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Cliff Ruins near Fort Wingate, New Mexico – Vintage Wall Art

Cliff Ruins near Fort Wingate, New Mexico, [between 1873 and 1879] — historic photograph
Cliff Ruins near Fort Wingate, New Mexico, [between 1873 and 1879]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Cliff Ruins near Fort Wingate, New Mexico in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Cliff Ruins near Fort Wingate, New Mexico

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Cliff ruins set into the rock walls near Fort Wingate, in western New Mexico, are the subject of this 1870s view. The photograph is credited to John K. Hillers, who joined John Wesley Powell's federal surveys of the American West in the early 1870s and later became known for his images of the Colorado Plateau and its ancient dwellings. The catalog date falls between 1873 and 1879, a period when survey photographers were documenting remote archaeological sites for the first time. The caption information is old and unverified, so the attribution of the Native group associated with the site should be treated with caution. Still, the scene reflects the ancestral Pueblo architecture that visitors and surveyors encountered across the region.

Created / published[between 1873 and 1879]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by John K. Hillers. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indian tribes--Atsina?; N.M.--Fort W- region; Indians--Camps...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131574

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