Spanish Daggers [Stereoview]
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Spanish Daggers [Stereoview]Description
Orange mount includes "F. HARDESTY. PHOTO." printed in black on left and "SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS" printed in black on the right. Frank Hardesty's San Antonio, TX, imprint on recto. 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."Context
Trecul Yucca (Spanish Bayonet, Palma Pita, Palma de Datil, or Spanish Dagger) grows in south Texas, the only tree yucca found east of the Pecos River. It usually has several trunks or heads and grows taller toward the coast and shorter inland. The leaves are thick and concave, very long and thin, with a sharp tip. The Spanish Colonists learned to make use of the naturally forbidding plant by planting it along defensive lines around settlements, and it was from this practice that the plant got its name.Category
Agriculture, Texas in Focus: Early Photographs from the Lew Anvil Texas Collection
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