Exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900

Photograph of the exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900. Double-door gates opens outward allowing entrance to the famous Spanish mission turned fort. The façade features a multi-curved parapet. Underneath the parapet are two arched windows flanking a rectangular window. The entrance below the windows is decorated (or supported) with four column-like buttresses with fancy moldings and designs. Picture file card reads: "A Franciscan mission. During the war of Texas and Mexico used as a fort".