General view of the Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with General view of the Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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General view of the Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas
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Alamo Plaza, the open square in front of the old mission chapel, was the subject here, and the chapel's famous facade stands at the edge of the scene. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, produced stereographs like this one for viewers in parlors across the country around 1909. Texas had acquired the Alamo chapel from the U.S. Army in 1883, so by this time it was a site of public memory as well as a working part of downtown San Antonio. The paired images of such views give a sense of depth that a flat print cannot, and the plaza's street traffic and buildings show a city in transition.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers, c1909. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H129061 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16579. |
| Subjects | Plazas--Texas--San Antonio--1900-1910. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,228 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | General view of the Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas, Keystone View Co., v. 1926 |
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