The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars...
Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Manuel Gonzalez-Ortega, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Colorful opening pageant at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in Sa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Company Barracks & Ban...
Significance: Buildings 603-610 and 613, constructed between 1886 and 1887, represent the Army's earliest efforts to provide adequate housing for the enlisted men assigned to the Military Post at San Antonio. T... More
Jose Antonio Navarro Store, 232 South Laredo Street, San Antonio, Bexa...
Survey number: HABS TX-317 Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001353
Fort Sam Houston, Gift Chapel, Wilson Street, between Hancock & Connel...
Significance: The "Gift" Chapel was the first permanent religious institution built expressly for the servicemen and their families at Fort Sam Houston. The property was donated by the City of San Antonio and c... More
San Antonio River Walk, 418 Villita Street, San Antonio, Bexar County,...
Significance: Its Native American name was Yanaguana, which means "refreshing waters," but the San Antonio River (as a Spanish priest named it in 1691) has not always been so appreciated. Its infrequent, but ex... More
Nathaniel Lewis House, 112 Lexington, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-393 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction
225 Ellis Alley (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cos House, 513 Paseo de la Villita, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS TX-33-A-6
Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio Administration, 616 Inf...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Group of students with Miss Jovita Gonzales, St. Mary's Academy, San A...
Typed on back: "Group of students, St. Mary's Academy, San Antonio, Texas, with Miss Jovita Gonzales. April, 1934."; "See A-8, 3, 5, 6, 84." Gonzales possibly Mexican American. Forms part of: Lomax photographs... More
212 Chestnut Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N444 Survey number: HABS TX-3509 Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Initial Construction
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, House, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Anto...
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Mission San Juan de Capistrano, House, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Anto...
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Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 307 East Pecan Street, San Antonio, Bexar...
Survey number: HABS TX-33 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
He arrives in "San Antone" to attend a reunion of the Rough Riders / M...
Photograph of a cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt and others running through a street in San Antonio towards a Rough Riders reunion with Rough Riders shooting pistols, Sec. Loeb carrying a case, and members of... More
Visiting the old mission new San Antonio, Tex
Copyright, 1909, by Stereo-Travel Co. No. 50. Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Palestine, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Sunset Route Depot, San Antonio, Texas
No. 3416. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gardens planted close to privies. Mexican section, San Antonio, Texas....
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Part of commodity relief line, San Antonio, Texas
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mexican woman building fire in battered steel drum in backyard of her ...
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Setting up the scales on a vegetable truck at the early morning market...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mexican pecan workers union official displaying relief supplies which ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball play, baseball player, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A little girl sitting on a bench next to a trash can, Texas, during Gr...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pecan sheller buying fried beans for her lunch, San Antonio, Texas
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kitchen of Mexican house. San Antonio, Texas
Public domain photograph of kitchen, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Detail of living room of Mexican house. San Antonio, Texas
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
People in market, San Antonio, Texas
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San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Nernice E. Kelley has the important assignmen...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Edwin J. De Luna, a Taos Pueblo Navajo, at the Celebrations of Traditi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Pow Wow is sponsored by United San Antonio Pow Wow, Inc., a Texas nonprofit organization devoted to promoting the culture and tra... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scene from the opening grand parade at the San Antonio Stock Show and ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Cindy Njegovan Comfort of San Antonio, models her creation exhibited i...
Title based on information from related, adjacent image. Organized by the university's fine-arts department, the event rotates the type of fashions from year to year: from hats to medals to shoes. It is open to... More
Andrew De Luna, a dancer at the Celebrations of Traditions Pow Wow, an...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Pow Wow is sponsored by United San Antonio Pow Wow, Inc., a Texas nonprofit organization devoted to promoting the culture and tra... More
The Pavilion, a downtown San Antonio wedding, event, meeting, banquet ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street...
Significance: This ninety-foot high limestone tower, built in 1876-78, stands at the center of the original Quartermaster Depot, now the Headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Army, and serves as a focal point for the ... More
Gustave Uhl House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-316 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction
Jose Antonio Navarro Store, 232 South Laredo Street, San Antonio, Bexa...
Survey number: HABS TX-317 Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001353
Fort Sam Houston, Gift Chapel, Wilson Street, between Hancock & Connel...
Significance: The "Gift" Chapel was the first permanent religious institution built expressly for the servicemen and their families at Fort Sam Houston. The property was donated by the City of San Antonio and c... More
Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, B...
Significance: Built in the mid-19th century, the Dashiell House was then one of the more pretentious houses in the Villita area of San Antonio and was, in general, characteristic of this type of dwelling. Today... More
217 Ellis Alley (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N448 Survey number: HABS TX-3500
San Antonio River Walk, 418 Villita Street, San Antonio, Bexar County,...
Significance: Its Native American name was Yanaguana, which means "refreshing waters," but the San Antonio River (as a Spanish priest named it in 1691) has not always been so appreciated. Its infrequent, but ex... More
Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district. ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cos House, 513 Paseo de la Villita, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS TX-33-A-6
220 Chestnut Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N446 Survey number: HABS TX-3507 Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction Building/structure dates:... More
Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio Administration, 616 Inf...
Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Skate board rider in front of a colorful mural, San Antonio, Texas
Mural portrays a man selling raspas (snow cones) in front of lawn and buildings depicted at night. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may diff... More
Spanish Governor's Palace, 105 Plaza de Armas, San Antonio, Bexar Coun...
2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: The building occupies the west side of Military Plaza in downtown San Antonio. This structure has gone through various changes in both function and des... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Church, Berg's Mill Community, San...
Significance: The church of the Espada features a typical design derived from the plans used by the Franciscan Fathers in their construction of mission buildings. Survey number: HABS TX-320-A National Registe... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
John R. Kampmann House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dr. D. B. F. Kingsley House, 408 Elm Street, San Antonio, Bexar County...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Road, San Antonio, Be...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Convent, 807 Mission Road, S...
Significance: The convent, which is adjoined to the church's south side, is significant architecturally as physical evidence of building practices and techniques of the Spanish colonial period. Unprocessed Fie... More
San Jose Grist Mill, Southwest of San Jose Drive, east of Espada Road,...
Survey number: HAER TX-2 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fort Sam Houston, Barracks, Stanley Road between Liscum & New Braunfel...
Significance: This red brick barracks, facing on the parade ground along the south side of Stanley Road, is the principal structure within a small grouping of related buildings, including latrine and mess hall,... More
Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More