Unidentified photographer
1849
Alamo Chapel of San Antonio de Valero Mission [Texas, USA]

Daguerreotype
Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Accession No: 93-202
 
Showing the exterior façade of the chapel ruins, it is the only known photographic view of the Alamo made prior to its reconstruction in 1850. It is thought to be the earliest photograph taken in Texas held in a public collection.
 
LL/56882