is the Gibbs building (1909) on the NW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza, west and across Alamo Street from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890).
#26
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890-1893. Subject: US Post Office and Courthouse (1890). North side of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE from Alamo Plaza at a point about even with the southern corner of the Maverick Bank building. The R.A. Archer Building (1893) to be located just north of the Post Office on North Alamo Street, is not yet present, but can clearly be seen in "photo #9".
#27
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1879-1883. Subject: The Gallagher building (1877) which housed the US Post Office, is present at left foreground. The Dullnig Block (1883) at Commerce and Alamo is not yet present. View is south on Alamo Plaza from the North side of the Blum street intersection.
#28
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1912-1913. Subject: Alamo Chapel. Hugo & Schmeltzer building being razed. Street immediately in front of Chapel does not appear to have been paved with asphalt. View is east from Alamo Street.
#29
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1912. Subject: Photo crop of Houston Street. View is WNW from a position on south side of Houston street. The US Post Office and Federal Building is in the foreground on the north side of Houston with the Gibbs building (1909) west and across Alamo Street, followed by the New Moore Building (1912) and then, across Broadway, the Hicks Building (1896) can just be seen.
#30
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1908. Subject: Photo crop of a book page of Alamo Plaza. View is north from an elevated position (most likely the Gallagher building 1877). The police sub-station in the Alamo Chapel has been removed. Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) is present. The Gibbs building (1909) is under construction. Several of the parked vehicles look suspiciously like automobiles.
#31
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1866. Subject: Bordered photo crop with ascription and date. View is SW towards Alamo Plaza and Blum Street taken from the Menger Hotel.
#32
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Prior to 1912. Subject: Alamo Plaza. North end of park with concession wagon at curb. Hand printed ascription. View is SW across plaza from under balcony of Hugo & Schmeltzer building.
#33
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1913. Subject: Alamo Plaza. Christmas tree on southern end of traffic island. Hugo & Schmeltzer building razed.
#34
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1886-1888. Subject: Alamo Plaza. Gallagher building (1877) is present, also the Menger Hotel (1859) extending north to the Carter & Mullaly Livery. Horse drawn street car on single track is present at the Post Office (Blum Street) bypass. The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) and the Wickes building (1886) are present, although there appears to be a developmental defect causing a foreshortening effect marring the upper right corner of the photograph. View is SSE and elevated across the plaza from the Maverick Bank Building (1884). There is no evidence of either the plaza paving (1888) or landscaping projects(1889). Hand printed ascription
#35
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1926. Subject: Alamo Plaza. Medical Arts Building (1926) in background(r). US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) in background. Vehicles parked at curb of plaza park as well as head in parking against convento (long barracks) wall. Street lights frame Alamo Chapel and are placed on sidewalk along convento. View is north from sidewalk of plaza park. Hand printed ascription COPYRIGHT BY HARVEY PATTTERSON 1.
#36
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1926. Subject: Photo crop of north end of Alamo Plaza. Medical Arts Building (1926) in foreground(r), US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) in foreground(l). The Morgan Hotel (1909) and the Scottish Rite Theatre and Grand Ballroom (1924) can be seen in the 200 and 300 blocks, respectively, of Avenue E. View is NNE from the Woolworth Building at Houston Street and Alamo Plaza.
#37
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1922-1924. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. Alamo Chapel in foreground (l). Convento (Long Barracks) exhibited as ruins. Tour vehicles at north sidewalk of plaza park. Quick Tire Service moves to 300 Alamo Plaza in 1922 and is present in photograph as is Standard Motor Sales at 314, which is vacant by 1924. The view is ESE and elevated, taken from (most probable) the Crockett Block on west side of Alamo Plaza.
#38
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1921-1932. Slightly better quality photo crop than #146 of an Alamo Plaza Christmas crowd scene. View is WNW from Alamo Chapel. Woolworth Building (1921) is present, so are street cars (last run April 1933).
#39
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1901-1906. Subject: Photo crop of corner of Alamo Plaza (west side) and East Crockett. Reuter Building (1891) at 130 E. Crockett (corner) with tenants DITTMAR & OPPENHEIMER (1901-1906), DRAUGHON’S COLLEGE (3d Floor), Doctor’s Offices on second floor. View is WNW from the plaza park sidewalk.
#40
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Subject: Copy of an overlay of Alamo Plaza by GLF, depicting modern plaza with 1836 plaza.
#41
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1859. Subject: Photo crop of a bordered photograph. The Menger Hotel (1859) appears under construction. The Menger was designed by John M. Fries and built on Alamo Plaza by J. H. Kampmann. The subject view is ENE from the unpaved Blum Street and Alamo Street intersection.
#42
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1948. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel. Streetlights have been removed. Sidewalk and buildings to south of Chapel have been removed and Faux ruins constructed. Plaza park removed. Flagpole erected and vehicle traffic rerouted to pass the Chapel further to the west. No close parking. View is NNE from Alamo Street.
#43
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1884-1888. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. The Gallagher Building (1878) on Corner of Blum Street and Alamo Street houses the US Post Office. US Post Office and Court House (1890) at north end of Alamo Plaza is not present in photograph. Millinery and Fine Goods shop of Miss Paulina Schneider at 20 North Alamo (opened in 1884/1885) is present. Streets and plaza not yet paved (1888). View is NNE and elevated almost certainly from A. Scholz’s “Workingmen’s Hall” (1877) at 9-11 North Alamo.
#44
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A An overlay map used to provide a concept as to how Alamo Plaza could be reconstructed.
#45
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1889. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. Close-up of Hugo & Schmeltzer building, and the north end of the plaza park (1889). The wood block paving (1888) does not seem to extend into the middle of the street in front of the Chapel. The paving would also appear to have failed just north of the boundary line extending east across the loading area of H&S. The view is NNE from Alamo Street.
#46
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1934. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. San Antonio booster advertisement in north traffic island. Streetlights present along sidewalks. Faux ruins south of Alamo Chapel. Crockett Hotel and Odd Fellows Hall (1909) in background. View is ESE from Gibbs Building (1909) NW corner of Alamo and Houston.
