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Call Number	N-50
Title	Indians, Pueblo, Acoma, missions
Creator(s)	Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)
Summary	known as the "soldier guards" were added to the top of the wall during World War I. A dirt path has formed on the ground at the base of the wall from people walking around it.; The massive scale of the graveyard wall at the San Estevan del Rey Mission and convent at the Acoma Pueblo "Sky City" in New Mexico is depicted by the small scale of the men standing at the wall's upper edge. Shown from below, the 40-foot-high wall is made of stone and is thought to have been built when Fray Juan Ramirez first came to the pueblo between 1629 and 1641. Built on the edge of the mesa, the wall encloses a 200- square-foot cemetery. Small, moulded heads,
Date	[between 1915 and 1926]
Notes	1 photographic print ;; The second print is noted as "N32."; Title from back of contemporary print owned by the Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; Words " Acoma - graveyard wall" penciled on glass plate envelope.; R7001100502
Physical Description	1 negative : glass ; 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in.)
Subject	Convents--New Mexico--1910-1930. Mission churches--New Mexico--1910-1930. Pueblos--New Mexico--1910-1930. Stone walls--New Mexico--1910-1930.
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material	Glass negatives.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Filename	00110050.tif

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