Category Archives: San Antonio

San Antonio River and Bridges photos

Posted on 2018-07-20 by Jan Wilkinson

I have found many photos of postcards of the San Antonio River and its bridges and wanted to share them for your reference. I love history and especially photos.  Wagons would drive into the river to soak their wheels to … Continue reading →

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Unidentified Gentlemen at Photo Studio in San Antonio

Posted on 2014-08-06 by Jan Wilkinson

This is another unidentified glass-plate negative photo from the late 1800’s. The seated gentleman is the same man in the Nic Tengg blog post. I am still trying to identify the photographer.  Great photo!

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Nic Tengg and San Antonio, Texas

Posted on 2014-08-05 by Jan Wilkinson

Nic Tengg started his business in San Antonio in 1874.  Here is one of my glass-plate negative photos and you can see a safe behind the stand-up desk with the name Nic Tengg.  Wonder who took this photo, when and … Continue reading →

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San Antonio Texas – Battle of Flowers at Alamo Plaza Postcard

Posted on 2012-12-26 by Jan Wilkinson

This is a postcard I found on eBay of the Battle of Flowers Parade in San Antonio, Texas. The publisher got the date wrong on the Battle of San Jacinto; which as we all know was April 21st. I was … Continue reading →

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Southwestern Insane Asylum of San Antonio

Posted on 2011-10-02 by Jan Wilkinson

Thank you to Mark D. Cowan from the Texas Historical Commission for his identification from their image collection of my photo of the Southwestern Insane Asylum; as it was originally called when it began operations in 1892. It was located … Continue reading →

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My Research and Images of the History of the Alamo

Posted on 2011-09-23 by Jan Wilkinson

Back in June 2011, I posted two different blog posts about my glass negative photos. In those posts I explained that I have three boxes of glass negatives found in an old home being torn down near Kerrville in the … Continue reading →

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Part Two-Help Me Identify Texas 1800’s Glass Negatives

Posted on 2011-06-27 by Jan Wilkinson

Here are more of my photo treasures from three boxes of glass negatives found in an old home being torn down near Kerrville in the late 1960’s. It is quite something to see, between each negative is scrap paper printed … Continue reading →

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Help Me to Identify Texas 1800’s Glass Negatives

Posted on 2011-06-26 by Jan Wilkinson

  Go to my blog post for more about the above photo: https://blog.wilkinsonranch.com/2013/08/07/then-and-now-congress-avenue-austin-texas-c1896-and-2007/ I have three boxes of glass negatives found in an old home being torn down near Kerrville in the late 1960’s. Finally found a scanner that could … Continue reading →

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