Maricopa Wells in Arizona on the boarders [sic] of the great desert Commanding officers quarters at Camp Colorado. – Antique Wall Art
![Maricopa Wells in Arizona on the boarders [sic] of the great desert Commanding officers quarters at Camp Colorado., [ca. 1870] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a9eef7ce1480-L.webp)
(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: Maricopa Wells in Arizona on the boarders [sic] of the great desert Commanding officers quarters at Camp Colorado., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few places in Arizona Territory mattered more to travelers than Maricopa Wells, a water stop on the desert crossing near the Gila River. This view shows the commanding officers' quarters at Camp Colorado, with adobe walls and thatched roofs that shaded the rooms from the desert sun. Photographer Charles Gentile included it in a series of Arizona views and portraits of tribal people, a body of work that recorded frontier posts and Indigenous communities in the years after the Civil War. The thatch and adobe construction show how the Army adapted local materials to the desert climate.
| Created / published | [ca. 1870] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 photographic prints (1 page) : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1880.Group portraits 1860-1880.Albumen prints 1860-1880. |
| Notes | Titles transcribed from mount. Illus. in album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizona Indian tribes / Charles Gentile. Nos. 133 (top) and 175 (bottom). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Wells--Arizona--1860-1880. Officers' quarters--Arizona--1860-1880. Adobe buildings--Arizona--1860-1880. Thatched roofs--Arizona--1860-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218710 |
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