#47
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1931. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. Menger Hotel (1859) and south portion of plaza park, showing the Crockett Street separation of the park. Sconce style Streetlights in evidence. View is SSE and elevated from the Grand Opera House (1886), at NW corner of Crockett and Alamo Plaza.
#48
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1913-1920. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel. Stone sidewalk fronts the chapel. Street area is paved with block. View is ENE from street. Window of convento wall has lower area filled with rubble stone and wall is espaliered. The campanulate (hump) which is broken and appears irregular on its north side will be repaired during the 1921 DRT roof replacement.
#49
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1920. Subject: Photo crop of a stereo view of Alamo Plaza. The plaza park and bandstand in foreground with the entire north center of plaza and beyond in view. The Maverick Bank Building (1884-1921, named the Swearingen-McCraw Building after 1892) at The SW corner of Houston and Alamo with Gibbs Building (1909) across Houston to the north. The US Post Office and Court House (1889) facing Houston Street dominates the background center of the photograph. Note the traffic signal hanging from a lateral pole half-way up the east side of the park sidewalk. It is handling the westbound Crockett Street traffic. The View is north at an elevated wide angle taken from the roof of the Gallagher Building at Blum and Alamo.
#50
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca 1919. Subject: Photo crop of an aerial view of Alamo Plaza. Commerce street runs left to right at bottom of photograph. The massive Joske’s building (1887) with its 1909 renovation has not yet completed the surrounding of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and rectory at Commerce and St. Joseph. To the west of Joske’s across Alamo Street on the NW corner of Commerce and Alamo is the Dullnig Building (1879/83) with its single western tower after losing 15 feet of its front and the eastern tower to the Commerce Street Widening Project (1913-1915). Crossing back to the east side of Alamo Street and moving to the north of the massive Joske’s building, there is the Gallagher Building (1877) which once housed the US Post Office, at the SE corner of Blum and Alamo. Then across Blum street is the Menger Hotel (1859). The Reuter Building (1891) sits on the SW corner of Crockett and Alamo Plaza. It is the large white building with the three slit like windows to the left and down a little from the bandstand in the middle of plaza park. Across Crockett Street to the north of the Reuter Building is the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886). Continuing up the Westside of the plaza from the Grand is the Wickes Building (1886), the Crockett Block (1882) and then the Maverick Bank Building (1884) renamed the Swearingen-McCraw Building in 1892, on the SW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza. Across Houston Street to the north is the Gibbs Building (1909) and across Alamo Street to the east is the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890). Moving south across Houston is the Alamo Convento (Long Barracks) and then the Alamo Chapel.
#51
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890. Subject: Photo crop of the Menger Hotel (1859), south end of plaza park and a portion of Blum Street. Block paving (1888) and landscaping (1889) is evident. View is east and slightly north from Blum and Alamo intersection.
#52
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Damaged photo crop of north side of Alamo Plaza. The US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) in background. A section of the north traffic island in Alamo Plaza as well as the northwest corner of the Alamo compound can be seen. Good close- up of Street car. View is north on Avenue E. from a lower balcony of the Swearingen-McCraw (Maverick Bank) Building (1884). Possible companion photograph to "photo #19".
#53
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1911-1912. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. Hugo & Schmeltzer building present but missing southern tower (removed by 1904). Plaza is paved (1888) and landscaped with south plaza park (1889) and bandstand (1893). St. Joseph’s Steeple (1898) is evident. Eastern tower of Dullnig building can be seen (removed 1912-1915 street widening project). Gallagher building (1877) renovation (1911) has been completed. Side entry touring cars are parked at the north curbside of plaza park. View is south and elevated almost certainly taken from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890). Cropped short at bottom to eliminate PROPERTY OF DRT LIBRARY ascription.
#54
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1896 Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. Southern corner of Swearingen-McCraw (Maverick Bank) Building (1884), then (moving south on the west side of the plaza) the Crockett block (1882), The Wickes Building (1886), the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886). Crockett Street intersects, then the Reuter Building (1891), the Dreiss building (1877), and finally on the corner of Alamo and Commerce the Dullnig building (1879/1883) with its eastern tower still intact (removed 1912-1915). Paving and Landscaping (1888/1889) is evident. Streetcar with electric service (1890) is present passing in front of the Crockett block. No indication of internal combustion automobiles. “The Katy Flyer” of the MK&T (advertisement on side of Wickes Building) begins service in 1896. View is SSE and elevated almost certainly from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890).
#55
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1918. Subject: Photo crop of a Southern Pacific Lines photo card with handwritten message along margins. Photo on card is ca. 1917. View is north and elevated across plaza park almost certainly from the Gallagher Building (1877) at NE corner of Blum and Alamo. Margin message mentions Kelly Field #1 (opens 1917) and Line “C” (Existed June to November 1918).
#56
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1915. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza and City of San Antonio to the northwest. The Maverick Bank Building (1884-1921), named the Swearingen-McCraw Building after 1892 is evident at the SW corner of Houston and Alamo. The Hugo & Schmeltzer building has been razed (1913) and the Alamo Convento (Long Barracks) walls are espaliered.
#57
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1871. Subject: Photo crop of an early period photograph manipulated with line drawings. The view of the period photograph is WNW across Alamo Plaza with the SW corner of the Alamo (meat) Market building (1871) in evidence. Taken from a point along Blum Street in front of the Menger Hotel. The Crockett street intersection is clearly depicted.
#58
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1906. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is ENE from either the Grand Opera House (1886) or the Wickes Building (1886). The Alamo Saloon is in evidence, In business until 1908. Sanborn maps indicate different sidewalk pattern in plaza park in 1904.
#59
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1906. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE across plaza from corner of Blum and Alamo Plaza. US Weather bureau indicates 3.0 inches on 18 December 1906. Photo is cropped to eliminate the ascription “PROPERTY OF THE DRT LIBRARY” at the bottom.
#60
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 7 April 1905. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is east and elevated across the plaza from the Hotel Alamo (The Crockett Block-1882). The occasion is a speech by President Theodore Roosevelt during a Rough Rider Reunion in San Antonio.
