Government Depot
name: label: maker
content: Hardesty, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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."
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: 2012.3033.0025
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0025
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