San Antonio
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Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1899 Subject: Photo crop of a post card of the New Market House (1899), W. Commerce at N. Santa Rosa. View is west. The written ascription is, of course, incorrect as Military Plaza with City Hall at its center is several blocks to the east.
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#1
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 16 February 1861 (?)Subject: Photo crop of an early photograph of what is said to be armed members of the Texas militia that were engaged in obtaining the property and monies of the United States and the surrender of the US Army at San Antonio, Texas on 16 February 1861. The provenance of the photograph has not been established.1
#2
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1906-1907Subject: Photo crop of one of the many uses of the Veramendi building. View is ESE across Soledad. Taken from the Veramendi Street intersection.
#3
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1892-1912Subject: Photo crop of the SOUTHWESTERN INSANE ASYLUM, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. View is WSW across open ground. Taken from a point along or close to S New Braunfels showcasing the asylum. Later photographs after the 1912 expansion show the main building having lost its bell tower and trees and grass reaching to New Braunfels. Established in 1892 and eventually being named the Texas State Hospital. The facility has maintained its original location at S. New Braunfels and Pecan Valley Drive.
#4
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 10 September 1921.Subject: Photo crop of a flood scene. View is west along Travis Street. Taken from a point at the Navarro Street intersection showcasing flood damage. With handwritten ascription.
#5
Picture File, Collections Schelper Family Collection Folder 1 San Antonio flood, 1921 5205-1/10
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Sept-Oct 1921.Subject: Photo crop of a flood scene. View is west along Houston Street. Taken from a point just east of the Princess Theater and Gunter Hotel showcasing flood levels and damage.
#6
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo:Subject: Photo crop of Thomas Jefferson High School completed in 1932. View is NNW and aerial. Taken from an aircraft, showcasing the school. Photograph has a written ascription along the highway; “Donaldson Ave 1933.”
#7
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1910.Subject: Photo crop of a post card of the Soda Fountain at Wagner’s Drug Store, 409 E. Houston. View is interior. Wagner’s was a popular family owned drug store from 1898 thru the 1930s.
#8
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1940sSubject: Photo crop of what appears to be a marketing or publicity photograph of a girl fawning over a Mills Novelty Company PANORAM. View is interior of an unknown location. Panoram was the trademark name of a visual jukebox that played music accompanied by a synched, filmed image (the effect being the equivalent of 1980s music videos) popular within the United States during the 1940s. The device consisted of a jukebox playing a closed-loop 16mm film reel projected onto a glass screen (Wikipedia).
#9
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ContemporarySubject: Photo crop of a Main Plaza and downtown San Antonio. View is NNW and aerial. Taken from an aircraft showcasing the Bexar County Courthouse. The various additions can be seen as the building extended south, often, but not always maintaining the same stone and roof colorings. The old Police Headquarters and Detective building (occupied 1927-1963) is the red building with the white top directly east (to the right) of the original portion of the courthouse.
#10
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1934-1963.Subject: Photo crop of a shop sign. View is (most likely) north along S. Brazos. Taken from in front of Martin Cardona’s blacksmith shop at 1231 S. Brazos. He worked at this shop for at almost 30 years and then from his residence at 1227.
#11
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887-1915Subject: Photo crop of either a “shading” (a photograph that is enhanced with a penciled drawing that is then re-photographed) or a very poor photograph of the Silver King Saloon. View is east. Taken from a point in Military Plaza showcasing the saloon. The Silver King was moved two blocks east in 1916 and survived until 1918.
#12
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1923-1927Subject: Photo crop of the west side of Alamo Plaza at Crockett Street. View is WSW and elevated. Taken, almost certainly, from the Medical Arts Building showcasing the plaza.
#13
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1911-12Subject: Photo crop of street scene. View is NNE. Taken from a point within the Main Avenue @ Veramendi Street intersection showcasing the Schooner Saloon and a man standing at the Main Avenue door. Entire block razed in 1912 for the Rand Building.
#14
Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: Unknown.Subject: Photo crop of a private bridge over the San Antonio River. View is unknown. Taken from a point on the bank. Note the door to control passage across the bridge.