#61
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1940. Subject Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is ENE and aerial across plaza. Cenotaph (1940) is present on re-landscaped north traffic island. Plaza park and bandstand present. Faux ruins extend south from Alamo Chapel. Convento (Long Barracks) wall are espaliered.
#62
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1925. Subject: Photo crop of a book photograph of Alamo Plaza. View is North on Alamo from the Crockett Street intersection. On the west side of Alamo; The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886), the Wickes Building (1886), the Hotel Alamo and the Crockett Block (1882), and the Woolworth building (1921) at the SW corner of Houston and Alamo. Then continuing north across Houston street, the Gibbs building (1909) on the NW corner of Houston and Alamo, across the street from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) on Houston. with an advertisement for “Baby Mine” on the front balcony. Probably the silent 1928 remake. Border ascription details January 8, 1922 as exposure date.
#63
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1922-1924. Subject: Slightly clearer photo crop of "photo #37".
#64
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887. Subject: Photo crop of the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) also the Wickes building (1886). Photo is marred by movement exposure of streetcar passing in front of the Grand. Texas Land and Cattle Co. (Land and loan Agents) occupied the bottom left office in 1887.
#65
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1921-1926. Subject: Photo crop of post card depicting Alamo Plaza. View is north and elevated across plaza from Gallagher (1877) building.
#66
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1895. Subject: Photo crop of book page with ascription ALAMO PLAZA 1895.
#67
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1898. Poor photo crop of a San Antonio Conservation Society photograph of an 1898 parade of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders). View is SE across Alamo from the Reuter building (1891) with the Gallagher Building (1877) in the background.
#68
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1919. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel. View is east. Convento (long Barracks) walls are espaliered and presented as barricaded ruins.
#69
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1915. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel. View is east. Period vehicles in evidence.
#70
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 24 Jan 1926. Subject: A photo crop of some of the Birdsong family (early automobile dealers in San Antonio) with a Franklin automobile at Alamo Chapel. Pole street lights are present. More than six inches of snow fell on 23-24 January. View is east from SW corner of sidewalk.
#71
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1935. Subject: Photo crop of an apparent tourist photograph of the Alamo Chapel showing 1935 rectangular landscaping. View is east from midway along southern edge of grass, front of Chapel.
#72
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1871-1877. Subject: Outstanding photo crop of Alamo Chapel and the cart station in front of chapel used for accounting for carts and loads. City was charging 50 cents a cartload for rubble stone from the old buildings known as the Galera. The wheel and drag marks can clearly be seen approaching and leaving the station and its parameters between the four large stones. View is ENE from the plaza. Prior to Grenet Building (1877).
#73
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1913. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel. The Grenet/Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) has recently been razed, leaving the stonework of the convento (long barracks) exposed. Black and white print of "photo #74", with printed ascription THE ALAMO. View is ENE from the plaza.
#74
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1913. Subject: Photo crop (colored) of Alamo Chapel. Colored print of "photo #73". Slightly different crop, i.e., view has been narrowed.
#75
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1866-1877. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel showing the two story convento with dual, outside wood stairway access and a closed access to the courtyard from the south. View is ENE from the plaza.
#76
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1934. Subject: Photo crop of zeppelin above San Antonio. Probably the USS Macon (ZRS-5) during a cross country flight. View is NNE from a position that would seem to be on the south side of Commerce, west of the bridge.
#77
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1871-1877. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento wall. Very clear depiction of what is believed to be the city cart station. After purchase of the Galeria ruins (1871) the city was charging 50 cents a cartload for rubble stone from the old buildings. Slightly enhanced crop of "photo #72". View is ENE from plaza. Prior to Grenet Building (1877).
#78
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1910. Subject: Photo crop of a post card front, depicting a SAPD officer and two men, one standing, one on ground, apparently drunk at base of tree. Ascription is ALAMO PLAZA, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. At least three different ascriptions associated with this card. The three men are also seen in different poses. View is most likely SSE from park sidewalk.
#79
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1899. Subject: Photo crop of an unknown group. The building/site has been a boarding house and/or saloon since the 1870s. It is the address (314 E. Alamo Plaza) to the Alamo (316 E. Alamo Plaza). View is ENE from the plaza.
#80
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1859-1877. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. Intersection of Blum and Alamo Plaza. Building in foreground is site of Gallagher building (1877) View is WSW and elevated, almost certainly taken from the Menger Hotel (1859).
#81
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1893-1904. Subject: Photo crop of US Post Office and Courthouse (1890), North side of Alamo Plaza. Has the appearance of a Real Photograph Post Card (RPPC). Ascription reads; POST OFFICE. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. View is NNE and elevated from the Maverick Bank building (1884).
#82
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 24 August 1935. Subject: Photo crop of a contractor or WPA photograph showing the 1890 Post Office, north side of Alamo Plaza, being razed. View is NNE and elevated from the Woolworth building (1921).
#83
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1893-1904 Subject: Photo crop of open book showing photograph of US Post Office (1890), north side of Alamo Plaza. Ascription at bottom of book page is THE POST OFFICE AND CUSTOM (sic) HOUSE and a number 20. View of book photograph is NNE at street level from corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza.
#84
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1893. Subject: Photo crop of street work being done in front of US Post Office. Figure of man in coat and tie turning hydrant on corner. View NNE and street level from Houston St. and Alamo Plaza.
#85
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 7 April 1905. Subject: Photo crop of a Post Card depicting a color manipulated photograph taken on the day of President Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Alamo. Ascription with grammar mistake and misspelling; “President Roosevelt speaking to an immense crowd on front of historic Aalamo (sic), San Antonio, Texas”.
#86
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1897. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is ESE from tower in Hugo & Schmeltzer (Grenet) Building (1877).
#87
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: Photo crop of a Real Picture Post Card (RPPC) type souvenir card, depicting Alamo Plaza. Manufactured ascriptions: (lower left) “Greetings from San Antonio, Texas” within the photograph proper at lower right “ Alamo Plaza and “7 Nic Tengg.” A personal message is handwritten across bottom of card, dated 4/29/03. View in subject photograph (exposed ca. 1892) is north across plaza park.
