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John K. Hillers — Ruins of Cliff Dwellings, Cañon de Chelly, Arizona
John K. Hillers

Ruins of Cliff Dwellings, Cañon de Chelly, Arizona

1879

Part of the systematic photographic documentation of Ancestral Puebloan sites, this image preserves the haunting beauty of cliff dwellings nestled within the canyon walls before modern archaeological interventions.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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John K. Hillers, Ruins of Cliff Dwellings, Cañon de Chelly, Arizona, 1879

Part of the systematic photographic documentation of Ancestral Puebloan sites, this image preserves the haunting beauty of cliff dwellings nestled within the canyon walls before modern archaeological interventions.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Year
1879
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Albumen Print, Archaeological, Documentary, American, Photograph, Landscape, Historical, Architecture

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago