Albumen print on original mount
Image height 10.125 in / 25.7 cm
Image width 13.375 in / 34 cm
Mount height 16 in / 40.6 cm
Mount width 20 in / 50.8 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
This albumen print by William Henry Jackson is titled in the print Pueblo Indian and Burro. The lower right inscription identifies the photographer as W. H. Jackson & Co., Denver, Colorado, placing the image within Jackson’s work documenting the American West. The scene shows a Pueblo figure with a burro beside adobe architecture, with additional figures seated near the structure.
The original mount and printed inscriptions are important parts of the object’s period presentation. Jackson was one of the central photographers of the nineteenth-century American West, and his images helped shape public knowledge of Southwestern places and Native communities. As a Pueblo subject, this photograph belongs in the Southwest region and should be described with cultural specificity while avoiding unsupported identification of the exact Pueblo community.
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Albumen print on original mount
Image height 10.125 in / 25.7 cm
Image width 13.375 in / 34 cm
Mount height 16 in / 40.6 cm
Mount width 20 in / 50.8 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
This albumen print by William Henry Jackson is titled in the print Pueblo Indian and Burro. The lower right inscription identifies the photographer as W. H. Jackson & Co., Denver, Colorado, placing the image within Jackson’s work documenting the American West. The scene shows a Pueblo figure with a burro beside adobe architecture, with additional figures seated near the structure.
The original mount and printed inscriptions are important parts of the object’s period presentation. Jackson was one of the central photographers of the nineteenth-century American West, and his images helped shape public knowledge of Southwestern places and Native communities. As a Pueblo subject, this photograph belongs in the Southwest region and should be described with cultural specificity while avoiding unsupported identification of the exact Pueblo community.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
