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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Machado House, "Casa de la Bandera", in San Diego, ca.1920. The squat, one-story building is shown at right, just off from a paved road which runs in the foreground. A door is shown to the right, with a plaque or picture of some sort to its left. A second entrance way can be seen at left, considerably wider than the door at the right. Each of the low-slung windows is equipped with a wooden planter's box. A utility pole is visible in the left background, along with treetops. "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.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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