Cloth photo of Mission San Antonio de Valero includes "1. THE ALAMO, BUILT A.D 1718. S.E. HOUSTON / SAN ANTONIO"
Stamped on verso "OWEN BANCROFT SMITH"
Context
This photo was taken by Mary Jacobson between 1889 and 1893.
This cloth belonged to Bowen Bancroft Smith while he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Atelier Paul Blondel in Paris between 1889 and 1893. Bowen was a charter member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, as well as a member of the American Institute of Architects.