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Carlos Merida mural

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an illustration of a portion of the mural designed for the HemisFair theater building. Printed on back: "Carlos Merida Mural. Abstract, impelling symbolism of Carlos Merida mural in San Antonio Convention Center captures the spirit of the HemisFair '68 theme: Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas."
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Mini-monorail

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an image of people on a paved walkway near the Plaza of Flags (at right) and a multi-car monorail train above ground level at left. Printed on back: "Mini-Monorail is one of the chief transportation means on the HemisFair '68 site. It is quick, colorful and provides a breathtaking view of the exposition's entire 92 acres. Here it passes by the Plaza of Flags representing the twenty-six ethnic groups which have contributed to the greatness of the Am… more
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

The Tower of the Americas

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a photograph of people walking on a paved walkway with the Tower of the Americas behind them, in the center of the image, with a Ferris wheel at left. Printed on back: "The Tower of the Americas. The 622-foot concrete structure, seen from one of the fair's broad walkways, is the tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere. Glass-fronted elevators whisk visitors to the revolving restaurant and observation decks in 43 seconds."
Date: 1968?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

San Antonio Convention Center

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a color drawing of the San Antonio Convention Center. Description printed on back: "San Antonio Convention Center. Much of HemisFair's unique entertainment and fine arts program will be held in this 2,800-seat theatre, a 10,500-seat arena, and 200,000-square-foot exhibit hall -- the largest single complex of buildings on the site."
Date: 1967?
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.422842 -98.487119
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Theatre and Rivercourt

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68 featuring an image labeled "Theatre and Rivercourt" of a boat full of people in a pool outside the front of the Theatre of the Performing Arts. The building is fronted with a mural by Juan O'Gorman. The top of The Tower of the Americas is visible in the background, near the center of the image.
Date: 1968?
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.421844 -98.485351
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Humble Pavilion

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an artistic illustration of the Humble Oil and Refining Pavilion at HemisFair '68. The Pavilion is a two-story stone building with decorative metalwork around the overhangs and the two-story balcony on the end of the building at right. People are walking around the building and a four-piece band, with musicians wearing striped costumes, is playing at the right side of the image.
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.420876 -98.487856
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Sculpture Garden

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a photograph labeled "Sculpture Garden" of several modern outdoor sculptures, near the Pavilion of the United States (left), the United States Confluence Theatre (in the background at right), and the top portion of the Tower of the Americas. Description printed on back: "Tower of the Americas. HemisFair's 622-foot theme structure, is the tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere. View from the observation decks or revolving restaurant a… more
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.418363 -98.486846
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

The United States Confluence Theatre

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a photo from the west side of the United State Confluence Theatre, a 70-foot high round building which had the largest curvilinear motion picture screen in the world. The Francis Thompson film, "Confluence, U.S.A." was shown there during the fair.
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.418906 -98.485579
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Marshall T. Steves, Sr. & John White at the base of the Tower of the Americas during construction.

Description: Photograph at the center point of the construction for the Tower of the Americas, San Antonio, Texas. Marshall T. Steves, Sr. & John White with hard hats on shake hands at the base point of the Tower. Behind them a construction worker sits in the driver's seat of a bulldozer.
Date: February 20, 1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.418984 -98.483512
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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