Ruins of the altar at old Mission Church Zuni Pueblo N.M. – Historic Photograph 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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Step back in time with Ruins of the altar at old Mission Church Zuni Pueblo N.M., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ruins of the altar at old Mission Church Zuni Pueblo N.M.
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The altar ruins at the old mission church at Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico make this card stand out from the survey's more typical landscape views. A note in pencil on the back describes the scene as the interior of a Roman Catholic church at Zuni, since destroyed. Spanish missionaries worked among the Zuni people beginning in the 1600s, and the church's decline reflects the long and uneven contact between Pueblo communities and colonial Catholicism. The image belongs to the 1871 Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian expedition, led by Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, and was published by William I. Marshall.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Original negative number: 43. On verso in pencil: interior of (R.C.) church at Zuni now destroyed. Title from item. Part of series: U.S. War Dept. Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler commanding. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,911 × 2,827 px · prints to 16 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269504 |
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