Cabinet card photographs
5 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in / 14 x 21 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Belen, NM
This pair of 1880s cabinet cards documents mining-related sites in New Mexico during the late nineteenth century. The image shown presents a broad view of a mining or industrial complex set within a dry Southwestern landscape, with low structures, open ground, and mountains in the distance. Together, the cards record the role of mining in New Mexico’s territorial-era development.
The photographs are direct documentary views rather than studio portraits, preserving architecture, land use, and working infrastructure. Cabinet card format gives the images a period presentation typical of collectible and documentary photographs from the 1880s. As a pair, they fit within New Mexico history, American West photography, and nineteenth-century mining material.
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Cabinet card photographs
5 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in / 14 x 21 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Belen, NM
This pair of 1880s cabinet cards documents mining-related sites in New Mexico during the late nineteenth century. The image shown presents a broad view of a mining or industrial complex set within a dry Southwestern landscape, with low structures, open ground, and mountains in the distance. Together, the cards record the role of mining in New Mexico’s territorial-era development.
The photographs are direct documentary views rather than studio portraits, preserving architecture, land use, and working infrastructure. Cabinet card format gives the images a period presentation typical of collectible and documentary photographs from the 1880s. As a pair, they fit within New Mexico history, American West photography, and nineteenth-century mining material.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
