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ID: 2786 Classification: Drug stores are open all night Date: 1907-11-25
Source: The San Antonio Daily Express
Information
ID: 2298 Classification: Where were the police? Date: 1886-05-13
Source: San Antonio Daily Light
Abbey
ID: 1 Classification: Officer Date: 1883-07-18
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 2 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-06-14
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 3 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-08-22
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 4 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-08-28
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 5 Classification: Detective Date: 1884-09-10
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 6 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-12-04
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 7 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-12-10
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 8 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-12-11
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 9 Classification: Officer Date: 1885-01-17
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 10 Classification: Officer Date: 1885-01-29
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey
ID: 11 Classification: Officer Date: 1886-12-07
Source: San Antonio Daily Light
Abbey, C.E.
ID: 12 Classification: Special Duty under Det. Hughes Date: 1886-12-21
Source: San Antonio Daily Light
Abbey, Charles
ID: 13 Classification: Policeman Date: 1883-01-31
Source: The Evening Light
Abbey, Charles
ID: 14 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-08-23
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey, Charles
ID: 15 Classification: Ex-Detective Date: 1885-03-02
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abbey, Charles E.
ID: 16 Classification: Appointed-formerly on force Date: 1886-11-29
Source: San Antonio Daily Light
Abbey, Charles E.
ID: 17 Classification: Badge #18 Date: 1888-12-31
Source: City Directory 1889-90
Abbey, Charles W.
ID: 18 Classification: of the police force Date: 1884-07-23
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 19 Classification: Policeman Date: 1883-10-23
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 20 Classification: Officer Date: 1883-11-26
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 21 Classification: Officer Date: 1883-12-08
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 22 Classification: Officer Date: 1883-12-10
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 23 Classification: NRI Date: 1883-12-19
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 24 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-01-11
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 25 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-01-30
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby
ID: 26 Classification: Officer Date: 1884-02-13
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby (sic), Charles
ID: 27 Classification: Detective Date: 1884-04-28
Source: The San Antonio Light
Abby, Charles
ID: 28 Classification: First Relief Date: 1893-04-01
Source: The San Antonio Daily Express
Accident
ID: 29 Classification: Street car Date: 1886-12-14
Source: San Antonio Daily Light
Adam, Anton
ID: 30 Classification: Recorder Date: 1888-12-31
Source: City Directory 1889-90
Addicks, R.W.
ID: 31 Classification: Appointed to the police force Date: 1915-09-01
Source: San Antonio Express
Addicks, Tom
ID: 32 Classification: Appointed as Regular Policeman Date: 1918-08-20
Source: Council Meeting Minutes
Addington
ID: 33 Classification: Patrolman Date: 1899-09-01
Source: San Antonio Express
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Alamo Plaza
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...rick Bank Building (1884) with its distinctive balconies was purchased in 1894 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. AlamoplzaFolder-1024x10243.jpg 2018/01/AlamoplzaFolder-1024x10243.jpg image 2...
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File: MainplzaFolder-SAMainplzaFatalCorner.jpg Type: image Year: 2018
...onstruction of the Kampmann Block. The caption and information concerns the Vaudeville Theatre that had belonged to Jack Harris, who was killed by Ben Thompson on 11 July 1882 and where Thompson and John King Fisher would be killed on 11 March 1884. The caption is incorrect in that the proprietor of the tobacco shop was SIM Hart. MainplzaFolder-SAMainplzaFatalCorner.jpg 2018/01/MainplzaFolder-SAMainplzaFatalCorner.jp...
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File: StreetscenesFolder-SunsetStationFDRvisit1936.jpg Type: image Year: 2018
...a crowd and an infantry unit waiting for the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s train. He will enter the car that is sitting to the tracks and be driven to the Alamo, where he will make a speech and lay a wreath to the Alamo defenders. StreetscenesFolder-SunsetStationFDRvisit1936.jpg 2018/01/StreetscenesFolder-SunsetStationFDRvisit1936.jpg image 2018
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File: BadgesFolder-SAPDtrfcbadge.jpg Type: image Year: 2018
...soldered to the lower shield at the end points. The shield has two banners, one concave with the word TRAFFIC and one convex with the word POLICE, above and below the center area where the numbers are faced. The shield was originally cast with an eagle at the top. The eagle and the center point of the shield have been roughly and not entirely removed from the shield and the chapel building and bar simply attached. T...
