New Mexico: Los Ranchos de Taos Church – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of New Mexico: Los Ranchos de Taos Church. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New Mexico: Los Ranchos de Taos Church
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The adobe church at Los Ranchos de Taos, dedicated to San Francisco de Asís, is one of New Mexico's best-known Spanish colonial mission buildings, and Laura Gilpin's view shows its thick walls and heavy sloping buttresses that give the facade a sculpted outline. Gilpin, a photographer who spent much of her career documenting the Southwest, made this print around 1939, when interest in the region's historic architecture was growing. The date comes from an unverified caption card, so it is worth checking against other records when comparing this view with the church as it appears today.
| Created / published | c1939 Oct 30. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J29281 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Laura Gilpin. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Churches. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,236 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151144 |
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