Alamo Plaza
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Photo crop of a Goldbeck panoramic photograph (slightly different than #19) of the Alamo chapel and convento “Long Barracks”. View is ESE from a lower balcony of the Swearingen-McCraw (Maverick Bank) Building (1884). The Hugo & Schmeltzer building has been razed. The Clifton George Ford Co. exists in the 700 block of East Houston from 1910 to 1925. The “Food -Don’t Waste It” sign is a World War 1 (for the U.S. 1917-1918) United States Food Administration message created by Frederic G. Cooper.
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