Ruins in ancient pueblo of San Juan, Colorado [i.e. New Mexico] / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing a man standing in the corner of a ruin.
Plate no. 21.

"Descriptive legend of view no. 21" on verso.
Part of geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, expedition of 1874, under command of Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Eng'rs.
This site is known as Salmon Pueblo. See "Setting the Stage" in Chaco's Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region after AD 1100 / edited by Paul F. Reed.
Published in: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan / Toby Jurovics, Carol M. Johnson, Glenn Willumson, and William F. Stapp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, plate 95.
Exhibited: "Framing the West : The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., February-May 2010.