Caption

North Pueblo of Taas, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Fig. 27.', photographer: John Karl Hillers, United States of America, cliché maker: Heliotype Printing Company, Boston (Massachusetts), c. 1876 - in or before 1881, North America, Massachusetts, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 161 mm x width 218 mm, city-view in general, 'veduta', mountains, façade (of house or building), A sepia-toned scene shows a cluster of multi-level adobe buildings with flat roofs, protruding wooden beams, ladders leaning against walls, and rounded door and window openings; a foreground adobe wall with a rough opening and a leaning ladder frames the view, and a conical stone or adobe structure stands near the wall; beyond the main cluster are more adobe structures, fenced enclosures, and dome-shaped oven-like forms on the ground; a wide plain separates the settlement from a backdrop of rugged, tree-covered mountains under a pale sky.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26B01_177

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North Pueblo Taas page photomechanical print number Fig 27 photographer John Karl Hillers United States America cliché maker Heliotype Printing Company Boston Massachusetts c 1876 - 1881 North America paper collotype photoprint height 161 mm x width 218 mm city-view general veduta mountains façade of house building sepia-toned scene cluster multi-level adobe buildings flat roofs protruding wooden beams ladders leaning walls rounded door window openings foreground adobe wall rough opening leaning ladder frames view conical stone adobe structure stands near wall beyond main cluster adobe structures fenced enclosures dome-shaped oven- forms ground wide plain separates settlement backdrop rugged tree-covered mountains under pale sky