United States, New Mexico
1880s
Albumen print on cabinet card
5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Taos Pueblo, located in present-day northern New Mexico, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America and among the most frequently depicted subjects in nineteenth-century Southwestern photography. This cabinet card was produced as a publicity photograph for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad by a photographer identified only as W.E. of Colorado Springs. The Santa Fe Railroad actively commissioned photographers across the Southwest to produce imagery promoting the region's landscapes and Native communities to Eastern tourists and settlers.
The image shows the multi-story adobe north house of Taos Pueblo with drying chiles and ladders visible against the facade, rendered with the tonal richness characteristic of well-preserved albumen prints. Cabinet card photographs of Pueblo subjects from this period survive in varying condition, and examples retaining clarity and intact mounts are desirable to collectors of Western Americana and Native American photography. The reverse of the card likely carries publisher or railroad imprint information.
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United States, New Mexico
1880s
Albumen print on cabinet card
5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Taos Pueblo, located in present-day northern New Mexico, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America and among the most frequently depicted subjects in nineteenth-century Southwestern photography. This cabinet card was produced as a publicity photograph for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad by a photographer identified only as W.E. of Colorado Springs. The Santa Fe Railroad actively commissioned photographers across the Southwest to produce imagery promoting the region's landscapes and Native communities to Eastern tourists and settlers.
The image shows the multi-story adobe north house of Taos Pueblo with drying chiles and ladders visible against the facade, rendered with the tonal richness characteristic of well-preserved albumen prints. Cabinet card photographs of Pueblo subjects from this period survive in varying condition, and examples retaining clarity and intact mounts are desirable to collectors of Western Americana and Native American photography. The reverse of the card likely carries publisher or railroad imprint information.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
