A black and white photo of an old house, Texas, during Great Depressio...
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Privies. Mexican corral, San Antonio, Texas
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A black and white photo of people at an outdoor market, Texas, during ...
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Back of Negro dwelling, San Antonio, Texas
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An old outhouse with a toilet in it, Texas, during Great Depression
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Moving vegetables into wholesale house market. San Antonio, Texas
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Backyard in Mexican section, San Antonio, Texas
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Mexican pecan shellers at work in small non-union plant. San Antonio, ...
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Sign in privy of Mexican district, San Antonio, Texas
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A black and white photo of a pile of junk, Texas, during Great Depress...
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Making tortillas in bake shop, San Antonio, Texas. Tortillas are made ...
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Flower peddler at the early morning market. San Antonio Texas
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River Walk, the number-one tourist attraction in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Youngster enjoys a display of inflated Easter bunnies for sale on a st...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Mansion in the King William Historic District, San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Mission Concepcion, one of five missions in Old San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Mission Concepcion was dedicated in 1755, 21 years befo... More
Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More
Doorway to the Alamo, an 18th-century mission church in San Antonio, T...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally built to be the church for the Mission San Antonio de Valero, which was founded in 1718. The church was built by Spanish F... More
Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More
Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More
Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More
Originally an eighteenth-century Franciscan mission church in San Anto...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. During the so-called Texians' War of Independence in 1835-36, the Alamo's two hundred or so volunteer defenders, the exact number is d... More
Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Ant...
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
Stairway and man made waterfall at the River Walk, also known as the P...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lined by bars, shops and restaurants, the River Walk is a free gathering place attraction that loops under bridges as two parallel si... More
A barge loaded with visitors plies a portion of the San Antonio River ...
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
Virginia Van Cleave, a history professor at the University of Texas at...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Organized by the university's fine-arts department, the event rotates the type of fashions from year to year: from hats to medals to ... 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
The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars...
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
Doorway to the Alamo, an 18th-century mission church in San Antonio, T...
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Doorway to the Alamo, an 18th-century mission church in San Antonio, T...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally built to be the church for the Mission San Antonio de Valero, which was founded in 1718. The church was built by Spanish F... More
Albert Duran, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member attending...
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
Mural by an unknown artist or artists on the wall of a small business ...
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
Interior details at the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More
Dakota Prairie Rose Osife, left, and her friend, Madison Banda, at the...
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
Virginia Van Cleave, a history professor at the University of Texas at...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Organized by the university's fine-arts department, the event rotates the type of fashions from year to year: from hats to medals to ... 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...
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Child at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas
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 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
Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo on the gro...
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
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, now commonl...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission was stablished in 1731 after an earlier parish in East Texas was abandoned due to French and American Indian incursions in... More
Calvin Osife, whose heritage traces to the Navajo people of Chinle, Ar...
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Simple wooden cross outside Mission San Francisco de la Espada, better...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1690 by Spanish Franciscan friars as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Weches, Texas, this was the first mission... More
Edwin J. De Luna, a Taos Pueblo Navajo, at the Celebrations of Traditi...
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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
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
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
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Sanctuary of Mission San Juan Capistrano, now known as simply "Mission...
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Stone wall, a brick oven, and a simple arbor at Mission Nuestra Senora...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Franciscan friars, this stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as... More
American Indians' quarters and a courtyard oven at Mission San Jose y ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many buildings on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, borrow architectural elements from those found at Mission San... More
Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-332 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1850 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work
Bexar County Courthouse, 20 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Bexar County...
Significance: The building is the latest in a series of courthouse buildings for Bexar County, and by its growth and size is indicative of the progress and development in the area since the last quarter of the ... More
Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Magazine, South side o...
Significance: This late nineteenth-century, one-room, brick magazine, although isolated in its location on the western boundary of the post, is compatible in design and materials with other post buildings erect... More
207 Center Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N442 Survey number: HABS TX-3506
Magnus Seng House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21 Survey number: HABS TX-33-A-15 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction
Newton A. Mitchell House, 209 Washington Street, San Antonio, Bexar Co...
Significance: The house in its original state was a good example of pre-Civil War Classical Revival residential architecture in the San Antonio area. With its later Neo-Classical additions it is representative ... More
Fort Sam Houston, Kitchen & Mess Hall, Stanley Road behind Barracks No...
Significance: The Kitchen and Mess Hall building is part of a complex of buildings including separate latrines and barracks completed in 1908 as part of the development of artillery and the Cavalry Post. The co... More
Fort Sam Houston, Kitchen & Mess Hall, Stanley Road behind Barracks No...
Significance: The Kitchen and Mess Hall building is part of a complex of buildings including separate latrines and barracks completed in 1908 as part of the development of artillery and the Cavalry Post. The co... 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
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
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Outhouse, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San A...
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Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 15 Staff Post Road, San Antonio,...
