The stone facade of the Alamo mission chapel in San Antonio, Texas, fills the view, with its curved parapet and carved entrance. A Texas flag flies on a pole at left, palm trees and a low arcaded wall stand at right, and beds of red flowers edge the lawn in front. The chapel is the best-known surviving structure of the old Spanish mission San Antonio de Valero and the site associated with the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. By the late 1940s it was a well-established civic shrine and tourist stop in downtown San Antonio.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Thanks for map card
your state - currently
out of Texas map cards.
Will have supply soon as
I get settled and things
straightened out at this
new address - or rather
return to an old one -
drop in again soon -
Dick Waite, 505 Belknap Pl,
San Antonio 1, Texas.
PostmarkedSAN ANTONIO, March 7, 1949
Addressed to
Betty Krupsky
318 Yerkes Ave
Northville, MI
FromDick Waite, 505 Belknap Pl., San Antonio, TX 1
Linen-textured stock with visible crosshatch grain; card number TX30 at upper right and 16203 at lower left; no white border.
Postmark: SAN ANTONIO MAR 17 PM 1949. Divided-back linen card; 'GIVE ... FUND' slogan cancel; 1c Washington green stamp; Colourpicture publication, Boston 15, Mass.
Cite this card
The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, 1949, postcard, c. 1949. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/the-alamo-san-antonio-texas-1949. Accessed November 2, 2026.
