[Anson Mills Building and San Jacinto Plaza]

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Postcard image of downtown El Paso, taken from a height and looking northeast, toward the Franklin Mountains visible in the far background. Visible buildings include (at left) the Hotel McCoy (on the top floors of the White House Department Store) and the Anson Mills Building, (center of image) San Jacinto Plaza and the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad [G H & S A Ry] Superintendent's Office behind it, and (at right)The Hotel Sheldon. Parts of El Paso High School under construction are also visible in the distance above the Hotel McCoy.

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Horne, Walter. H., 1883-1921 1915~.

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This postcard is part of the collection entitled: The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso and was provided by the El Paso Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 642 times, with 5 in the last month. More information about this postcard can be viewed below.

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Postcard image of downtown El Paso, taken from a height and looking northeast, toward the Franklin Mountains visible in the far background. Visible buildings include (at left) the Hotel McCoy (on the top floors of the White House Department Store) and the Anson Mills Building, (center of image) San Jacinto Plaza and the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad [G H & S A Ry] Superintendent's Office behind it, and (at right)The Hotel Sheldon. Parts of El Paso High School under construction are also visible in the distance above the Hotel McCoy.

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1 postcard : b&w

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Date of image based on construction of El Paso High School (at left), completed in 1916.

Additional context: A stunning view of downtown El Paso, Texas with a northeastern perspective. First building to the left is the Hotel McCoy which occupied the top floors of the White House Department Store. The White House and the Hotel McCoy were located at 127 Pioneer Plaza. The middle building is the Anson Mills Building. Above the Hotel McCoy and to the left of the Anson Building, and off to the distance, is El Paso High School still under construction. So this image was taken before 1916. The Hotel Sheldon can be seen on the bottom right corner of the image - location, N Oregon and Pioneer Plaza. Between the Mills building and Hotel Sheldon is San Jacinto Plaza. The building in the center of the picture and to the right of the Mills building is the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad [G H & S A Ry] Superintendent's Office located at N Kansas and Main, ca 1915 El Paso City Directory. And overlooking all of these buildings are the Franklin Mountains.

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The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso

These primary source items relate to the Mexican Revolution. The collection includes 15 books and 10 postcards dating from 1910 to 1919.

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Horne, Walter. H., 1883-1921. [Anson Mills Building and San Jacinto Plaza], postcard, 1915~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth187852/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting El Paso Public Library.

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