United States, New Mexico
1880s
Albumen print on boudoir card
4¾ × 7¾ in. (12.1 × 19.7 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Tesuque Pueblo, located just north of Santa Fe, was among the Pueblo communities documented by photographers W. Henry Brown and George C. Bennett for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in the 1880s. The railroad commissioned images of Southwestern landscapes and Native communities to promote tourism and settlement along its expanding route. This boudoir card format, larger than a standard cabinet card, was favored for landscape and architectural subjects during this period.
The image shows the adobe structures of Tesuque village with the Jemez Mountains visible in the background and a figure with a horse in the foreground. Brown and Bennett were among the most active commercial photographers in New Mexico Territory during this era, and their AT&SF Railroad commissions constitute a significant body of early Southwestern documentary photography. Examples in good condition with intact card mounts are increasingly scarce.
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United States, New Mexico
1880s
Albumen print on boudoir card
4¾ × 7¾ in. (12.1 × 19.7 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Tesuque Pueblo, located just north of Santa Fe, was among the Pueblo communities documented by photographers W. Henry Brown and George C. Bennett for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in the 1880s. The railroad commissioned images of Southwestern landscapes and Native communities to promote tourism and settlement along its expanding route. This boudoir card format, larger than a standard cabinet card, was favored for landscape and architectural subjects during this period.
The image shows the adobe structures of Tesuque village with the Jemez Mountains visible in the background and a figure with a horse in the foreground. Brown and Bennett were among the most active commercial photographers in New Mexico Territory during this era, and their AT&SF Railroad commissions constitute a significant body of early Southwestern documentary photography. Examples in good condition with intact card mounts are increasingly scarce.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
