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[Santa Fe, N.M. - east view] – Historic Print

[Santa Fe, N.M. - east view], [ca. 1885] — historic photograph
[Santa Fe, N.M. - east view], [ca. 1885]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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[Santa Fe, N.M. - east view]

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The east view of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs that a stereoscope fused into a single image with apparent depth. The card is credited to Henry Brown, though the record notes that this attribution comes from an old caption and has not been verified. Spanish colonists founded Santa Fe around 1610, and by the 1880s the arrival of the railroad was bringing American visitors and new building styles to its adobe streets. Cards like this one were a popular parlor entertainment of the period.

Created / published[ca. 1885]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo by Henry Brown. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,265 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120198

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