#88
Alamo Plaza San Antonio, TX
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: Photo crop of the same but unused RPPC souvenir card as "photo #87".
#89
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Subject: Photo crop of damaged photo or RPPC card depicting US Post Office and Alamo Plaza. Handwritten ascription in upper right “ San Antonio, Tex” with unclear date of (possible) 1911. Subject View is NNE and elevated. Original photograph was exposed 1893-1904.
#90
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1893. Photo crop of US Post Office (1890) and Alamo Plaza. Chili Queen benches can just be seen extreme right of photograph at location following their displacement from Military Plaza. View is street level NNE from a point just south of the Maverick Bank (1884).
#91
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1859. Subject: Photo crop, slightly different development crop, from "photo #41".
#92
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1866. Subject: Area view NE from Menger Hotel (1859).
#93
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Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1865. Subject: Photo crop of a photograph of west (front) elevation of Menger Hotel with a typed ascription MENGER HOTEL CIRCA 1865. View is east from plaza.
#94
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: Photo strip of three similar views of the intersection of Houston Street and Alamo Plaza over time, taken from similar location. The first was taken between 1890 and 1908 (Post Office-completed in 1890 is present. Gibbs building-begun in 1908 and completed in 1909,) is not. The second was taken after 1912 (New Moore Building, renovation completed in 1912, is present) and while horses had not yet been crowded off the street (ca.1918). The third was taken within the period of the downtown faux street cars. ca. 1980 to present).
#95
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890. Subject: Photo crop of a social event at the Maverick Bank Building (1884). View is WSW across the Houston Street and Alamo Plaza intersection from Post Office corner. Note persons riding on top of the approaching street car.
#96
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1925. Subject: Photo crop of North Alamo Street at Alamo and Blum Street. The Plaza Theater (1911) is located within the reconditioned Gallagher Building (1877). Supporting the Giant Joske’s sign (purchased in the 1920s) is the Conroy Building (1909). View is ESE across the Alamo Street intersection and elevated, from (possibly) the Alamo Studio at 209 ½ Alamo Plaza.
#97
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904-1909. Subject: Photo crop of intersection of East Houston at Alamo Plaza. View is west. The Maverick Bank Building (1884) in left foreground becomes the Swearingen-McCraw Building after purchase in 1892. Gibbs building (1909) is not yet present on NW corner. The Moore Building (1904) with its distinctive towers is present on NW side of Houston Street.
#98
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904-1909. Subject: Same crop as "photo #97" with slightly different coloration/tone.
#99
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1878-1885. Subject: Very poor digital crop of #148, showing Alamo Plaza with horse drawn streetcar and Alamo Market present. View is NNE across plaza from near or at the Blum Street intersection.
#100
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1892. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE across plaza from the west side near the Crockett Street intersection, showing the Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) and the Alamo Chapel.
#101
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1912. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is ENE across plaza from Alamo Street, showing the Alamo Chapel and the razing of the Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877). This deconstruction began in 1912 with only the stonework left by the end of the year.
#102
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904-1909 Subject: Poor greyscale crop of the middle view of "photo #94".
#103
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904-1909. Subject: Digital crop of RPPC with same period but slightly more northern view than "photo #97".
#104
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1882-1885. Subject: Magnified crop of #148, showing south elevation of Alamo Chapel. Grenet advertisements on roof and above San Antonio Police Sub-station. View is NNE.
#105
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887. Subject: Slightly different lighting development of crop "photo #64".
#106
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1940. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo chapel with bus, two women and what may or may not be an SAPD officer. View is east from the sidewalk.
#107
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1905. Subject: Same as "photo #103" except slightly darker making some advertisements easier to read.
#108
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1877. Subject: photo crop of Gallagher building (1877). US Post Office on first floor. View ESE from across the Blum and Alamo intersection. No streetcar rails (service begins 1878) can be detected in the photograph and the Sanborn maps indicate that the buildings just south have awnings which are not present in the photograph. Therefore the subject photograph is dated from building completion.
#109
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1891-1908. Subject: Photo montage consisting of a photo crop of the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House at a point between 1891-1908 and a photo crop of an advertisement from a newspaper concerning its first opening night in 1886.
#110
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1871-1877. Subject: Alamo Chapel and plaza. City station for accounting of carts loaded with rubble stone is present in front of chapel. City began this program in earnest after its purchase of the Galera in1871. The Convento (north of chapel) has not yet been overbuilt by wooden warehouse of Honore Grenet which occurs in 1877. View is NNE across plaza.
#111
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 4 July 1898. Subject: Photo crop of a photo crop pinned to a grid board. Alamo Plaza. Double track. Block pavement. Hugo and Schmeltzer building. Landscaping in center of plaza. No apparent traffic movement rules. Handwritten ascription “July 4, 1898.”
#112
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 24 Jan 1926. Subject: Less clear photo crop of Birdsong family with Franklin vehicle at the Alamo Chapel.
#113
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1921. Subject: Photo crop of Woolworth building (1921). View is WSW taken from sidewalk in front of Post Office, north side of Houston Street.
#114
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: the week of 8 January 1922. Subject: Photo crop (#109) of a book page of the West side of Alamo Plaza with a typed and incomplete ascription assigning a date of 8 January 1922. The first silent film version of the play “Baby Mine” was released in 1917 and is playing for one week beginning Sunday 8 January 1922 along with “Riding With Death” starring Buck Jones as can be partially seen advertised under the street cover. The view is north from Crockett Street intersection. Buildings on West side are the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) on the NW corner, then the Wickes Building (1886), then the Crockett Block (1882), the Woolworth Building (1921) at the SW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza. The tallest building in the view is the Gibbs building (1909) on the NW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza, west and across Alamo Street from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890).
#115
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1871-1877. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento wall. Very clear depiction of what is believed to be the city cart station. City was charging 50 cents a cartload for rubble stone from the old buildings known as the Galera. Slightly wider crop of "photo #72" and "photo #77". View is ENE from plaza.
#116
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1895. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo plaza. View is NNE across plaza from near the Blum street intersection showing the south elevation of the chapel with the former Police Station built onto it. The Hugo & Schmeltzer building can just be seen on the upper left, beyond the chapel. Snowfall on 14 February 1895 was 4.2 inches.
