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Author | : Lewis F. Fisher |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595349197 |
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Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred color and black-and-white photo postcards, many of them quite rare, that yield a compelling visual narrative of the city in the early twentieth century, when postcards were at their height of popularity. Presented unaltered and accompanied by concise descriptive text, the postcards provide a distinctive visual portrait of a captivating and unique city during the early years of its transformation into the multicultural mecca it is today.
Author | : Mary L. Martin |
Publisher | : Schiffer Book for Collectors |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780764326790 |
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Go back in time and see San Antonio, Texas, through vintage postcards from the 1900s to the 1950s. Historic images review places that made the city famous, such as Fort Sam Houston, the Bexar County Courthouse, the Buckhorn Saloon, Brackenridge Park, the River Walk, the Mission San Juan de Capistrano, and San Antonio's most famous landmark, the Alamo
Author | : Lewis F. Fisher |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595349677 |
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Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum. The land that Brackenridge Park occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, has been reinvented many times over. People have gathered there since prehistoric times. Following the city’s founding in 1718, the land was used to channel river water into town via a system of acequias; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack. The park continues to be a site of national acclaim even while major sections have fallen into disrepair. The more than 400 acres that constitute San Antonio’s flagship urban park are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl. Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the city’s foremost gathering places.
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Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Department stores |
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Author | : Lewis F. Fisher |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 159534781X |
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Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.
Author | : Lewis F. Fisher |
Publisher | : Maverick Books |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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Illustrated photographs and narratives describe the history, restoration, and continued development of San Antonio's River Walk.
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Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Education |
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Publisher | : Rotary International |
Total Pages | : 422 |
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Author | : United States Engineers. 3d Volunteer (War with Spain) |
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Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Spanish-American War, 1898 |
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Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Business |
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