[Kartographer]

A distant view of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1873. (Timothy O'Sullivan/NARA)

[CedarDave]

Thanks!

[leapfrog0202]

Thanks for posting this!

[Recon Dad]

......that’s what it looked like in 1965 when I went to school there. The only thing missing is the Casa Luna and the Holiday Inn on Cerrilos Road.

[imardmd1]

On this photographic Ode on a Distant Prospect of Santa Fe, what are we looking at
in the flatness of the foreground? Are those long lines walls of some kind?
Are they still there? Where are all the people? Still sleeping?

Is this a photo of the sunrise or sunrise or sunset? And, how did Mr. O'Sullivan
get up so high as to get this angle? (I suppose that is a part of the unspoken
mystery of the view.)

In the nearer distance, are all those structures adobe? What purpose do they serve?
Is that an Armory in the upper mid-left? How far are the first mountains?
and in what direction?

An amazing image! And NO AUTOS in this whole panorama -- but one would think at least
a wagon ought to be seen somewhere in this expanse! It shows such a vast stillness!!

As an aside, my great-grandfather was still a pioneer, at this 1873 time clearing a site in western
New York State, still wild near Pennsylvania's Potter County northern border. The deed
to the land had to come from France, from Paris. The family lived in a log cabin until a house
was made from milled wood off its own site.

Marvellous things were still going on in this country at that time.

Thanks for this link!