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/ICTURESQUE San Antonio, located on a plateau along both banks of the San Antonio 
 River one hundred and fifty miles from the Gulf of Mexico is the county seat of Bexar 
 County and the largest city in Texas, having now a population estimated at nearly 
 100,000. San Antonio was founded as a Spanish settlement in 1716 by Don Domingo 
 Ramon, and in spite of the many changes and the lapse of time, the modern city still 
 preserves many Spanish characteristics. The original settlement grew rapidly in power 
 and importance and so long as Texas remained a Spanish and Mexican province, San Antonio was the 
 capital for most of the time and always a leading military station. This latter distinction has never been 
 surrendered. 
 
 It was here that the Franciscan Mission of San Antonio de Valero was established in 1722 and, during 
 the desperate struggle for Texan independence, it was here in the defence of the Alamo yet standing- 
 thai Crockett and his brave companions died to a man like the Spartans at Thermopylae. 
 
 The modern city of San Antonio is the home of a refined, hospitable and cosmopolitan people. It is 
 a prominent cotton market and the headquarters for a territory where market gardening is carried on in 
 an immense scale all in all a busy metropolis containing over two hundred manufacturing establish- 
 ments, with ample railroad facilities, miles of well-built electric lines, and a park system including over 
 twenty parks and plazas renowned for exquisite beauty, many of which have been preserved intact from 
 the old Spanish time. 
 
 San Antonio is a joy to the traveler. The quaint and artistic architecture of the city is a relief from 
 the sameness of the ordinary American city. It will ever be a notable spot from its deeply interesting 
 historical associations and it is equally evident by virtue of its superb location that San Antonio is 
 destined to be a commercial metropolis of the first magnitude. 
 
 Published by the L. H. NELSON CO., "Largest Publishers Souvenir View Books in the World," Portland, Maine, U. S. A. 
 
 Copyright, 1907, by L. H. Nelson Co., Vortland, Me. 
 
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HOUSTON STREET AT NIGHT 
 
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FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 
 
TRAVIS PARK CHURCH 
 
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SOUTHWESTERN INSANE ASYLUM 
 
WEST KND I.AKK 
 
ROOF GARDEN 
 
 CHILI STANDS DEER KILLED IN SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT 
 
Bancroft Library 
 
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Tower. 
 
 Bird's Eye View. 
 
 FORT SAM HOUSTON 
 
SCHOOL, BRACKENR1DGE VILLA 
 
One of the driyes. 
 VIEWS IN BRACKENRIDGE PARK 
 
 Buffalo 
 
SAN PEDRO SPRINGS LAKE 
 
 OLD TREES, SAN PEDRO.PARK 
 
VIEWS OF HOT WELLS HOTEL AND PARK 
 
HOT WELLS PARK BATH 
 
TEAVIS PARK