#15
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: Post WWII photograph. Subject: Photo crop of Romana Plaza. View is SE. Taken from a point within the intersection of San Pedro and Main Avenue showcasing the plaza.
#16
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1870 Subject: Photo crop of San Antonio River. View is East. Taken from the west bank of the river showcasing the river, St. Mary’s Church and the Twohig Home with typed caption.
#17
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1920s Subject: Photo crop of San Antonio River. Unknown as to direction or location.
#18
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: Early 1930s Subject: Photo crop of the San Antonio Public Library at 210 W. Market Street. View SSW across Market Street. Taken from across Market Street and showcasing the Public Library building completed in 1930 after razing of the original Carnegie library at the same location.
#19
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: Subject: Photo crop of a post card of the Plaza Theater. View is ESE and is a retouched presentation with a printed script ascription. Original photograph taken, almost certainly, from the Grand Opera House showcasing the theater after the renovation (1911) of the Gallagher Building (1877) which had been the US Post Office at the corner of Blum Street and Alamo Plaza.
#20
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1920s Subject: Photo crop of a post card of the pool at San Pedro Park. View is south and is a retouched presentation with a printed caption. Taken from the pool edge.
#21
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1900 Subject: Photo crop of a scene in the San Antonio River just downstream (west) of the lower Navarro Street Bridge. View is WNW. Taken from the Navarro Street Bridge showcasing a maintenance activity necessary to wooden vehicles called “soaking.” The spokes and felloe of the wheel, if allowed to dry, would shrink. The spokes would loosen and the metal “tire” (the rim) around the outside of the wheel (the felloe) would slip off.
#22
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: Late 1920s. Subject: Photo crop of Milam Building. View is NNW. Taken from south of Travis Street and east of the river showcasing the 21 Story office building that when completed in 1928 was the first in the nation to be completely air-conditioned. It was a Carrier Air-Conditioning masterpiece that was operating with the same machinery in 1989.
#23
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1960 Subject: Photo crop of Houston Street. View is west. Taken from the intersection of Alamo Plaza showcasing the activity along Houston Street.
#24
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904 Subject: Photo crop of the Moore Building. View is NNE. Taken from the intersection of Houston Street and Avenue C (Broadway) showcasing the recently completed Moore Building. Note the amount of wiring.
#25
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: Pre-1872 Subject: Photo crop of the Masonic Building. View is NNE. Taken from a point along the west side of Soledad. The photograph would appear to have been exposed prior to the purchase of the building by Bexar County in 1872 and the initial refurbishment that accompanied the establishment of the building as the Bexar County Courthouse.
#26
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1927 Subject: Photo crop of the Market Street Pump Station and Administrative Office of the City Water Board. View is SSW along Market Street. Taken from a point on the north side of Market showcasing the City Water Board building and Pump Station. The Main Library, just to the west is razed in 1929. The city did not purchase the water system from the Belgian Compagnie des Eaux de San Antonio, until 1925.
#27
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1930 Subject: Photo crop of the New Main Library (second library building on this site). View is SSE and elevated across Market Street. Taken from a building across the Market Street showcasing the library. Library appears to be under construction.
#28
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: late 1920s Subject: Photo crop of the original Carnegie Library at 210 W. Market. View is SSE. Taken from a point in the intersection of Market and Presa showcasing the library. Building will be razed in 1929.
#29
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1930. Subject: Photo crop of Alamo Plaza. View is SSE and elevated. Taken from, most probably, the Grand Opera House showcasing the Plaza Theater (1911-1938). Joske sign (1920-1939) is present. Conroy Building just south of the Gallagher Building (Plaza Theater) has not been razed (1939).
#30
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1913 Subject: Photo crop of Houston Street flood scene. View is ESE on Houston Street. Taken from the north side of Houston Street, possibly from the Pike Theater showcasing the flood damage. The Busy Bee Candy Company was at 102 W. Houston, closest to the bridge. The normal watercourse would be between and 10 to 15 feet down from those two buildings.
#31
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1946 Subject: Photo crop of what appears to be a “fogging” (anti-mosquito) operation on Houston Street. View east on Houston Street. Taken from a point in the middle of Houston Street on the east end of the Houston Street Bridge showcasing the operation.