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89 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, fa...
2
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2 Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1917-1928Subject: Photo crop of intersection of Broadway and Houston Street. View is north and elevated from, most likely, a building on south side of intersection. Area of interest within the photograph is the semaphore device which can be seen quite clearly over the intersection. Some of the devices were on a block and tackle arrangemen...
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3 Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1890-1892 Subject: Photo crop of the front (east elevation) of the City Hall/County Courthouse and Jail Compound (1852). The view is WNW from a point in Military Plaza. This is an excellent rendition of the facade that appears as stone blocks emplaced vertically at the front corners of the building. It is a cosmetic stucco application ad...
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File: MainplzaFolder-SAmainplzaNWcorner1866.jpg Type: image Year: 2018
27 Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1873.Subject: Photo crop of Main Plaza. The view is NNW showing the northwest corner of the plaza. The east elevation of Carl Elmendorf’s hardware store is prominent. The placement of buildings would indicate a date close to the 1873 Birdseye map and could not have been taken as late as 1877. It is very likely that this exposure and...
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4 Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1918Subject: Photo crop of intersection if East Commerce and North Alamo Street. View is NNW across the intersection. Taken from the SE corner of the intersection showing the Dullnig Building. Area of interest is the semaphore, above the intersection. It would appear that this particular unit is mounted within a sliding pipe (one pipe wit...
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File: StreetscenesFolder-SAhertzbergclock1878to1910.jpg Type: image Year: 2018
66 Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1887-1901 Subject: Photo crop of a street scene. View is east on Commerce Street. Taken from a point in front of the Kampmann building just east of Main Plaza showcasing Commerce Street. StreetscenesFolder-SAhertzbergclock1878to1910.jpg 2018/01/StreetscenesFolder-SAhertzbergclock1878to1910.jpg image 2018
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File: MainplzaFolder-SAmainplza1908.jpg Type: image Year: 2018
35 Photo crop exposure date: unknown.Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1910-1914Subject: Photo crop of Main Plaza. View is south along Soledad and elevated. Taken from the Elite Restaurant and Saloon. Washer Building is present on east side of plaza (1910). The addition (1914) to the Bexar County Courthouse is not present. MainplzaFolder-SAmainplza1908.jpg 2018/01/MainplzaFolder-SAmainplza1908.jpg image 201...
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88 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. SATEXFolder-SAEdnaTice.jpg 2018/01/SATEXFolder-SAEdnaTice.jpg image 2018
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...and particlpate in the festivi- policy by stepping forward and offering ple evidence of what Mr. Biaine said in it without the assistance of the other few and far between, and the forum ties and dancing. would have hsd no railway yet. Look and givingsubstantial inducements they that way, and to which I alluded in my former communication. faetion, while the non oflce element looked gloomy and deserted. The first The G...
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...orning re- No beiter or more patriotle speeches Bexutifal Designs. Kider Down Jersey Fiannel, all wool, ROYAL sured perulsinn to erect a Jumbet New Suits. were ever henrd from the forum in San CHEAP COLUMN. UNDERTAKERS dweling on the eart side of K Paao Antonlo than were made at Fest's gar- at G. B. Frank's. Alamo plaza. atrect, to cost 3200. D-21-11 The Sollowing new sults have been den yesterday, nor were the sudie...
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...nset bofs were 'making mer- ry over the White Elephant's cham- Let none dispute the games you win. pagne punch this morning. —The Sunset Brass and String band Let right be yours where might shall will give moonlight pienle at San Pedro And honor faill, govern ench and every Boot and Shoe Springs on Saturday night. House -The street lamp on the corner of Then when homeward you set your sall, game. down and broken la...
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...it will be seen that the remains of well known fact that no other set las, as know there i no bope for them, mulesed Captals Walker and Gillispie are to be re- done at this fime: Where is the neoessity make so much fuss about the oue adopt- ch, madean opendclaration of hostilly to canarray th Cath les ad Foreige moved from where they are now burried. to for this arrangement? are questions we hear ed by the Ameriean...
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...ork horrifed spectators noticed that th are being put down in the Necond ward It is stated that Colonel Brackenridge eopal church, Ouiober 18, Issi, Sundsy- they would seek it somewhere else. walls were covered with vermin, and in by the conirnctor, bat he is not going school at 10 a. m.; preaching at 3 p. m., What to wear now places red marks which on elose scru- out far enough. He is distributing them remarked to n...
