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The San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) is the public library system serving the city of San Antonio, Texas. It consists of a central library, 29 branch libraries (as of the fall of 2017), and a library portal. SAPL was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in 2006. [1] In 2003, SAPL celebrated its centennial.
The San Antonio Botanical Garden is a 39-acre (160,000 m 2), non-profit botanical garden in San Antonio, Texas, United States, and the city's official botanical garden.
The 1924 garden party, however, had even greater significance: On June 5, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation allocating over $6 million to build three new military hospitals.
Miraflores is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of downtown San Antonio, near the corner of East Hildebrand Avenue and Broadway. The San Antonio Zoo is immediately across from the San Antonio River on its west side. Today, only about 4.6 acres (1.9 ha) of the original 15 acres (6.1 ha) have been preserved. [2]
Harry Hertzberg. Harry Hertzberg (November 28, 1883 – August 12, 1940) was a prominent San Antonio lawyer, civic leader, and Texas state senator. Together with Tom Scaperlanda he donated the oldest public circus collection in the United States and one of the largest in existence originally to the San Antonio Public Library and now at the Witte Museum.
The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library is the central library of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio library system. It is located in South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, US. The award-winning library [1] was designed by Kell Muñoz Architects. [2] Completed in 1983, it was named in 1985 after Dolph Briscoe. [3]
The Alamo Area Library System (AALS) is one of ten public library systems in the U.S. state of Texas. It consists of 46 member libraries located in 21 counties that surround the city of San Antonio and Bexar County .
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