Postcards from San Antonio ~ No
16
"Stuffed and Still Standing a Century Later"
Edition limited to 25 prints, $70 each
Image size: 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches
Early 1900s' postcard with imprinted copy: "Jeronimo.
The Worlds Famous Texas long horn Steer, with 9 feet 6 inches from tip to
tip and raised near San Antonio, Texas." Combined with photo of Old
Tex stuffed at the Buckhorn. Script: "Tired of the county fair
circuit, Jeronimo yearned to join Old Tex at Albert's Buckhorn Saloon."
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Postcards from San Antonio ~ No
17 "She rolled his feed up in flour tortillas."
Edition limited to 25 prints, $70 each
Image size: 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches
Stickers and stamp from Chicago's 1933 "Century of
Progress." Owner of Lone Star, Miss Jeanne Maulsby of 129 E. Mulberry
in San Antonio, offered a "$500.00 reward for proof of a living cow as large
in every way as Lone Star." Lone Star was billed as "The largest
living cow on earth....Weight over 2800 lbs, stands 73 in. high, nose to tip
of tail 15 ft. 1 in...."
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Postcards from San Antonio ~ No 20
"And ran away with Tony"
Edition limited to 25 prints, $70 each
Image size:
5 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches
This postcard is part of an older "Anglo Life Series" of
postcards, dating from 1909 and relating to the same song as Postcard No. 12: "San An-to ni An-to-ni-o. She hopped up on a pony."
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"Cowboy Blues: She broke my heart...and I miss her
rabbit stew."
Edition limited to 25 prints, $75 each
Image size:
8 x 10 inches
This "San Antonio
Song" won't go away. This collage uses the cover of original sheet
music by Harry Williams and Egbert VanAlstyne, which was copyrighted in
1907. Part of the musical score - "San An-to ni An-to-ni-o. She hopped up on a pony
and ran away with Tony" - serves as a backdrop for the "gal" who got away,
pictured here as a huntress.
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