Material: Gelatin silver print (large format)
Date: 1908–1910
Measurements: 11 × 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Large-format photograph of the Tonto Ruins, Arizona, by Walter J. Lubkin, staff photographer for the United States Reclamation Service. Captured during Lubkin's 1908 expedition into the Superstition Mountains, recognized as one of the earliest known photographic ventures into this remote landscape. Lubkin traveled on horseback packing a large stationary glass plate camera, tripod, and fragile glass plates while documenting the Salt River watershed drainage systems in advance of future dam construction below Roosevelt Dam.
The Tonto Ruins, perched above the Salt River in present-day Tonto National Monument, are among the best preserved Salado culture cliff dwellings in Arizona, inhabited between approximately 1150 and 1450 AD. Lubkin's images were produced just as Roosevelt Dam was transforming the surrounding landscape, lending them particular historical resonance as documents of the site before the full impact of modern development. From a private collection in Utah.
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Material: Gelatin silver print (large format)
Date: 1908–1910
Measurements: 11 × 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Large-format photograph of the Tonto Ruins, Arizona, by Walter J. Lubkin, staff photographer for the United States Reclamation Service. Captured during Lubkin's 1908 expedition into the Superstition Mountains, recognized as one of the earliest known photographic ventures into this remote landscape. Lubkin traveled on horseback packing a large stationary glass plate camera, tripod, and fragile glass plates while documenting the Salt River watershed drainage systems in advance of future dam construction below Roosevelt Dam.
The Tonto Ruins, perched above the Salt River in present-day Tonto National Monument, are among the best preserved Salado culture cliff dwellings in Arizona, inhabited between approximately 1150 and 1450 AD. Lubkin's images were produced just as Roosevelt Dam was transforming the surrounding landscape, lending them particular historical resonance as documents of the site before the full impact of modern development. From a private collection in Utah.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand
