Photograph album of cliff dwellings at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde, Colorado.
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Description
- Title
- Photograph album of cliff dwellings at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde, Colorado.
- Creator
- Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings)
- Contributor
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Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings)
Wetherill, John
Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910 - Published / Created
- 1889-1890.
- Abstract
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Album of photographs created by Frederick Hastings Chapin, a pharmacist and mountaineer from Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the cliff-dwellings and ruins at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, during the summers of 1889 and 1890. Images include detailed views of the cliff houses and other structures in Mancos Canyon, Cliff Canyon, and a branch of Johnson Canyon known as Acowitz Canyon. Other images include views of the La Plata Mountains and other geological formations in the area, contemporary American Indian wickiups made by Ute Indians, and the ranch of Richard Wetherill, a local homesteader who uncovered the Mancos Site in December 1888. Identified individuals in images include Richard Wetherill cinching the loads on packhorses, his brother John Wetherill, looking through the window of a granary, and a man wearing jodhpurs and high boots identified as probably Chapin.
- Description
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Individual photographs measure 11.6 x 18.1 cm.
Manuscript captions in ink at bottom of each photograph.
Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2004.
Spine title: Mancos Canon.
Title devised by cataloger. - Extent
- 1 album (43 photographic prints) : b & w ; 25.9 x 32.4 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA Photos 328
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Photograph albums
Photographic prints - Resource Type
- Prints & Photographs
- Subject (Geographic)
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Cliff Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Johnson Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works
La Plata Mountains--Pictorial works
Mancos Canyon (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Mancos Site (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Montezuma County (Colo.)--Pictorial works - Subject (Name)
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Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings)
Wetherill, John
Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910 - Subject (Topic)
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Cliff-dwellings--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Pictorial works
Mountains--Colorado--Pictorial works
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Frederick H. Chapin, Photograph Album of Cliff Dwellings and Vicinity in Montezuma County, Colorado. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 6704501
- Object ID (OID)
- 16854943