#32
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: No earlier than February 1913 Subject: Photo crop of Houston Street. View is West. Taken from a point slightly west of the Navarro Street intersection showcasing Houston Street. Fenstermaker’s Orpheum Theatre was not renamed Princess until after February 1913.
#33
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1914 Subject: Photo crop of a book or presentation photograph with a typed caption and production overlay. View is ENE and elevated along Houston Street. Taken from a point slightly west of the St. Mary’s Street intersection showcasing the street car track construction.
#34
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1905 Subject: Photo crop of the Palace Livery Stable. View is SSE from a point on the north side of Blum Street. The site had been one of livery, stable and hack rentals since at least 1885. The building would house an auto garage and taxicab service by 1912.
#35
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1925 Subject: Photo crop of Hay Market Plaza. View is west and elevated. Taken from the new Market House showcasing the plaza and market activity.
#36
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1900 Subject: Photo crop of a post card depicting the new Market House (1899) at Commerce and Santa Rosa. View is west. No internal combustion vehicles are depicted.
#37
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1900 Subject: Photo crop of a (hopefully) posed photograph. View direction is unknown. Taken close and downrange of a shooter at what is marked on a chalkboard within the photograph SAN ANTONIO GUN CLUB SHOOT, July 4th, 1895. Location is unknown.
#38
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1913 Subject: Photo crop of Houston Street flood scene with handwritten ascription. View is ENE along Houston Street. Taken from a point just east of the St. Mary’s Street intersection showcasing flood damage and the Gunter Hotel.
#39
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1920s Subject: Photo crop of Fort Sam Houston Quadrangle. View direction is unknown. Taken from a point within the quadrangle showcasing the tower which was originally built as a water cistern.
#40
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1940 Subject: Photo crop of an outdoor motion picture theater. View is west and aerial. Taken from an aircraft at a point east of Fredericksburg Road which can be seen in the foreground showcasing the theater and the area. Theater was built in 1940, closed in 1982. Was known as the Fredericksburg Road Drive-in even before its name was changed from “The Drive-in.”
#41
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1922 Subject: Photo crop of the Woolworth building (1922). View is WSW. Taken from a point in the Houston Street intersection with Alamo Plaza showcasing the building.
#42
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1922 Subject: Photo crop of shooting range at exposition park on South Flores Street opposite the Hot Wells Hotel. View is most probably ESE. Taken from a point within the park. Note the observation/judges tower.
#43
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1883-1912. Subject: Photo crop of Dullnig Block (1883) at Commerce Street and Alamo Plaza. View is NNW. Taken from a point in the intersection of Commerce and Alamo Plaza. Building will lose a tower and about 15 feet of Commerce Street frontage to street widening 1912-1915.
#44
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1942-1945 Subject: Photo crop of WWII home front photograph. View direction is unknown. Taken from a point to the right front of the vehicle showcasing how women were being mobilized to handle many formally male dominated jobs.
#45
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1904-1905 Subject: Photo crop of 300 block of East Houston Street with typed ascription. View is SSE. Taken from a point across Houston Street showcasing the building at 312-314 E. Houston. Another jewel of the photograph is the large trees just to the west at 308 E. Houston. This is the front yard of the residence of Doctor F. Herff, famous physician of San Antonio and indicates an almost vanished period when individual private residences were common on Houston Street.
#46
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1910 Subject: Photo crop of Commerce Street with typed caption. View is west along Commerce. Taken from Joske’s Store showcasing Commerce.
#47
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1914 Subject: Photo crop of a cropped book page of the Commerce Street Bridge. View is north. Taken, probably, from the market street bridge.
#48
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1940 Subject: Photo crop of Commerce Street. View is east along Commerce. Taken from a point in street slightly west of Pecos Street.
#49
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1881-1883 Subject: Photo crop of Hugo and Schmeltzer Wholesale Grocers. View is probably west. Taken from a point along (probably) Commerce street, showcasing the wagons. Hugo and Schmeltzer building burns 27 August 1883. The business moves to the Alamo Building on Alamo Plaza in 1885.