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...am Shea. plain and gros-grain, radzaimere, surrah. ment embraces black and all colors of Collected From Hotel Corridors worid. This sauce is highly endorsed N. Is. Weller, and Elsewhere. by all who have tried it. If you want a A. Michel, Charien Bauer. Jin Kelley, J. J. Holiand. hangeable, and in fact everything that tirst-elass article ask your grocer for it. W. Prederick. W. Earty. delongs to a first-class silk dep...
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...Mrs. J. M. Fuller, of Galveston, ac- J. M. Emerson is the proprietor of Three Establishments. His Main Establishment Is at effect to those who desire them. No. is Soledad street, where you can always get bargains, as he keeps a Loan Office and deals LIGHT SPARKS. sale, N. J., arrived at the Menger hotel last companied by Miss Jennle G. Ayorigg. of Pas- In everything, from a Fine Diamond to a paper of Pins. Lost. One...
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...citizens House Furnishine Goods, rood work. as the reword of this morning's No. 12, Soledad Street, San Antonio, Texas. Wooden and Willowware. court shows. noction with tae hotel, where tirst-class meads opened a restaurant and dining room, in co- Cheap! Cheap: Cheap : Cheap: -Twenty one afidavits have been filod against persons who have negiccted to clean will be served at all hours from 6 a. d. to 9 HUGO & SCHMELTZ...
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...ayed are of winter mny be mentioned the Fortunn. immense. Delhauer and Geyer appear ROSALIA Thalia, Clifton and Casinog and in felt GRAVILIA, s great a variety as can be found any where; such as Tricobin's snd Surah's. goods the Letratia, Iriscilia, Jarbeau exhibited his powers an a contortionist. after the above, and Delhauer as a frog snd Helets sre the most prominent, and En Benauatithal gems of Bon OF ALL even th...
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...er) cure harbor, or if more advisable return Washington; March 16.-It is understood ly stationed at Fort Riley and more recent. Black " " 2-t0-5 would emigrate to some other place where very highest developments in animated that the Senato will adjorurn the coming at Fort Leavenworth, has been ordered to Sattinette 66 " " 2,50-10-5 they had a government, even to the Coman. again after the cessation of thestorm, to th...
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...eam without It. record Indeed ihere, unknown caprices of a formidable The trade in human hair is once from this height, and some idea into the wave. The vessel came a contentional where, in the foree. There werebut two men to more on the increase, and artists may be gained of the power ex. through on the other side, but of curtains, for example. subetitutes have in human hair keep a sharp look. been accept it and con...
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...Main market, Market street. Amer- buggy off into a ditoh and threw Mr. interpose to forms a tine and profitable site for a fur- ican and Spaniah dishes, the best in the Meyer out, where he iny considerably prevent it. The Lianr refrains from niture manufactory. Daiton's Time and Permutation Locks, market. Hot and cold lunches prepared bruised. The horses then dasbed on and giving the names of the persons who Monitor,...
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...h Direet from the Baldwin thentre, Ban Fean- gamble. A Bible only can make me p'ay. is disgust, a few thousand winner. He played the bounty of his harvest, and see gladness eusct. where they have juo finilod the aent Our object is to etose out these Hinew entirely to enabte our intention of pursuing the businese anzals of mlnsterisy. playinr seven eonsoeu. rem-rkabde engagement ever known in the of MILINERY aNd FANCY...
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...to s with our beantinal ot will menon the Federal Court. yesterday. of the Female charge of permitting violations of the day evering. Her name is Hattie Dell- the bride's mother, where a great num- The same being nicely put up in Minstrel First Part. LIME gaming law. mor. and she comes to San Antonlo ber of eiegant gifts to the bride hnd pre- 201, 203 AND 205 S. ALAMO ST., COR, VILLITA, Overture. -There will be a me...
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...ral mellee followed, while Father Genoulin leaves Paris, France. give Dr. V. O. King eertain patronnge, culty that occurred to-night at 8 o'clock, once more have full away and see where poor Cari, who is a mere ind, retired to to-morrow on his return Journey to San which he exercised to its ful extent in between Austin George and John Grey, the negro race will come out, it will be a corner and nursed his wounded chee...