Acoma belfry – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Acoma belfry, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The belfry at Acoma Pueblo, a bell tower attached to the mission church on a sandstone mesa in west-central New Mexico, is the subject here, and Edward S. Curtis turned his camera on the building rather than on the people around it. Spanish Franciscans established the mission in the early seventeenth century, and its adobe walls and timber framing show how colonial religious architecture took shape on a community that had lived on the mesa long before. Curtis made the photograph around 1905 for *The North American Indian*, where it appeared as plate 564 in a supplement volume. Its focus on structure gives it a documentary character that is worth noticing.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 16, pl. 564. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Structures--1900-1910. Acoma Indians--Structures--1900-1910. Belfrys--New Mexico--Acoma--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,278 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193910 |
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