Significance: One of fifteen officers' quarters constructed of similar but varying design on post. Built in the early 1880s, it represents the post's earliest effort to provide housing for officers and their fa... More
Reverend Bill Green, ex-slave, San Antonio
420078. District no. 27. Picture no. 257. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Magazine, San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, ...
Significance: This building was the second structure erected at the Arsenal depot in 1860 and was also the second permanent military building erected in Texas by the Federal Government. Architecturally, the bui... More
Gustave Uhl House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-316 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction
Medina River Bridge, Spanning Medina River at Pleasanton Road, San Ant...
Significance: This 303'-0"-long, four-span reinforced concrete arch bridge over the Medina River is one of the earliest documented concrete arch bridges in Texas. The bridge features open spandrels and two set... More
Medina River Bridge, Spanning Medina River at Pleasanton Road, San Ant...
Significance: This 303'-0"-long, four-span reinforced concrete arch bridge over the Medina River is one of the earliest documented concrete arch bridges in Texas. The bridge features open spandrels and two set... More
San Antonio City Hall, Military Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Significance: San Antonio City Hall is situated in the center of Military Plaza (Plaza de Armas) established in 1722 by the Spanish settlers of Texas who earlier had established a garrison on San Pedro Creek wh... More
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
Fort Sam Houston, Headquarters of the Department of Texas, Commanding ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
South Presa Street Bridge, Spanning San Antonio River at Presa Street,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Albert Todd, ex-slave, San Antonio
420119. District no. 27. Picture no. 260. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
San Fernando Cathedral, 115 Main Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Significance: San Fernando Cathedral is one of the important historic architectural monuments in San Antonio. A part of the present structure dates to the middle of the eighteenth century and the beginning of t... More
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...
Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Chapel, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Ant...
Significance: The chapel is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-321-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001352
Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Nathaniel Lewis House, 112 Lexington, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-393 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction
Nathaniel Lewis House, 112 Lexington, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-393 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction
Ernst H. Altgelt House, 226 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar Co...
Significance: Stone residence of rough hewn and rough squared limestone, built by Mr. Altgelt, a prosperous real estate developer of a fashionable residential area in 1878. Survey number: HABS TX-3147 Buildin... More
Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Commanding Officer's Q...
Significance: This large two-story brick residence was built for the Commanding Officer of the Military Post of San Antonio and his family. When completed in 1888, the structure was the most notable residence o... More
Ursuline Academy, Laundry Building, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, B...
Significance: This building is one of the minor structures of the Ursuline Academy complex, and its history is unknown. In any event, it appears in some respects to be one of the early buildings and may possibl... More
Argyle House, 924 Patterson & Argyle-Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Bexar...
Survey number: HABS TX-36 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1890 Subsequent Work
Argyle House, 924 Patterson & Argyle-Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Bexar...
Survey number: HABS TX-36 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1890 Subsequent Work
Augusta Street Bridge, Spanning San Antonio River at Augusta Street, S...
Survey number: HAER TX-101 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Commanding Officer's Quarters, San Antonio A...
Significance: Erected in 1883, the present building is the first Commanding Officers' Quarters erected by the U.S. Government at the San Antonio Arsenal. Survey number: HABS TX-3175-A
U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Commanding Officer's Quarters, San Antonio A...
Significance: Erected in 1883, the present building is the first Commanding Officers' Quarters erected by the U.S. Government at the San Antonio Arsenal. Survey number: HABS TX-3175-A
U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Commanding Officer's Quarters, San Antonio A...
Significance: Erected in 1883, the present building is the first Commanding Officers' Quarters erected by the U.S. Government at the San Antonio Arsenal. Survey number: HABS TX-3175-A
215 Ellis Alley (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N447 Survey number: HABS TX-3501
Ursuline Academy, Academy Building, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, B...
Significance: This building was the first Academy building erected by the Ursulines after their arrival in San Antonio in 1851. It is the largest known building in Texas constructed of "rammed earth" or pise de... More
Ursuline Academy, 1872 House, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar C...
Significance: This building, a part of the Ursuline Academy complex and one of seven surviving buildings, is a good example of the plain style of residential stone masonry architecture to be found in this area ... More
Casa Vieja, Blue Wing Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-37 Survey number: HABS TX-323 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction
Norton-Polk-Mathis House, 401 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar ...
Significance: The Norton-Polk-Mathis House is significant in that it can be traced the evolution of nineteenth century Texas architecture, from the simple stone frontier building, through the typical Victorian ... More
Norton-Polk-Mathis House, 401 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar ...
Significance: The Norton-Polk-Mathis House is significant in that it can be traced the evolution of nineteenth century Texas architecture, from the simple stone frontier building, through the typical Victorian ... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Old Church, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San...
Survey number: HABS TX-321-E National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001352
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of...
Significance: The Quartermaster Depot, built of locally quarried stone on land donated by the City of San Antonio, was the first permanent military post at San Antonio. Completed in 1878, the depot replaced a s... 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