United States, New Mexico, Ojo Caliente
1880s
Albumen print on card
5 × 8" (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Produced as a publicity photograph for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
This boudoir card photograph depicts the interior of the Old Church at Ojo Caliente, a small community in present-day northern New Mexico long celebrated for its sacred thermal springs. It was produced by photographers W. Henry Brown and George C. Bennett for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Interior church photographs of this period are particularly uncommon, as the technical challenges of capturing low-light interior spaces with nineteenth-century photographic equipment made such images far less common than exterior views.
The AT&SF Railroad commissioned Brown and Bennett to document the landscapes, architecture, and cultures of the Southwest to promote tourism along its expanding route, with historic Spanish colonial religious architecture central to that effort. The image belongs within the broader record of New Mexico colonial church documentation and Southwest railroad publicity photography. The print is in collector condition with private Utah provenance.
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United States, New Mexico, Ojo Caliente
1880s
Albumen print on card
5 × 8" (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Produced as a publicity photograph for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
This boudoir card photograph depicts the interior of the Old Church at Ojo Caliente, a small community in present-day northern New Mexico long celebrated for its sacred thermal springs. It was produced by photographers W. Henry Brown and George C. Bennett for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Interior church photographs of this period are particularly uncommon, as the technical challenges of capturing low-light interior spaces with nineteenth-century photographic equipment made such images far less common than exterior views.
The AT&SF Railroad commissioned Brown and Bennett to document the landscapes, architecture, and cultures of the Southwest to promote tourism along its expanding route, with historic Spanish colonial religious architecture central to that effort. The image belongs within the broader record of New Mexico colonial church documentation and Southwest railroad publicity photography. The print is in collector condition with private Utah provenance.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
