2 Boudoir Cards PUEBLO INDIAN OX CARTS 1884

2 Boudoir Cards PUEBLO INDIAN OX CARTS 1884
1. W. CAL BROWN 48 Old Indian Cart, Jemez, N.M., 1884 c, Albumen print 4.5x7", ASG# WCB/1025, Albuquerque Studio backmark in which a Jemez Indian stands in his ox cart drawn by two cows in the Pueblo Plaza, buildings and people looking on.

2. DANA B. CHASE, No. 68. Old Indian Cart, [Tesuque Pueblo] shows an empty cart in front of the Pueblo and old Mission church 5x8" Albumen print ASG# DBC/1093, Historical Santa Fe Southern Route backmark, pencil notation front "place where I visited near Santa Fe, N.M. when I went out west" in unknown hand

W. CAL BROWN, active in New Mexico, Arizona and the Southwest 1882-1889, found in Albuquerque in 1882 and joins the Territorial Militia. Subjects included Hopi, Canyon Diablo, and Johnson's Canyon in Arizona. He published work by others under his name including Charles Lummis. Sold out to Albuquerque photographer William Cobb in 1889. . Ref: Richard Rudisill, Photographers of the New Mexico Territory, 1854-1912.

Dana B. Chase (1848 -1897) Born in Maine in 1848, he operated studios in Trinidad and other Colorado locations from 1873 well into the 1880s, primarily in Trinidad. In 1884 he took over the Santa Fe plaza studio of William Henry Brown using the services of two "operators" W.L. Fetter and E.B Headley. Twice married, he divorced his first wife Ella, with whom he had four children, in 1888. He married his second wife Belle in Santa Fe in 1888 and divorced her in 1897. He sold his Santa Fe gallery to photographer Thomas J. Curran in 1892. He died in 1897. He advertised that he had the largest selection of burro photographs in the country

Condition: WCB/1025 Ox Cart, Jemez - Very Good, rich print with moderate wear
DBC/1093 Very Good, rich tones overall mild wear, flaws in the negative on the left side show as white streaks but the emulsion is intact without loss