View of a pueblo in Taos, "showing the old church", New Mexico, ca.1895

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Photograph of a view of a pueblo in Taos, "showing the old church", New Mexico, ca.1895. Just beyond the small creek are the pueblos of Taos. Several dozen houses, constructed of adobe and packed into a small community, form the small community. The box-like houses are the only things in view in this desert-like community. Wild grasses cover the area in the foreground.; "Our people have a detailed oral history, which is not divulged due to religious privacy. Archeologists say that ancestors of the Taos Indians lived in this valley long before Columbus discovered America and hundreds of years before Europe emerged from the Dark Ages. Ancient ruins in the Taos Valley indicate our people lived here nearly 1000 years ago. The main part of the present buildings was most likely constructed between 1000 and 1450 A.D. The appeared much as they do today when the first Spanish explorers arrived in Northern New Mexico in 1540 and believed that the Pueblo was one of the fabled golden cities of Cibola. The two structures called Hlauuma (north house) and Hlaukwima (south house) are said to be of similar age. They are considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the USA." -- unknown author.

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Title View of a pueblo in Taos, "showing the old church", New Mexico, ca.1895

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject Deserts (lcsh), Indians -- Taos (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Taos Indians (subject), Taos Indians (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf), Valleys (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place New Mexico (states), Taos (city or populated place), Taos (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17440

Identifier 5680 (accession number), CHS-5680 (call number), CHS-5680 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17435 (legacy record id), chs-m17440 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13993 (legacy record id), 1-182-10 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17435

Unique identifier UC142473

Legacy Identifier CHS-5680.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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