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Street Scene, Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico [photomechanical postcard]

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Street Scene, Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico [photomechanical postcard].
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Object Details

Publisher

Detroit Publishing Co.
Fred Harvey (Firm)

Collection Creator

National Philatelic Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
Blenkle, Victor A., Dr., 1900-1978 (physician)

Collection Citation

Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, circa 1880-circa 1970, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,

Scope and Contents

Caption on card: Acoma "The City in the Sky", is located in a beautiful valley 7000 feet above the sea, upon the top of a mesa which itself is 357 feet above the floor of the valley. It is the "home of half a thousand quaint lives and of half a thousand years romance." The pueblo is really three giant buildings running east and west a thousand feet and rising forty feet high. Each building is several hundred feet long but cut by cross walls into separate little homes.
Image: Reproduction, possibly of tinted photograph, of four persons in shawls and blankets walking through a street in the Acoma pueblo, with southwestern adobe style architecture. Verso: left side contains a description of the Acoma pueblo; right side of the card is an advertisement for the Indian and Mexican Trading Post at the Old De la Guerra House, El Paseo. The sale is for the benefit of the Indian Defense Association.
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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8485561dd-2588-4638-ad97-b3a744a6ea20

Local Numbers

AC0200-0000081 (AC Scan)

General

Fred Harvey symbol on verso with "Phostint" trademark and Detroit Publishing Co. credit.

Place

New Mexico
Acoma (N.M.)

Topic

Cliff-dwellings
Adobe houses
Mutual aid societies
Pueblos
Social problems

Publisher

Detroit Publishing Co.
Fred Harvey (Firm)

Culture

Pueblo
Indians of North America
Mexicans
Acoma Pueblo

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Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection
Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection / Series 1: Geographical Locations within United States / New Mexico - Pueblos and Indians

Extent

1 Item (color; Ink on card, photomechanical, 3.5" x 5.5".)

Date

undated

Container

Box 10, Item Grouping U.S.A., New Mexico--Pueblos and Indians

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Type

Archival materials
Phostint (detroit publishing co. trademark).
Picture postcards
Postcards

Collection Rights

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Genre/Form

Phostint (Detroit Publishing Co. trademark).
Picture postcards
Postcards

Collection Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.
NMAH.AC.0200_ref2217
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NMAH.AC.0200
ACAH

Record ID

ebl-1560368414239-1560368414322-3

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