Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, TX, 1908

Subject: Hotels & Inns
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1908 (Golden Age)

Back of Hot Well's Hotel, San Antonio, TX, 1908, Miss Lulu Drake, IA, USA, c. 1908 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

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

PostmarkedSan Antonio, TX, February 11, 1908, 14:30

Addressed to

Miss Lulu Drake

1713 West Ave 15 Burlington Burlington, IA

Postcard record

Postmarked	February 11, 1908, 14:30, San Antonio, TX
Publisher	International Post Card Co.
Series	(53804)
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Miss Lulu Drake, 1713 West Ave, 15 Burlington, Burlington, IA
Place mentioned	San Antonio, TX
Publisher	International Post Card Co., New York, NY
received	Burlington, IA
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only
Notes	Circular 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, TX, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hot-wells-hotel-san-antonio-tx-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.