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Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

Subject
Hotels & Inns
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, Bula Drake, IA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, Bula Drake, IA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this subject

A large half-timbered resort hotel with steep gabled roofs, a corner turret and broad white verandas, set among bare winter trees behind a white rail fence. A curving dirt drive sweeps across the foreground.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Hello Lulu San Antonio Feb 11th Dear Lulu we are well got a letter from Ella last Evening she is Better now It is Raining here Today C & D

PublisherInternational Post Card Co.
Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, Tex. --- POST CARD Published by International Post Card Co., New York. No. 738. 244. MADE IN GERMANY Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, Tex. (53804)
PostmarkedSan Antonio, TX, February 11, 1908, 14:30
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Bula Drake

1713 West Ave, Burlington, Iowa

Postcard record

Postmarked, San Antonio, TX
ConditionGood
Place addressedBula Drake, 1713 West Ave, Burlington, IA
Place mentionedSan Antonio, TX
PublisherNew York, NY
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
NotesCircular postmark/cancel struck on the lower center of the picture; colored lithographic stock with slight edge wear. Postmark: SAN ANTONIO TEX. FEB 11 2-30P 1908 (also receiving cancel BURLINGTON IOWA FEB 15 4 PM 1908). Divided-back chromolithograph printed in Germany; no white border; light edge wear and slight soiling.

Cite this card

Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hot-wells-hotel-san-antonio-texas. Accessed October 5, 2026.