#117
Alamo Street. Undated. Alamo Street looking southwest towards Commerce Street. Left to right: Dullnig Building (with tower), Joske Bros. Store, and Alamo Drug Store in the Dreiss Building. The latter building was constructed in 1877 for one of San Antonio's pioneer druggists, Adolph Dreiss. (RABA COLLECTION)
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1883-1888. Subject: Photo crop of west side of Alamo Plaza. View is SSE from Blum Street intersection. Alamo Drug Store/Dreiss building (1877) is in foreground with the Joske brothers (the company became Joske Bros. in 1883). apparently doing business at that location (will move across street in 1888 and leave building vacant). The towered Dullnig building can be seen at the corner of Alamo and Commerce.
#118
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1883-1888. Subject: Photo crop, slightly clearer than "photo #117".
#119
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1889. Subject: Photo crop of a creased photograph on a photo table. View is NNW of west side of Alamo Plaza, from south of Crockett Street intersection, in plaza, showing excellent detail of the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) showing the round pole sign GRAND OPERA HOUSE and no sidewalk cover, the Wickes building (1886), the Crockett Block (1882), and the Maverick Bank Building (1884). Daily movement on the plaza is captured in beautiful detail. The US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) can be seen under construction in the background. Notice that the curtains are down on the mule drawn streetcar.
#120
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Feb 1895. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza snow scene. 14 February 1895 San Antonio received 4.2 inches of snow. View is SSW from north end of plaza park.
#121
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1909. Subject: Photo crop of both sides of a Keystone View Company stereoscope card showing Alamo Plaza. Within the view, the Gibbs building (1909) at the NW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza can be seen under construction. Of interest is the number of automobiles in the plaza and the traffic control device suspended from a pole at the Crockett street intersection.
#122
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890. Subject: Alamo Chapel. View is NNE showing the south elevation of the chapel with police station removed and the one interior doorway that can be seen has been converted into a window. The street would appear to have been paved with block.
#123
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1909. Photo crop of a photograph (possibly from a book) copied or from which the Keystone View Company stereoscope card (#121) was made. Within the view, the Gibbs building (1909) at the NW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza can be seen under construction. The number of automobiles in the plaza and the traffic control device suspended from a pole at the Crockett street intersection can be seen somewhat more clearly.
#124
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1871-1877. Subject: Photo crop and drawing of west side of Alamo Plaza. View is WNW from plaza showing the SW corner of the meat market (1871) and row of buildings separated by what is or will become Crockett Street.
#125
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1883. Subject: Very poor photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE showing meat market and first streetcar line. The San Antonio Police sub-station in the Alamo Chapel is present. The Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) is present.
#126
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1925-26. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo plaza. View is ENE and elevated probably taken from the photo from the Wickes Building (1886). The Medical Arts Building (1926) is not yet completed.
#127
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1886-1889. Subject: Poor photo crop of Raba collection photo. See #34.
#128
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1925. Subject: Excellent photo crop of Alamo Plaza and Menger Hotel (1859). View is SSE and elevated across plaza from Grand Opera House. Crockett Street opened across plaza between 1924 and 1926. All automobiles viewable are fabric tops (All metal tops not technically possible until middle 1930s).
#129
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1927. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is East and aerial. Crockett Hotel expansion (1927) is present. Purchase and razing of structures adjacent to the Alamo Chapel and formation of the Alamo compound (Plaza-Houston-Bonham-Crockett in 1932) has not yet begun.
#130
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1913-1921. Subject Photo crop of a book page with printed ascription of the Houston Street @ Alamo Plaza intersection. View is WSW from the US Post Office. Maverick Bank building (1884) purchased by SwearinGEN-McCraw in 1892). Razed in 1920 and replaced by the Woolworth Building (June 1921). Sommer’s Drug Store in building from 1913. Of special interest is the officer, under the umbrella, controlling traffic at the intersection by means of a semaphore extending above the umbrella.
#131
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890. Subject: US Post Office and Federal Building (1890). North side of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE from Alamo Street at a point about even with the southern corner of the Maverick Bank building. The tables of the "Chili Queens" recently displaced from Military Plaza can be seen to the right foreground. This photograph was exposed earlier than the subject photograph of "Photo #9" and is a slightly different development than "photo #26".
#132
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 12 September 1960. Subject: Photo crop of crowd scene at Alamo during presidential campaign of Senator John F. Kennedy. View is east from plaza.
#133
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1912-1921. Subject: Poor greyscale photo crop, perhaps from a book. View is west and slightly elevated from East Houston Street. The New Moore Building (1912) is present as well as the Swearingen-McCraw building (originally known as the Maverick Bank building, razed in 1921).
#134
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1881-1883 Subject: Slightly less clear photo crop of Gallagher building (1877). US Post Office on first floor. View ESE from across the Blum and Alamo intersection. No streetcar rails (service begins 1878) can be detected in the photograph and the Sanborn maps indicate that the buildings just south have awnings which are not present in the photograph. The pole light at the front door is almost certainly one of the installations of the San Antonio Electric Company (Chartered 9 February 1881). By 4 April 1883 there are 17 lights on the plaza. Therefore, the subject photograph is dated at that time.
#135
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1903-1910. Subject: Slightly different photo crop of a Post Card with typed original ascription “Mexican Chili Stands, San Antonio, Texas.” Subject card rendering depicts US Post office (completed August 1890) North side of Alamo Plaza. Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) is present to the east. Plaza fountain (installed in 1903 and removed in 1910) is shown surrounded by tables. Streetcar tracks at left. View is NNE from Alamo Street. Additional cut block in top left corner carries "www.thealamocity.com".
#136
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1918. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is east showing Alamo Chapel in background with decorated Christmas Tree on plaza located on the southern end of the traffic island. There is a US flag in evidence. The old wooden roof is in evidence on the Alamo Chapel (new concrete roof installed in 1920) It is probable that this is Christmas 1918. World War I having ended on 11/11/1918.
