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Photo crop exposure date: unknown.
Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1914-1918
Subject: Photo crop of what appears to be a book page. View is WSW across the Houston Street-Alamo Plaza intersection. Taken from in front of the US Post Office building showing the Maverick Bank Building and the intersection. Subject page is captioned. Area of interest within the photograph is the umbrella which has been lowered and under which the officer controlling the intersection, is standing. The umbrella is an integral part of the semaphore (stop-go device above the umbrella) that the officer is operating. Note the markers indicating the width of the streetcar lane.

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