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Vintage Building Photo - House and chapel (Desert Dwelling) for Albert – Historic Photo Reproduction

Vintage Building Photo - House and chapel (Desert Dwelling) for Albert — historic print
Vintage Building Photo - House and chapel (Desert Dwelling) for Albert. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Vintage Building Photo - House and chapel (Desert Dwelling) for Albert

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A house and a chapel stand together under the title "Desert Dwelling," and the record notes that the complex was made for a man named Albert. Pairing a home with a place of worship on one property was a common arrangement for isolated households, where a family often built its own small chapel for prayer, gatherings, and services when a church was far away. Photographs of such buildings are useful to researchers because they record construction methods, materials, and the way settlers adapted their architecture to dry, open country.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan1,434 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216310

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