Description
FIRST CABIN OF THE SAN JUAN BUILT BY TOM BLAIR IN 1872
Photograph #52, Possibly taken by W. J. Carpenter, but this is not
verified.
Circa 1890 – 1900
Condition: very good plus to near fine fine; image is a shade light; slight vertical crease in original mount, stabilized with conservation tape on back of mount.
Image dimensions: 7-3/4 inches by 4-3/4 inches. Mount dimensions:
9-3/4 inches by 7 inches
Tom Blair was one of the original pioneers of Baker’s Park and Cunningham Gulch, in the early 1870s when the entire area was still the domain of the Southern Utes.
W. J. Carpenter, with a studio in Telluride, took photographs of the San Juan Region in the 1890s, about the time when this Blair’s Cabin may have been abandoned.
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