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Machado House, Casa de la Bandera, ca.1934. In the foreground, a large road can be seen extending to the left. In the background at center, a small one-story house can be seen. Three windows can be seen along the side of the house alongside large shrubs. A small door can be seen next to two signs, and a circular object on the wall. Large shingles cover the entire roof, and a small chimney is visible. On the left side of the roof, a small chimney can be seen. In the extreme background, a large utility pole is visible beside a tree. "Corporal Jose Manuel Machado, pioneer leatherjacket soldier of the Spanish Army, arrived at San Diego Presidio about 1782. He built this house, on the southwest side of the Old Town Plaza, facing San Diego Avenue, probably in 1832, for his daughter, Maria Antonia and her husband, Manuel de Silvas. It became Known as the Casa de la Bandera, or 'House of the Flag,' when the lady hid in it the Mexican flag cut away from the Plaza pole, when the Americans occupied San Diego. Albert Smith, who shinnied up the pole with the Stars and Stripes, married Maria Antonia's sister Guadalupe soon after. The old house is now in use as a Community Church for the Old Town area." -- unknown author. Photoprint reads: "To this adobe of the Machados was taken the last Mexican Flag to fly over San Diego in 1846. It was sec[reted?] there and later carried to Baja California by the family who did not want it to fall into the hands of the American soldiers. The adobe stands on the plaza at Old Town." -- Alfonso Yorba, [s.d.]
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image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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