Alamo Plaza
Photo crop exposure date: unknown. Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: ca. 1918. Subject: Photo crop of a Goldbeck panoramic photograph. 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. is at the 700 block address of East Houston from 1910 to 1925. The “Food-Don’t Waste It” sign is a World War 1 (1914-1918) U.S. Food Administration message created by Frederic G. Cooper. See also “photo #140“.
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