"Prospectors in NM. Pards in camp. No.298" is
handwritten on the face of this stereo card.
These two men are also the subject of
Prospectors strike it rich No.168". Though
staged for the photographer, this is probably a reasonable representation of a
temporary miner's camp. Note on the left side, the gunbelt with revolver hanging
from the piñon tree and the wooden-handled shovel, two sledge hammers, and
an iron pike leaned against the two pickaxes lodged into the ground. The repeating
rifle is in the shelter between the two men. Though there is a coffee pot near the
fire, the man on the right is pouring his drink from a bottle.
(front) Photographed and Published at Santa Fe, N.M. by Henry
Brown
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