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Street Scene, Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico photomechanical postcard

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Local Numbers
AC0200-0000081 (AC Scan)
General
Fred Harvey symbol on verso with "Phostint" trademark and Detroit Publishing Co. credit.
Publisher
Detroit Publishing Co.
Fred Harvey (Firm)
Collection Creator
National Philatelic Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
Blenkle, Victor A., Dr., 1900-1978 (physician)
Place
New Mexico
Acoma (N.M.)
Topic
Ethnic Imagery Project, Archives Center
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 Citation
Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, circa 1880-circa 1970, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,
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
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.
Collection Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1560368414239-1560368414322-3
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8485561dd-2588-4638-ad97-b3a744a6ea20

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