#137
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1903-1910. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is south across the plaza, taken (almost certainly) from the Post Office tower. Fountain (1903-1910) is present in center foreground. Bismark Café (1908 –1918) is present. Stamped ascription “PROPERTY OF THE DRT LIBRARY” on bottom. Photo embossed LEWISON’S STUDIO SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS at left corner.
#138
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca.1939. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza showing razing of buildings and progression of the "Alamo Compound" both to the east and south of the chapel. View is SSE.
#139
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: the week of 8 January 1922. Subject: Slightly different photo crop from #25 and #109 of a book page of the west side of Alamo Plaza with a typed and incomplete ascription assigning a date of 8 January 1922. The view is north from the Crockett Street intersection. Buildings on West side are the San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886) on the NW corner, then the Wickes Building (1886), then the Crockett Block (1882), then the Woolworth Building (1921) at the SW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza. The tallest building in the view is the Gibbs building (1909) on the NW corner of Houston and Alamo Plaza, west and across Alamo Street from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890). The exposure date during the week of 8 January 1922 is possible, if the advertisement on the front of the Grand Opera House is for a film; the first silent film version of the play “Baby Mine” was released in 1917. The second was not until 1928. The advertisement for "Riding With Death" staring Buck Jones can partially be seen under the street cover, the movie was released in 1921.
#140
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1896-1908. Subject: Poor photo crop of a book page of a photograph of Alamo Plaza. View is north and elevated of the northern portion of the plaza taken from the Gallagher Building (1877). While the exposure of the detail photograph is prior to 1909 (the Gibbs Building is not present) there are two traffic signal devices, each one hung from a post, sunk into the sidewalk, mid-way along each side of the park, controlling each Crockett Street intersection, which would seem to indicate automobile traffic.
#141
Alamo Street. Undated. Alamo Street looking southwest towards Commerce Street. Left to right: Dullnig Building (with tower), Joske Bros. Store, and Alamo Drug Store in the Dreiss Building. The latter building was constructed in 1877 for one of San Antonio's pioneer druggists, Adolph Dreiss. (RABA COLLECTION)
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photograph: 1883-1888. Subject: Another slightly different photo crop from #117 and #118 of west side of Alamo Plaza. View is SSE from Blum Street intersection. Alamo Drug Store (Dreiss building 1877) is in foreground with the Joske brothers (the company became Joske Bros. in 1883). apparently doing business at that location (will move across street in 1888 and leave building vacant). The towered Dullnig building can be seen at the corner of Alamo and Commerce.
#142
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887-1891 Subject: The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House. Opened Dec. 20, 1886. 487 seats at the orchestra level; 343 in the balcony; and 500 in the gallery. Closed in the 1930s. Razed in 1954. Replaced by the H.L. Green department store. View is WNW from Alamo Plaza. Reuter building (1891) across Crockett Street to the south is not present. Note the round sign on the sidewalk in front of the building that says Grand Opera House.
#143
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 7 April 1905. Subject: Photo crop showing President Theodore Roosevelt (standing in the carriage) at the Alamo during a “Rough Rider” reunion. View is east and elevated taken from the Crockett Block (1882).
#144
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1921. Poor quality photo crop of an Alamo Plaza Christmas crowd scene at the annual Rotary Christmas Tree event. View is WNW from the Alamo Chapel. The Woolworth Building (opened in June of 1921) is present, so are street cars (last run April 1933).
#145
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1895. Photo crop of an unknown book page. Subject: Alamo Plaza. View is north from the Gallagher Building (1877) showing primarily the center and west side of the plaza. Book page (5) carries ascription “Alamo Plaza. 1895”.
#146
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Pre1983. Subject: Very poor photo crop of print exhibited and dated by MY SANANTONIO “from their files” which did not include the caption. The typed ascription; “NO PARKING OF AUTOMOBILES ALLOWED HERE” may be in reference to a nearby sign, not in the crop, that read “CARS STOP HERE” which has mistakenly been understood to mean automobiles, however the sign commonly indicated a streetcar stop and often gave reference to which lines and/or cars could be boarded at that location. R.A. Arthur building (1893) not present.
#147
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1860. Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento with typed ascription “The Alamo in the 1860s (Institute of Texas Cultures).”
#148
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1878-1882 Photo crop of a print pinned to a peg board. Subject: Alamo Plaza. View is NNE and elevated across plaza. Only the Dreiss (1877) or Gallagher (1877) buildings would have provided the elevation necessary for this photograph. The San Antonio Police Station (the two doors) in the south side of the Alamo Chapel are present (will begin use in 1883). A Resolution to remove the market house passed in February 1882.
#149
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887-1891 Subject: The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House. Opened Dec. 20, 1886. 487 seats at the orchestra level; 343 in the balcony; and 500 in the gallery. Closed in the 1930s. Razed in 1954. Replaced by the H.L. Green department store. View is WNW from Alamo Plaza. Reuter building (1891) across Crockett Street to the south is not present. Note the round sign on the sidewalk in front of the building that says Grand Opera House.
#150
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1908-1910. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza, most likely of "photo #53" as it has slightly worse development and shares the bottom cropping to eliminate PROPERTY OF DRT LIBRARY. Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) Fountain (1908-1910) is present. There appears to be a touring car parked at the north curbside of plaza park. View is south and elevated, most likely taken from the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890).
#151
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890. Subject: Photo crop of a picture card of Alamo Plaza with hand printed ascription “ALAMO PLAZA 1890.” The view is ESE and elevated across the plaza showing Plaza Park under construction. Almost certainly taken from one of the balconies of the Maverick Bank Building (1884). Menger Hotel (1859) has barber shop in sidewalk shop to Carter & Mullaly’s livery/undertakers. Streetcar operation remains mule drawn.
#152
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Photo crop of a print of Alamo Plaza. Most probably (Dec) 1919. Cannot be later than Christmas 1919 as new roof (without present smokestack) is in place by Oct 1920. View is east from sidewalk in front of the Crockett Block, showing Christmas Tree on the south end of North Plaza Park. Cannot be earlier as the wartime "Community House" sign (1917-1918) and bracing, south of the Alamo Chapel is not in evidence. Print carries an ascription “PROPERTY OF THE DRT LIBRARY”
#153
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1893. Subject: Photo crop of north side of Alamo Plaza. View is north showing “Chili Queen” benches clustered around fountain just west of Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877). Maverick Bank Building (1884) at left with US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) in center background. R.A. Arthur building (1893) is not present.
