Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Stereo view by San Antonio View Company of an elevated view looking down upon a courtyard with several trees that are surrounded by two prominenant buildings in the middle ground. In the background there is a cluster of buildings in a flat desert landscape. In the middle of the frame there is a horse or mule attached to a carriage. Handwritten in pencil on verso: "Government Depot" Stamped on verso: "Setereoscopic Views, / of San Antonio, Texas / by the / San Antonio View Company / F. Hardesty Manager" Below that there is a chart that lists a variety of other locations that stereoscopes had been made by this company. Below the chart, stamped it reads: "All from Original Negatives and Guaranteed the Finest Ever / Made in the South. Sent by Mail for $1.50 Per Dozen, Also A Large Variety of Miscellaneous Views of San Antonio / and vicinity" Below that reads, "Parties wishing Special Views made anywhere, will please address / San Antonio View Company / Veramendi Street, San Antonio, Texas."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Hardesty, Frank
- Measurements
- overall: 3 7/8 in x 7 in; 9.8425 cm x 17.78 cm
- Object Name
- stereograph
