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Title
Old Church at Acoma, New Mexico
Creator
Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
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Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Exterior view of Acoma church with a man sitting on a balcony railing.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's handwritten label on back says: "Old Church at Acoma, New Mexico. This church and monastery was constructed about 250 years ago by the Acoma Indians under the guidance of two Spanish Padres who were afterward murdered. The great rock of Acoma is over 350 feet above the plain."
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : black and white print ; 28.5 x 36 cm
Identifier
photCL 312
414508
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7220
Subject
San Estevan del Rey Mission Church (Acoma, N.M.)
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Acoma Pueblo (N.M.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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