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Postcard 1904 Old Carreta Laguna Pueblo NM Native American Detroit Photo Co
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Postcard 1904 Old Carreta Laguna Pueblo NM Native American Detroit Photo Co

Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, USA1904Pre-linenGood

An Indigenous man guides a wooden ox-cart — a "carreta" — through the sun-baked lanes of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, while adobe dwellings stack skyward behind him and a woman in a red blanket watches from a doorway: this 1902-copyright Detroit Photographic Co. Phostint card is a remarkable ethnographic document from the cusp of the Progressive Era, when the Fred Harvey Company and railroad tourism were transforming how Anglo-Americans consumed images of Pueblo life. Strings of red chiles hang drying against whitewashed walls; solid wooden wheels creak under their yoke. The handwritten message, penned in Arizona in February 1904, reads with breathless traveler energy: the sender — signing only initials "S.C.S." — tells a friend named C.V. about being en route to Arizona, a stop at an unnamed place, and the wonder of what they've seen. The card traveled to Miss C.V. on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn, postmarked from both an Arizona sending office and Brooklyn's receiving stamp on February 21, 1904.

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