United States, Southwest, Pueblo
1880s
Albumen print on card
4 3/4 × 7 3/4" (12.1 × 19.7 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Produced as a publicity photograph for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
This cabinet card photograph titled Santa Fe Route Indian Dances captures ceremonial dances of Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest, produced as a publicity photograph by W. Henry Brown and George C. Bennett for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The railroad actively promoted Indigenous cultures and landscapes along its expanding route, and ceremonial dance photographs of this period belong to both the documentary and commercial photographic record of the Southwest. The image records traditions of profound spiritual and cultural significance to Pueblo communities.
The cabinet card format places the photograph within the commercial distribution networks of the 1880s, when railroad publicity imagery circulated widely among collectors and tourists. Brown and Bennett were active photographers of the Southwest during this period, and their railroad commissions produced some of the most widely distributed images of Pueblo life in the late nineteenth century. The print is in collector condition with private Utah provenance.
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United States, Southwest, Pueblo
1880s
Albumen print on card
4 3/4 × 7 3/4" (12.1 × 19.7 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Produced as a publicity photograph for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
This cabinet card photograph titled Santa Fe Route Indian Dances captures ceremonial dances of Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest, produced as a publicity photograph by W. Henry Brown and George C. Bennett for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The railroad actively promoted Indigenous cultures and landscapes along its expanding route, and ceremonial dance photographs of this period belong to both the documentary and commercial photographic record of the Southwest. The image records traditions of profound spiritual and cultural significance to Pueblo communities.
The cabinet card format places the photograph within the commercial distribution networks of the 1880s, when railroad publicity imagery circulated widely among collectors and tourists. Brown and Bennett were active photographers of the Southwest during this period, and their railroad commissions produced some of the most widely distributed images of Pueblo life in the late nineteenth century. The print is in collector condition with private Utah provenance.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