#154
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1897. Subject: Slightly larger photo crop of "photo #86." View is ESE from southern tower of Hugo & Schmeltzer (Grenet) Building (1877). The long Alamo Saloon (1897-1908) is present immediately south of Alamo Chapel.
#155
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890. Taken just days after "photo #151" and from close to same location, although not elevated. View is ESE across Alamo Plaza showing park under construction.
#156
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1906. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE across plaza from corner of Blum and Alamo Plaza. US Weather bureau indicates 3.0 inches on 18 December 1906. "photo #59" is the same but cropped to eliminate the “PROPERTY OF THE DRT LIBRARY” at the bottom.
#157
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1905. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza taken from Crockett Block (1882). The view is NNE towards the US Post Office and Courthouse (1890) and Houston Street intersection. The 1905 addition to the Arthur Hotel (1893), north of the Post Office along Avenue D is present.
#158
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1910. Street car stop. “CARS STOP HERE.” A common sign which has mistakenly been understood in later years to mean automobiles, however the sign indicated both a streetcar stop and often gave reference to which lines and/or cars could be boarded at that location. The Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) is present. The view is east from in front of Crockett Block (1884). The block paving of the plaza (1890). The asphalt paving (1910) is not present.
#159
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1908. Subject: Slightly different photo crop of a book page of Alamo Plaza (See "photo #30") View is north from an elevated position (most likely the Gallagher building 1877). The police sub-station in the Alamo Chapel has been removed. Hugo & Schmeltzer building (1877) is present. The Gibbs building (1909) is under construction. Several of the parked vehicles would appear to be automobiles.
#160
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: Photo crop of an outline map of the Alamo Compound imposed over the modern features of the area.
#161
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: June to November 1918. Photo crop of a Real picture post card (RPPC) with hand written ascription “Address Kelly Field #1 Line “C” San Antonio, Tex.” Subject photograph is north view of Alamo Plaza from Gallagher Building. Card has border caption “Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas on Southern Pacific Lines.”
#162
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1901 perhaps 1907. Photo crop of a hand colored postal/souvenir card of Alamo Plaza. Handwritten ascription “August 13 – 01(?)” at top. With “Hot as blazes” at bottom with a name.
#163
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1890. Subject: Photo crop (similar "photo #95") of a social event at the Maverick Bank Building (1884). View is WSW across the Houston Street and Alamo Plaza intersection from Post Office corner. Note persons riding on top of the approaching street car.
#164
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1936. Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is WNW and elevated almost certainly from the Menger Hotel. The center grass strip landscape in front of the Alamo Chapel (1935) is present as well as the arcade from the south wall of the chapel to Crockett Street.
#165
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1914-1923. Subject: Photo crop of flawed print of north side of Alamo Plaza. Clifton George Ford is present at 720 E. Houston (1914). The Medical Arts Building (begun 1923) is not present. View is ENE and elevated taken from the Grand Opera House (1886).
#166
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: Interesting photo montage of the development of Alamo Plaza.
#167
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: a photo crop of a composed print. No actual photographic exposure, at any time period, would have resulted in such an image.
#168
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1917-1919. Subject: Photo crop of a Goldbeck panoramic photograph (slightly different than #19) of the Alamo chapel and convento “Long Barracks”. View is ESE from a lower balcony of the Swearingen-McCraw (Maverick Bank) Building (1884). The Hugo & Schmeltzer building has been razed. The Clifton George Ford Co. exists in the 700 block of East Houston from 1910 to 1925. The “Food -Don’t Waste It” sign is a World War 1 (for the U.S. 1917-1918) United States Food Administration message created by Frederic G. Cooper.
#169
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Slightly better (than "photo #171") Photo crop of north side of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE probably taken from Crockett Block (1882) showing the North Plaza Park, a portion of the convento walls, the US Post Office and Courthouse and a long view along Avenue E.
#170
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1927-1929. Subject: Photo crop of west side of Alamo Plaza. View is aerial and WSW. From lower right corner moving south: The Palace Theater (1923), The Crockett Block (1882), The Wickes Building (1886), The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House (1886), and on the south side of Crockett Street, the Reuter Building (1901). In the distance to the SW is The Plaza Hotel (1927) but not yet the Smith-Young Tower (1929).
#171
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Photo crop of north side of Alamo Plaza. View is NNE probably taken from Crockett Block (1882) showing the north traffic island, a portion of the convento walls, the US Post Office and Courthouse and a long view along Avenue E.
#172
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1902-1907. Subject: Photo crop of a marred print of west side of Alamo Plaza. View is WNW from the Blum Street intersection showing the 200 block of the West Side of the plaza and the south end of plaza park. View is WNW from a point along Blum street, showing the Reuter Building (1891) and several businesses to the south, as well as hacks waiting fares and a number of bicycles along the sidewalk, which probably belong to messengers or deliverymen. The earliest that Frank Bros Branch could occupy 209 Alamo Plaza is 1902. Pfeuffer-Conring Co. opened its doors 24 June 1901. It is gone by 1907.
#173
Exposure date: unknown. 1871-1877. Subject: Photo crop (close to a duplicate of "photo #124") and drawing of west side of Alamo Plaza. View is WNW from plaza showing the SW corner of the meat market (1871) and row of buildings separated by what is or will become Crockett Street.
#174
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post 1920. Subject: Photo crop of five men standing on the ledge above the door of the Alamo Chapel. No explanation within the photo as to who or why, however, each man is wearing convention ribbons.
#175
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1865-1877. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento with wagons and a US Flag at the top of the Chapel. View is ENE across the plaza.
#176
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: N/A Subject: Photo crop of an outline map of the Alamo Compound imposed over the modern features of the area. Duplicate of "photo #161".
