Mexican Bird Sellers
name: label: maker
content: Hardesty, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Stereo view by San Antonio View Company of five figures sitting on the sidewalk of dirt road. The figure on the far right of the frame is a man and the other four are all women. The women all have cages in front of them on the ground. The man has basket upon which his right arm is placed. On recto in the bottom left side of the image on the right there is a hand-written inscription that reads "Mexican Bird Sellers". Stamped on verso: "Setereoscopic Views, / of San Antonio, Texas / by the / San Antonio View Company / F. Hardesty Photographer" 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. Also A Large Variety of Miscellaneous Views / of San Antonio, and Vicinity." Below that reads, "Parties wishing Special Views made anywhere will please address:- / F. Hardesty / 32 North Flores Street. (near Military Plaza,) / San Antonio, Texas." Handwritten in pencil on verso in the top left: "OL / T-MM"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, San Antonio
label: associated place
content: United States: Texas, San Antonio
topic: label: Subject
content: Mexicans
label: Subject
content: Women
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0028
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0028
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 7 in; 9.8425 cm x 17.78 cm