[U.S. Post Office - El Paso, Old Main Post Office]

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Postcard of a portion of downtown El Paso, taken from a high vantage point looking south, including the back of the Old Main Post Office in the center, with various other buildings visible behind and around it. Several smoke stacks are visible on the far right, a trolley is running down current-day Stanton Street in the center of the image, and railroad tracks are visible in the foreground.

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W. H. Horne Co. 1919~.

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This postcard is part of the collection entitled: The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso and was provided by the El Paso Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 1276 times, with 25 in the last month. More information about this postcard can be viewed below.

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Description

Postcard of a portion of downtown El Paso, taken from a high vantage point looking south, including the back of the Old Main Post Office in the center, with various other buildings visible behind and around it. Several smoke stacks are visible on the far right, a trolley is running down current-day Stanton Street in the center of the image, and railroad tracks are visible in the foreground.

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1 postcard : b&w

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Additional historical information: Address 219 Mills Avenue. Contract for the building was dated on may 25th 1917 and work commenced on June 29th 1917. Contractor - William H. Maxwell, Lakeside, Washington. J.C. Elliott Superintendent of Construction, U.S. Public Buildings. Designed by Rowland Gilchrist. The U.S. Post Office is a historic building that was designed in the Beaux Arts architectural style. The lobby is topped by a massive, paneled, saucer-shaped dome, and the rest of the lobby includes polished marble and huge, rounded, ornamental grills of bronze.

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  • 7131 Treasury Department, J.C. Elliott, Superintendent of Construction, U.S. Public Buildings

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The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso

These primary source items relate to the Mexican Revolution. The collection includes 15 books and 10 postcards dating from 1910 to 1919.

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  • 1919~

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  • Oct. 10, 2011, 9:26 p.m.

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  • Aug. 28, 2019, 2:15 p.m.

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  • 31.761551, -106.488217

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W. H. Horne Co. [U.S. Post Office - El Paso, Old Main Post Office], postcard, 1919~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth187842/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting El Paso Public Library.

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