#177
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887-1891 Subject: The San Antonio Club and Grand Opera House. Opened Dec. 20, 1886. 487 seats at the orchestra level; 343 in the balcony; and 500 in the gallery. Closed in the 1930s. Razed in 1954. Replaced by the H.L. Green department store. View is WNW from Alamo Plaza. Reuter building (1891) across Crockett Street to the south is not present. Note the round sign on the sidewalk in front of the building that says Grand Opera House.
#178
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Pre-1912. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel lit with electric lights. The Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) can just be seen to the north (left). It was removed 1912-1913.
#179
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1877. Subject: Photo crop of a photograph of the Alamo Chapel and convento. The subject photograph appears to be an early period photograph showing the Alamo Chapel at some early date. However, the picket fence just visible on the south (right) side of the Chapel is from the 1870s as is the area immediately in front of the chapel doors being used as a collection station for rubble carts being charged 50 cents per cartload for stone and adobe rubble on Plaza de Valero and Alamo Plaza.
#180
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1877. Subject: excellent quality photo crop of Alamo Chapel. The cart station in front of chapel used for accounting for carts and loads can be seen, as well as the wheel and scrape marks along the ground as they made their turn entering or leaving the area between the large stones. Prior to Grenet Building (1877) See "photos #72/#77/#180/#183.
#181
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1948. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel showing chapel and south arcade. View is NE from park.
#182
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1877. Slightly less magnification than "photo #179."
#183
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1940. Subject: Apparent Duplicate of "photo #106".
#184
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca.1910. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and plaza area. The Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) is being razed. The vehicle in the nearest right foreground is an open multi-seat type for tourists. The tires do not appear to be pneumatic.
#185
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1877. Subject: photo crop of a stereo card. Undated by maker. Stamped with an address used in 1877 but not 1879. View is ENE from plaza showing Alamo Chapel, convento wall and stone cart station.
#186
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 30 July 1913. Subject: Personal photograph. The view is ENE from sidewalk of plaza park, showing Alamo Chapel and convento walls after partial razing of Hugo and Schmeltzer Building (1877). Handwritten ascription on border: “The Alamo July 30=1913.”
#187
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Current. Subject: Current photo crop of north side of Alamo Plaza and Houston Street. View is WSW and aerial.
#188
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1950. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento. View is east from WS of plaza.
#189
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1849. Subject: Currently oldest known photograph of Alamo Chapel and oldest known photograph made in Texas. Only known photograph of chapel prior to US Army performing repair work and adding campanulate (hump) to front ca. 1849.
#190
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1865-1877. Subject: Slightly different photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento with wagons and a US Flag at the top of the Chapel. View is ENE across the plaza. See "photo #175."
#191
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: August 1926. Subject: Photo crop of a magazine picture from THE AMERICAN CITY, Vol 35, page 178 (August 1926). View is east from the chapel front area.
#192
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1849. Subject: Manipulated (reversed) photo crop of oldest photograph known of the Alamo. See "photo #190".
#193
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1919. Subject: Aerial view of Alamo Plaza. See "photo #50".
#194
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1920. Subject: Photo crop of a slide from an excellent internet site, “ALAMO IMAGES: FROM THEN TO NOW,” Showing the Alamo Chapel receiving new concrete roof. View is ENE and close.
#195
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1919. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Chapel and convento. The Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) has been razed and the top section of convento wall has been removed. Hack sits at curb of plaza park. View is east from just north of sidewalk of plaza park.
#196
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1904. Subject: Marred photo crop of US Post Office and Courthouse (1890).
#197
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1917. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza showing Alamo Chapel and north-central area of plaza. View is east and elevated from Crockett Block (1882) or balcony of Swearingen-McCraw Building (1884). Hugo & Schmeltzer Building has been razed and second story stonework of convento has been removed (1912-1913).
#198
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1913. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo compound. View is WSW from a point within the compound just to the west of the 700 block of E. Houston. The flag pole is on top of the Alamo Chapel. The Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) has been razed (1912), however, the second story stonework of the convento is present. The second story will be completely razed within a few months. This photo crop demonstrates the movement of digital items on the internet. The white bands above and below the photograph indicate that the crop was made from one of the photographs at an excellent internet site, “ALAMO IMAGES: FROM THEN TO NOW,” and then used without any type of credit.
#199
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 7 April 1905. Subject: Photo crop of President Theodore Roosevelt speaking to crowd at the Alamo during a “Rough Rider” reunion. Building behind him is the Crockett Block (1882).
#200
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904-1909. Subject: Photo crop of excellent quality color post/souvenir card showing Houston street and Alamo Plaza. The view is west from the intersection. The Maverick Bank Building (1884) with its distinctive balconies was purchased in 1892 and became The Swearingen-McCraw Building. The Gibbs building (1909) is not yet present on NW corner where the tobacco shop is located. The Moore Building (1904) with its distinctive towers is present on the north side of Houston Street, west of the intersection.
#201
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1898. Poor photo crop (see photo #67) of a San Antonio Conservation Society photograph of an 1898 parade of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders). View is SE across Alamo from the Reuter building (1891) with the Gallagher Building (1877) in the background.
#202
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1913. Subject: Duplicate of "photo #199". Photo crop of Alamo compound. View is WSW from a point within the compound just to the west of the 700 block of E. Houston. The flag pole is on top of the Alamo Chapel. The Hugo & Schmeltzer Building (1877) has been razed (1912), however, the second story stonework of the convento is present. The second story will be completely razed within a few months. This photo crop demonstrates the movement of digital items on the internet. The white bands above and below the photograph indicate that the crop was made from one of the photographs at an excellent internet site, “ALAMO IMAGES: FROM THEN TO NOW,” and then used without any type of credit.
#203
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Photo crop of a Goldbeck panoramic photograph (slightly different than "photo #19") of the Alamo chapel and convento “Long Barracks”. View is ESE from a lower balcony of the Swearingen-McCraw (Maverick Bank) Building (1884). The Hugo & Schmeltzer building has been razed. The Clifton George Ford Co. exists in the 700 block of East Houston from 1910 to 1925. The “Food -Don’t Waste It” sign is a World War 1 (for the U.S. 1917-1918) United States Food Administration message created by Frederic G. Cooper.