How all our pottery manufacturers began - an Indian potter at work - Arizona – Antique Wall Art
(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: How all our pottery manufacturers began - an Indian potter at work - Arizona, 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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How all our pottery manufacturers began - an Indian potter at work - Arizona
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The caption presents a hand-built pot as the starting point for every pottery factory, a claim that says as much about how 1907 viewers saw craft and industry as it does about the work itself. The stereograph shows an Indian potter at work in Arizona, made by the American Stereoscopic Company as a paired image for viewing through a stereoscope at home. Pueblo potters across the Southwest shaped vessels by hand, coiling and smoothing clay without a wheel, a method far older than commercial kilns. Because the details come from an unverified caption card, the exact setting and date should be treated as provisional.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by American Stereoscopic Co. No. A41092. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Indians; Pottery. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 770 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157998 |
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