Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900. Double-door gates opens outward allowing entrance to the famous Spanish mission turned fort. The façade features a multi-curved parapet. Underneath the parapet are two arched windows flanking a rectangular window. The entrance below the windows is decorated (or supported) with four column-like buttresses with fancy moldings and designs. Picture file card reads: "A Franciscan mission. During the war of Texas and Mexico used as a fort".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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