#50
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1891-1914 Subject: Photo crop of Commerce Street. View is West. Taken from the building across the river, showcasing Commerce street and the office building at 102 West Commerce.
#51
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: Building constructed in 1858 Subject: Photo crop of Casino Club Hall and Theater. View is SSE. Taken from a point on the north side of Market Street showcasing the hall.
#52
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 17 December 1892 Subject: Photo crop of crowd scene on Main Plaza. View is west and elevated. Taken, almost certainly, from the French Building, showcasing the cornerstone ceremony for the Bexar County Courthouse.
#53
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1891-1897 Subject: Photo crop of interior of building. View is interior. Taken from a point inside the building showcasing the saloon. Almost certainly “Billy’s Saloon,” first floor of the Reuter Building (1891), SW corner of Crockett and Alamo Plaza. Note the glass mugs, porcelain dinnerware and spittoons.
#54
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1914-1915 Subject: Photo crop of Alamo National Bank. View is SSW. Taken from a building across Commerce showcasing the widening of Commerce Street and particularly the raising and moving of the Alamo National Bank at the SW corner of Commerce and S. Presa. It is said that the 8000-ton building was raised by 1800 screw jacks, placed on 1600 rollers and then pushed back 17 feet. That much is fact. The legend says it was all done while not disturbing bank business inside. Another part of the same legend says once it was on the rollers it was drawn over and let down onto blocks of dry ice which as they evaporated, allowed the building to settle.
#55
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1941 Subject: Photo crop North St. Mary’s Street. View is south. Taken from a point in middle of St Mary’s, north of Pecan Street showcasing a night scene.
#56
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1929 Subject: Photo crop of San Antonio. View is NNE and elevated. Taken from the new Smith-Young Tower showcasing a portion of Commerce Street. Joske’s massive store at Commerce and Alamo Plaza has not yet done the 1936 renovation. The Plaza Theater in the renovated Gallagher Building (1877) which was once the US Post Office, is still in operation at the corner of Blum and Alamo Plaza and has yet to be razed. St. Joseph’s Church still has its rectory (with St. Mary’s Street alongside) and has not yet been encircled.
#57
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1917 Subject: Photo crop of Jewel Tea Company route vehicle and salesman. View is unknown. Taken from within a few feet of subject.
#58
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1906/07-1913 Subject: Photo crop of the St. James Hotel. View is North. Taken from building across Houston to the south. Originally constructed as Mackey Block (1892). Becomes St. James Hotel 1897-1913. Becomes State Bank and Trust Building in 1914. Photo shows Kress store building (1906/07) to the east.
#59
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1934 Subject: Photo crop of the National Theater. View is NNE. Taken from a point in the W. Commerce Street and North Santa Rosa Street intersection showcasing the theater.
#60
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1881-1883 Subject: Photo crop of a line drawing or lithograph of the Bexar County Courthouse, then on the east side of Soledad. View is east. This drawing was produced either to show how the renovation of the courthouse was to look in the future or to reflect how it did look at the time of the creation of the drawing. The renovation of the courthouse was begun in 1881 and completed in 1883.
#61
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 12 November 1912Subject: Photo crop of the interior of a bicycle shop with handwritten ascriptions. View is interior. Taken at 106 S. Laredo showcasing the interior and persons. Note the bicycle clips on the pants of the two younger persons and the phone on wall.
#62
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1924-1928 Subject: Photo crop of a book/magazine page with printed caption. View is north. Taken from a point within a few feet of subject. Jordan-Ivers Motor Co. in place by 1924 – Garden Street renamed in 1928.
#63
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1899 Subject: Photo crop of a post card of the New Market House (1899), W. Commerce at N. Santa Rosa. View is west. The written ascription is, of course, incorrect as Military Plaza with City Hall at its center is several blocks to the east.
#64
Photo crop exposure date: UnknownExposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1906-1917 Subject: Photo crop of post card depicting Electric Park. View is probably south. Park was located south of San Pedro Park, fronting on N. Flores, it was more than a city block wide and extended east to Nixon Street.