Government Tower
name: label: maker
content: Hardesty, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Stereo view by F. Hardesty of a plaza that has a clock tower that is much taller than anything else in the frame. There is a road that leads to the tower and then forks off into two seperate directions. In the background there is a one story building that runs the length of the frame. The clock at the top of the tower reads approximately 4:47. Stamped on verso: "Setereoscopic Views, / of / San Antonio, Texas / 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
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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: 2012.3033.0029
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0029
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