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Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of A Texas Experience
As mission, fortress, and shrine, the Alamo signifies the Texas experience. "Alamo Images" surveys the Alamo of the Texas imagination through illustrations drawn from historical documents, paintings, sketches, cartoons, comic books, television and movie interpretations.
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Panel topics include:
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- The Alamo as Spanish Mission
- As a ruin reused for commerce
- The struggle to make it a shrine
- The story of the siege and battle
- San Antonio as a Tejano town
- Alamo defenders and survivors
- The three heroes
- Ongoing uses of Alamo imagery
Exhibit format
Freestanding only. Exhibit is available in two sizes, standard edition and school edition.
Standard Edition: 22 panels (11 double-sided units, 26” wide x 38” high). Panels attach to wooden poles to stand 78" tall.
Shipping weight (2 wooden crates): 246 lbs.
Floor space required: 12’ x 10’
School Edition: 12 panels (6 double-sided units, 24” wide x 36” high). Panels attach to wooden poles to stand 68" high.
Shipping weight (2 fiber cases): 125 lbs. 115 lbs.
Floor space required: 5’ x 12’
Supplemental materials:
- Brochure of excerpts from exhibition catalog. 50 copies free with exhibit.
- A poster of a climactic scene from the battle. 5 copies free with exhibit.
Optional material (available on request):
- VHS videos
- The Death of Davy Crockett
- Lone Star: The New Republic
- Seguin
- The Texas Experience
- CD-ROM
- The Alamo: Victory of Death
- Audiocassette lectures
- The Alamo: An American Icon
- Texas in 1836: Romanticizing the Revolution