General view of the Alamo, 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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General view of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
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The Alamo, the former mission chapel in San Antonio, is the focus here, shown in a broad view that takes in its old limestone walls and the streets around it. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued this stereograph around 1926, when stereo cards were a popular way to see distant places in three dimensions through a viewer at home. The Alamo had been a symbol of Texas independence since the 1836 siege, and by the 1920s it was drawing growing numbers of visitors, which is part of why a commercial publisher thought it worth recording. Look for the pairing of the church front with the surrounding city life, a reminder of how the monument sat within a working town.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1926. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.Stereographs 1920-1930. |
| Notes | J281756 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 26562. |
| Subjects | Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--1920-1930. City & town life--Texas--Austin--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 732 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | General view of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, Keystone View Co., c. 1926 |
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